. >> that was "after words," booktv signature program in which authors of believes nonfiction books are interviewed by journalists, policymakers, legislators and others might with him into. transport fares every weekend on booktv at 10 p.m. on saturday, 12 and 9 p.m. on sunday, and 12 a.m. on monday. you can also watch "after words" online. go to booktv.org and click on "after words" in the booktv series in the topics listed on the upper right side of the page. >> here are the best selling political nonfiction books according to political bookshelf tthis list reflects sales as of may 16. to see more on these books and of the list on political politico.com/bookshelf. .. which is not at the top of the women's rights agenda in a country where 20 million women live in poverty, 4 million a domestic violence. i wouldn't say it number one issue of concern, that it is a you think about all the ways women are held at, literally and figuratively buy their shoes. it was trapped with a group of very high powered wind and at a meeting of the american bar association commission on women. we were tryi

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every weekend the latest nonfiction authors and books on booktv. you can see past programs and get our schedules out of website and you can join in the conversation on social media sites. >> from politics and prose in washington, d.c., marie arana is next on booktv. the former editor of chief of the "washington post" book world recalls the life of simon bolivar, the venezuelan general dubbed the george washington of south america, liberated six countries in south america from spanish rule. this is a little under one hour. >> so many friends in the audience. i'm just going to pretend that i am sitting by my fireplace at home with john, and talking a little bit about this book. it's such a pleasure to work on, and people find that hard to believe because it's not an easy thing, writing a biography of a very famous leader, on which everybody has an opinion, on whom so much has been written already. it is true that there are 3683 books in the library of congress on simon bolivar. i would say 90% of those are in spanish, so i am lucky there. but this is

poetry coming on adults, fiction and nonfiction. everything has to be educational in nature. it has to fit the larger mission of the university press. we wanted to give all of her authors and illustrators an opportunity to publish through a well-known and well-respected publisher compressibility say these aren't being told. we don't know of any other university press that are doing children and adult materials and if you have publisher of adult materials without any opportunity to do this and set a precedent for great publishing for children and young adults. were excited to first on his contract for the art and it is a historical fiction novel about the life of robert smalls, one of my favorite civil war figures from beaufort county, south carolina. he really helped shape effort into what it is today. so i love that is our first piece. anyone who's interested in submitting an idea was to it if of manuscript for a picture back with an illustration plan. what will happen is all submissions me and our serious editorial board and how to rethink this to be an important part of ou

anthony lucas prize for nonfiction at columbia university.ngratulations for that. ( cheers and applause ). >> thanks. stephen: i've got to get me one of those. now you have spent the last 40 years working on your... would you call it a biography or a history of l.b.j.? >> it's neither its about a man but mostly about political power. how this political genius uses different kinds of political power like the last book of how a president takes over in a time of assassination and becomes president and uses political power in an instant. >> stephen: the entire series of books is called the years of lipped onjohnson. the fourth volume out in paperback right now is the passage of power. this is him as the v.p.? >> as the v.p. and then all of a sudden there's a gunshot in dallas and he's p. >> stephen: okay. why lyndon johnson? what fascinates you about johnson? what does he have to say to our age now? >> well, what he has to say is what he says to his advisors. as soon as he becomes president he has to make a speech to congress. they say, "don't fi

we wanted to open it up to a children's picture books and poetry, young adults and nonfiction. everything has to be educational in nature and at the university press so we want to give our authors and illustrators an opportunity to publish through a very well-known and respected university press and then for us to be able to say these are the reasons of carolina that are not being told because we don't know of any other university press doing children and young adult materials. if you have done the materials in the past we thought what an opportunity to this and set the precedent for the children and young adults. the first one is fragments and it's a young adult novel about the life of robert smalls, one of my favorite civil war figures his story is remarkable and he helped shape it into what it is today. anybody is interested in submitting an idea to us can submit a full manuscript for a picture book with a suggested illustration plan. you don't have to have all of the illustrations finished but what will happen is all of the submissions come to me and then the editorial boar

