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Two Books Published on Orange Revolution

For the rare bird lurkers that didn't live through this first hand, there have been two books recently published about the Orange Revolution. Last week's Economist had a full review. RandomHouse has more information about "An Orange Revolution", and the Carnegie Endowment has more information about "Revolution in Orange" (which is an excellent website, by the way). Does anyone else think the titles are just a little too similar? Only one vowel different!

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