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    <namePart type="date">1943-</namePart>
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    <namePart>Garraty, John A. (John Arthur)</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1920-2007</namePart>
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  <tableOfContents>The Reader's Companion to American History offers a fresh, absorbing portrait of the United States from the origins of its native peoples to the nation's complex identity in the 1990s. Covering political, economic, cultural, and social history, and combining hundreds of short descriptive entries with longer evaluative articles, the encyclopedia is informative, engaging, and a pleasure to read</tableOfContents>
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