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The Racketeer’s Progress
Andrew Wender Cohen’s The Racketeer’s Progress navigates the intersection between labor and violence in early twentieth-century Chicago....
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Jun 16, 20234 min read
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The Truth Gap: Dissecting Myths of the 1960 Election
Originally Written in November 2020. Two of the books discussed specifically take aim to torpedo the foundation of the Kennedy “myth”...
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Jun 7, 20236 min read
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White Lines and Black Incarceration: A Reexamination of the War on Drugs
Originally Written in April 2021 They declared the war on drugs, like a war on terror But what it really did was let the police...
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Jun 7, 20237 min read
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Terror by Index Card: Investigating the Real J. Edgar Hoover
Originally Written in May 2023. FBI director J. Edgar Hoover has been characterized as the ultimate American villain. Several writers...
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Jun 7, 202312 min read
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