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History Lessons, Courtesy of Nicholson Baker and Howard Zinn

By Leonard Gill
The Memphis Flyer | April 25, 2008
Human Smoke is itself a kind of reference work: a series of short reports -- some only a paragraph long and most of them drawn from newspaper accounts, diaries, documents, letters, memoirs, memos, and public speeches, with Baker doing the assembling and providing the timeline and context.
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