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I read books, love cats, and I know things. It’s what I do. #VCU (BA & MA) USD Law (JD & LLM)
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#BookSky 13/20 An important secondary source, but it can be off putting at times because it was written during segregation.

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#BookSky 12/20 How did Lyndon Johnson go from Senator to Vice President to President?

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#BookSky 11/20 The U.S. Senate works the way it does today because of Lyndon Johnson. Here’s how it happened.

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WTF? #Trump #Musk #Tariffs

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#BookSky 10/20 A sweeping History of Europe from pre-history to the present.

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OMG! Maddow is showing how Peter Navarro has used a fake persona to promote his crazy tariff policies! #MomSky Ron Vara does not exist. www.chronicle.com/article/trum...

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www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

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Watch this news clip and then share it as widely as you can. #Tariffs #Trump #Navarro youtu.be/MJbZCbBLqkk?...

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#BookSky 9/20 When FDR took office in 1933, the Great Depression was already four years old. His response was the Works Progress Administration.

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#BookSky 8/20 Just before World War Two, the U.S. Army was tiny. This is the story of how the United States mobilized the largest and most powerful army in the world.

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#BookSky 7/20 The second volume of Robert A. Caro’s biography of Lyndon Johnson. A crash course in how the House of Representatives works.

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#BookSky 6/20 I like Hillary Clinton as a person, but her 2016 campaign was very poorly run.

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#BookSky 5/20 In the History game primary sources are the gold standard, but in between is the memoir: written many years after the war, they can be self-serving: “Battles and Leaders of the Civil War.”

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#BookSky 4/20 If you read only one book about the Holocaust, this is it.

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Felix Whiskers poses on a clean fleece.

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#BookSky 3/20 “Why the South Lost the Civil War.” A collaboration about why the South lost.

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#BookSky 2/20 How a republic dies. Very timely reading.

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The 20th century saw a reorganization of nations, and among the most important was the change between the relationship between Ireland and Great Britain. Central to that change was Michael Collins. #BookSky 1/20

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I finished my first 20 book list, now I am starting a second series: the 20th century. I play this game a little differently. I allow 1-3 sentences of context: no reviews, just a short comment about why the book is important to you.

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#BookSky 20/20 I live in Richmond, Virginia and there is an ongoing debate about what caused the American Civil War. There are people who will stand in the middle of the road and insist it was about states rights, but there’s a paper trail, and it was about slavery.

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Tonight is VCU’s last home game of the season.

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Cat pictures are the best pictures.

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#BookSky 19/20 “Blitzkrieg” by Len Deighton. What did the Germans do differently in 1940?

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Why doesn’t the press say the obvious? Elon Musk failed.

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#BookSky 18/20 Civil wars are anything but civil.

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#BookSky 17/20 The year our nation was born.

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I’m a lawyer, but securities really aren’t my specialty. Could Elon Musk face shareholder derivative lawsuits from Tesla shareholders? #Tesla #ElonMusk

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#BookSky 16/20 It speaks for itself.

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#BookSky 15/20 An excellent edition of Hemingway’s short stories.

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#BookSky 14/20 Daniel J. Boorstin was a brilliant historian and served as the Librarian of Congress for more than a decade.

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#BookSky 13/20 The classic Arthurian legend retold from the women’s point of view.

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#BookSky 12/20 In honor of Black History Month (and because it’s a great book) I’m going to suggest Noah Andre Trudeau’s “Like Men of War” which is a history of Black troops in the American Civil War.

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#BookSky 11/20 James McPherson’s “Battle Cry of Freedom” is currently the standard single volume college textbook for college history classes about the American Civil War. If you only read one book on the Civil War, this is it.

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My Civil War library would hardly be complete without a set of the “Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion.” My living room is one of the best Civil War libraries in central Virginia. #BookSky

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My apartment is kid of a mess just now, but here is about two thirds of my library.

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#ICYMI: In building a 68-mile tunnel under Las Vegas, Elon Musk’s Boring Company has skirted building, environmental and labor regulations, according to records obtained by ProPublica and City Cast Las Vegas.

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This is the Riverside Shakespeare and my cat Felix Whiskers. Shakespeare kind of speaks for himself, but a professor talked me into a masters degree in English.

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8/20 Book Sky

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#BookSky 7/20

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Analysis of Trump's capitulation to Putin. #Trump #Putin #Ukraine #Russia youtu.be/DCBEMTbUif0?...

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#BookSky 6/20

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Trump might have gotten away with this sort of thing in the 1930s, but the world is onto him this time around.

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