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A new book by the historian Linda Gordon considers seven social movements that transformed the country — not all of them for the better. In her first novel since “Americanah,” she draws on a ...

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His book, a marvellous accounting that covers many moments of high drama, also usefully lays out the many mechanisms of repression that made the Red Scare possible, from executive orders and ...

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