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Berkeley’s Regent Press published Carousel ($14.95) in 2018. It’s been around for a while and reading it may feel like entering a time capsule, though much of the book is timely. Most of the reviews and essays “and such,” as the author Jeanne Powell calls them were written between 2009 and 2013. That’s when Obama occupied the More

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