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FROM BROOKLYN TO KINGSPORT recounts the author’s harrowing childhood, as well as his later success as an educator.
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Patrick Hogan’s vivid memoir, SILENT SPRING – DEADLY AUTUMN OF THE VIETNAM WAR, is going to make readers furious. And it should.