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Eating Mud Crabs in Kandahar

by Trina Carter

Technically, the author of the title piece didn’t sample the mud crabs pulled from the trench where she and Hamid Karzai were taking shelter from Russian tanks in 1989. That was when commanders sent her into Afghanistan with their... Read More

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The Monster Within

by Julie McGuire

On June 20, 2001, Andrea Yates drowned her five children, one by one. The media seized on the horrific act, splashing pictures of the children across televisions and newsstands across the country. When it was revealed that Yates had been... Read More

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Generation's End

by Jack Shakely

On that bright autumn morning in 2001, Scott Malcomson had things going his way. He had a prestigious job as assistant editor of the New York Times’ op-ed section, a successful wife, two young children, and a Brooklyn home with a great... Read More

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Richard Hofstadter

by Karl Helicher

Arguably, no other historian than Hofstadter chronicled more dynamically American liberalism, which reached its highpoint during the 1930s New Deal and ultimately unraveled in the mid 1960s, claims the author in this illuminating... Read More

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Strom

by Karl Helicher

No other politician (except Alabama Governor George Wallace) symbolized resistance to civil rights more than Strom Thurmond. This excellent, sweeping biography is an essential update of the authors’ 1998 account, Ol’ Strom, made... Read More

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Veritas

“I am having a hideous time here. I feel like Saint Sebastian, stuck full of arrows that people are firing at me,” wrote Abbott Lawrence Lowell, president of Harvard, in 1923 when including black students in freshman dormitories was... Read More

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Gale Gand's Brunch

by Matt Sutherland

One of the nations top pastry chefs and culinary personalities, Gand wants you to embrace brunch as the ideal meal for entertaining guests. “The food, she writes, “is delicious, and I love the way it often straddles the line between... Read More

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