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THE GOOD WAR

Studs Terkel

The dean of oral history evokes the innocent idealism, as well as the terror and horror, of ordinary Americans at home and abroad during World War II

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The Ezra Klein Show

A vivid oralhistory account of World WarII, told through the voices of those who lived it.

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And then his book on World WarII is amazing, too. It's called The Good War and is worth checking out.

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A vivid oralhistory account of World WarII, told through the voices of those who lived it.

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And then his book on World WarII is amazing, too. It's called The Good War and is worth checking out.

The Daily Stoic

It's a military history of the civil rights movement; the speaker read about half of it and noted that they like to write in the margins of books.

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This is my copy of Tom Rex great Austin author I think he spends about half a time half the year here this is his new book it's a military history in the civil rights movement called to wage a good wa...

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It's a military history of the civil rights movement; the speaker read about half of it and noted that they like to write in the margins of books.

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This is my copy of Tom Rex great Austin author I think he spends about half a time half the year here this is his new book it's a military history in the civil rights movement called to wage a good war this is a copy that I read about halfway through but you can see here when I read books this is one of the reasons I don't check out books from the library is that I insist on folding the pages and writing in the margins which of course you're not allowed to do but but the point is when I read I'm not just casually consuming in part because this is why I'm not a huge fan of audio books although I don't fault anyone for reading them I want to engage very deeply with the text and so I not only read very deeply but then after I read I go through it and I hype up all the passages that I like I would have feel them coming through my fingers some of them I read by hand I do these own physical no cards and this work out they goes into a foreman and building my actual recall and understanding more than just getting in just the book that got through it several times but these no parts also become the building blocks from books that I belong to right

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