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Contents page images fromThomas Hart BentonDiscoveries and Interpretations
(Top right) Thomas Hart Benton, American (1889-1975). Persephone (detail), 1938-1939. Tempera with oil glazes on canvas, mounted on panel, 72 1/8 x 56 1/16 inches (183.2 x 142.4 cm). The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri. Purchase: acquired through the generosity of the Yellow Freight System Foundation, Mrs. Herbert O. Peet, Richard J. Stern, the Doris Jones Stein Foundation, the Jacob L. and Ella C. Loose Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Levin, and Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Rich, F86-57. Photo: Jamison Miller (center) Thomas Hart Benton, Kansas City, detail of the mural A Social History of Missouri, 1935, House Lounge, State Capitol Jefferson City, Missouri, photo courtesy of Missouri State Capitol Commission, Missouri State Archives (bottom) Stanton MacDonald Wright, Sunrise Synchromy in Violet, 1916, 35 7/8 x 54 1/4 in., oil on canvas, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Unless otherwise noted, all works by Thomas Hart Benton are © T.H. Benton and R.P. Benton Testamentary Trusts/UMB Bank Trustee/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.
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“Imaginative historical detection and good writing will make this a widely read and much discussed book. Trogdon’s surprising discoveries point to Clark’s apparent involvement in a tangled web of conspiracy involving a foreign power. This thought-provoking book illustrates the potential rewards of curiosity and painstaking research in out-of-the-way places.” —William E. Foley, author of Wilderness Journey: The Life of William Clark
In 1798—more than five years before he led the epic western journey that would
make him and Meriwether Lewis national heroes—William Clark set off by flatboat from his Louisville, Kentucky, home with a cargo of tobacco and furs to sell downriver in Spanish New Orleans. He also carried with him a leather-trimmed journal to record his travels and notes on his activities.
In this vivid history, Jo Ann Trogdon reveals William Clark’s highly questionable activities during the years before his famous journey west of the Mississippi. Delving
into the details of Clark’s diary and ledger entries, Trogdon investigates evidence linking Clark to a series of plots—often called the Spanish Conspiracy—in which corrupt officials sought to line their pockets with Spanish money and to separate Kentucky from the United States. The Unknown Travels and Dubious Pursuits of William Clark gives readers a more complex portrait of the American icon than has been previously written.
Jo Ann Trogdon lives in Columbia, Missouri, the same city where the 1798–1801 journal of William Clark has been housed, virtually overlooked, in the State Historical Society of Missouri since 1928. She was led to the journal by her research in Spanish archives for her book St. Charles Borromeo: 200 Years of Faith. Her articles on history have appeared in publications including Arizona Highways and We Proceed On, a publication of the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation.
American History / Biography
June
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Of related interest:
Wilderness Journey: The Life of William ClarkBy William E. FoleyISBN 978-0-8262-1663-2 | $24.95 pb
The Unknown Travels and Dubious Pursuits of William ClarkJo Ann Trogdon
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“Pool’s particularly effective management of voice as she describes her lifelong attempt to understand her experience makes this an accomplished work, as does her plumbing of the power of memoir to go where anthropology cannot.” —Nancy McCabe, author of From Little Houses to Little Women
In the late sixties, Gail Pool and her husband set off for an adventure in
New Guinea. He was a graduate student in anthropology; she was an aspiring writer. They prepared by reading, practicing with language tapes, consulting with the nearest thing to experts, and off they went. Their research could not prepare them for the reality of life in the jungle. As they warded off gargantuan insects, slogged through mud, and turned on each other in fatigue and frustration,
they struggled to somehow connect with their enigmatic hosts, the Baining.
Sixteen months later they returned home. Despite months of trying, they had not been able to make sense of the Baining’s culture. Worse yet, their lives no longer seemed to make sense. Pool put her journals away. Her husband abandoned the study of anthropology.
