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A Rumor Of War by Philip Caputo Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris Endurance by Frank A. Worsley The Secret History by Donna Tartt The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald American Caesar by William Manchester The Great Santini by Pat Conroy The Day of Battle by Rick Atkinson A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
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Book cover for The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism by Doris Kearns Goodwin
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As S. S. McClure well understood, the “vitality of democracy” depends on “popular knowledge of complex questions.”
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