October 19, 2009 • 3:08 pm

Reposted from my Tumblr, because I went to the effort of typing this up and it keeps blowing my mind with how well-argued and everything it is.
Henry Louis Gates Jr: Hello?
The Enlightenment: Yes?
HLG Jr: Is that the Enlightenment?
TE: Yes, yes it is. What can I do for you?
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- Bruchko: The Astonishing True Story of a 19-Year-Old American, His Capture by the Motilone Indians and His Adventures in Christianizing the Stone Age Tribe by Bruce Olson
- Escape in Iraq: The Thomas Hamill Story by Thomas Hamill, Paul T Brown and Jay Langston
- American Hostage: A Memoir of a Journalist Kidnapped in Iraq and the Remarkable Battle to Win His Release by Micah Garen and Marie-Helene Carleton
- Guests of the Ayatollah: The Iran Hostage Crisis – The First Battle in America’s War with Militant Islam by Mark Bowden
- Long March to Freedom: Tom Hargrove’s Own Story of his Kidnapping By Colombian Narco-Guerillas by Tom Hargrove
- Den of Lions: A Startling Memoir of Survival and Triumph by Terry Anderson
- 13 Days of Terror: Held Hostage by Al-Qaeda Linked Extremists — A True Story by Greg Williams
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