Decades later, Pool returned to her journals and found in her jumbled notes the understanding that had eluded her. Finally, she and her husband returned to New Guinea for a shorter visit and a warm reunion with the tribe that challenged them on so many levels.
Gail Pool is a writer whose work has focused on criticism, the culture of magazines, and travel. Her writings have appeared in the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, Columbia Journalism Review, and the Women’s Review of Books. She also edited the anthology Other People’s Mail.
Of related interest:
Faint Praise: The Plight of Book Reviewing in AmericaGail PoolISBN 978-0-8262-1728-8 | $25.00s pb
Memoir / Travel / Cultural Anthropology
May
ISBN 978-0-8262-2051-6 | $27.95 296 pp | 5.25 x 8 | 36 b/w illus
Lost among the BainingAdventure, Marriage, and Other Fieldwork
Gail Pool
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Forthcoming
“Larson plots a personal journey through revelations; but the connotations of his parents’ story move beyond the personal to reveal the social and psychological challenges of an era in our culture.” —Beth Taylor, author of The Plain Language of Love and Loss: A Quaker Memoir
Ruth Larson saved nearly 700 letters she and her husband Bob exchanged
during World War II. Opening the box while his mother lay dying, her son Bruce expected to find commonplace details of his parents’ early life together. He instead discovered a story of deception, obsession, and betrayal.
Reading through the letters, he is drawn into his parents’ courtship amid the hardships of separation and war. Beyond the tumultuous romance, Larson finds that he barely recognizes his father, whom he knew only as distant and impassive. He uncovers shocking truths about his mother,
Ruth, whom family lore had pigeonholed as sweetly pious.
At the time of the letters, Bob is a young Coast Guard clerk fighting off depression with thoughts of his dream girl back home. Back in Minnesota, Ruth passes the days adrift in romantic fantasies and liaisons with local admirers. Bob’s suspicions about Ruth and his obsession with her from afar threaten the young man’s fragile hold on his sanity, but he will not give her up. Decades later, their son comes to feel a tenderness for both his parents and to understand how their losses, fears, and reluctance can transform and refashion family bonds.
R. Bruce Larson grew up in the suburbs of Chicago and in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. He holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Hawai`i, a master’s degree in anthropology from the University of Iowa, and a master’s degree in theology from Bethel Seminary. He is also the author of Living Stewardship: New Church Participants. He lives in Marquette and Republic, Michigan.
Of related interest:Dear Helen: Wartime Letters from a Londoner to Her American Pen PalEdited by Russell M. Jones & John H. Swanson ISBN 978-0-8262-1850-6 | $34.95
World War II History / Memoir
June
ISBN 978-0-8262-2052-3 | $26.95 160 pp | 5.25 x 8 | 21 b/w illus
Secrets and Rivals Wartime Letters and the Parents I Never Knew
R. Bruce Larson
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“A highly readable account of one young man’s desire to fly written with the honest and authentic voice of someone who entered the war as an idealistic youth and came out the other side profoundly changed.” —Dennis Okerstrom, author of Project 9: The Birth of Air Commandos in World War II
Six weeks before Pearl Harbor, Keith Mason received a $150 uniform
allowance, a pair of silver wings, and his first assignment as a flight instructor: Randolph Field, Texas. Two years later, he was Squadron Officer in the 460th Bomb Group, 15th Air Force in Spinazzola, Italy — flying the harrowing combat missions he dreamed of as a boy in rural Iowa.
In this memoir of one man’s war years, Mason provides insight on the inner workings of serving as an airman during World War II: stultifying boredom, stupefying incompetence, paralyzing fear,
and stunning success. Details of how crews were selected for combat missions, of the necessity to occasionally break up crews, and of select missions in which Mason was a participant are important additions to the history and literature of this often neglected theater.
