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Summary Of Ward Moore's Bring The Jubilee

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The book “Bring The Jubilee” by Ward Moore is a book based in the 1950s in post-war New York City. In the book a very clever question is answered “What if the South won the war?” If you don’t understand which war it was, it was the Civil War. The summarization is about a 3 paragraph reading from pages 137 and 138. The protagonist Hodge works at a local bookstore, which is also his home in a way. Now the North is not that rich due to the fact they had lost the war. Hodge is not able to buy most things, as his job doesn’t pay him but does give him a place to live and food to eat. Though Hodge has a very special thing inside

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