When the eleven- and twelve-year-olds on the Cannon Street YMCA All-Star team registered for a baseball tournament in Charleston, South Carolina, in June 1955, it put the team and the

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Chris Lamb's wry analysis of Sarah Palin and her followers, illustrated with 30 cartoons by Pulitzer prize-winning cartoonists. Lamb uses the words of conservative commentators such as David Brooks, Kathleen

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