Singing in a Strange Land

by Nick Salvatore

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  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Nick Salvatore is a professor at Cornell University. His two previous books, Eugene V. Debs and We All Got History, are considered landmark works of biography and have garnered numerous accolades, including a Bancroft Prize.