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2021 selection · Nonfiction
Shaking the Gates of Hell: A Search for Family and Truth in the Wake of the Civil Rights Revolution by John Archibald appears in NPR’s 2021 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around for history lovers, biography & memoir, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
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