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“It’s a pretty simple tale. Though descended from impure bloodlines, he joined the guerrillas to fight the Japanese. His comrades doubted his loyalties. To prove they could trust him with their lives, he took his own.”
Adam Johnson • The Orphan Master's Son: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)

J. Hector
Jon Meacham • Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
So PPG had invented a new type of blast-resistant glass, only to have a Chinese company use that technology to build the glass, cheaper, and sell it back to the Port Authority, which was attempting, at least, to resurrect something like pride and resilience in the center of the white-hot center of everything American.
Dave Eggers • A Hologram for the King
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Jean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace
An Impeccable Spy: Richard Sorge, Stalin’s Master Agent

A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found.
Joshua Kaplanpropublica.org
Little did he realize that at some point during the day he had ingested a mysterious virus, incubated among the Boy Scouts, that would change his life forever.
Jean Edward Smith • FDR
Its genesis is a largely obvious, mostly unremarkable blog post—not even four hundred words long—that outed a little-known technology investor as homosexual.