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Duncan Hines was not created by a marketing department. Born in Bowling Green, Kentucky, in 1880, he became an amateur restaurant critic.

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What does stump speech and pork barrel mean? A short lexicon of American political terms.

For scholars of American history, letter-writing makes historical research possible.