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		<title>Web of Friends: How Wael Ghonim anonymously stirred the Egyptian Revolution</title>
		<link>http://lit.newcity.com/2012/02/02/web-of-friends-how-wael-ghonim-anonymously-stirred-the-egyptian-revolution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ella Christoph</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ella Christoph A year ago, days into the protest in Tahrir Square, news stories breathlessly proclaimed the importance of social media in the massive participation of Egyptian youth in a revolution few saw coming. Facebook pages, Tweeting—all of a sudden they were validated, by a monumental, real-world event. But as the protests raged on, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nonfiction Review: “Improbable Patriot: The Secret History of Monsieur de Beaumarchais, the French Playwright Who Saved the American Revolution” by Harlow Giles Unger</title>
		<link>http://lit.newcity.com/2012/01/27/nonfiction-review-improbable-patriot-the-secret-history-of-monsieur-de-beaumarchais-the-french-playwright-who-saved-the-american-revolution-by-harlow-giles-unger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ella Christoph</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harlow Giles Unger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[King Louis XV]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Marquis de Lafayette]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pierre-Augustine Caron de Beaumarchais]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED Americans who know something of our founding history are aware of the contribution of the Marquis de Lafayette to the Revolutionary War, but few remember the similarly pivotal role of the Frenchman with the sonorous, adopted name Beaumarchais. If he is recalled at all, it is as the author of “The Barber of Seville” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Literary Journal Review: &#8220;Curbside Splendor&#8221; edited by Victor David Giron</title>
		<link>http://lit.newcity.com/2012/01/23/literary-journal-review-curbside-splendor-edited-by-victor-david-giron/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ella Christoph</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicago Authors]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Literary Journal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brandon Jenning's]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christine Sneed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Garett Holden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Greer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Tadd Adcox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karolina Faber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Victor David Giron]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Startups in the teeth of a recession are risky, and new publishing ventures especially so; hence, the premiere of the ambitious, earnest semiannual literary journal “Curbside Splendor” should be applauded. Originating online but based in Logan Square, it is a “city” magazine edited by Victor David Giron that casts a wider net, with stories ranging [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nonfiction Review: “Grant’s Final Victory” by Charles Bracelen Flood</title>
		<link>http://lit.newcity.com/2012/01/19/nonfiction-review-grants-final-victory-by-charles-bracelen-flood/</link>
		<comments>http://lit.newcity.com/2012/01/19/nonfiction-review-grants-final-victory-by-charles-bracelen-flood/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 10:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ella Christoph</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bernie Madoff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles Bracelen Flood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Perry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Twain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert E. Lee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Samuel Clemens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ulysses S. Grant]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED Ulysses S. Grant earned applause in the North for his generalship during the Civil War, and even the deep respect of former enemies because of his generosity at the surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee and his hard-fighting, haggard veterans at Appomattox, Virginia. But the great military hero had no head for business, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fiction Review: “The Karaoke Singer’s Guide to Self-Defense” by Tim Kinsella</title>
		<link>http://lit.newcity.com/2012/01/17/fiction-review-the-karaoke-singers-guide-to-self-defense-by-tim-kinsella/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ella Christoph</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Debut Novel or Collection]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cap'n Jazz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joan of Arc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Willa Cather]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED Three estranged siblings gather at a funeral parlor in fictional Stone Claw Grove, Michigan, to mourn the grandmother who seemed to find a solace in the hometown that the siblings could not. A man struggles to live outside his father’s shadow after he inherits a nightclub from the old man. A teenage runaway comes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nonfiction Review: &#8220;Lincoln in His Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of His Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates&#8221; Edited by Harold K. Bush, Jr.</title>
		<link>http://lit.newcity.com/2012/01/13/nonfiction-review-lincoln-in-his-own-time-a-biographical-chronicle-of-his-life-drawn-from-recollections-interviews-and-memoirs-by-family-friends-and-associates-edited-by-harold-k-bush-jr/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ella Christoph</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biography]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Abraham Lincoln]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[John Hanks]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mary Todd Lincoln]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Burlingame]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lit.newcity.com/?p=3308</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED Harold K. Bush, Jr.’s “Lincoln in His Own Time” is a graceful, worthy addition to the already-massive wealth of Lincolniana. It brings a valuable perspective and literary flavor to a table already yawning with historical fare. At a well-organized just-under-300-pages, it is an accessible ying to the yang of Michael Burlingame’s recent exhaustive, 2000-page [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nonfiction Review: “Civilization: The West and the Rest” by Niall Ferguson</title>
		<link>http://lit.newcity.com/2012/01/11/nonfiction-review-%e2%80%9ccivilization-the-west-and-the-rest%e2%80%9d-by-niall-ferguson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ella Christoph</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Arnold Toynbee]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Símon Bolívar]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Civilizations rise and fall, but Harvard University Professor Niall Ferguson has made a virtual cottage industry out of the impending fate of the West in the twenty-first century. In his fifth book in this vein, “Civilization: The West and the Rest,” he measures our current stall against the material advances of the East—especially China—and finds reasons [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nonfiction Review: “MWF Seeking BFF: My Yearlong Search for a New Best Friend” by Rachel Bertsche</title>
		<link>http://lit.newcity.com/2012/01/09/nonfiction-review-mwf-seeking-bff-my-yearlong-search-for-a-new-best-friend-by-rachel-bertsche/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ella Christoph</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Julie Powell]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ella Christoph Any woman could tell you how much easier it is to pick up guys—well, usually, let them pick you up—than it is to befriend a girl. Obviously, bars aren’t a good spot for searching out new best buds. But—maybe more than women wish to admit, or guys might believe—even places that seem [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fiction Review: “A Stricken Field” by Martha Gellhorn</title>
		<link>http://lit.newcity.com/2012/01/05/fiction-review-%e2%80%9ca-stricken-field%e2%80%9d-by-martha-gellhorn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ella Christoph</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Caroline Moorehead]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edvard Benes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED A fictional masterpiece of the impending horror of Hitler’s “Final Solution,” Martha Gellhorn’s 1940 “A Stricken Field” is now generally regarded as her finest book. Sadly, she did not see it that way. A new foreword and her own 1985 afterword to a freshly republished edition show how by making an American journalist—a thinly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nonfiction Review: “The Wounds That Heal: Heroism and Human Development” by Judith A. Schwartz and Richard B. Schwartz</title>
		<link>http://lit.newcity.com/2012/01/03/nonfiction-review-%e2%80%9cthe-wounds-that-heal-heroism-and-human-development%e2%80%9d-by-judith-a-schwartz-and-richard-a-schwartz/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 10:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ella Christoph</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[George S. Patton]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Judith Schwartz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Schwartz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[T.E. Lawrence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theodore Roosevelt]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED Like the Cowardly Lion in “The Wizard of Oz,” we modern human beings can all use a little courage. In fact, Judith A. and Richard B. Schwartz argue in “The Wounds That Heal” that the need for heroic role models “is so strong that the media will manufacture pseudo-heroes in order to meet it. [...]]]></description>
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