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Fox Butterfield, a Former New York Times Foreign Correspondent, Explores the “Bogle Curse”
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A Memoir Filled with Marginalization, Humiliation, and Criminalization
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With Some Thoughts about Integration, Religion, Immigration, and Affirmative Action
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Fast Forward a Few Decades, and My Mother’s Simple Dictate Has Grown Surprisingly Complicated.
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Exploring Why One Pennsylvania County, Which Supported Obama, Became Trumpland
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