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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
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Democracy in America
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Alexis de Tocqueville
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
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The Origins of Totalitarianism: Hannah Arendt's Definitive Work on Antisemitism, Imperialism, and the Rise of Authoritarian Power
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Anne Applebaum
Middlemarch (Penguin Classics)
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George Eliot
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Rosemary Ashton
Episode overview
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