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Liberty’s Exiles: The Loss of America and the Remaking of the British Empire by Maya Jasanoff

A Culture Show special on the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2011, presented by Clemency Burton-Hill. Features interviews with the six shortlisted authors and reports from the ceremony at the Royal Institute of British Architects where the judges revealed the winner of the 20,000 pound prize. Jasanoff tells the story of this remarkable global diaspora through the journeys of American loyalists left behind by the British evacuation in 18th century.

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