Jeffery James

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Jeffery James

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Jeffery’s favorite books

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X

The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin by Gordon S. Wood

A Year in the South by Stephen V. Ash

Drawn with the Sword by James M. McPherson

Revolutionary Characters by Gordon S. Wood

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

Hiroshima by John Hersey

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown

Founding Brothers by Joseph J. Ellis

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In the Shadows of...

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In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global Power (Dispatch Books)

by Alfred W. McCoy

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Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy

by Mary Roach

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Grant by Ron Chernow

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In a mood of mounting anger, Grant was not content to chastise Jewish traders: he wanted to banish all Jews. On December 17, he issued the most egregious decision of his career. “General Orders No. 11” stipulated that “the Jews, as a class, ...more

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“Americans today know little about the terrorism that engulfed the South during Grant’s presidency. It has been suppressed by a strange national amnesia. The Klan’s ruthless reign is a dark, buried chapter in American history. The Civil War is far better known than its brutal aftermath.”
― Ron Chernow, Grant

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