Keith Mason was born in Waukon, Iowa, in 1920, where he now lives with his family. Together with wife, Jean Anne Mason, for whom he named his two B-24 airplanes, he has five children and six grandchildren. During World War II, Keith Mason completed 48 missions before returning to the United States. He is a retired vocational auto mechanics instructor who organized his courses utilizing principles and techniques he learned as a flight instructor.
World War II History
Of related interest:The Day I Fired Alan Ladd and Other World War II AdventuresA. E. HotchnerISBN 978-0-8262-1432-4 | $29.95
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ISBN 978-0-8262-2059-2 | $32.95 216 pp | 6 x 9 | 17 b/w illus
The American Military Experience Series
My War in Italy On the Ground and in Flight with the 15th Air Force
Keith W. Mason
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“Bonnie Stepenoff’s account of life along the middle Mississippi in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries examines the stream’s allure and its impact on those who traversed its waters and inhabited the cities and towns along its banks. ” —William E. Foley, author of The First Chouteaus: River Barons of Early St. Louis
The Mississippi River occupies a sacred place in American culture
and mythology. Often called The Father of Rivers, it winds through American life in equal measure as a symbol and as a topographic feature. To the people who know it best, the river is life and a livelihood. River boatmen working the Mississippi are never far from land. Even in the dark, they can smell plants and animals and hear people on the banks.
Bonnie Stepenoff takes readers on a cruise through history, showing how
workers from St. Louis to Memphis changed the river and were in turn changed by it. Each chapter of this fast-moving narrative focuses on representative workers: captains and pilots, gamblers and musicians, cooks and craftsmen. Readers will find workers who are themselves part of the country’s mythology from Mark Twain and anti-slavery crusader William Wells Brown to musicians Fate Marable and Louis Armstrong.
Bonnie Stepenoff lives on the banks of the Mississippi River in Cape Giradeau, Missouri. In 2012, for her extensive writing and preservation efforts, she was awarded the Rozier Award for Lifetime Achievement by the Missouri Alliance for Historic Preservation (Missouri Preservation). Stepenoff is Professor Emerita of history at Southeast Missouri State University. Three of her five books were published by the University of Missouri Press.
Missouri History
April
ISBN 978-0-8262-2053-0 | $36.00s200 pp | 6 x 9 | 24 b/w illus | index | biblio | notes
Of related interest:From French Community to Missouri TownBonnie StepenoffISBN 978-0-8262-1668-7 | $40.00s
Working the MississippiTwo Centuries of Life on the River
Bonnie Stepenoff
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Forthcoming
“Unfailingly interesting. The Benton who emerges here—cultivated, emotional, a bit of a hick, an aesthetic experimenter—is a new Benton, a towering figure in the history of American painting. He’s Harry Truman and an old master muralist rolled into one, a movie star and a one-man show.” —Karal Ann Marling, Professor Emeritus of Art History and American Studies, University of Minnesota
Few American artists have incited more controversy than Thomas Hart
Benton. Argumentative, brilliant, and enormously influential, Benton painted for nearly seventy years, inspiring acclaim and loathing among students, friends, fellow artists, and outraged critics.
Now, in a series of provocative essays, premier Benton scholar Henry Adams examines the many facets of the man as artist and the pitched battles of his
long career, including the real reasons for Benton’s feud with the radical left and his tumultuous, 36-year love-hate relationship with his student Jackson Pollock. Adams ends with an account of his 25-year effort to expose fakes of Benton’s work.
Henry Adams is the author of more than 350 publications on American art, including Eakins Revealed, that Andrew Wyeth described as “without question the most extraordinary biography I have ever read on an artist.” Currently the Ruth Coulter Heede Professor of Art History at Case Western Reserve University, he is widely regarded as the foremost scholar of Thomas Hart Benton’s work. He was the curator of the centennial exhibition of Benton’s work at the Nelson-Atkins Museum in 1989. In partnership with film maker Ken Burns, he developed a documentary film on Benton which was broadcast nationally on PBS.
