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O Albany!: Improbable City of Political Wizards, Fearless Ethnics, Spectacular, Aristocrats, Splendid Nobodies, and Underrated ScKennedy's O Albany is in part the non-fictional stories he covered in his novels, Legs and Billy Phelan's Greatest Game. Kennedy retells the exploits of the bootlegger Jack 'Legs' Diamond, the bungled 1933 kidnapping of John O'Connell, Jr., heir to the Albany Democratic machine...
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The Fall of Richard Nixon: A Reporter Remembers WatergateBestselling author Tom Brokaw brings readers inside the White House press corps in this up-close and personal account of the fall of an American president. In August 1974, after his involvement in the Watergate scandal could no longer be denied, Richard Nixon became the...
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The Zookeepers' War: An Incredible True Story from the Cold WarThe unbelievable true story of the Cold War's strangest proxy war, fought between the zoos on either side of the Berlin Wall. "The liveliness of Mohnhaupt's storytelling and the wonderful eccentricity of his subject matter make this book well worth a read." --Star Tribune...
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The Great Labor Uprising of 1877The first generalized confrontation between labor and capital in the United States, which effectively shut down the entire railway system. "An essential addition to any collection on labor history"--Library Journal.Author: Philip S. FonerPublisher: PathfinderPublished: 01/01/1977Pages: 383Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.90dISBN:...
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The Pine Tar Game: The Kansas City Royals, the New York Yankees, and Baseball's Most Absurd and Entertaining ControversyThe New York Times bestseller--"a rollicking account" (The Kansas City Star) of the infamous baseball game between the Yankees and Royals in which a game-winning home run was overturned and set off one of sports history's most absurd and entertaining controversies. On July 24,...
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1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Debs--The Election That Changed the CountryBeginning with former president Theodore Roosevelt's return in 1910 from his African safari, Chace brilliantly unfolds a dazzling political circus that featured four extraordinary candidates. When Roosevelt failed to defeat his chosen successor, William Howard Taft, for the Republican nomination, he ran as a...
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The Times Were a Changin': The Sixties ReaderThis is a must-have anthology of the milestone speeches, manifestos, court decisions, and groundbreaking journalism of the Sixties. No other period in American history has been more liberating, more confusing, more unforgettable, and had a more direct impact on the way we navigated the...
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Genesis: Truman, American Jews, and the Origins of the Arab/Israeli ConflictA probing look at one of the most incendiary subjects of our time--the relationship between the United States and IsraelThere has been more than half a century of raging conflict between Jews and Arabs--a violent, costly struggle that has had catastrophic repercussions in a...
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Ike's Spies: Eisenhower and the Espionage EstablishmentThis classic Cold War-era history looks at the way President Dwight Eisenhower managed America's secret operations as general and as commander in chief and is based on privileged access to the president and his private papers--from bestselling historian Stephen E. Ambrose. During his time...
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Snow-Storm in August: The Struggle for American Freedom and Washington's Race Riot of 1835In 1835, the city of Washington simmered with racial tension as newly freed African Americans from the South poured in, outnumbering slaves for the first time. Among the enslaved was nineteen-year-old Arthur Bowen, who stumbled home drunkenly one night, picked up an axe, and...
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Troubled Refuge: Struggling for Freedom in the Civil WarFrom the author of What This Cruel War Was Over, a vivid portrait of the Union army's escaped-slave refugee camps and how they shaped the course of emancipation and citizenship in the United States. Chandra Manning casts in a wholly original light what it...
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Oil and Ice: A Story of Arctic Disaster and the Rise and Fall of America's Last Whaling Dynas TyPeter Nichols has crafted a terrifyingly relevant historical narrative...A terrific read. -Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In The Heart of the Sea In 1871, America's last fleet of whaling ships was destroyed in an arctic ice storm. Miraculously, 1,218 men, women and children survived, but...
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Nothing to Fear: Fdr's Inner Circle and the Hundred Days That Created Modern AmericaA fascinating account of an extraordinary moment in the life of the United States. --The New York Times With the world currently in the grips of a financial crisis unlike anything since the Great Depression, Nothing to Fear could not be timelier. This acclaimed...
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Tomorrow Is Now: It Is Today That We Must Create the World of the FutureAvailable again in time for election season, Eleanor Roosevelt's most important book--a battle cry for civil rightsAs relevant and influential now as it was when first published in 1963, Tomorrow Is Now is Eleanor Roosevelt's manifesto and her final effort to move America toward...
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Eminent VictoriansA genre-changing work of biography Eminent Victorians marked an epoch in the art of biography; it also helped to crack the old myths of high Victorianism and to usher in a new spirit by which chauvinism, hypocrisy and the stiff upper lip were debunked....
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The Irishman (Movie Tie-In): Frank Sheeran and Closing the Case on Jimmy HoffaORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AS I HEARD YOU PAINT HOUSES New York Times Bestseller Now a major motion picture directed by Academy Award(R) winner Martin Scorsese, starring Academy Award(R) winners Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, Anna Paquin, and Academy Award(R) nominee Harvey Keitel, and...
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Beethoven's Hair: An Extraordinary Historical Odyssey and a Scientific Mystery SolvedThe basis for the movie of the same name, an astonishing tale of one lock of hair and its amazing travels--from nineteenth-century Vienna to twenty-first-century America. When Ludwig van Beethoven lay dying in 1827, a young musician named Ferdinand Hiller came to pay his...
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Don't Make Me Pull Over!: An Informal History of the Family Road Trip"A lighthearted, entertaining trip down Memory Lane" (Kirkus Reviews), Don't Make Me Pull Over offers a nostalgic look at the golden age of family road trips--before portable DVD players, smartphones, and Google Maps. The birth of America's first interstate highways in the 1950s hit...
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Contempt of Court: The Turn-Of-The-Century Lynching That Launched 100 Years of FederalismIn this profound and fascinating book, the authors revisit an overlooked Supreme Court decision that changed forever how justice is carried out in the United States. In 1906, Ed Johnson was the innocent black man found guilty of the brutal rape of Nevada Taylor,...
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The White Devil's Daughters: The Women Who Fought Slavery in San Francisco's ChinatownDuring the first hundred years of Chinese immigration--from 1848 to 1943--San Francisco was home to a shockingly extensive underground slave trade in Asian women, who were exploited as prostitutes and indentured servants. In this gripping, necessary book, bestselling author Julia Flynn Siler shines a...
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