[inaudible conversations] >> you're watching booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books every weekend on c-span2. here are some of the programs to look out for this weekend. .. watch these programs and more all weekend long on booktv before a complete schedule visit booktv.org. >> this department may be nearing a stage where the frequency of this crime and the perception that there's tolerance of it could very well undermine our ability to effectively carry out the mission and to recruit and retain the good people we need. that is unacceptable to me and the leaders of this institution and it should be unacceptable to everyone associated with the united states military. we need cultural change where every service members treated with dignity and respect, where all allegations of inappropriate behavior are treated with seriousness, where victims's privacy is protected, whereby standards are motivated to intervene and where offenders know that they will be held accountable by strong and effective systems of justice. >> this weekend on c-span defense secretary hegel outlines new initiativ

it sounds like a pulp novel plot, a startling piece of unraveling nonfiction, complete with fast carsief investigative correspondent, brian ross. >> reporter: this is a story about a murder, the murder of an atlanta rapper called lil phat. ♪ >> i termed it assassination. >> reporter: about a high living russian mobster turned fbi informant. mani chulpayev, accused in the murder of lil phat, something he strongly denies. >> there's no reason to be afraid of me. i am the nicest guy you ever meet. >> reporter: about the fbi agent who was chulpayev's handler, donte jackson, now under investigation by the fbi itself, after allegations he obstructed the murder case while receiving extravagant gifts from his informants. >> it is nice to have an fbi agent that's looking over your shoulder i guess. >> reporter: our abc news "nightline" investigation began months ago in fort lauderdale, a place where people come to have fun, and where a party van cruising down a1a seemed to fit in, which is why we chose to use it. as the perfect cover for an undercover surveillance team to get footage of chulpa

he read at least one fiction and nonfiction book a week.larly as he was active. i'm nod bad as a scholar, but i certainly appreciate the needs to keep researching the issues at that time. i think i got something from him. >> i think you got a whole lot of that. one of the way that you say continued that legacy was in 1984 and in 1988 when you ran for president of the united states. it's a serious presidential run >> we learned a lot in that first campaign. we got 3.5 million votes. we found out something, the popular vote and the delegates are a disconnect. so you had to have a high threshold to become a delegate or winner take all. you get the 2% winner take all. that was bad math. so we changed that law. about '88, we got 1220 delegates without a budget. >> and you won 13 states, right? >> the significance of that, to compare it to barack obama, he won in 2008. hillary clinton won texas, california, ohio, pennsylvania. and he should have been the winner. we changed the rules in '88 and we democratized democracy to lay the groundwork for t

but first -- (cheers and applause) but first, nonfictional president barack obama gave a major address on counterterrorism policy this afternoon at washington's national defense university. actual safety school. (laughter) all right. in the speech president obama questioned how our overzealous prosecution of the war on terror and the prison at guantanamo bay may be affecting our souls. >> look at the current situation where we are force feeding detainees who are being held on a hunger strike. is this who we are? is that something our founders foresaw? >> jon: oh, i don't know. (laughter) i actually think on a scale of "founders foresaw" prisoner mistreatment would take a backseat to "black president." (laughter) i think the first thing they would say is "who's that

. >>> the author of three nonfiction books and co-author of several more. he's been in violent football clubs and the english criminal justice system. >> what is a hooligan? >> guest: it is a gang member that causes violence on the football stadiums, goes back since football began but in the modern world it is something that developed after in the 60's after the lack of the subculture >> host: how did it develop? >> guest: england won the world cup and it teaches that the whole thing was in the war and in the culture developed on the fashion and as aggressive and chose a gang violence and once they didn't know the underground movement was so violent, once they realized it had gone nationwide they took up the ability beyond the goals and you had some thinking of 1969 when they called the spirit of 69 and what they meant by that was the culture in london they had spread the whole u.k. and from that moment onwards with the media and the newspapers, the football violence and the headlines but we know today. >> host: where did the term hooligans' come from? >> g

his second book won a pulitzer prize for nonfiction in 1990. step two is the author of the complex and most recently the war in vietnam is managing editor for tom dispatch.com, a news site that follows very much in the tradition of steps with people at a certain generation and a fellow at the nation institute, the nonprofit nation magazine. his work has appeared in the nation amongst other publications. his investigations of war crimes in vietnam have gained him the prize for reportorial distinction at the guggenheim fellowship and fellowship at harvard university's radcliffe institute for advanced study. makes both, which i should have said the interim come at the beginning of yours begins with an accidental encounter and his graduate student here at columbia university with a trove of documents, which lead him to the kind of understanding of the tom and the word that forces all of us to reassess what we know. growing up when i get it that i understood vietnam as a series of political mistakes in what was wrong with the war. his book goes far

