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Self-Castrated Beaver

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Better Dead Than Red

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Roger Scruton

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Paul Theroux

Chuang Shang Wen-Xue

Life and Death in Shanghai

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Christopher Hitchens

Dead Men on Leave

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A Communist’s Progress

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