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Ep15: "A Disease in the Public Mind" is the most important book to read about the Civil War and America today
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Ep15: "A Disease in the Public Mind" is the most important book to read about the Civil War and America today

Occasional Discourse on the Massachusetts Question
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Thoughts on the book “A Disease in the Public Mind” by Thomas Fleming, which covers the role that memes and public hysteria played in the run-up to the American Civil War, and the book’s applicability to today.

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