but first -- (cheers and applause) but first, nonfictional president barack obama gave a major address on counterterrorism policy this afternoon at washington's national defense university. actual safety school. (laughter) all right. in the speech president obama questioned how our overzealous prosecution of the war on terror and the prison at guantanamo bay may be affecting our souls. >> look at the current situation where we are force feeding detainees who are being held on a hunger strike. is this who we are? is that something our founders foresaw? >> jon: oh, i don't know. (laughter) i actually think on a scale of "founders foresaw" prisoner mistreatment would take a backseat to "black president." (laughter) i think the first thing they would say is "who's that guy?" and "will he get me a sandwich?" (laughter) but it is a good point, how a nation and its leaders react to threats both external and internal says a great deal about that administration's values and ideals. and while it's hard to judge an administration by the actions it says it wants to take but can't, perhaps we can l

it's a nonfiction book that reads like a documentary film in some regard.ou follow it with an almost documentary dramatic structure. >> i wanted to create a portrait of america which was a kind of ambitious thing to do. >> over the course of 30 years, a generation. our adult lifetime, yours and mine. and to do that i felt i had to have both a range of people from different parts of the country, from centers of power like washington, wall street, silicon valley but also people from the forgotten places like there's a woman from youngstown, ohio, in this book, from rural north carolina, the-- areas of tampa are in the book. and the story follows them all over the course of the decade as institutions start to fail. and government fail, the bank fail, its media fails them. until they are sort of left on their own to figure out their own way through life. and each character in the book has to sort of reinvent him or herself in order to keep going, to survive. >> jon: i would say the human spirit comes through relatively well. human institutions do less well in t

. >> that was "after words," booktv's signature program in which authors of the latest nonfiction book are interviewed by journalists, public policy makers call legislators and others familiar with the material. "after words" errors every weekend on book tv at 10 p.m. on saturday, 12 p.m. and 9 p.m. on sunday at 12 a.m. on monday. you can also watch "after words" online. o2 booktv.org and click on the "after words" in the book tv series and topics list on the upper right side of the page. >>> here is a look at the best-selling nonfiction he books and print titles according to the new york times. the list reflect sales as of may 9th. robert proctor sat down with book tv at stanford university to talk about his book, golden holocaust on the history of the tobacco industry and the dangers associated with smoking cigarettes. this is part of the book tv college series and is a little under half an hour. ..

she is the author of several nonfiction books including philip roth body parts and a biography a very short introduction. this is about half an hour. >> you are watching book tv on c-span2, 48 hours of books every weekend and we are in london interviewing authors and want to introduce you to hermione lee. ms. lee first of all what is your day job? >> guest: i am the president at a graduate college in oxford and international interdisciplinary college where lots of graduate students come to study. >> when you say oxford was the organization? where is the university. it's everywhere and nowhere because the university is an entity in which there are a number of colleges in medieval days they have their own habits so each of these colleges have a hand who looks after it for the time they, are there. those students will be studying within the departments and faculties at the university of the hole so the college is like their home. >> so there is an oxford university. >> there is and with canada there is all kind of federal entities which we sometimes call silos. but it works as a complica

it's interesting to say how can we write a nonfiction book, maybe by a south carolina author, but that is going to be interesting to everyone that still sort of focuses on our state? the center is open to the public. anyone in the state of south carolina can use it. primarily, the university of south carolina students use it, students who are undergraduates who will be teachers or librarians. we have a lot of graduate students in the school of information science who use it, and we also serve teachers and librarians all over the state. we have librarians from the upstate who come in and say, okay, i have the budget next year, what's new, what do i want to purchase? how do i use them in the book club? we have those who talk about how do you use different methods in outreach. teachers come and work with us on curriculum saying do a unit on poetry. what do you have that's not the same stuff that we have in the libraries that we've had for years and years? we have parents who say, you know, you have interesting things that we don't maybe see at the public or school library, and they'll com

