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Biographies we mentioned in this episode
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“Jonas Salk, A Life,” by Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs
“Daughters of the Samuri: A Journey From East and West and Back” Janice P. Nimura
“Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage,” Vincent Carretta
“A Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames,” by Kai Bird
“The Bully Pulpit,” Doris Kearns Goodwin
“Bolivar: Aerican Liberator” by Marie Arana
“The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government,” by David Talbot
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