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Ian Gregory Strachan and Mia Mask
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Sidney Poitier remains one of the most recognizable black men in the world. Widely celebrated but at...

American Libraries 1730-1950
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On Company Time: American Modernism in the Big Magazines
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American novelists and poets who came of age in the early twentieth century were taught to avoid...

American Prison
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In 2014, Shane Bauer was hired for 9Ù an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private...

Grand Canyon: A History of a Natural Wonder and National Park
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The Grand Canyon has long inspired deep emotions and responses. For the Native Americans who lived...

The Great Agnostic: Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought
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A biography that restores America's foremost nineteenth-century champion of reason and secularism to...

GenTech: An American Story of Technology, Change and Who We Really Are
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Every twenty years a new generation rises, but who and what defines these generations? And could...
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The Wildest Place on Earth: Italian Gardens and the Invention of Wilderness
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This is the ironic story of how Italian Renaissance and Baroque gardens encouraged the preservation...

Republic P-47B-D Thunderbolt Razorback
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The famous American fighter aircraft of World War II, the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt, was one of the...

Bostonian916 (449 KP) rated Richard Jewell (2019) in Movies
Aug 4, 2020
There are some times that the moving gets a bit slow, but it almost has to in order to tell the story it's conveying.
Sam Rockwell deserves far more credit that he received for his role, and Kathy Bates might have been shunned for a supporting actress award, as well as Jon Hamm for supporting actor.
If you have any interest in history or events from American (or world) history, this movie is definitely worth the time.