she is the author of four nonfiction books including singled out how to million british women survive without men after the first world war and millions like us, their lives and war and peace 1939 to 1949. this is just over half an hour. >> host: joining us from london is author virginia nicholson. a couple of her books are about women and the war. where did you come up with that topic? >> guest: when in and of war seems to me both ideas were to the 20th century. i think the women's movement as inextricable from the idea of the war. so, i started out by writing a book about the effect of the first world war on women and that was a rather specific topic in a way that one that i hope appeals for a strong lead to a large number of women today called singled out and the idea was to look at women who had been left single after the huge and terrible slaughter of world war i. in this country nearly three-quarters of a million men died in the trenches and dreadful circumstances on the western front, and the result was that women growing up in this country that had a kind of more or less assum

booktv streams live online for 48 hours every weekend with top nonfiction books and authors. booktv.org. >> here's a look at some books that are being published this week. mika brzezinski presents her thoughts on beastie in america if identity obsessed: america's food addiction and my own." walter cronkite iv and maurice isserman present a collection of letters that walter cronkite sent to his wife during world war ii in "cronkite's war: his world war ii letters home." in "big -- being poppy," kramer profiles george w. bush. george h.w. bush. andre lankov in "the real north korea: life and politics in the failed stalinist utopia." in "keep it pithy," bill o'reilly. margaret coyle, chief washington correspondent for the national law journal examines the supreme court under chief justice john roberts now in its seventh year in "the roberts court." look for these titles in bookstores this coming week and watch for the authors in the near future on booktv. booktv.org. >> you're watching c-span2, with politics and public affairs. weekdays featuring live coverage of the u.s. senate

book tv streams live on line for 48 hours every weekend with top nonfiction books and authors.book tv here is a look at the best-selling nonfiction e-book in print titles according to the new york times. >> welcome, everybody. draw a crowd like this this early in the morning at the aspen institute. the book is the new digital age. eric schmidt is a software engineer by bringing, was chief technology officer at sun microsystems, ceo of novell. he has, for those of us who love the digital age, even the oldes

we start with richard seymour, the author of the four nonfiction books including american insurgents and "unhitched" discussing his belief in communism, his resignation from the socialist workers party and his issues with the political arguments of the late christopher hitchens. this half hour interview starts right now. >> now joining us on book tv in london is author richard seymour. mr. seymour, before we start talking about some of your books, introduce yourself to the audience. tell us about yourself. >> guest: i am a ph.d. student at the london school of economics, so that's what i spend most of my time doing degette i do some writing on the side. i write for the guardian newspaper. i've written a few books on a blog as well. >> host: what is the blog called? the tomb. it is on ideas and it is rescuing from 20th century communism if you like. that's what i spend a lot of time talking about. and it's just basically for the left wing politics. >> host: are you a communist? >> guest: i would describe myself as a socialist because i don't want to be experienced with stalin and dict

book tv strains live on line for 48 hours every weekend with top nonfiction books and authors. booktv.org. here's a look at some of the upcoming book bears and pistols happening around the country. >> and now on book tv the support given to jews in israel by american presidents going back many decades. this lasts about an hour. [applause] >> thank you very much. my publisher's name is geffen, gefe and. and the headquarters are in jerusalem. and when i finished the manuscript of this book i sent it hoping that he would give a brief comment. instead he wrote complete preface, and part of it was that he was shocked having read my book because he believed he was widely read in american history and jewish history, and yet he found some much in this book that he had no idea about before . incidentally, he is writing his autobiography at the moment, which should be fascinating. i will be using my notes a lot because i want to make sure i get the facts absolutely right. i would be leaving the net behind after words. anybody who is interested in check up on it. with rooms founding fathe

it streams live online for 48 hours every weekend with top nonfiction books and authors. booktv.org. >> this is a lot of what we have going on. you know, i went over it. and it is not like i have any personal friendship. but i am just saying that i didn't. i read what he did. it was just, it was interesting. especially regarding information >> i don't know why someone put this mentality into the legal case. but it was a very fascinating deal. abramoff was involved in this. >> [inaudible] >> to what end? i mean, this is wonderful. >> you know, he was part of this as well. the amounts of money, i'm going through the door to the lottery. [inaudible] the other thing is secondary. what up with. [laughter] and we wish the administration did pride themselves more on things. and nobody knew about this. so this goes back to what we talked about earlier. up we want 24% and nobody knew how it would turn out. nobody knew about that. >> i had some friends i decided to write. i found a it very fascinating when i looked at the facts especially when it comes to what on earth happened. yo

