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Team of Giants The Making of the Spanish-American War

Matthew Bernstein

If not for an unlikely alliance among a bespectacled cowboy, a former Confederate general, and a millionaire newspaper publisher, the Spanish-American War might never have been. How these three outsize characters—Theodore Roosevelt, Joseph “Fighting Joe” Wheeler, and William Randolph Hearst—helped i...

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How I Built This with Guy Raz

Keith Berkshire was a lawyer who wrote a legal thriller called American Giant and was happy to sell the trademark for $5,000 to Bayard.

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I'm a lawyer. I wrote a thriller in the kind of John Grisham vein called American Giant.

— Episode: American Giant: Bayard Winthrop

Episode: American Giant: Bayard Winthrop

Keith Berkshire was a lawyer who wrote a legal thriller called American Giant and was happy to sell the trademark for $5,000 to Bayard.

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I'm a lawyer. I wrote a thriller in the kind of John Grisham vein called American Giant.

It's like a legal thriller. And I've always thought that I might one day become a New York Times bestseller and people buy t-shirts or something with the name of the novel on it.

But that's a pipe dream. And if you write me a $5,000 check, you can have it.

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