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Shortly before the Hammonds’ arrival the building’s East Portico had been the scene of an assassination attempt against President Andrew Jackson. The assailant was named Richard Lawrence, who believed himself to be England’s long-dead King Richard III and claimed that Jackson had interfered with the delivery of payments long owed to him by the colo
... See moreErik Larson • The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
That’s when Adam realizes: Humankind is deeply ill. The species won’t last long. It was an aberrant experiment. Soon the world will be returned to the healthy intelligences, the collective ones. Colonies and hives.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
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Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro
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chapters 1 through 4 construct a detailed portrait of what life might be like within just ten or twenty years.