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Fun Facts Friday: Conrad Aiken
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Fun Facts Friday: Conrad Aiken

Man of la BookAugust 5, 2022

Conrad Aiken (5 August, 1889 – 17 August, 1973) was an American writer and poet. Mr. Aiken was a Pulitzer Prize winner and a U.S. Poet Laureate.

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Fun Facts Friday: Daniel J. Boorstin
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Fun Facts Friday: Daniel J. Boorstin

Man of la BookOctober 1, 2021

Daniel J. Boorstin was a historian specializing in both American and world history. Mr. Boorstin was the twelfth Librarian of the United States Congress.

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Fun Facts Friday: Jacques Futrelle
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Fun Facts Friday: Jacques Futrelle

Man of la BookApril 9, 2021

Jacques Futrelle (9 April, 1875) was a journalist and mystery writer known for writing short detective stories featuring Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen.

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Book Review: The Cotillion Brigade by Glen Carney
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Book Review: The Cotillion Brigade by Glen Carney

Man of la BookMarch 15, 2021

The Cotillion Brigade: A Novel of the Civil War and the Most Famous Female Militia in American History the story of the Nancy Hart Rifles & Union Col. La Grange

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Book Review: None of the Above by Shani Robinson and Anna Simonton
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Book Review: None of the Above by Shani Robinson and Anna Simonton

Man of la BookMarch 12, 2019

Mrs. Robinson was charged to allegedly changed the grades to conform with standardized testing, & circumstances caused public schools to be considered failures

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Book Review: Among the Living by Jonathan Rabb

Man of la BookJune 30, 2016

Yitzhak Goldah survived a Nazi concentration camp in Czechoslovakia, he moved to Savannah, GA to live with his relatives Pearl and Abe Jesler. The Jeslers are part of a vivacious Jewish community in Georgia which has been there since the founding of the state (colony at the time).

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Thoughts on: The One by RJ Smith

Man of la BookMarch 26, 2012

About: The One: The Life and Music of James Brown by RJ Smith is a biographyof the Godfather of Soul. The title “The One” refers mainly to the artist’s emphasis on playing the right beat. The pub­lisher is giv­ing away one copy of […]

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