Art History & Criticism
May
ISBN 978-0-8262-2050-9 | $50.00s272 pp | 6 x 9 | 54 b/w illus | index | notes
Of related interest:An Artist in America, Fourth EditionBy Thomas Hart BentonISBN 978-0-8262-0399-1 | $40.00s pb
Thomas Hart BentonDiscoveries and Interpretations Henry Adams
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American History
“In a brilliant and concise work, the dean of American presidential historians delivers a critical commentary on the Cold War revisionists who tended to shift the blame for many of the Soviet-American encounters following World War II from the Soviet Union to the United States, from Joseph Stalin to Harry Truman. This book will interest anyone in the period and the subject should be required reading in graduate seminars and an inspiration to their participants for new work and insights on Harry Truman and the Cold War.”—The Historian
Robert H. Ferrell is Professor Emeritus of History at Indiana University in Bloomington. He is the author of several
Harry S. Truman and the Cold War RevisionistsRobert H. Ferrell
books on Harry S. Truman and the diplomatic history of the United States, including Presidential Leadership: From Woodrow Wilson to Harry S. Truman; Harry S. Truman: A Life; and Five Days in October: The Lost Battalion of World War I.
Ferrell served in the U.S. Army Air Forces during the Second World War and was an intelligence analyst in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War. He received a B.S. in Education from Bowling Green State University in 1946 and a PhD from Yale University in 1951, where he worked under the direction of Samuel Flagg Bemis. During his career, he supervised thirty-five PhD students from 1961 to 1988.
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Journalism
Polar Studies
Capturing the NewsThree Decades of Reporting Crisis and Conflict
Anthony Collings$19.95 pb | ISBN 978-0-8262-2061-5
“With concise prose and clear explanations of journalistic jargon and elements of the craft, this book would enhance communications studies curricula and provides a snapshot of the profession to both reporters and lay readers.”—Library Journal
“A trip back in time . . . Professors of newswriting and reporting will find this short book a delightful addition to their syllabi.”—Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly
Footsteps on the IceThe Antarctic Diaries of Stuart D. Paine, Second Byrd ExpeditionStuart D. Paine, Edited with an Introduction by M. L. Paine$19.95 pb | ISBN 978-0-8262-2062-2
“One must greatly admire Stuart Paine, who on my Grandfather Byrd’s ’33–’34 expedition to the South Pole, navigated his dog team as far south as any man, except Amundsen and Scott. He writes of braving incredible hardships with the confidence, and even nonchalance, of a resourceful, extremely capable, and hardworking New Hampshire yankee. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this diary.”—Richard E. Byrd, III
“Documents the period in Antarctic exploration that bridged the heroic era’ and the modern age of mechanized travel. Paine’s tale is one of the most compelling stories in polar history, surpassing other accounts with its immediacy and adventure as it captures the majesty and mystery of the untouched Antarctic.”—The Antarctic Circle
Muriel Rukeyser's The Book of the DeadTim Dayton$19.95 pb | ISBN 978-0-8262-2063-9
American Literature
“It is good to see Muriel Rukeyser’s poetry finally getting the attention it deserves. Tim Dayton has produced a serious and contextualized close reading of her major long poem, which first appeared in 1938, that, as he persuasively claims, stakes out a distinctive and important position in modern poetry, and more specifically within the leftist tradition in modern poetry.’”—Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature
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Massacre in MexicoElena PoniatowskaTranslated By Helen R. Lane, Introduction by Octavio Paz
Mexican History
“Heartbreaking. A massive chronicle that builds to the night of the Tlatelolco massacre in an accumulation of skillfully crosscut eyewitness accounts.”—Publishers Weekly
“Passionate and, while some may question the method—the splicing together of partisan memories recorded years after the event—this is a story that has not been effectively told before. Call it the grito of Tlateloco, a cry of protest and the subjective manifesto of Mexico’s suppressed, potentially explosive, middle-class dissenters.”—Kirkus
Massacre in Mexico remains a critical source for examining the collective
consciousness of Mexico. During the 1968 Olympic games in Mexico City, 10,000
ISBN 978-0-8262-0817-0 | $30.00s
students gathered to peacefully protest their nation’s one-party government and lack of political freedom. The police shot and bayonetted to death 325 unarmed Mexican youth. In this heartbreaking chronicle, Poniatowska has assembled a montage of testimony from eyewitness accounts that re-creates the chaotic optimism of the demonstration and the terrible shock of the massacre.
