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Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 day ago

The Puma by Daniel Wiles review a visceral tale of cyclical violence

A miner's gold discovery and a father's displacement of wartime trauma reveal bodily suffering, poverty and recurring cycles of violence through shifting time and landscape.
fromThe Atlantic
3 months ago

How the Revolution Tore Apart the Franklin Family

On the whole, the Founding Fathers, those towering patriarchs, fared poorly when it came to sons. George Washington and James Madison had none. Thomas Jefferson's only legitimate one died in infancy. Samuel Adams also outlived his. With the exception of John Quincy Adams, no other son of a Founder rose to his father's stature. The unluckiest of all may have been Benjamin Franklin, who, in the course of a deeply familial contest, lost a cherished son the hardheaded way: to politics.
History
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