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Reckoning with History: Unfinished Stories of American Freedom

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Drew Gilpin Faust

President of Harvard University

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Matthew C. Nisbet

Professor of Communication, American University

David Mamet

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright

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Editor, Harvard Business Review

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Translator

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Professor of War Studies at King's College London; Former Foreign Policy Adviser to Tony Blair; Author of Strategy: A Class War

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