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David Bradley
Obviously this was not the same Thomas Brothers who was nominated for the 21st Century Pulitzer. Perhaps he should have been. His precise and relatively objective examination of America at a critical juncture in history is invaluable. As he said, two decades before the Civil War, United States are not as they are said to be.