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| Introduction | |
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| All American | |
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| Gods of Our Fathers: The United States of Enlightenment | |
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| The Private Jefferson | |
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| Jefferson Versus the Muslim Pirates | |
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| Benjamin Franklin: Free and Easy | |
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| John Brown: The Man Who Ended Slavery | |
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| Abraham Lincoln: Misery's Child | |
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| Mark Twain: American Radical | |
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| Upton Sinclair: A Capitalist Primer | |
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| JFK: In Sickness and by Stealth | |
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| Saul Bellow: The Great Assimilator | |
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| Vladimir Nabokov: Hurricane Lolita | |
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| John Updike, Part One: No Way | |
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| John Updike, Part Two: Mr. Geniality | |
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| Vidal Loco | |
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| America the Banana Republic | |
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| An Anglosphere Future | |
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| Political Animals | |
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| Old Enough to Die | |
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| In Defense of Foxhole Atheists | |
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| In Search of the Washington Novel | |
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| Eclectic Affinities | |
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| Isaac Newton: Flaws of Gravity | |
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| The Men Who Made England: Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall | |
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| Edmund Burke: Reactionary Prophet | |
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| Samuel Johnson: Demons and Dictionaries | |
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| Gustave Flaubert: I'm with Stupide | |
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| The Dark Side of Dickens | |
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| Marx's Journalism: The Grub Street Years | |
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| Rebecca West: Things Worth Fighting For | |
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| Ezra Pound: A Revolutionary Simpleton | |
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| On Animal Farm | |
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| Jessica Mitford's Poison Pen | |
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| W. Somerset Maugham: Poor Old Willie | |
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| Evelyn Waugh: The Permanent Adolescent | |
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| P. G. Wodehouse: The Honorable Schoolboy | |
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| Anthony Powell: An Omnivorous Curiosity | |
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| John Buchan: Spy Thrillers Father | |
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| Graham Greene: I'll Be Damned | |
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| Death from a Salesman: Graham Greene's Bottled Ontology | |
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| Loving Philip Larkin | |
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| Stephen Spender: A Nice Bloody Fool | |
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| Edward Upward: The Captive Mind | |
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| C. L. R. James: Mid Off Not Right On | |
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| J. G. Ballard: The Catastrophist | |
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| Fraser's Flashman: Scoundrel Time | |
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| Fleet Street's Finest: From Waugh to Frayn | |
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| Saki: Where the Wild Things Are | |
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| Harry Potter: The Boy Who Lived | |
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| Amusements, Annoyances, and Disappointments | |
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| Why Women Aren't Funny | |
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| Stieg Larsson: The Author Who Played with Fire | |
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| As American as Apple Pie | |
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| So Many Men's Rooms, So Little Time | |
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| The New Commandments | |
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| In Your Face | |
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| Wine Drinkers of the World, Unite | |
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| Charles, Prince of Piffle | |
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| Offshore Accounts | |
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| Afghanistan's Dangerous Bet | |
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| First, Silence the Whistle-Blower | |
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| Believe Me, It's Torture | |
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| Iran's Waiting Game | |
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| Long Live Democratic Seismology | |
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| Benazir Bhutto: Daughter of Destiny | |
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| From Abbottabad to Worse | |
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| The Perils of Partition | |
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| Algeria: A French Quarrel | |
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| The Case of Orientalism | |
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| Edward Said: Where the Twain Should Have Met | |
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| The Swastika and the Cedar | |
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| Holiday in Iraq | |
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| Tunisia: At the Desert's Edge | |
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| What Happened to the Suicide Bombers or Jerusalem? | |
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| Childhood's End: An African Nightmare | |
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| The Vietnam Syndrome | |
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| Once Upon a Time in Germany | |
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| Worse Than Nineteen Eighty-four | |
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| North Korea: A Nation of Racist Dwarves | |
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| The Eighteenth Brumaire of the Castro Dynasty | |
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| Hugo Boss | |
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| Is the Euro Doomed? | |
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| Overstating Jewish Power | |
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| The Case for Humanitarian Intervention | |
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| Legacies of Totalitarianism | |
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| Victor Serge: Pictures from an Inquisition | |
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| Andre Malraux: One Man's Fate | |
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| Arthur Koestler: The Zealot | |
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| Isabel Allende: Chile Redux | |
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| The Persian Version | |
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| Martin Amis: Lightness at Midnight | |
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| Imagining Hitler | |
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| Victor Klemperer: Survivor | |
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| A War Worth Fighting | |
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| Just Give Peace a Chance? | |
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| W G. Sebald: Requiem for Germany | |
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| Words' Worth | |
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| When the King Saved God | |
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| Let Them Eat Pork Rinds | |
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| Stand Up for Denmark! | |
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| Eschew the Taboo | |
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| She's No Fundamentalist | |
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| Burned Out | |
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| Easter Charade | |
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| Don't Mince Words | |
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| History and Mystery | |
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| Words Matter | |
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| This Was Not Looting | |
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| This Other L-Word | |
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| The You Decade | |
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| Suck It Up | |
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| A Very, Very Dirty Word | |
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| Prisoner of Shelves | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Index | |