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Ashes Under Water: The SS Eastland and the Shipwreck That Shook AmericaThe untold story of the worst disaster on the Great Lakes in U.S. History. On July 24th, 1915, Chicago commuters were horrified as they watched the SS Eastland, a tourism boat taking passengers across Lake Michigan, flip over while tied to the dock and...
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Baking Powder Wars: The Cutthroat Food Fight That Revolutionized CookingFirst patented in 1856, baking powder sparked a classic American struggle for business supremacy. For nearly a century, brands battled to win loyal consumers for the new leavening miracle, transforming American commerce and advertising even as they touched off a chemical revolution in the...
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The Lenin Plot: The Unknown Story of America's War Against RussiaThe surprising story of perhaps the darkest episode in American espionage history: the "midnight war" to depose Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin. It remains the most audacious spy plot in American history--a bold and extremely dangerous operation to invade Russia, defeat the Red Army, and...
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Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt"How has unbelief come to dominate so many Western societies? The usual account invokes the advance of science and rational knowledge. Ryrie's alternative, in which emotions are the driving force, offers new and interesting insights into our past and present."--Charles Taylor, author of A...
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After Tippecanoe: Some Aspects of the War of 1812Though the Shawnee chief Tecumseh attempted to form a confederacy of tribes to stem the tide of white settlement in the Old Northwest, in November of 1811, the Americans marched to his village at the mouth of Tippecanoe Creek. The ensuing battle ended all...
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Savage Frontier Volume IV: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1842-1845This fourth and final volume of the Savage Frontier series completes the history of the Texas Rangers and frontier warfare in the Republic of Texas era. During this period of time, fabled Captain John Coffee Hays and his small band of Rangers were often...
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Khrushchev's Cold War: The Inside Story of an American AdversaryThis acclaimed study from the authors of "One Hell of a Gamble" brings to life head-to-head confrontations between the Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev and Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy. Drawing on their unrivaled access to Politburo and KGB materials, Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali combine...
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Officers and Soldiers of the French Imperial Guard: Volume 5 - Cavalry 1804-1815The fifth and final volume of this rich saga of the French Imperial Guard, Andr Jouineau presents the last troops in the Garde: the Horse Artillery, the Health Service, the crew trains, the artillery and artillery trains. A chapter about the headquarters staff closes...
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A Battlefield Atlas of the American RevolutionA Battlefield Atlas of the American Revolution, a second collaboration between Dr. Craig L. Symonds and cartographer William J. Clipson, authors of A Battlefield Atlas of the Civil War, is a fresh visual and narrative overview of the principal military engagements of the American...
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to the SixtiesGet ready to break on through to the other side as critically-acclaimed playwright and journalist Jonathan Leaf reveals the politically incorrect truth about one of the most controversial decades in history--the 1960s. Life was more square than groovy and Dean Martin was topping the...
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Mark Twain's Notebooks: Journals, Letters, Observations, Wit, Wisdom, and DoodlesThe original and insightful collection that combines Mark Twain's journal writings with his rarely seen sketches and doodles. Fascinating and often hilarious, this is a complete record of the thoughts, ideas, and observations of the father of American literature. A national treasure and a...
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The Bad Old Days of Colorado: Untold Stories of the Wild WestThe Bad Old Days of Colorado celebrates the state's glorious and rowdy past. Many people born and bred here relish just how "bad" things used to be: the terrain, the inhabitants and especially the quality of whiskey. It almost goes without saying that Colorado...
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Born Under the Sign of Odin: The Life & Times of Robert Bly's Little Magazine & Small PressLong before Robert Bly became a cultural icon as a leading light of the Men's Movement, he was shaking up the world of poetry with a little magazine, published from his farm in western Minnesota, that celebrated the deep imagery of European and South...
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Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial AdoptionConfronting trauma behind the transnational adoption system--now back in print Many adoptees are required to become people that they were never meant to be. While transracial adoption tends to be considered benevolent, it often exacts a heavy emotional, cultural, and economic toll on those...
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Yamato Colony: The Pioneers Who Brought Japan to FloridaOpening a window onto the little-known Japanese-American heritage of Florida, Yamato Colony is the true tale of a daring immigrant venture that left behind an important legacy. Ryusuke Kawai tells how a Japanese farming settlement came to be in south Florida, far from other...
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Tejano Empire: Life on the South Texas Ranchosvolume 7A silent story is told by the stone chimneys of South Texas that were used to prepare the Tejano ranch meals of an earlier century and by the rifle port holes still seen in crumbling walls that once protected families. It is a story...
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In Tar and Paint and Stone: The Inscriptions at Independence Rock and Devil's GateIn an indispensable book for genealogists and trail buffs, Levida Hileman presents a comprehensive history of Independence Rock, plus an alphabetical listing of over 2,000 names she and other surveyors have found inscribed on the Rock "in tar and paint and stone." She took...
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Black Crusader: A Biography of Robert Franklin WilliamsBlack Crusader is the story of how a young man from a small North Carolina town who dreamed of becoming a poet was transformed into an archenemy of the US power structure. At school and in college, in the Army and Marines and in...
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Flashback to 1963 - A Time Traveler's Guide: From the original Time-Traveler Flashback Series of Yearbooks. Celebrating the year 1963-A Thoughtful, UnLet's FLASHBACK to 1963, a very special year. Was this the year you were bornWas this the year you were married? Let's travel back in time to celebrate your year, THE YEAR 1963, with this compact 75-page book packed with fun-filled fabulous facts. Enjoy...
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The Communist ManifestoPackaged in handsome, affordable trade editions, Clydesdale Classics is a new series of essential works. From the musings of intellectuals such as Thomas Paine in Common Sense to the striking personal narrative of Harriet Jacobs in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,...
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