nonfiction books all weekend every weekend right here on c-span2. .. >> host: this week a look at some new technology sponsored by the consumer electronics association. several companies up on capitol hill displaying some of their wares to members of congress and their staff. gimena hartsock, what was the issue that caused phone2action come in? >> guest: i was look for different process. i was the national director of outreach of an education organization that it was national, and what i found is that we didn't have the tools available for people for them to make it, that made it easy for people to connect with their elected officials. so at the time i asked a lot of people for help, developers, and i went to, you know, some meet-ups in technology, and eventually i found someone who understood the problem and tell me to put together the technology to solve it, and that was, that is my current co-founder, jeb ory. >> host: what were you trying to solve? be how were you trying to connect people? >> guest: so people care about issues. everyone does. people may be busy and they may not be

and every week in the latest nonfiction authors and books on booktv.you can see past programs and get our schedules at our website. you can join in the conversation on social media sites. >> here's a look at some books that are being published this week.

we start with richard, the author of four nonfiction books including american insurgents in "unhitched" discussing communism, resignation from the party, and discussions of the arguments of the late christopher hitchens. this half hour interview startings -- starts now. >> host: now joining us on booktv in london is author richard seymour. introduce yourself to the audience. >> guest: okay, well, i'm a p had -- ph.d. student, i write for the guardian newspaper, wrote a few books and blog as well. >> host: what's the blog called? >> lenon's tomb. >> host: why? >> guest: what's worth rescuing from the 20th century communism, if you like. that's what i spend a lot of time talking about. it's just generally for left wing politics. >> host: are you a communist? >> i would describe myself as a socialist because i don't want to be associated with the stalin and dictatorships erected in the name of communism. i don't call myself a communist. >> host: what about a marxist? >> guest: yes, very much so. >> host: why? >> guest: i consider it a superior way of explaning societies in the way they wo

now, the template for the fictional three rivers is my nonfictional hometown, norwich connecticut.you know, when you mentioned that you've come from that stage are likely to conjure in peoples mind images of leafy bedroom towns, residents commute to manhattan and unwind at the country club and send the kids to prep school. but i come from the other connecticut, east of the connecticut river connecticut. we are more feisty than fashionable. we are more liverwurst than pat day. boston and providence have a greater poll as the new york so drop our eyes can root for the red sox and use the word widget as an advert a as in this exhibitor we had a nor'easter last winter and it snowed wicked hard and it was wicked heavy to shuffle. [laughter] inviting we are water our time travels back to my own childhood, focusing on to dramatic events that are membered vividly. the first was the death of a black man that was ruled accidental but that might really have been murdered. the second was a terrible flood that cut a path of destruction through the city and took five people's lives. i was eight

on weeknights watch key public policy events and every weekend the latest nonfiction authors and books on booktv. see past programs and get our schedule at our web site, and you can join in the conversation on social media sites. >> marina von neumann whitman, daughter of mathematician john von neumann was the first female to serve on the president's council of advisers you should president nixon and -- under president nixon and in the 1980s she served as vice president and chief economist of general motors. she's next on booktv discussing her memoir, "the martian's daughter." >> in his 1999 autobiography, the physicist edward teller wrote this of the group of geniuses gathered together to work on the hydrogen bomb: we are martians who have come to earth to change everything. change everything, they did, and among them, of course, was the brilliant mathematician john von neumann, father of what we now call the von neumann architecture for modern computing and, of course, so much more. today is not necessarily about john von neumann, of course, but it is about a martian's daughter, mari

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forty-eight hours of nonfiction authors and books every weekend. >> now, ian morris looks at the development of civilizations over the past 50,000 years. and uses current measures for human development to explain why the center of advancement move from east to west. this is about an hour and 15 minutes. >> good evening. i'm part of those world affairs council and it is my pleasure to welcome you here in the filming of world affairs today. thank you for joining us for discussing with ian morris how social development besides the fakes of nations. the british-born archaeologist and historian, he looks for broad patterns and overall shapes of history. looking at millennia, not election cycles, which is more common. winston churchill was reported to have said the farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. in this case, doctor morris is going to help us look into the future because he begins with the last ice age and compares society east and west. this follows on his 2010 award-winning book and the patterns of history and what they would reveal about the future. an

