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25. A couple of my recent reads

Tue Mar 1, 2016, 07:58 PM

Mar 2016

"The Invisible Bridge: From the Fall of Nixon to the Rise of Reagan" by Rick Perlstein, and "Subversives" by Seth Rosenfeld. I'm thinking my next book will be "The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI" by Betty Medsger.

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