Elena Poniatowska is a French-born Mexican journalist and author, specializing in works on social and political issues focused on those considered to be disenfranchised, especially women and the poor. Considered to be Mexico’s grande dame of letters, Poniatowska was recently awarded the Miguel de Cervantes Prize, which honors the recipient’s lifetime body of work.
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Provides insight into the man before he achieved fame as a novelist, short story writer, and internationally recognized voice of social protest. This collection opens new territory in Wright studies, and fans of Wright’s novels will delight in discovering the lost material of this literary great.
From Sweetback to Super FlyRace and Film Audiences in Chicago's LoopGerald R. Butters, Jr.
Examines the movie theaters in Chicago’s Loop that became “black spaces” during the early 1970s as theater managers sought to attract African American audiences by exhibiting black-themed and blaxploitation films.
Film Studies / African American Studies
African American Studies / Literary Criticism
$60.00sISBN 978-0-8262-2020-2
$60.00s ISBN 978-0-8262-2036-3
Byline, Richard WrightArticles from the Daily Worker and New MassesEdited by Earle V. Bryant
Race and MeaningThe African American Experience in MissouriGary R. Kremer
African American Studies / American History
A noted historian’s collection of articles is accessible for the first time in one place. By placing the articles in order of historical events rather than by publication date, Kremer creates a single, detailed account that addresses the transition from slavery to freedom, all-black rural communities, and the lives of African Americans seeking new opportunities in Missouri’s cities. $35.00s
ISBN 978-0-8262-2043-1
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Joyce’s CityHistory, Politics, and Life in DublinersJack Morgan
Cultural Heritage Studies / American History
Literary Criticism
$60.00s ISBN 978-0-8262-2045-5
An Irish-American OdysseyThe Remarkable Rise of the O'Shaughnessy BrothersColum Kenny
$45.00s ISBN 978-0-8262-2024-0
The tale of a first-generation immigrant family’s struggle to assimilate into American society, highlighting their perseverance and determination to seize opportunities and surmount obstacles, all the while establishing a legacy for their own descendants in American art, advertising, journalism, and public service.
Examines James Joyce’s classic short story collection, Dubliners, to demonstrate, for example, the influence of American literature on “The Dead”—notably Washington Irving’s influence—and also traces the rich vein of Gothicism prevalent in Joyce’s work from Dubliners through Ulysses.
Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Pastoral TraditionDonna L. Potts
Irish Literature
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A close examination of the pastoral genre in the work of six Irish poets writing today. Through the exploration of the poets and their works, Potts reveals the wide range of purposes the pastoral has served in both Northern Ireland and the Republic, including more recently as a means for conveying environmentalism’s complex understanding of the value of nature.
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Civil War / American History / Regional Studies
The Collapse of Price’s RaidThe Beginning of the End in Civil War Missouri
$32.95 ISBN 978-0-8262-2025-7
The follow-up to Price’s Lost Campaign: The 1864 Invasion of Missouri, Lause’s The Collapse of Price’s Raid is a must-have for any reader interested in the Civil War or in Missouri state history. Lause examines the complex political and social context of the final significant Southern operation west of the Mississippi River.
