South America Insight
Yage Letters Redux
In 1953 William Burroughs trekked into the jungles of South America seeking the hallucinogenic plant known as Yage. Seven years later Allen Ginsburg found and ingested the substance. Their correspondence, published in 1963 by City Lights Books as a novel, has a weird power.
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Away Down South
From the seventeenth century Cavaliers and Uncle Tom's Cabin to Civil Rights museums and today's conflicts over the Confederate flag, here is a brilliant portrait of southern identity, served in an engaging blend of history, literature, and popular culture.
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Remade in America
In a stunning rebuke to a large group of naysayers, Jim Rohwer convincingly argues that the Asian financial crisis of 1997-1998 was not a turn for the worse; rather it was short-lived and helped rid Asian markets of many of the problems that were holding it back.
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The South Vs the South
Why did the Confederacy lose the Civil War? Most historians point to the larger number of Union troops, for example, or the North's greater industrial might. Now, in The South Vs.
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Asia, America and the Transformation of Geopolitics
American security and prosperity now depend on Asia. William H. Overholt offers an iconoclastic analysis of developments in each major Asian country, Asian international relations, and US foreign policy.
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