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Political Sign (Object Lessons)
Political Sign (Object Lessons) by Tobias Carroll appears in NPR’s 2020 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, the states we’re in, for history lovers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
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