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Comrades by Stephen E. Ambrose — WisdomDeck honest review
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Comrades

by Stephen E. Ambrose

Short essays on male friendship: brothers, Lewis and Clark, Eisenhower and his brothers, Nixon and Rebozo, Custer and his Crows, and Ambrose's own friends. Slight and warm.

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  1. Friendship is chosen family.
  2. Shared hardship bonds.
  3. Say it while they are alive.

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Male friendship, briefly.

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