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Im talking just about the physicality. You can judge for the insight on your own. [laughter] but as nick said very cogently, this book covers a 30year span of American History in the middle of the 19th century when nothing much happened. [laughter] there was just, oh, i dont know, the Womens Movement and the country divided in two, and there were spiritualists and spirit rappers and p. T. Barnum all part of the same cultural moment. And then just in case you were getting bored, there was a war, a dreadful war where 750,000 people were killed, and thats probably, thats probably a figure that is not finished being revised upward. And, of course, there was the period of reconstruction that occurred in the south, and at the same time there was the settlement of the west augerred by the gold rush back in 1848 and completed with the slow and painful and very disturbing removal o ....

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