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Eduardo Galeano, born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1940 is an essayist, journalist, historian, and activist. Mr. Galeano's books include the trilogy Memory of Fire; The Book of Embraces; We Say No; and Walking Words. Mr. Galeano, who received the first Lannan Prize for Cultural Freedom, has said, "I'm trying to create a synthesis of all different ways of expressing life and reality…I tried to find a way of recounting history so that the reader would feel that it was happening right now, just around the corner—this immediacy, this intensity, which is the beauty and the reality of history."

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John Leonard reviews books every month for Harper’s Magazine and television every week for New York magazine. His essays and articles also appear regularly in The Nation, The New York Review of Books, and The New York Times Book Review. He has been the editor of The New York Times Book Review, co-literary editor, with his wife Sue, of The Nation, and media critic for CBS Sunday Morning. His ten books include Private Lives in the Imperial City, The Last Innocent White Man in America, and When the Kissing Had to Stop: Cult Studs, Khmer Newts, Langley Spooks, Techno-Geeks, Video Drones, Author Gods, Serial Killers, Vampire Media, Alien Sperm-Suckers, Satanic Therapists, and Those of Us Who Hold a Left-Wing Grudge in the Post Toasties New World Hip-Hop.

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