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Laura A. Sandefer describes a radical new form of K-12 education in Courage To Grow: How Acton Academy Turns Learning Upside Down.

In a 10-minute conversation with The Bookmonger, she describes why she and her husband wanted to start a new school, why it doesn't have teachers or grades or classrooms in the traditional sense, and what she's learned about education since founding Acton Academy almost a decade ago.

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He was the first modern Republican, says Robert W. Merry in his new biography, President McKinley: Architect of the American Century.

In a 10-minute conversation with The Bookmonger, Merry argues McKinley is more important than most people recognize; that his lack of recognition is partly the fault of his colorful successor, Theodore Roosevelt; and that McKinley pioneered a form of "non-colonial imperialism" that holds lessons for American foreign policy today.

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Thesis #12: "God is a Jerk." That's a provocative line from Quin Hillyer';s satiric novel, Mad Jones, Heretic.

In a 10-minute conversation with The Bookmonger, Hillyer explains why his main character is mad at God, how Martin Luther inspires him, and why the media turns him into a star.

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We're still feeling a fateful year's repercussions a century later, writes Arthur Herman in 1917: Lenin, Wilson, and the Birth of the New World Disorder.

In a 10-minute conversation with The Bookmonger, Herman explains why 1917 was such a big deal, how Vladimir Lenin and Woodrow Wilson were alike, and how the election of President Trump may mark the end of an era they began.

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Americans who fly the Confederate flag don't understand the nature of tyranny in the antebellum South, writes Forrest A. Naborsin From Oligarchy to Republicanism: The Great Task of Reconstruction.

In a 10-minute conversation with The Bookmonger, Nabors explains the goals of Reconstruction, why so few people truly understand its era, and whether we should regard it as a success or failure.

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