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hatrack

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1. I remember reading "False Dawn" when it came out in the 1990s

Reply to Jim__ (Original post)

Mon Feb 22, 2021, 08:32 PM

Feb 2021

It was published, I believe, the same year as LTCM collapsed, and it made an impression.

That would have put it three years before 9/11, and five years before the Iraq Clusterfuck, three events which pretty much ended the Golden Triumphal March of Freedumb (except of course in the tiny minds of Republican politicians and their voters.

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I remember reading "False Dawn" when it came out in the 1990s hatrack Feb 2021 #1

I haven't read "False Dawn". I'll put that on my list. Jim__ Feb 2021 #2