Tag: Revolution
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THE FOUNDING FORTUNES: How The Wealthy Paid For and Profited From America’s Revolution by Tom Shachtman
In The Founding Fortunes, historian Tom Shachtman reveals the ways in which a dozen notable Revolutionaries deeply affected the finances and birth of the new country while making and losing their fortunes. In times of war, the rich usually do get richer and the poor are still poor, yet free. Somewhat. This well-researched telling of the well…
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The Murmur of Bees by Sophia Segovia
Translated by Simon Bruni From a beguiling voice in Mexican fiction comes an astonishing novel—her first to be translated into English—about a mysterious child with the power to change a family’s history in a country on the verge of revolution. The day Nana Reja found a tiny baby under a bridge, wrapped in a blanket…
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