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· Aug 29
Here’s Obama’s 2025 summer reading list.
Every year since his inauguration, President Obama has released a reading list spotlighting his favorite books. Like a fireside chat with FDR, this tradition familiarized the man. We got a sense of…
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· Aug 20
Charras: A True Novel of the Assassination That Roiled the Yucatan
Charras is the true story of Efra n "El Charras" Calder n Lara, a twenty-six-year-old union leader and student activist, and the Yucatean government's successful plot to kidnap and murder him. Acclaimed Mexican novelist Hern n Lara Zavala combines real-life newspaper articles and interviews with renderings of key events, laying the state-sanctioned narrative of Charras's death beside the actual experiences of those involved. To kaleidoscopic effect, Zavala enters not only the mind of the hero but also those in his orbit: the governor of the Yucat n, Charras's bureaucrat brother-in-law, even the mercenary hired to carry out the kidnapping--the chilling "you" whose point-of-view the reader must inhabit to unravel what took place during that fateful spring of 1974.
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