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Part One: The Dumbest Coup In World History

Behind the Bastards

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King Solomon's Minds

The idea of American exceptionalism and the idea of like going to another country or another continent, I feel like I see that vibe reverberated in so many different ways. And it's like right down to the fact that this would actually be a less unsettling novel King Sullivan's minds if H writer Haggard had been super hatefully racist. "I remember this wild and it's always sketchy and often more dangerous when the person doing this stuff is like super woke about it," she says.

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