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Summary: On March 29, 1516, the city council of Venice issued a decree forcing Jews to live in "il geto"--a closed quarter named for the copper foundry that once occupied the area. The term stuck. In this sweeping and original account, Mitchell Duneier traces the idea of the ghetto from its beginnings in the sixteenth century and its revival by the Nazis to the present. He argues that we cannot...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016
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Summary: A D-Day vet with post-traumatic stress disorder roams the United States and eventually finds work as a journalist during a time of social and racial divisions, spiraling corruption and the collapse of the inner cities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019