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Book Review of Dreams of El Dorado by H.W. Brands
Book Review of Dreams of El Dorado by H.W. Brands

Dreams of El Dorado steps up to the plate to tackle an immense topic: The Westward Expansion of America. The American west is full of legends, of larger-than-life personalities, of excitement and drama, and underscoring it all is the hope that anyone headed westward can make it big, can find his or her own El Dorado.

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Book Review of There There by Tommy Orange
Book Review of There There by Tommy Orange

The prologue of the novel, which is about nine pages in length, hits the reader from the very start with a different history of the start of the now-United States, the evolution of the native experience, and the unique modern day urban Indians, who struggle to self-identify in a world that often does not see them.

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