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Relic (Pendergast, #1)

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Pendergast: The Beginning (Agent Pendergast, #0.5)

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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

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Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow

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“You know, the press is as much part of our democracy as Congress or the executive branch or the judicial branch. It has to keep things in check. And when the powerful control the press, or make the press useless, if the people can’t trust ...more

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“Protest. Protest both when you believe it will work—for we have vivid evidence of when it has worked—and when you do not. The farmer-poet-activist Wendell Berry, in his book What Are People For?, wrote: “Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one’s own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence.”
― Katherine Rundell, Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures

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