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25
Jun

French Soccer and Empire’s Legacy

UC Press Podcast with Laurent Dubois: [podcast]https://www.ucpress.edu/content/podcasts/11303.mp3[/podcast] France lost to South Africa on Tuesday, in the last game of the 2010 World Cup for “Les Bleus”. Their exit from the tournament followed …

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23
Jun

A Call to Action for California

Following the low voter turnout for California’s June 8 primary election, Mark Paul, co-author of California Crackup, wrote, “The real story of the Tuesday elections, it seems to me, is that voters …

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21
Jun

Book Launch Recap: Getting it Wrong

This past Saturday, W. Joseph Campbell launched his book, Getting it Wrong, with a talk and book signing at the Newseum in Washington, DC. He brings us the highlights, and audience members’ …

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21
Jun

A Blue Flame

The World Cup is well underway, and Laurent Dubois, author of Soccer Empire: The World Cup and the Future of France, is following the tournament on his Soccer Politics blog. In this …

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18
Jun

This is Mark Twain

A hearty handshake with John T. Raymond, the actor who played Colonel Sellers in the stage adaptation of Twain’s “The Gilded Age”.

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