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"After a tumultuous period in American politics, a new administration has just been sworn in, and to everyone's surprise the president chooses a political enemy for the vital position of Secretary of State. There is no love lost between the President of the United States and Ellen Adams, his new Secretary of State. But it's a canny move on the part of the president. With this appointment, he silences one of his harshest critics, since taking the job...
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Based on the extraordinary life of Louis Erdrich's grandfather Patrick Gourneau, who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, with lightness and gravity, and unfolds with the elegant prose, sly humor, and depth of feeling of a literary master. Thomas Wazhashk is the night watchman at the jewel-bearing plant, the first factory located near the Turtle Mountain Reservation...
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Después de un período tumultuoso en la política estadounidense, una nueva administración acaba de prestar juramento y, para sorpresa de todos, el presidente elige a un enemigo político para el puesto vital de Secretario de Estado. No hay amor perdido entre el Presidente de los Estados Unidos y Ellen Adams, su nueva Secretaria de Estado. Pero es un movimiento astuto por parte del presidente. Con este nombramiento, silencia a uno de sus más duros...
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