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The Kerner Report: The National Advisory Commission on Civil DisordersA landmark study of racism, inequality, and police violence that continues to hold important lessons today The Kerner Report is a powerful window into the roots of racism and inequality in the United States. Hailed by Martin Luther King Jr. as a "physician's warning...
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The Inquisition in Hollywood: Politics in the Film Community, 1930-60Examines the suppression of radical political activity in the film industry from the days of the Great Depression through the tumultuous House Un-American Activities Commission era to the waning days of the infamous blacklist. This book traces the history of political struggle in Hollywood...
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The Making of a Quagmire: America and Vietnam During the Kennedy EraPulitzer-prize winning author David Halberstam's eyewitness account provides a riveting narrative of how the United States created a major foreign policy disaster for itself in a faraway land it knew little about. In the introduction to this edition, historian Daniel J. Singal supplies crucial...
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Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War: July 1937-May 1942In 1937, the swath of the globe east from India to the Pacific Ocean enclosed half the world's population, all save a fraction enduring under some form of colonialism. Japan's onslaught into China that year unleashed a tidal wave of events that fundamentally transformed...
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Dnipro: An Entangled History of a European CityThis first English-language synthesis of the history of Dnipro (until 2016 Dnipropetrovsk, until 1926 Katerynoslav) locates the city in a broader regional, national, and transnational context and explores the interaction between global processes and everyday routines of urban life. The history of a place...
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White Slaves, African Masters: An Anthology of American Barbary Captivity NarrativesSome of the most popular stories in nineteenth-century America were sensational tales of whites captured and enslaved in North Africa. White Slaves, African Masters for the first time gathers together a selection of these Barbary captivity narratives, which significantly influenced early American attitudes toward...
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Did Ye Hear Mammy Died?: A MemoirThis heartwarming and hilarious family memoir shares what life was like growing up as one of eleven siblings raised by a single dad in Northern Ireland at the end of the Troubles.After the untimely death of his mother, five-year old Seamas and his ten...
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Extraction Ecologies and the Literature of the Long ExhaustionHow literature of the British imperial world contended with the social and environmental consequences of industrial mining The 1830s to the 1930s saw the rise of large-scale industrial mining in the British imperial world. Elizabeth Carolyn Miller examines how literature of this era reckoned...
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Defectives in the Land: Disability and Immigration in the Age of EugenicsImmigration history has largely focused on the restriction of immigrants by race and ethnicity, overlooking disability as a crucial factor in the crafting of the image of the "undesirable immigrant." Defectives in the Land, Douglas C. Baynton's groundbreaking new look at immigration and disability,...
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The Age of Entitlement: America Since the SixtiesA major American intellectual makes the historical case for the inevitability of President Trump, arguing that the 1960s reforms meant to make the nation more humane instead created a system that left Americans alienated and poised to elect him.Christopher Caldwell has spent years studying...
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Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction AmericaFrom historian and critically acclaimed author of The Three-Cornered War comes the propulsive and vividly told story of how Yellowstone became the world's first national park amid the nationwide turmoil and racial violence of the Reconstruction era.Each year nearly four million people visit Yellowstone...
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The Darkest Year: The American Home Front, 1941-1942The Darkest Year is acclaimed author William K. Klingaman's narrative history of the American home front from December 7, 1941 through the end of 1942, a psychological study of the nation under the pressure of total war.For Americans on the home front, the twelve...
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The Library BookA REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICK A WASHINGTON POST TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR * A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER and NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018 "A constant pleasure to read...Everybody who loves books should check out The...
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The Art of Memory: Historic Cemeteries of Grand Rapids, MichiganIn the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, the look and feel of cemeteries in the United States changed dramatically, from utilitarian burial grounds to the serene parklike spaces that we know today. The so-called park cemetery was innovative not only for its...
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President Nixon: Alone in the White HouseWho was Richard Nixon? The most amazing thing about the man was not what he did as president, but that he became president at all. Using thousands of new interviews and recently discovered or declassified documents and tapes, Richard Reeves's President Nixon offers a...
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Killing the Mob: The Fight Against Organized Crime in AmericaIn the tenth audiobook in the multimillion-selling Killing series, Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard take on their most controversial subject yet: The Mob.Killing the Mob is the tenth audiobook in Bill O'Reilly's #1 New York Times bestselling series of popular narrative histories, with sales...
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Vanderbilt CD: The Rise and Fall of an American DynastyNew York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to chronicle the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty--his mother's family, the Vanderbilts.When eleven-year-old Cornelius Vanderbilt began to work on his father's...
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Brave Companions: Portraits in HistoryFrom Alexander von Humboldt to Charles and Anne Lindbergh, these are stories of people of great vision and daring whose achievements continue to inspire us today, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough. The bestselling author of Truman and John Adams, David McCullough has...
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White House YearsKissinger's invaluable and lasting contribution to the history of this crucial time. One of the most important books to come out of the Nixon Administration, the New York Times bestselling White House Years covers Henry Kissinger's first four years (1969-1973) as Assistant to the...
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From Cab Driver to Carnegie HallAuthor: David SingerPublisher: Palmetto PublishingPublished: 06/25/2024Pages: 320Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.43lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.00dISBN: 9798822935211This title is not returnable
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