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Communities Need Bookshops

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A Successful Formula to Combat Decline is Emerging

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Eric Sandelands
May 27, 2025
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The Front is currently one of my favourite films. It is set in the McCarthy era 1950s when the Hollywood blacklist destroyed lives and livelihoods and created an atmosphere of paranoia. Artists and writers were incentivized to snitch on each other and no one knew who to trust.

There is a big reveal at the end of the movie. Many of the people involved in …

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