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This week my guest is historian Dr. Amanda Foreman. Amanda is author of award-winning best sellers, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire and A World on Fire as well as the BBC/Netflix series The Ascent of Woman. She writes a column for the Wall Street Journal and her next book, The World Made By Women is scheduled to be published later this year.
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• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1954-1955
• Britons: Forging the Nation 1707–1837 by Linda Colley, 1992
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• A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett, 1905
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• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1954-1955
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