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front row left to right: V. T. Nguyen, C. Lozada, E. Ramshaw, T. Shelby, N. Brown, M. Miller, N. Barnes; back row left to right: D. Remnick, A. Applebaum, G. Thompson, E. Alexander, J. Cobb, K. Merida, N. Carroll, G. Escobar, S. Chan, K. Lytle Hernández; attending virtually: L. Bollinger (Photo by Jose R. Lopez)

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Neil Brown and Tommie Shelby, co-chairs; Marjorie Miller, administrator

Garrett M. Graff

Publication
Watergate: A New History
Citation
A comprehensive analysis of the country’s best-known political crime, a finely-crafted synthesis of multiple sources into a comprehensive account that is engaging, humanizing and funny.
Publisher
Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster
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Categories: History

Michael John Witgen

Publication
Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America
Citation
A piercing analysis of exploitative colonial arrangements made by the U.S. in the settling of the Old Northwest, and of Native resistance.
Publisher
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture/University of North Carolina Press
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Categories: History

Jefferson Cowie

Citation
A resonant account of an Alabama county in the 19th and 20th centuries shaped by settler colonialism and slavery, a portrait that illustrates the evolution of white supremacy by drawing powerful connections between anti-government and racist ideologies.
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Categories: History
Publisher
Basic Books
Publication
Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power

Vauhini Vara

Publication
The Immortal King Rao
Citation
About a tech genius turned exile and the daughter who is struggling to break free of his hold, a complicated family saga that is also an ambitious novel exploring topics such as climate change and the legacy of colonialism in a vibrant and surprisingly humorous voice.
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
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Categories: Fiction

Barbara Kingsolver

Citation
A masterful recasting of “David Copperfield,” narrated by an Appalachian boy whose wise, unwavering voice relates his encounters with poverty, addiction, institutional failures and moral collapse–and his efforts to conquer them.
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Categories: Fiction
Publisher
Harper
Publication
Demon Copperhead

Hernan Diaz

Citation
A riveting novel set in a bygone America that explores family, wealth and ambition through linked narratives rendered in different literary styles, a complex examination of love and power in a country where capitalism is king.
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Categories: Fiction
Publisher
Riverhead Books
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