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Tales of the Great Lakes: Stories from Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Castle Books: 1986

Seller ID: 2207850

ISBN: 1555211208

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

A fine copy. Near Fine. 1986 Hard Cover. 474 pp. They can be as still as a millpond, as angry as any storm swept ocean. The Great Lakes and the major states bordering themIllinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesotaare the heartland of America. The land supplies the goods: grain, meat, timber, and steel. The Lakes provide passage for those goods around the world. The twoland and waterare inseparable, their destiny interlocked. Tales of the Great Lakesencompasses the stories of the men who built the Midwestthe giants of industry, builders of cities, intrepid seafarers, writers who chronicled the ri...
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American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, Volume 1: Freneau to Whitman (The Library of America)

By: N/A

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, The Library of America: 1993

Seller ID: 2262955

ISBN: 0940450607

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Page ridges very faintly foxed. 1993 Hard Cover. xxiii, 1099 pp. In nineteenth-century America, poetry was part of everyday life, as familiar as a hymn, a love song, a patriotic exhortation. The two volumes of The Library of Americas American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century reveal the vigor and diversity of a tradition embracing solitary visionaries and congenial storytellers, humorists and dissidents, songwriters and philosophers. These extraordinary anthologies reassess Americas poetic legacy with a comprehensive sweep that no previous anthology has attempted. Extending chronol...
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Magical Christmas Tales

By: N/A

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York, Sandy Creek: 2012

Seller ID: 2296366

ISBN: 1435143558

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

No jacket. Spine head and spine base very lightly rubbed. 2012 Large Hardcover. 192 pp. With enchanting stories and classic carols.
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Deck the Hall: A Traditional Carol

By: N/A

Price: $4.00

Publisher: San Francisco, Chronicle Books: 2000

Seller ID: 2296376

ISBN: 0811828212

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. A nice copy. 2000 Hard Cover. Unpaginated. Bestselling artist Sylvia Long brings the holidays to life in this beautifully illustrated edition of a beloved Christmas carol. Readers will delight in singing along with the familiar lyrics celebrating the joys of the seasondecorating the mantel, singing carols and sharing quiet moments with family. A wonderful gift, this lively carol and the rich details of Sylvia Long's illustrations combine perfectly to evoke the magic and warmth of this favorite time of year.
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The Christmas Story: According to the Gospels of Matthew and Luke from the King James Bible

By: N/A

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Henry, Holt and Company: 1998

Seller ID: 2303010

ISBN: 0805052925

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by illustrator without inscription. An excellent copy. 1998 Large Hardcover. The story of the birth of Christ, celebrated around the world at Christmas, is one of the most beautiful in the New Testament. From Mary's meeting with the angel Gabriel to the birth of baby Jesus in a stable, to the visit of the shepherds and the three wise men, the story is rich in imagery and symbolism. Here, in a triumph of glorious art, is that wondrous story excerpted from the Gospels of Luke and Matthew from the King James Bible. Gennady Spirin has been described in the Boston Globe as an ...
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Image for The Joint Appearances of Senator John F. Kennedy and Vice President Richard M. Nixon, Presidential Campaign of 1960 (Freedom of Communications, 87th Congress, 1st Session, Rept. 994, Part 3)

The Joint Appearances of Senator John F. Kennedy and Vice President Richard M. Nixon, Presidential Campaign of 1960 (Freedom of Communications, 87th Congress, 1st Session, Rept. 994, Part 3)

By: N/A

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Washington, D.C., U.S. Government Printing Office: 1961

Seller ID: 2304592

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Spine creased, minor ink marginalia in Contents. 1961 Soft Cover. xiv, 699 pp. Final Report on the Committee on Comerce United States Senate Prepared by Its Subcommittee of the Subcommittee on Communications Pursuant to S. Res. 305, 86th Congress. Part III.
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Image for Photographic Cavalcade: Pictorial History of the 75 Infantry Division, 1944-1945 Campaigns: Ardennes, Rhineland, Central Europe, Colmar - Volume One [1]: European Theatre of Operations: England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany [75th]

Photographic Cavalcade: Pictorial History of the 75 Infantry Division, 1944-1945 Campaigns: Ardennes, Rhineland, Central Europe, Colmar - Volume One [1]: European Theatre of Operations: England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany [75th]

By: 75th Infantry Division; Zitin, Willard

Price: $750.00

Publisher: Baton Rouge, The 75th Infantry Division / Army & Navy Publishing Company: 1946

