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Atkinson's acclaimed Liberation Trilogy began with an account of the 1942 Allied fighting in North Africa in An Army at Dawn, followed with the struggle in Italy and Sicily in 1943 in The Day of Battle, and concludes here, with the American-led victory in Western Europe.
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Eugene Allen worked as the White House butler for thirty-four years, serving eight presidents. Wil Haygood, author of acclaimed biographies of Sugar Ray Robinson, Sammy Davis, Jr., and Adam Clayton Powell, published a front-page feature on Allen in The Washington Post.
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To understand U.S. involvement in conflicts ranging from Guatemala to Congo to Vietnam, it's necessary to look at the lives of the Dulles brothers, John Foster, who was secretary of state, and Alan, who headed the CIA.
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Michio Kaku discusses his new book at Politics & Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C. This event was recorded live on March 28, 2014.
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Fink combines the sharp eye of a Pulitzer-winning journalist with the hard-won experience of a disaster-relief doctor to chronicle the events at New Orleans's Memorial Medical Center during Hurricane Katrina, and to raise questions about the country's handling of disaster.
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With medical advice constantly changing, it can be hard to tell fads from sound practices.
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From clerking for Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg to becoming the youngest Harvard law professor at age 28 and on to his leading role in some of the most visible cases ever to come to court (he's currently part of Julian Assange's legal team), Dershowitz is one of the country's bestknown lawyers.
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In his second book, Warrick, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post journalist and author of The Triple Agent, follows up his suspenseful story of Jordanian al-Qaeda agent Humam Khalil al-Balawi with this equally dramatic chronicle of the rise of ISIS.
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Johann Hari discusses his book, "Lost Connections" with Andrew Sullivan on 1/31/18. Hari, author of Chasing the Scream, changed the terms of the debate about addiction with his influential TED talk, "Everything You Think You Know About Addiction Is Wrong."
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Technology and social media guru, Danah Boyd, discusses her book, It's Complicated," at Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C.
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