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What Two Forgotten Pieces Tell Us About Harper Lee
Four days before Christmas in 1959, an employee in the records section of the Federal Bureau of Investigation wrote to one of J. Edgar Hoover’s top lieutenants to inform him of a “Call From [Redacted] of Random House.” The caller—almost certainly Bennett Cerf, the head of the publishing house—wanted to know if the Bureau could help one of his clients by sending a wire “identifying...
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