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The First World War by John Keegan The Mask of Dimitrios by Eric Ambler Thirteen O'clock by C.M. Kornbluth Four Great Tragedies by William Shakespeare U.S. Constitution (Saddlewire) by Founding Fathers 1984 by George Orwell The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute Count Belisarius by Robert Graves The Borrowers by Mary Norton The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham
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Democracy in America
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H.L. Mencken
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”
― H.L. Mencken, In Defense of Women
tags: politics, propaganda
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