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Musings & Amusings

Robert S. McElvaine
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Commentaries on, as Dickens wrote in "Our Mutual Friend," “things warious.” I’m a bit dyslexic; my brain mixes things together, which can lead to seeing connections between things that others see as unrelated. I hope you'll like the results.

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    Author, historian, feminist, believer in democracy—placing current developments in historical context. Author of 11books. Current book project: “An Agreed-Upon Fiction—The creation of the ‘Inferior’ Sex: Hoe It Misshaped History & the Present.”

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