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Welcome to Gap Fest Reads.

I'm David Plott, one of the hosts of Slates Political Gap Fest.

In 1977, when I was a first grader in DC Public Schools, Lafayette Elementary,

the city was gripped for several days by an extraordinary event.

And even today, 46 years later, the feeling of those days remains powerfully in my memory.

So powerfully, I literally think about it every time I drive up 16th Street.

And now, Shahan Mufti has written an absolutely brilliant and mesmerizing and

page-turning account of an event that you probably never heard of,

but which was massively important in shaping America's relationship to Islam and to terrorism.

Mufti's book, American Call of Chronicles, the 1977 Siege of Washington, DC,

when a small Muslim group based in DC, based out of a house on 16th Street,

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