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History and Current Events October 2026 |
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| The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State by Jill LeporeExamines the origins and evolution of artificial intelligence, detailing AI’s damaging influence over politics, economics, and the everyday fabric of life. |
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An Unexpected Life: A Memoir
by Gloria Steinem
Gloria Steinem offers an inspiring and candid memoir of her early life and the journey that made her one of the world's most influential activists and storytellers. As she reflects on the movements she helped build and the victories won for women's and human rights, she also looks ahead, urging new generations to imagine bolder, more inclusive paths forward.
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Centennial: The Great Fair of 1876 and the Invention of America's Future
by Fergus M. Bordewich
The spectacular story of America's hundredth birthday bash--the country's first world's fair and a moment of reckoning for a nation barreling toward the Gilded Age On display were inventions that signaled the changing landscape of American life, from the typewriter to the telephone to Heinz Tomato Ketchup.Through the lives of four protagonists--Rutherford B. Hayes, Alexander Graham Bell, railroad magnate Tom Scott, and sculptor Edmonia Lewis--reveals a country striving to live up to the promise of its founders while bracing for the tidal wave of the twentieth century.
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