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    While Justice Sleeps - A Novel

    Stacey Abrams, voting rights activist and 2018 Democratic nominee for governor of Georgia, talked about her suspense novel, While Justice Sleeps, set within the halls of the U.S. Supreme Cou…

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    At the Dark End of the Street

    Danielle McGuire, assistant history professor at Wayne State University, recounts the politically active life of Rosa Parks, a side of the civil rights figure that the author contends has be…

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    Kearny's March

    Winston Groom recounts General Stephen Watts Kearney’s command of 2,000 American soldiers who marched from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to California in 1846. General Kearney was under orders f…

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    Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter: The Georgia Years, 1924-1974

    E. Stanly Godbold presented a dual biography of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter. In the first of two planned volumes, Mr. Godbold recounted the Carters' childhoods in Plains, Georgia, their courts…

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    America Aflame

    David Goldfield examines the social and political factors leading up to the start of the Civil War, focusing on the role that religion played. Professor Goldfield reports on how evangelicali…

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    To Conquer Hell

    Edward Lengel talked about his book To Conquer Hell: The Meuse-Argonne, 1918, published by Henry Holt and Co. In his book Professor Lengel recounts the World War I battle at Meuse-Argonne in…

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    The Colfax Massacre

    LeeAnna Keith talked about her book The Colfax Massacre: The Untold Story of Black Power, White Terror, and the Death of Reconstruction, published by Oxford University Press, USA. In her boo…

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    American Gunfight: The Plot to Kill Harry Truman

    Stephen Hunter talked about his book American Gunfight: The Plot to Kill Harry Truman--and the Shoot-Out that Stopped It, published by Simon and Schuster. With journalist John Bainbridge, J…

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