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Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State, and Nuclear Pollution
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Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State, and Nuclear Pollution

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  • Marilynne Robinson
    Marilynne Robinson
    / Early nonfiction and other works

    …in her first nonfiction book, Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State, and Nuclear Pollution (1989). The work was a finalist for the National Book Award. Nearly a decade after Mother Country, Robinson published a book of scholarly essays titled The Death of Adam (1998), which challenged the accepted views of…

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    …in her first nonfiction book, Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State, and Nuclear Pollution (1989). The work was a finalist for the National Book Award. Nearly a decade after Mother Country, Robinson published a book of scholarly essays titled The Death of Adam (1998), which challenged the accepted views of…

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