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Manisha Sinha

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Manisha Sinha, the Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, was born in India and received her Ph.D from Columbia University where her dissertation was nominated for the Bancroft prize. Her claim to fame: she appeared on Jon Stewart's The Daily Show in 2014. Her book The Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina was named one of the ten best books on slavery in Politico in 2015. She has written for The New York Times, The Huffington Post, The New York Daily News, Time Magazine, and has been interviewed by The Times of London, The Boston...

Liz Cheney

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Elizabeth Cheney Perry, commonly called Liz, is an American attorney. During the George W. Bush administration years, she held positions in the State Department of the United States. She has been politically active on behalf of the Republican Party and is a co-founder of Keep America Safe. She is the elder daughter of former Vice President of the United States Dick Cheney and Lynne Cheney.