Seller ID: 2296441

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original platoon photograph signed by dozens of members of the 75th Infantry Division (and noting their home towns) laid in, along with a Remember Pearl Harbor soldier 'diary' detailing the service of a soldier in the division. A couple faint spots to boards, otherwise an excellent copy. Soldiers who signed included: Pearson C. Schiller; Sgt. Chitwood; Domenico J. Scatena; George T. Wingard, Jr.; Mike Stirling, Jr.; Paul Toman; Joe LaPointe; Lowell E. Murphy; 'myself' (probably Nathan Hena, who signed the Pearl Harbor sheet); Jack M. Reese; Robert N. Dugal; Joseph A. Buzogany; Robert T. Berkeb...
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The Nations at War: A Current History

By: Abbot, Willis John

Price: $45.00

Publisher: ., Syndicate Publishing Company: 1915

Seller ID: 2304448

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. No jacket. Light stain on front board, title on spine and on front board rubbed, pencil name on front paste-down endpaper. 1915 Hard Cover. 366 pp. Assisted by a staff of photographers, foreign agents, and writers of authority on international relations, military and naval tactics, history, armament, geography, topography, languages, ethnology, food supply, and all the other phases of the world's greatest war. Illustrated with many plates in full color, photographs from private sources, maps, charts, and diagrams.
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The White Linen Nurse

By: Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, The Century Co.: 1913

Seller ID: 2301000

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. No jacket. Bookplate and ink mark on front paste-down endpaper, pencil name on front free endpaper. 1913 Hard Cover. 276 pp. Blue boards. Illustrated by Herman Pfeifer. EXCERPT: The White Linen Nurse was so tired that her noble expression ached. Incidentally her head ached and her shoulders ached and her lungs ached and the ankle-bones of both feet ached quite excruciatingly. But nothing of her felt permanently incapacitated except her noble expression. Like a strip of lip-colored lead suspended from her poor little nose by two tugging wire-gray wrinkles her persistently conscie...
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One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing

By: Ackerman, Diane

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, W.W. Norton & Company: 2011

Seller ID: 2276300

ISBN: 039307241X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Front board lightly cocked. 2011 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 322 pp. Everyone who cherishes the gift of language will cherish Diane Ackerman's narrative masterpiece, an exquisitely written love story and medical miracle story, one that combines science, inspiration, wisdom, and heart. One day Ackerman's husband, Paul West, an exceptionally gifted wordsmith and intellectual, suffered a terrible stroke. When he regained awareness he was afflicted with aphasia?loss of language?and could utter only a single syllable: mem. The standard therapies yielded ...
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Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays

By: Acocella, Joan

Price: $8.00

Publisher: ., Pantheon: 2007

Seller ID: 2207082

ISBN: 0375424164

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Small tear to upper rear jacket. 2007 Hard Cover. From one of our most admired cultural critics (A marvelous, canny writerTerry Castle,London Review of Books), thirty-one essays on some of the most influential artists of our timewriters, dancers, choreographers, sculptorsand two saints of all time, Joan of Arc and Mary Magdalene. Among the people discussed: Italo Svevo, Stefan Zweig, Simone de Beauvoir, Marguerite Yourcenar, Joseph Roth, Vaslav Nijinsky, Lincoln Kirstein, Jerome Robbins, Martha Graham, Bob Fosse, H. L. Mencken, Dorothy Parker, Susan Sontag, and Philip Roth.
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The Blue Witch (Witches of Orkney, Book 1)

By: Adams, Alane

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Arizona, Spark Press: 2018

Seller ID: 2308106

ISBN: 1943006776

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fine

First edition. A fine copy. 2018 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 209 pp. Before Sam Baron broke Odin's curse on the witches to become the first son born to a witch and the hero of the Legends of Orkney series, his mother was a young witchling growing up in the Tarkana Witch Academy. In this first book of the prequel series, the Witches of Orkney, nine-year-old Abigail Tarkana is determined to grow up to be the greatest witch of all. Unfortunately, she is about to fail Spectacular Spells class because her witch magic hasn't come in yet. Even worse, her nemesis, En...
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The Rubicus Prophecy (Witches of Orkney, Book 2)

By: Adams, Alane

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Arizona, Spark Press: 2019

Seller ID: 2308107

ISBN: 1943006989

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fine

First edition. A fine copy. 2019 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 208 pp. Abigail has just started her second year at the Tarkana Witch Academy and is already up to her ears studying for Horrid Hexes and Awful Alchemy! Worse, Enderas malevolent spellbook has its hooks in her, whispering in her ear to use its dark magic. Meanwhile, the entire school is talking about the Rubicus Prophecy; a sign has arrived that the chosen witchling is among them, the one who will one day break Odins curse over them. When an Orkadian warship arrives carrying troubling news, Abigail ...
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Witch Wars (Witches of Orkney, Book 3)

