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God in Gotham: The Miracle of Religion in Modern Manhattan"Are you there, God? It's me, Manhattan...Butler...argues that far from being a Sodom on the Hudson, New York was a center of religious dynamism throughout the 20th century."--Wall Street Journal "What a pleasure it is to take a tour of Manhattan's sacred past led...
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Suicide Creek and the Battle for Cape Gloucester: The classic account of the Marine Corps battle at Suicide Creek on New Britain, plus the USMC studyThe classic account of US Marine Corps fighting at Suicide Creek on New Britain, including the USMC study The Green Inferno and the declassified First Marine Division Special Action Report on Cape Gloucester.Author: David Thurman Miller, Bordages Et AlPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished: 03/26/2012Pages:...
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Mark Twain's Nevada: Samuel Clemens in the Silver StateFollow in the footsteps of the celebrated American storyteller in Nevada, visiting the places he lived, visited, worked, and wrote about. Read about his adventures traveling the Wild West, prospecting for gold, and digging up (or making up) stories for the Territorial Enterprise in...
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Trapped: The 1909 Cherry Mine DisasterA gripping account of the worst coal mine fire in US history--the 1909 Cherry Mine Disaster that claimed the lives of 259 men. Drawing on diaries, letters, written accounts of survivors and testimony from the coroner's inquest...Tintori's engaging prose keeps readers on the edge...
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The Beatles, The Bible and Manson: Reflecting Back with 50 Years of PerspectiveIn just two years, a would-be Messiah used lyrics from the most popular Rock and Roll band and verses from the most read book to create an infamous cult. This "family" remained run-of-the-mill until...August 16, 1969.Exactly one week after the hideously bizarre Tate-LaBianca murders....
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Mountains of SilverA little over a century ago, the Red Mountain Mining District in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado was the scene of a "silver rush" with an output of precious metals second in Colorado only to that of Leadville. In a period of...
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Adolf Hitler: Una guía fascinante de la vida del Führer de la Alemania nazi (Libro en Español/Adolf Hitler Spanish Book Version)Explora el alzamiento de Adolf Hitler Fue Hitler, tal y como preguntó Ian Kershaw, una consecuencia natural de la historia alemana o una aberración? No es que Hitler hubiera estado escondido, esperando para atacar. El Führer realmente había estado siguiendo una política exterior agresiva...
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Across America in our Model TAcross America in our Model T is the fascinating story of the Jeffery family's epic journey across the United States, Canada, and Mexico in 1920.At a time when there were few paved roads and fewer amenities, Eulice and Alta Jeffery, my great-grandparents, and their...
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Forty Years a Gambler on the MississippiGeorge H. Devol was the greatest riverboat gambler in the history of the Mississippi. Born in Ohio in 1829, he ran away from home and worked as a cabin boy at age ten. At fourteen he could stack a deck of cards. Over the...
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Yesterday's HighwaysRelive the history of the American highway from its origins in the era of the covered wagon through the age of the interstate. Illustrated with more than 400 images from roads across the country, Yesterday's Highways takes you back to the old auto trails...
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Elite für Volk und Führer?Die Schutzstaffel der NSDAP war die gewaltt tigste Terrororganisation des NS-Regimes. Sie sollte nach dem Willen Hitlers und Himmlers die rassische Elite des Nationalsozialismus sein, die als Vorbild der menschenz chterischen Aufnordung des deutschen Volkes ausersehen war. 1939 hatte der Schwarze Orden gut 200.000...
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JFK: The Dead WitnessesIn the years following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, more than one hundred witnesses, investigators, and other people linked to the ambush in Dealey Plaza have died. The majority have met their fate under extremely suspicious circumstances. Murders, mysterious accidents, and "suicides"...
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Louch: A Simple Man's True Story of War, Survival, Life, and LegacyNo one has ever combined noodling for catfish, fumbling camping trips, Prohibition gangsters, Paleolithic fishing methods, drunken Polish American Immigrants, WWII tank warfare, mixed nuts, mob run unions, and leaking johnboats into one story - until now. My grandfather's life story combines a variety...
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Carson City Century: Nevada's CapitalCarson City entered the 20th century as a small town with plenty of tradition to build upon. It had already been home to the inventor of the Ferris Wheel and Mark Twain's brother (and Twain himself for extended visits). Named for Kit Carson, it...
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America's Forgotten Airship Disaster: The Crash of the USS ShenandoahOn a stormy September morning in 1925, the giant Navy airship Shenandoah tumbled out of a turbulent sky and crashed into aviation history. Fourteen of the ship's 43 crewmen died in the crash. The Shenandoah was America's first rigid dirigible. It was longer than...
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The Clash of Civilizations?: The Debate: Twentieth Anniversary EditionThis volume brings together a broad range of Foreign Affairs content to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of Samuel Huntington's classic article "The Clash of Civilizations?" Huntington's essay argued that culture, rather than ideology or geopolitics, would be the driving source of international conflict in...
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Keep the Wretches in Order: America's Biggest Mass Trial, the Rise of the Justice Department, and the Fall of the IWWBefore World War I, the government reaction to labor dissent had been local, ad hoc, and quasi-military. Sheriffs, mayors, or governors would deputize strikebreakers or call out the state militia, usually at the bidding of employers. When the United States entered the conflict in...
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Charles Towne on the Cape Fear: The Rise and Fall of the First Barbadian Settlement in CarolinaWhile South Carolina has the most famous Charles Towne in Carolina, the first one was along the banks of the Cape Fear River. Between 1664-1667, Barbadians led by John Vassall and Puritans from Massachusetts established plantations stretching as far as sixty miles along what...
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Thirteen Pieces of the Jigsaw: Solving Political, Cultural and Spiritual Riddles, Past and PresentIn 2013, James Perloff published his landmark primer on the New World Order Truth Is a Lonely Warrior. In the years since, online, he has expanded on many details from that book, as well as filling in holes with new research. In Thirteen Pieces...
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How it worked The story of Clarence H Snyder and the early days of Alcoholics AThis is the story of Clarence H. Snyder and How A.A. came to Cleveland Ohio. Clarence started the 3rd A.A. group in the world. His sponsor Dr.Bob S.. a Co-Founder of Alcoholics Anonymous along with Bill W. Clarence started and initiated many practices that...
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