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'The Afghanistan Papers' reveal how senior U.S. officials made rosy pronouncements they knew to be false and hid evidence the war had become unwinnable throughout the 18-year campaign.
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Little is known about the veracity of the so-called Burr Conspiracy, the alleged effort by Aaron Burr to split off the western territories to form a separate nation in the early 1800s. People, the book's author writes, clung to familiar stories; they ‘embraced different certainties’ regardless of new information and revelations. Burr was judged on what was viscerally believed in a politically divided United States, whose easy acceptance of felt truths resembles our own.
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