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“Which Stranger Are You?”: On Gregg Mitman’s “Empire of Rubber: Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia”
Tom Zoellner reviews the new book by Gregg Mitman, "Empire of Rubber: Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia."...
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Tom Zoellner is the author of five nonfiction books, including Train: Riding the Rails that Created the Modern World. He is the co-author of The New York Times bestselling book An Ordinary Man, and his book Uranium won the 2011 Science Writing Award from the American Institute of Physics. His writing has appeared in Harper’s, The Atlantic, Time, Foreign Policy, Departures, The Wall Street Journal, Men’s Health, the Oxford American, and many other places. An Associate Professor of English at Chapman University, he lives in downtown Los Angeles.
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TOM ZOELLNER, LYNELL GEORGE, STANTON HALL, RICHARD THOMPSON, CHARLES MCNULTY, JANET FITCH, STEVE WASSERMAN, TED GIOIA, ANDY HERMANN, JOE DONNELLY, BILL HOLDSHIP, TONY ORTEGA, TIM APPELO, DEAN KUIPERS, ALISSA QUART, ROBERT GEORGE, WILLIS PETER BILDERBACK, JEFF TURRENTINE, DANA GIOIA
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