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    …suggestions about atomic structure, in The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (2011). The latter work received particular acclaim and won both a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize. The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve (2017) focuses on the biblical origin story. In 2018 Greenblatt published Tyrant:…

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