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UnderworldAmusements
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“Truth must of necessity be stranger than fiction.“ ~G.K. Chesterton

Read the incredibly strange and surprisingly true story behind the invention of “Old Sparky.“
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KathyWheeler
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This is a well-researched, well-written book about the USA‘s previous flirtations with fascism. Maddow narrates the book in an engaging way, occasionally throwing in a touch of her trademark snark. The only thing I‘d have done differently is I‘d have laid out the two eras side-by-side so that the parallels couldn‘t be missed. But Maddow trusts her audience, so she concentrates on the Hitler era. Continued with Veronica Speedwell on my #audiowalk

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KathyWheeler
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This book makes you realize that there‘s very little new under the sun. The US has had large groups of fascist supporters before, the most significant of which was right before WWII with America First and the Christian Front. More Veronica Speedwell on my #audiowalk. I haven‘t decided how I feel about her yet.

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LeslieO
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Love me some nonfiction! #TLT #ThreeListThursday

Aims42 Bill Bryson & Erik Larson are in my Top 10 favorite authors 🤩👏🙌 3w
dabbe Love all 3 of these authors, and I haven't read any of these! You know where they're now going! 🤩 Thanks for sharing. 💚💙💚 3w
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Hooked_on_books
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This book looks at an era in American history filled with requirements of loyalty, vicious anti-immigrant rhetoric, jailing (or attempting to jail) those with different political opinions, censorship of written materials certain people don‘t like and more. Sounds awfully familiar, doesn‘t it? But it‘s about the era starting in 1917. While my attention to this did wane in places, overall it‘s an interesting, topical book.

Leftcoastzen I‘m glad you reviewed it , one I wanted to check into but forgot to write it down , Palmer raids , right? 3w
Hooked_on_books @Leftcoastzen That‘s part of it, yes. He paints a picture of that whole era. 3w
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dabbe
Alexander Hamilton | Ron Chernow
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 👍🏻 3w
Eggs Perfect pairing👏🏻 3w
dabbe @Eggs 💚💙💚 3w
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UnderworldAmusements
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It's #pubday❗️

An ax murderer, two of the most brilliant scientific minds of the century, billions of dollars in profit, precedent-setting legal battles, and the secrets of life and death — all of these come together in the true story of the first electric chair.

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#AvailableNow #NewBooks #TrueCrime #Nonfiction #AmericanHistory #SecondEdition #Revised #Expanded #BloodandVolts #Edison #Tesla #ElectricChair #CapitalPunishment #DeathPenalty

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Tkgbjenn1
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Tom Clavin has become the go-to author for old west history. This is the story of one of the last outlaw gangs of the Wild West. Focusing on the ill fated attempt to rob two banks at once in the town of Coffeyville, Kansas that resulted in a shootout with a sizable portion of the citizens of that town.

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