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The free-standing successor and next novel by the author of the critically acclaimed The Last Thing You Surrender, Leonard Pitts, Jr.'s 54 Miles launches forward twenty years to the fateful weeks of March 1965-from the infamous "Bloody Sunday" march at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma on the 7th to…

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1 author picked 54 Miles as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

If teachers and professors taught the way Pitts writes, everyone would be a lot smarter about American history. Read this book to meet a cast of characters you won't forget anytime soon. Bonus: you'll learn a lot about civil rights in the process.

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