"The most cosmically elegiac writer in literature . . . no one reading Ballard could doubt the tidal gravity of his intellect." —Jonathan Lethem, New York Tim

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Surveys the childhood, military career, and political activities of the man who served as vice president under Bill Clinton.

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Building on A People’s History of the United States, this radical world history captures the broad sweep of human history from the perspective of struggling c