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Daily News Gems is my personal blog in which I comment, every now and again, on topics of particular interest to me, namely, newspaper history, baseball, American politics, and a selection of other burning issues of the day. -- Bill Lucey
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118th Congress: By the Numbers
Saying Goodbye to Mom
How Newspapers Reacted to Chappaquiddick in 1969
Writers Recall Princess Di's Shocking Death
Field of Blood: Is the U.S. On the Road to Another Civil War?
Liberal Lions and Their Racist Past
The Meaning of "Giving Up" For Lent
When Bombs and Bullets Rained Down on Cleveland
The Rolling Stones Still Have Fans Under Their Thumb
Is There Another Bach and Mozart in the 21st Century?
Netflix Blockbuster The Crown (Season 4) Sparks Mixed Reaction
Recalling 10-cent Beer Night in Cleveland
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Betsy Prioleau: Diamonds and Deadlines: A Tale of Greed, Deceit, and a Female Tycoon in the Gilded Age
Adam Nagourney: The Times: How the Newspaper of Record Survived Scandal, Scorn, and the Transformation of Journalism
Alethea Hayter: A Sultry Month: Scenes of London Literary Life in 1846
Brooke Kroeger: Undaunted: How Women Changed American Journalism
Fred Kaplan: His Masterly Pen: A Biography of Jefferson the Writer
Garrett M. Graff: Watergate: A New History
Jon Meacham: And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
Jeffrey Frank: The Trials of Harry S. Truman: The Extraordinary Presidency of an Ordinary Man, 1945-1953
Roy Strong: Coronation: A History of the British Monarchy
Lucy Wooding: Tudor England: A History
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