The Civil War in MissouriA Military HistoryLouis S. Gerteis
Civil War / American History / Regional Studies
$29.95 ISBN 978-0-8262-1972-5
Price’s Lost CampaignThe 1864 Invasion of MissouriMark A. Lause
In the fall of 1864, during the last brutal months of the Civil War, the Confederates made one final push to rampage through the Shenandoah Valley, Tennessee, and Missouri. Price’s Raid, the last of these attempts, has too long remained unexamined in modern study, but now Civil War scholar Mark A. Lause investigates the problems during the campaign. He offers new insight into the two distinct phases of the campaign and shows that both sides used self-serving fictions, including the term raid, to provide a rationale for their politically motivated brutality.
Civil War / American History / Regional Studies
$25.00s pb ISBN 978-0-8262-2033-2
The Civil War in Missouri: A Military History dares to challenge the prevailing opinion that Missouri battles made only minor contributions to the war. Gerteis focuses not only on the principal conventional battles in the state but also on the effects these battles had on both sides’ national aspirations. This work broadens the scope of traditional Civil War studies to include the losses and wins of Missouri, creating a more accurate narrative of the nation’s history.
Mark A. Lause
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American Tragedian The Life of Edwin Booth Daniel J. Watermeier
As interesting as it is informative, Daniel J. Watermeier’s American Tragedian offers an in-depth look at the triumphal career and tumultuous life of one of the American stage’s most celebrated figures, Edwin Booth.
Nixon's First Cover-up The Religious Life of a Quaker President H. Larry Ingle
With few exceptions, the religious ideologies and backgrounds of U.S. presidents is a topic sorely lacking in analysis. H. Larry Ingle seeks to remedy this situation regarding Nixon in Nixon’s First Cover-up. Ingle delves more deeply into Nixon’s Quaker background than any previous scholar to observe the role Nixon’s religion played in his political career.
Sophia Peabody Hawthorne A Life, Volume 2, 1848–1871 Patricia Dunlavy Valenti
With the publication of Sophia Peabody Hawthorne: A Life, Volume 2, 1848–1871 by Patricia Dunlavy Valenti, the famous artist and writer emerges forever from the shadow cast by her husband, Nathaniel Hawthorne.
$55.00sISBN 978-0-8262-2048-6
$50.00sISBN 978-0-8262-2042-4
$60.00sISBN 978-0-8262-2047-9
Biography / Theater
Presidential Studies / Religious Studies / Biography
Biography / Women's Studies
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The Desperate Diplomat Saburo Kurusu's Memoir of the Weeks before Pearl Harbor Edited by J. Garry Clifford and Masako R. Okura
Three weeks prior to the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Japanese Special Envoy to the United States Saburo Kurusu visited Washington in an attempt to further peace talks between Japan and America. For more than seventy years, many have unfairly viewed his visit as part of the Pearl Harbor plot. Editors J. Garry Clifford and Masako R. Okura seek to dispel this myth.
A Very Private Public Citizen The Life of Grenville Clark Nancy Peterson Hill
Grenville Clark was born to wealth and privilege and grew up on a first-name basis with both Presidents Roosevelt, and his close friends included Supreme Court justices. He was well known and respected in the inner circles of business, government, and education. Nancy Peterson Hill gives life to the unsung account of this great and largely anonymous American hero and reveals how the scope of Clark’s life and career reflected his selfless passion for progress, equality, and peace.
Before THE BIG BONANZA Dan De Quille's Early Comstock Accounts Edited by Donnelyn Curtis and Lawrence I. Berkove
In nearly fifty newspaper accounts from 1860 to 1863, William Wright, using the pen name Dan De Quille, documented the development of the early Comstock with a frankness, abundance of detail, sense of immediacy, and excitement largely absent from his book The Big Bonanza. Donnelyn Curtis and Lawrence I. Berkove have gathered those accounts for the first time in Before THE BIG BONANZA.
$35.00sISBN 978-0-8262-2037-0
$40.00sISBN 978-0-8262-2023-3
$60.00sISBN 978-0-8262-2038-7
World History / Memoir
Biography / Political Science / American History
American Literature / Frontier History / Journalism
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