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The best Northwest nonfiction of 2016
Here’s my mossy list of the year’s best reads in Northwest nonfiction, with an emphasis on, surprise, history.
Knute Berger
Knute “Mossback” Berger is an editor-at-large and host of "Mossback’s Northwest" at Cascade PBS. He writes about politics and regional heritage.
Latest work
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Courts rule on future of Pioneer Square, Olympic National Park
Two recent legal decisions have notched significant wins for heritage and historic preservation in both wild and urban settings in
The strange case of the Northwest's Native American Nazi
He was a Native American from Oregon who called himself “Chief Red Cloud,” and he cut an impressive figure. In
politics
Busting the myth of two Washingtons
In the wake of the election, some would tear Washington state asunder. The returns showed a deep red-blue divide between
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A Northwest outdoorsman, a Nazi sympathizer
Sixth in a series Pearl Harbor changed everything for America’s Nazi sympathizers. German diplomats had been expelled from the