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Spoon River has 244 accounts of the lives of people in the town that explain its goings on over a couple of centuries. Each free form verse is presented as an epitaph of one of the citizens delivered themselves, often criticizing the words said about them on their tombstone or the monument or stone left above them. The stories build on one another as well as reference various family members and others mentioned in other stories.

John Adams was the leading political figure from New England during the American Revolution, the Constitutional Conventions, and the early presidential races. John Adams was on the Committee of Five chartered to draft the Declaration of Independence. He led the movement to appoint Thomas Jefferson as the drafter of the Declaration, helped steer the draft through the political groups established to review it, and forever after proclaimed it to be the leading document in American history.

Fifteen Indian tales told in wigwams and around camp fires back in the day about the exploits and adventures of Indians on the American plains in search of buffalo, war parties, brave women and men, successes and failures, glory and renown.

Twenty-seven Native American folk tales culturally grounded and different but similar to those of other cultures such as in the Bible, by Homer in the Iliad, Hans Christensen Andersen, Mark Twain in America, and others.

The most famous and admired Black man of his era because of his calm but passionate commitment to Blacks to rise by practical work, as well as to higher artistic and intellectual callings. Admired and followed by such different leaders as General George Patton, Harvard President Charles Elliot, W.E.B. DuBois, Susan B. Anthony, Presidents Cleveland and McKinley, and Queen Victoria.

The best writer on this subject written with the elegance of Hemingway and Fitzgerald with the passion and insights of Cather and Baldwin. No word changes required for transforming the work from prose to audio - remarkable in itself. Narrator brings the passion and strength to the reading to approach those of DuBois. A must-listen for the woke and non-woke.

Insightful, telling, ironic, and moving, 14 Native-American legends reflect a nomadic non-property-owning culture, with a reverence for all things natural.

Describes how to protect your employment, investments, major purchases, family, and more as well as describes the impact of paying for all the free stuff the Democratic platform offers by having a VAT tax as all developed socialist nations have with free stuff.

Elizabeth Warren worrisome aspects.

This is Buber's landmark work in psychology and philosophy as well as in religion.

Why Democrats have adopted 20/80 losing issues to lose until they change their ways.

Why the Republicans will presumably win forever.

Matthew Arnold discusses Middle Class Education and why France then had a superior system in his opinion because the government was involved.

Arnold examines God and the Bible from a Rationalist's point of view.