Wilson's letters to Mary were frequent and intimate, but it would have been political suicide to marry a divorcee by the post-Victorian standards of the time
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During three harrowing years as a prisoner of the Japanese, an American woman secretly kept an extraordinary journal of suffering, hope, ingenuity, and human endurance
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A young poet’s memories of the old rural America in whose fields he worked for two sunny months while awaiting the call to service in the First World War
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For more than a century, Irish-Americans were whipsawed between love for their tormented native land and loyalty to the United States. But no more .
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Westward with the course of empire Colonel Jonathan Drake Stevenson took his way in 1846. With him went the denizens of New York’s Tammany wards, oyster cellars, and gin mills—the future leaders of California.
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