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    A sweeping, brilliantly vivid history of the sudden end of the British empire and the moment when America became a world superpower."I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire*."* Winston Churchill's famous statement in November 1942, just as the tide of the Second World War was beginning to turn, pugnaciously affirmed his loyalty to ... En savoir plus

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    One of America's most influential writing teachers offers writing lessons we can draw from twenty-five great texts.Where do writers learn their best moves? They use a technique that Roy Peter Clark calls X-ray reading, a form of reading that lets you penetrate beyond the surface of a text to see how meaning is actually being made.In The Art of X-Ray Reading, Clark invites you to don your X-ray ... En savoir plus

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