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Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight for Survival—A Gripping Investigative Report with a Personal Touch, Witness the Turmoil of the British Monarchy

by Omid Scobie

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Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital

by Sheri Fink

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Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

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The Destruction of Hillary Clinton by Susan Bordo

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The currently popular complaint against Clinton among Democrats is that she didn’t communicate an effective “message” to the battleground “rust belt” states that ultimately decided the election.

“Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

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“The people we were destroying were no longer just people like Jonah: public figures who had committed actual transgressions. They were private individuals who really hadn’t done anything much wrong. Ordinary humans were being forced to learn damage control, like corporations that had committed PR disasters. It was very stressful.”
― Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed

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“A person doesn't know true hurt and suffering until they've felt the pain of falling in love with someone whose affections lie elsewhere.”
― Rose Gordon, Her Imperfect Groom

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“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: anti-intellectualism, cult, culture, democracy, ignorance, intellectual, political, politics, united-states, willful-ignorance

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“Yes, and let’s make sure every American gets a puberty ceremony, an impressive welcome to the rights and duties of grown-ups. As matters now stand, only practicing Jews get those. The only way the rest of us can feel like grown-ups is to get pregnant or get somebody else pregnant or commit a felony or go to war and then come back again.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

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