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How Elvis Presley Ushered in the Era of Teen Consumer Culture
How Elvis Presley Ushered in the Era of Teen Consumer Culture

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And Tango Makes Three: The True Story of Central Park Zoo’s Same-Sex Penguin Family, Illustrated
And Tango Makes Three: The True Story of Central Park Zoo’s Same-Sex Penguin Family, Illustrated

“We’ll call her Tango … because it takes two to make a Tango.”

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Oppression by Omission: The Untold Story of the Women Soldiers Who Dressed and Fought as Men in the Civil War
Oppression by Omission: The Untold Story of the Women Soldiers Who Dressed and Fought as Men in the Civil War

“Women lived in germ-ridden camps, languished in appalling prisons, and died miserably, but honorably, for their country and their cause just as men did.”

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Obey: How the Rise of Mass Propaganda Killed Populism
Obey: How the Rise of Mass Propaganda Killed Populism

“A populace that can no longer find the words to articulate what is happening to it is cut off from rational discourse.”

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Stephen King on Gun Control and Violence
Stephen King on Gun Control and Violence

“Assault weapons will remain readily available to crazy people until the powerful pro-gun forces … accept responsibility, recognizing that responsibility is not the same as culpability.”

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Isaac Asimov on Curiosity, Taking Risk, and the Value of Space Exploration in Muppet Magazine
Isaac Asimov on Curiosity, Taking Risk, and the Value of Space Exploration in Muppet Magazine

“To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.”

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How Our Government Helps Us, in Vibrant Vintage Illustrations from 1969
How Our Government Helps Us, in Vibrant Vintage Illustrations from 1969

“As our country grows and changes, our government has more work to do and more laws to make.”

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The Feminine Mystique Half a Century Later
The Feminine Mystique Half a Century Later

How Betty Friedan “pulled the trigger on history” and awakened women to the freedom to question what it means to live a full life.

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The Mahatma and the Poet: Tagore’s Letters to Gandhi on Power, Morality, and Science
The Mahatma and the Poet: Tagore’s Letters to Gandhi on Power, Morality, and Science

“Passive resistance is a force which is not necessarily moral in itself; it can be used against truth as well as for it.”

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On Art and Government: The Poem Robert Frost Didn’t Read at JFK’s Inauguration
On Art and Government: The Poem Robert Frost Didn’t Read at JFK’s Inauguration

“And this is no aristocratic joke / At the expense of negligible folk.”

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