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You may have missed this item published by Inside Higher Ed in late July. Written by Colleen Flaherty, the article confirms Aaron Barlow’s earlier post to this blog that bias against hillbillies may be one of the last widely accepted and largely unchallenged biases in this country. Here are the…

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? Uris, Leon.  Topaz.  New York: McGraw Hill, 1967. Leon Uris’s great subjects were the experience of combat in the Second World War, the post-war pursuit of war criminals, and the establishment of the Israeli state.  Topaz is set during the same general time period and treats many of the…

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? Sinclair, Upton.  World’s End.  New York: Viking, 1940. Now known primarily for his muckraking fiction and journalism, in particular for his novel The Jungle, Upton Sinclair also produced a series of eleven espionage novels featuring an operative named Lanny Budd.  What is most unusual about the series is that…

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? Roth, Holly.  The Content Assignment.  New York: Simon and Schuster, 1954. After a career as a fashion model, Holly Roth shifted to a writing career, contributing to newspapers and magazines and then working as an editor with periodicals ranging from Seventeen and Cosmopolitan to the American Journal of Surgery. …

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Proffitt, Nicholas.  The Embassy House. New York: Bantam, 1986. For more than a decade, Nicholas Proffitt served as a correspondent and a bureau chief for Newsweek in many locations around the globe, including “hot spots” such as Saigon and Beirut.  He has won awards for his reporting on the Arab-Israeli…

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Phillips, David Atlee.  The Carlos Contract.  New York: Macmillan, 1978. David Atlee Phillips served with the C.I.A. for a quarter of a century, from 1950 to 1975.  From 1973 to 1975, he was head of the agency’s Western Hemisphere Division.  In 1977, his memoir, The Night Watch: Twenty-Five Years of…

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Marquand, John P.  Stopover Tokyo.  Boston: Little, Brown, 1957. John P. Marquand was one of the most highly regarded social realists of his generation, winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1938 for The Late George Appley.  His novels were widely reviewed and widely read.  But his reputation has faded somewhat over…