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Book: Dreaming in French: The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis
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  1. Alice Kaplan _ Dreaming in French: The Paris

    The Bouviers and the Lees alike operated within the great American tradition of immigrant ambition, which held that in making yourself anew, you had the right to embellish the past.
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  2. Alice Kaplan _ Dreaming in French: The Paris

    Beauvoir was untouched by the criticisms; her diary was a record of one consciousness, her own: "This is what I saw and how I saw it. I have not tried to say more.
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  3. Alice Kaplan _ Dreaming in French: The Paris

    With that solitude came the greatest luxuries: the time to read, the opportunity to wander, and the chance to think new thoughts."
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