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Book Review: ‘The Rush,’ by Nathaniel Philbrick

In “The Rush,” Nathaniel Philbrick paints a portrait of the treasure seekers, prospectors and conniving politicians who shaped the destiny of the United States.

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From the perspective of a career academic, the discourse in large parts of literary Substack appears worryingly thin and poorly informed

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