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Topic: “Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History”

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. stands with other civil rights leaders on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn., on April 3, 1968, a day before he was assassinated. (AP)

How Memphis police leaders failed MLK

Joseph Rosenbloom
Kurt Andersen (Random House/Thomas Hart Shelby/AP/Paul Sancya/Photo montage by Salon)

Kurt Andersen in "Fantasyland"

Andrew O'Hehir

500 years of "fake news"

Rachel Leah
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