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How Blazing Saddles Deflated Western and Gentile Notions of Masculinity

Little House of Propaganda: Homesteading Myths and the Sentimentality of Self-Reliance

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When the Muses Step Out of the Shadows: Reading the Women Who Enabled Greatness

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