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July 2, 2001
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America Made Easy
McCullough, Adams, and the decline of popular history.
May 24, 1999
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The Hero Myth
January 17, 1999
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Byrd Brain
March 10, 1997
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Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Thomas Jefferson
How a slaveholder and ideologue was also a great democrat.
April 24, 1995
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The Air Around Tom Paine
January 30, 1995
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The Father of Spin Control
May 8, 1989
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