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Topic: Book excerpts (page 11)

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How Elvis Costello launched Armed Forces

Franklin Bruno
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Growing up in a lesbian home

Lara Lillibridge
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Someone hurt my son

Susan Senator
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Abba and the battle of "Waterloo"

Elisabeth Vincentelli
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The Congolese army and mercenary column advancing towards Stanleyville, Nov. 28, 1964. (AP/Mannock)

My secret Cold War mission in the Congo

James M. Hawes, Mary Ann Koenig
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A boy's perfect intro to Joni Mitchell

Sean Nelson
Trooper: The Bobcat Who Came in from the Wild by Forrest Bryant Johnson (Skyhorse Publishing)

Trooper, the bobcat kitten who moved in

Forrest Bryant Johnson
Blindsided by the Taliban: A Journalist’s Story of War, Trauma, Love, and Loss by Carmen Gentile (Skyhorse Publishing)

“Do I still have my eye?"

Carmen Gentile
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The day Johnny Cash's voice arrived

Tony Tost
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Is hormonal birth control "dangerous"?

Nina Brochmann, Ellen Støkken Dahl
Nelson Mandela and his wife Winnie walk from the Victor Verster prison near Cape Town, South Africa, Feb. 11, 1990. (AP/Greg English)

Inside the fight against apartheid

Mary Frances Berry
Anti-apartheid demonstrators march on the University of California Berkeley campus, April 17, 1985. (AP/Ron Tussy)

Anatomy of a resistance

Mary Frances Berry
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Tom Waits' gothic, melodic freak show

David Smay
Gen. Norton Schwartz (Getty/Brendan Smialowski)

How to be a successful Chief of Staff

General Norty Schwartz, Suzie Schwartz, Ron Levinson
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The only woman on board

Laura Hartema
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"We regret to inform you"

Brian Castner
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Stevie Wonder's secret musical stockpile

Zeth Lundy
Farmers march with a sign that reads "Remove farming from NAFTA" in Mexico City. (AP/Gustavo Martinez Contreras)

“We are workers, not slaves”

Annelise Orleck
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Prince on film: from MTV to Purple Rain

Michaelangelo Matos
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The Irish helped Lincoln save the Union

Niall O'Dowd
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Thomas Jefferson; John Adams (Getty/Photo Montage by Salon)

Adams' secret letters about Jefferson

Daniel L. Mallock
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The Who: Dadaism + smashed guitars

John Dougan
Details of broadsides advertising performances by Richard Potter and his mentor (Historic Northampton, Massachusetts/American Antiquarian Society)

America's first black celebrity

John A. Hodgson
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Solitude makes us less human

Gregory Smithsimon
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