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Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-08-16 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Studs Terkel
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Mark Bernstein shows that much of the culture that surrounds American football, both good and bad, has its roots in the Ivy League. With their long winning stre
The Kennedy Obsession
Language: en
Pages: 246
Authors: John Hellmann
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-03-19 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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John F. Kennedy was not only a president, but also a symbol for America's most cherished ideas. In The Kennedy Obsession, John Hellmann takes a thoroughly origi