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The Man Who Invented Conservatism: The Unlikely Life of Frank S. Meyer"...a wise book about an important and overlooked American journalist and intellectual." -- The Wall Street Journal Frank Meyer devised the blueprint for American conservatism--fusionism--championed by Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, and so many to this day. Yet long before and far away, Communists in...
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Alias Agnes: The Notorious Tale of a Gilded Age SpyAuthor: Elizabeth A. DeWolfePublisher: University Press of KentuckyPublished: 04/29/2025Pages: 368Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.12lbsSize: 8.10h x 5.84w x 0.97dISBN: 9781985902244About the AuthorDeWolfe, Elizabeth A.: - Elizabeth A. DeWolfe, professor of history and cofounder of the women's and gender studies program at the University of New...
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The Breach: Iran-Contra and the Assault on American DemocracyA president defying Congress. Disrespect for the law. Attacks on the press. Evasion in the courts. The privatization of war. Quid pro quos with foreign nations. The mounting dangers to American democracy have long been with us. But all these perils first emerged together...
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Cold War Country: How Nashville's Music Row and the Pentagon Created the Sound of American PatriotismCountry music maintains a special, decades-long relationship to American military life, but these ties didn't just happen. This readable history reveals how country music's Nashville-based business leaders on Music Row created partnerships with the Pentagon to sell their audiences on military service while selling...
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The Pink Scar: How Nazi Persecution Shaped the Struggle for LGBTQ+ RightsThe Third Reich subjected some one hundred thousand individuals to a pernicious anti-homosexual campaign that included censorship, surveillance, medical experimentation, and death. Credible scholarship suggests that as many as fifteen thousand were interned in concentration camps, though the actual names and numbers of all...
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Black Cowboys in the American West: On the Range, on the Stage, behind the BadgeWho were the black cowboys? They were drovers, foremen, fiddlers, cowpunchers, cattle rustlers, cooks, and singers. They worked as wranglers, riders, ropers, bulldoggers, and bronc busters. They came from varied backgrounds--some grew up in slavery, while free blacks often got their start in Texas...
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You Are Not a Kinesthetic Learner: The Troubled History of the Learning Style IdeaA compelling history of the learning style concept and how it was shaped by shifting ideas in psychology, anthropology, and education. The widely embraced notion that we all process information in one of three distinct modes--visual, auditory, or kinesthetic--has informed educational practices for decades....
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The WomenA 2025 Audie Award winner for Best Fiction Narrator! "Kristin Hannah's potent storytelling skills are brilliantly served by narrator Julia Whelan, whose limber, low-pitched voice moves nimbly from person to person, capturing personality and mood, her empathy palpable." --The Washington Post From the celebrated...
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Whiskerology: The Culture of Hair in Nineteenth-Century AmericaA surprising history of human hair in nineteenth-century America, where length, texture, color, and coiffure became powerful indicators of race, gender, and national belonging. Hair is always and everywhere freighted with meaning. In nineteenth-century America, however, hair took on decisive new significance as the...
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What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848The Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. In this Pulitzer prize-winning, critically acclaimed addition to the series, historian Daniel Walker Howe illuminates the period from the battle of New Orleans to the end...
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The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multivolume history of the American nation. In the newest volume in the series, The Republic for Which It Stands, acclaimed historian Richard White offers a fresh and integrated interpretation of Reconstruction and the...
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A Slumless America: Mary K. Simkhovitch and the Dream of Affordable HousingAuthor: Betty Boyd CaroliPublisher: Oxford University PressPublished: 02/02/2026Pages: 288Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 8.80h x 6.10w x 1.20dISBN: 9780197793800About the AuthorBetty Boyd Caroli is a graduate of Oberlin College and holds an MA in Mass Communication from Annenberg School of University of Pennsylvania, as well...
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The Kissinger Tapes: Inside His Secretly Recorded Phone ConversationsA richly detailed collection of transcripts of Henry Kissinger's secretly recorded phone conversations from his time in the Nixon administration that touch on every important issue of Kissinger's day and provide a sweeping view of his era. Henry Kissinger is unquestionably one of the...
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Robert H. Jackson: A Life in JudgmentAuthor: G. Edward WhitePublisher: Oxford University PressPublished: 10/01/2025Pages: 408Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.50lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.40w x 1.50dISBN: 9780197778432About the AuthorG. Edward White is the David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law and the author of twenty books...
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The Titans of the Twentieth Century: How They Made History and the History They MadeAn engaging and original historical portrait of eight of the most influential political figures of the twentieth century: Woodrow Wilson, Lenin, Hitler, Churchill, FDR, Gandhi, David Ben-Gurion, and Mao. The Titans of the Twentieth Century addresses an age-old question: what is the impact of...
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Cracked Foundations: Debt and Inequality in Suburban AmericaHow debt and speculation financed the suburban American dream and led to today's inequalities In the popular imagination, the suburbs are synonymous with the "American Dream" of upward mobility and economic security. After World War II, white families rushed into newly built suburbs, where...
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The Making of Bigfoot: The Inside StoryBigfoot! Huge, hairy, foul smelling, this legendary apelike animal continues to captivate the public's imagination. This fascination hinges on a single piece of motion-picture film shot in northern California in 1967. For thirty-five years, Bigfoot believers have been convinced that this sixty-second piece of...
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The War Correspondents: The Incredible Stories of the Brave Men and Women Who Covered the Fight Against Hitler's GermanyThe War Correspondents unveils the extraordinary bravery and unmatched literary legacy of the journalists who risked their lives to cover WWII's European Theater Ernie Pyle, John Steinbeck, Walter Cronkite, Edward R. Murrow, Ernest Hemingway, Bill Mauldin, Robert Capa, Margaret Bourke-White, Andy Rooney, Martha Gellhorn,...
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The Rolling Stones: The BiographyNamed a Most Anticipated Book of 2026 by The New York Times From the award-winning, bestselling author of classic histories of the Beatles and Led Zeppelin, a groundbreaking reckoning with the world's greatest rock 'n' roll band All great music is a threat. What...
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Unsettling Territory: The Resurgence of the Oneida Nation in the Face of Settler BacklashA history of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin, from Revolutionary War allies to modern resurgenceHow did the Oneida Nation of northeastern Wisconsin--stripped of nearly all its reservation lands by the early twentieth century--rise to become a powerful political and economic force in Native America...
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