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Five Decades of House Democratic Leadership, 1937–1989
By Anthony Champagne, Douglas B. Harris, James W. Riddlesperger Jr. and Garrison Nelson
For the more than fifty years that Democrats controlled the U.S. House of Representatives, leadership was divided between Massachusetts and Texas. When the Speaker was from Texas (or nearby Oklahoma), the Majority Leader was from the Boston area, and when the Speaker was from Boston, the ...

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Tackling Life and the NFL
By Dat Nguyen and Rusty Burson
Foreword by Darren Woodson
In a quintessentially American game, for an organization often called America's Team, Dat Nguyen stands as the first player of Vietnamese descent ever to play in the NFL. Yet if asked for his job description, he would probably answer simply, "I tackle."

He tackled so well

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