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he analyzes the way in which Buddhist concepts of spiritual nobility were enlisted to support the notorious science of race in the nineteenth century

the real reasons why the Wars of the Roses began

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Tonight No Poetry Will Serve History of religion he analyzes the way in"Rich is one of the greatest American poets of the past half century . . . attested to both by the extraordinary power of her poems and by the laurels she's racked up. . . . The events of our blood dimmed decade have afforded Rich a subject for some of her strongest material." Sara Marcus, San Francisco Chronicle