By: Adams, Alane

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Arizona, Spark Press: 2020

Seller ID: 2308108

ISBN: 1684630630

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fine

First edition. A fine copy. 2020 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 203 pp. Abigails second year at the Tarkana Academy has been an all-out disaster. Shes just unwittingly helped Vertulious, an ancient he-witch and powerful alchemist, destroy Odins Stone and restore his powers, and now all of Orkney is caught up in the threat of war as the witches prepare to destroy the helpless Orkadians. Determined to set things right, Abigail and Hugo set off for Jotunheim, the land of the giants, to find a weapon to restore the balance. All they have to do is track down the God ...
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To See You Again: Stories

By: Adams, Alice

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1982

Seller ID: 2270618

ISBN: 0394523350

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 1982 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. viii, 304 pp. Tells the stories of a woman distraught over the loss of her husband's diaries, a teachers's unexpected attraction towards a student, and an artist's reevaluation of her life and accomplishments.
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Return Trips: Stories

By: Adams, Alice

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1985

Seller ID: 2270620

ISBN: 0394536339

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Top edge and endpapers faintly foxed, jacket lightly toned with faint crease on front flap corner, spine cloth a bit discolored along edges. 1985 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 195 pp. The author writes in these stories of people in motion, traveling in search of friends, culture, renewed engagement with life--people seeking the magic of a new place or traveling to places of childhood to put the past to rest.
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Ansel Adams: America's Photographer

By: Adams, Ansel; Gherman, Beverly

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and Company: 2002

Seller ID: 2295693

ISBN: 0316824453

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Front jacket flap price clipped. Page edges very faintly toned. 2002 Large Hardcover. xii, 110 pp. The renowned--and revered--photographer would have been 100 years old in 2002. To celebrate the life of Ansel Adams, this biography takes young readers through his rich life: from the earthquake that broke his nose to the valley that shaped his world, revealing the humorous, artistic, and thoughtful personality behind his legendary work.
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Twenty Years at Hull-House, with Autobiographical Notes

By: Addams, Jane

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company: 1910

Seller ID: 2303562

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. No jacket. Bookplate on front paste-down endpaper, ink name and ink gift note on front free endpaper. 1910 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xvii, 462 pp. Hull House was a settlement house in the United States that was co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr. Located on the Near West Side of Chicago, Illinois, Hull House (named after the original house's first owner Charles Jerald Hull) opened to recently arrived European immigrants. By 1911, Hull House had grown to 13 buildings. In 1912 the Hull House complex was completed with the additi...
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The Keys of Egypt: The Obsession to Decipher Egyptian Hieroglyphs

By: Adkins, Roy; Adkins, Lesley

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, Harper: 2000

Seller ID: 2304246

ISBN: 0060194391

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Sticker on rear jacket panel. 2000 Hard Cover. 335 pp. Chronicles the twenty-year attempt of French linguist Jean-Francois Champollion to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics despite poverty, ill health, competition by English physician Thomas Young, and political enemies.
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The Fire and the Light (Book One of the Souls of Aredyrah Series)

By: Akers, Tracy A.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Florida, Ruadora Publishing: 2006

Seller ID: 2197562

ISBN: 0977887502

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. 2006 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 324 pp. The Fire and the Light begins the saga of two boys from opposing cultures who meet and discover some unwelcome truths: not only are they bound by blood and prophecy, but their differing beliefs are founded on similar lies. Both boys want nothing more than to live normal lives, but their chance meeting sets them on a path of danger, discovery, and some difficult choices. If they reveal what they have learned, they risk not only their lives, but the stability of their world. If they keep the knowledge hidd...
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The Search For the Unnamed One (Book Two of the Souls of Aredyrah Series)

By: Akers, Tracy A.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Tampa, Florida, Aisling Press: 2007

Seller ID: 2197578

ISBN: 1934677043

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

First edition - a paperback original. Rear covered bumped near spine. 2007 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. viii, 276 pp. Truths long hidden. Fears that must be faced. In a world that needs salvation, Only death can give it life. The Prophecy has come to life in Tearia, and the Temple wants nothing more than to see it dead. Whispers say the Unnamed One walks amongst them, and there is little doubt as to who that person is. Reiv is oblivious to the hopes turning in his direction, and equally ignorant of a plot being waged against him. He has no time for rumors or i...
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Fever and Other New Poems

By: Akhmadulina, Bella; Yevtushenko, Yevgeny; Dutton, Geoffrey; Mezhakoff-Koriakin, Igor

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, William Morrow and Company: 1969

Seller ID: 2263304

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Jacket corners rubbed with 1 inch closed tear to spine head, rear jacket panel toned, small sticker on jacket spine base. 1969 Hard Cover. vi, 66 pp. 8vo. A collection of poems by a member of the Russian New Wave literary movement who Joseph Brodsky once called the best living poet in the Russian language. Translated by Geoffrey Dutton and Igor Mezhakoff-Koriakin, with an introduction by Yevgeny Yevtushenko.
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Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself

