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The Public Health Crises Plaguing America's Prisons
How the failure to protect incarcerated people from infections has led to preventable outbreaks—and how public health professionals can make a difference.
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Behind Closed Doors: Researching the Secret Work of Lobbyists
It’s not easy to write a book on lobbying when lobbyists don’t like to talk about what they do. And it’s particularly difficult when the lobbyists you’re writing about have been dead for one hundred and fifty years. This was the challenge I found myself...
The Webster-Hayne Debate: Defining Nationhood in the Early American Republic
For generations, school children remembered the Webster-Hayne Debate by memorizing the ending to Daniel Webster’s Second Reply to Robert Y. Hayne. Its soaring articulation of nationalism and American nationhood—“Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and...
