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Newsletter #190

June 18, 2018

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3 books featured in this issue

Cover of How to Watch Soccer

How to Watch Soccer

by Ruud Gullit

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That is a banger of a book! (Peter)

Cover of The Gallows Pole

The Gallows Pole

by Benjamin Myers

The Gallows Pole recounts the rise and fall of the Cragg Vale Coiners who, as the pastoral moorlands of their native Yorkshire were being transformed by the architecture of industry in the 1760s, so t... (Tom)

Cover of The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

by Timothy Snyder

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Perhaps you read Snyder's bracing pamphlet, On Tyranny (or the Facebook post it was based on)—from its title, I had imagined this new, much larger book as an expansion of those ideas, but, while it's... (Tom)

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