The Manhattan Project of 2009 Best Nonfiction Book I've Read
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The Manhattan Project of 2009 Best Nonfiction Book I've Read
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Historians sometimes like to engage in a game of “what if?” about the close calls and random twists of fate embedded in the drama of history.
A tantalizing opportunity for such speculation comes in what historian and author David Hackett Fischer calls “that high summer of 1609.”
As the French explorer Samuel de Champlain paddled a canoe on July 31 to the southern edge of the lake that now bears his name, the English seaman Henry Hudson was sailing north along the river christened in his honor and anchored just north of Albany on Sept. 19.
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Historians sometimes like to engage in a game of “what if?” about the close calls and random twists of fate embedded in the drama of history.
A tantalizing opportunity for such speculation comes in what historian and author David Hackett Fischer calls “that high summer of 1609.”
As the French explorer Samuel de Champlain paddled a canoe on July 31 to the southern edge of the lake that now bears his name, the English seaman Henry Hudson was sailing north along the river christened in his honor and anchored just north of Albany on Sept. 19.
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john
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Historians sometimes like to engage in a game of “what if?” about the close calls and random twists of fate embedded in the drama of history.
A tantalizing opportunity for such speculation comes in what historian and author David Hackett Fischer calls “that high summer of 1609.”
As the French explorer Samuel de Champlain paddled a canoe on July 31 to the southern edge of the lake that now bears his name, the English seaman Henry Hudson was sailing north along the river christened in his honor and anchored just north of Albany on Sept. 19.
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john
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Historians sometimes like to engage in a game of “what if?” about the close calls and random twists of fate embedded in the drama of history.
A tantalizing opportunity for such speculation comes in what historian and author David Hackett Fischer calls “that high summer of 1609.”
As the French explorer Samuel de Champlain paddled a canoe on July 31 to the southern edge of the lake that now bears his name, the English seaman Henry Hudson was sailing north along the river christened in his honor and anchored just north of Albany on Sept. 19.
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john
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