By: Alda, Alan

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 2007

Seller ID: 2308392

ISBN: 1400066174

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Faint stain on jacket spine base reverse. Address label on front free endpaper. 2007 Hard Cover. 209 pp. On the heels of his acclaimed memoir,Never Have Your Dog Stuffed, beloved actor and bestselling author Alan Alda has writtenThings I Overheard While Talking to Myself,an insightful and funny look at some of the impossible questions hes asked himself over the years: What do I value? What, exactly, is the good life? (And what does that even mean?) Picking up where his bestselling memoir left offhaving been saved by emergency surgery after nearly dying on a mountaintop in ChileA...
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The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty

By: Alexander, Caroline

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Viking: 2003

Seller ID: 2208326

ISBN: 067003133X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. A very nice copy. Near Fine. 2003 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 491 pp. An account of the actual events surrounding the legendary conflict aboard theHMS Bountyfocuses on the court-martial of its ten mutineers, citing the breakdown and exile of Master's Mate Fletcher Christian and Lieutenant Bligh's navigation talents.
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Boulevard of Broken Dreams: The Life, Times, and Legend of James Dean

By: Alexander, Paul

Price: $20.00

Publisher: ., Viking: 1994

Seller ID: 2206307

ISBN: 0670849510

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. James Dean postcard laid in. An exceptional copy. 1994 Hard Cover. This is the first biography of James Dean to look beyond the Hollywood-manufactured clich to the volatile polarities, conflicted sexuality, and childhood trauma of the person himself. James Dean's legendary status as a Hollywood icon is reconsidered in Boulevard of Broken Dreams, which explores the process by which he became the electric and exciting actor who came to stand for a whole generation's feelings of rebellion.What no one knew at the highlight of his career was that Dean had suffered agonies of torment ...
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Walt Disney's African Lion

By: Algar, James

Price: $200.00

Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster: 1956

Seller ID: 2173929

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First English language edition. Tiny ding on rear board, boards lightly rubbed, spine lightly foxed, ink names on front endpapers. 1956 Large Hardcover. 74, [1] pp. Tipped in glossy photographic illustrations reproduced from scenes in the 1955 Disney / True-Life Adventure film of the same name. Photography by Alfred & Emma Milotte, who spent three years on location to complete this project. The film won the Silver Bear Award at the 6th Berlin International Film Festival. The book was designed by Armand A. Bigle and produced by Marc Barraud from the original French language edition 'Walt Disney...
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Brick Lane

By: Ali, Monica

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Doubleday: 2003

Seller ID: 2270791

ISBN: 038560484X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 2003 Hard Cover. 413 pp. Author's first book. Nazneen's inauspicious entry to the world, an apparent stillbirth on the hard mud floor of a Bangladeshi village hut, imbues in her a sense of fatalism that she carries across continents when she is married off to Chanu. Her life in London's Tower Hamlets is, on the surface, calm. For years, keeping house and rearing children, she does what is expected of her. Yet Nazneen walks a tightrope stretched between her daughters' embarrassment and her husband's resentments. Chanu calls ...
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Inferno

By: Alighieri, Dante; James, Clive

Price: $395.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press: 2015

Seller ID: 2276356

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Fine

Limited edition, #85 of 1200 copies, signed and numbered by illustrator Marc Burckhardt on limitation page. Includes publisher's slipcase, publisher's certificate of authenticity and blank publisher's bookplate laid in. 2015 Full-Leather. 247, [3] pp. 8vo. Original red full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker bound in, color picture plate mounted on slipcase. Translated by Clive James, with tipped in color illustrations by Marc Burckhardt. The first part of Dante's Divine Comedy, in which Virgil provided a guided tour through Hell. Dante Aligh...
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The Lamps Go Out: 1914 & the Outbreak of War

By: Alington, A.F.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: London, Faber and Faber: 1962

Seller ID: 1741804

ISBN: 0571050808

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. 1 inch jacket tear, front jacket flap corner clipped (list price still present). 1962 Hard Cover. 140 pp. An account of events leading up to the Great War. Includes demographic map of Austria-Hungary and black & white photographs.
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None So Blind: A Personal Account of the Intelligence Failure in Vietnam

By: Allen, George W.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Chicago, Ivan R. Dee: 2001

Seller ID: 2307996

ISBN: 1566633877

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. A near fine copy in a near fine jacket. 2001 Hard Cover. xiv, 296 pp. From the first large-scale Viet Minh offensive against the French in 1950, to the fall of Saigon in 1975, the United States tried desperately to understand the nature of the fierce Communist-led struggle to create a unified, independent Vietnam. American intelligence played a key role in gathering information on the political and military situation in Vietnam and on the strengths and weaknesses of both sides. But as George Allen shows in this eye-popping memoir, intelligence appraisals were consistently ignore...
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