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Obama Tweaks U.S. Vision For Fight Against Terrorism
May 24, 2013 | NPR · President Obama discussed America's counter-terrorism strategy — including the use of drones and the prison at Guantanamo Bay — during an address at the National Defense University on Thursday. He rejected the idea that the country can fight an open-ended "global war on terror."
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Political Attacks Ramp Up In U.S. Senate Race In Mass.
May 24, 2013 | NPR · In Massachusetts, what's been a relatively lackluster campaign to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Secretary of State John Kerry is heating up. Veteran Democratic Rep. Ed Markey is running against Republican Gabriel Gomez, a businessman and former Navy SEAL. Gomez is a political newcomer.
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Documentary Introduces The Man Behind WikiLeaks
May 24, 2013 | NPR · David Greene talks to filmmaker Alex Gibney about the new documentary We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks. In 2006, Julian Assange launched WikiLeaks and encouraged anyone in the world to pass on information that might expose government secrets.
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Obama: Sexual Assault Has No Place In The Military
May 24, 2013 | NPR · President Obama delivered the commencement address at Annapolis on Friday, challenging the U.S. Naval Academy graduates to help redefine national defense in the 21st century.
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Week In Politics: Obama And Drone Strikes
May 24, 2013 | NPR · Melissa Block speaks with political commentators E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post and Brookings Institution and David Brooks of The New York Times. They discuss highlights from the national security speech delivered by President Obama on Thursday.
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Battered Jersey Shore Pins Recovery Hopes On Summer Season
May 24, 2013 | NJN · Seven months after Hurricane Sandy slammed into the Jersey Shore, Asbury Park is still waiting for insurance and federal aid money. In the meantime, it borrowed $10 million to repair the waterfront in time for the critical Memorial Day weekend.
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Then The Curtain Opened: The Bracing Impact Of Stravinsky's 'Rite'
May 25, 2013 | NPR · The aggressively modern ballet premiered in Paris in 1913, and provoked a response just as striking as the music and dance.
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Political Takeaways: Headaches For The White House
May 19, 2013 | NPR · Controversies dominated this past week's political headlines, leaving the Obama White House on the defensive, trying to contain any lasting damage. Host Rachel Martin talks with NPR's Mara Liasson.
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NPR Bestsellers: Hardcover Fiction, Week Of April 4, 2013
Apr 5, 2013 — Debuting at No. 4, Z imagines the life of Jazz Age celebrity Zelda Fitzgerald.
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'Z' Tells The Fitzgeralds' Story From Zelda's Point Of View
Mar 23, 2013 — F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald wed in 1920, and the two went on to have a famously turbulent literary marriage. Would Zelda have been better off without her husband? Novelist Therese Anne Fowler says, "They were two sides of one coin."
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NPR Bestsellers: Paperback Fiction, Week Of February 7, 2013
Feb 8, 2013 — Holding on to its No. 1 spot, Paula McLain's The Paris Wife imagines the life of Hadley Hemingway.
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NPR Bestsellers: Paperback Fiction, Week Of December 6, 2012
Dec 7, 2012 — At No. 4, Paula McLain's The Paris Wife follows Hemingway's first wife as she navigates 1920s Paris.
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New In Paperback Nov. 26- Dec. 2
Nov 27, 2012 — In fiction, Paula McLain explores Hemingway's first marriage, while Anita Desai re-examines modern India. In nonfiction, Joseph Epstein defends gossip, Rosamond Bernier remembers midcentury Paris, and Stuart Isacoff lauds the piano.
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A Passion For The Past: 2011's Best Historical Fiction
Dec 16, 2011 — These five outstanding novels take us to unfamiliar eras and exotic locales — ancient Israel, Elizabethan England, 1920s Paris — while confirming our common humanity.
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The Paris Wife
Jul 14, 2011 — NPR coverage of The Paris Wife by Paula McLain. News, author interviews, critics' picks and more.
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The Tension Of A War To Come, As Seen From 'Exile'
May 9, 2011 — Soon after Hitler's rise in 1933, writer Heinrich Mann and his wife fled Germany for fear of persecution, joining other intellectuals in exile. Evelyn Juers' House of Exile chronicles the experience of watching a war develop from afar.
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'The Paris Wife' Dives Into Hemingway's First Big Love
Mar 1, 2011 — Paula McLain's new novel, The Paris Wife, tells the story of Hadley Richardson, Ernest Hemingway's first wife and companion during his Paris years. Hemingway and Richardson were blissfully in love — until he left her for her best friend.
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Norris And Norman: Love That Lasted Against Odds
Apr 10, 2010 — Norris Church Mailer has been a model, a teacher and an author. Her memoir, A Ticket to the Circus, covers her childhood as Little Miss Little Rock, the story of how she met her husband, Norman Mailer, and of the 33 years they spent together.
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