A look back at the books we featured on First Person in the past year.
2019 was a banner year for books about how the United States see the world—and how the world views Americans. With the year drawing to an end, we look back at three books featured here on First Person.
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A look into Project Raven, a program where Americans were recruited to help the UAE hack people and organizations around the world.
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Death of a War Correspondent
Journalist Marie Colvin documented the horrors of war until one of them took her life.
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