[applause] >> is there a nonfiction author or book that you would like to see feature on book tv? send an e-mail at booktv@cspan.org or twitter. >> marine is at the university of maryland and former reporter for the washington post. she's written a book called "women of the washington press politics prejudice and persistence." what was it like to write for "the washington post" in the 1960's and 70's? >> i was there from 63 to 73 and that is what prompted me to write this book because i remembered that there were a group of us women there, and i remembered how hard the women had to work. some of them were so incredibly talented. i knew the struggle they had to get assignments that were equal with men. it's interesting that tonight we are here read the national press club and you are interviewing me right under the infamous balcony where the women were penned up during the 1960's. they were not allowed to sit down on the floor with the men and eat at the luncheon table even though the government had the thinkers here the press club. the government had a policy of having foreign dig

. >> that was after words cannot book tv signature program in which authors of the lead is nonfiction books are interviewed by a journalist and a public policymakers, sledders' command others familiar with the material. airing every weekend on book tv at 10:00 p.m. on saturday, 12 and 9:00 p.m. on sunday, and of a.m. on monday. you can also watch online. get to booktv.org and click on after words in the book tv series and topics list on the upper right side of the page. >> george michael argues that independent terrorists like anders bearing, timothy mcveigh, and eric robert roth -- rudolph represent a new kind of warfare that will become far more prominent in the 21st century. he also speaks about the reason boston marathon bombings. this 45 minute program starts now on book tv. [applause] >> good afternoon. before i begin i would like to think schwartz and the staff at the la blackberry -- library for hosting this afternoon and i would like to thank all of you for coming out its stake. today and going to talk about my most recent book, homegrown terror in the rise of resistance. the

spent let us thank him for being -- [applause] >> you are watching the tv, nonfiction authors and booksry weekend on c-span2. >> that should make you encouraged about the power of probability. so now i'm going to make you scared. so this is act of -- after the end of the book and it's a question, the question is who gets to know what about you. and last summer we hired a new babysitter. when she arrived i began to explain our family background. i met professor, my wife is a teacher. she cut me off and she said oh, i know. i googled you. i was simultaneously relieved that i did not have to finish my spiel, and mildly alarmed at how much of my life could be toppled together from a short internet search. our capacity to gather and analyze huge quantities of data, things are referred to early, the marriage of digital information with cheap computing power and internet is unique in human history. we are going to need some new rules for this new era. let's put the power of data in perspective with just one example from the retailer target. this is a story that was in "the new york times" maga

forty-eight hours of nonfiction authors and books every weekend. >> author shirley woodhouse murdock talks about her book "the longest flight" the story of two pilots to embark on historic endurance flight to reopen yuma's local air base and remained in the air 47 days. >> an airport in the 20s, the military came and established a base in the second world war, but originally the army air corps and the u.s. air force. and then attribute to yuma until the second world war ended and everybody laughed. we are not at war anymore since they didn't need it anymore and the same thing was happening to the proving grounds. and the little town of yuma, it was dwindling because people -- tourism had not been established, an interesting thing for yuma. they had a very bright future. the chamber of commerce said something would have to attract attention, good weather and try to get the air base to reactivate it. endurance flight, there were some food to going to chamber of commerce in arizona up 80 miles from here. and one was manager of the radius station who was promoting yuma and thinking of th

some are novel, some are nonfiction books. the most common was was that she was in this gorgeous sexual siren. she married him when she was 18. he was madly in love with her. he was corrupted by her neutralist or possibly torrey views, and it was he who six months -- sorry, one month after they're married is communicating through a spy with the british in new york. that's one view, and you can find novels, and you can find be even some films on it, some videos on it. the other view is that she's this poor, innocent thing. she's 18. she doesn't know any better. this man is 20 years older than she is, and she is basically totally innocent of this betrayal that he has done to not only america, but to her. well, the truth is somewhere beyond that, and we'll get to that in a minute. meanwhile, timeline because i'm looking in the book at one woman who marries -- they both marry radical patriots. why does one woman remain patriotic and the other one become withs a traitor? so at the exact same time, we have lucy following henry throu

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