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The Class of '75: Reflections on the Last Quarter of the 20th Century by Harvard GraduatesAt the time of their twenty-fifth reunion in the year 2000, members of the Harvard Class of '75 were uniquely poised to reflect on their first quarter century out of college, which happened to coincide with the last quarter century of the millennium. Published...
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An American Family: The Warners of PhiladelphiaAn American Family is about the Warner family of Philadelphia's Blockley Township. R. David Warner Sr., the author, is qualified to write this book because he and his father are the twelfth and thirteenth generation of a family which settled on the shores of...
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Dps: Europe's Displaced Persons, 1945-51"Wyman has written a highly readable account of the movement of diverse ethnic and cultural groups of Europe's displaced persons, 1945-1951. An analysis of the social, economic, and political circumstances within which relocation, resettlement, and repatriation of millions of people occurred, this study is...
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The Building of America: Lifework of Tommy Waites Dragline OperatorAs you start reading this book, you will see very quickly that the sun rose and sat in my daddy's love for me and why he always referred to me as "Daddy's Girl." I was one of five children-four girls and one boy. Daddy...
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Reshaping the Tornado Belt: The June 16, 1887, Grand Forks/East Grand Forks TornadoWhen a devastating tornado hit Grand Forks and East Grand Forks on June 16, 1887, nobody saw it coming. Even the United States Signal Service believed there was a northern limit for tornadoes in the United States. The frontier towns of Grand Forks and...
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Madam AtatarkSumptuous, surprising, and profound.--Orhan PamukMustafa Kemal Atat rk is hailed as one of the most charismatic political leaders of the twentieth century, but little is known today about his one and only wife, Latife Hanim. A multilingual intellectual who read law at the Sorbonne,...
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Shakespeare's Revolution2020 saw the centenary of Thomas Looney's book Shakespeare Identified in which he revealed that the author of 'Shakespeare' is Edward De Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford (1550-1604), and not William Shakespeare, from Stratford upon Avon (1564-1616). Notwithstanding the irrefutable nature of his...
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Negrophobia: A Race Riot in Atlanta, 1906At the beginning of the twentieth century, Atlanta was regarded as the gateway to the new, enlightened and racially progressive South. White business owners employed black workers and made their fortunes, while black leaders led congregations, edited periodicals, and taught classes. But in 1906,...
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What Men Call TreasureLegend says treasures lie deep inside Victorio Peak: A parable about obsession, hope, and humanity.In 1937, Doc Noss--part-adventurer, part-conman--and his wife Babe discovered fabulous treasure inside the caverns of New Mexico's Victorio Peak. They dynamited the tunnel to hide the treasure from other treasure...
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Project Azorian: The CIA and the Raising of the K-129In early August 1974, despite incredible risks and after six years of secret preparations, the CIA attempted to salvage the sunken Soviet ballistic missile submarine K-129 from the depths of the North Pacific Ocean. The audacious effort was undertaken with the cover of an...
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Water BombersWith over 230 images, this book covers all the aircraft types used in the water bomber role - World War Two fighters and bombers, piston-powered airliners and cargo aircraft of the 1950s, turboprop aircraft, wide-body jets, as well as the custom-built water bombers and,...
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Zachary Taylor: Soldier, Planter, Statesman of the Old Southwest (Revised)Considering the course his life took, one might wonder how Zachary Taylor ever came to be elected the twelfth president of the United States. According to K. Jack Bauer, Taylor "was and remains an enigma." He was a southerner who espoused many antisouthern causes,...
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Circle of Treason: A CIA Account of Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men He BetrayedWhile there have been other books about Aldrich Ames, Circle of Treason is the first account written by CIA agents who were key members of the CIA team that conducted the intense Ames Mole Hunt. Sandra Grimes and Jeanne Vertefeuille were two of the...
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Bass Reeves: Tales of the Talented Tenth, No. 1 Volume 1Born a slave, Bass Reeves became the first African American Deputy US Marshal in the old west. Author: Joel Christian GillPublisher: Chicago Review Press - FulcrumPublished: 10/28/2014Pages: 128Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 9.90h x 7.90w x 0.50dISBN: 9781938486630Audience: Ages 9-12Review Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 10/13/2014School Library...
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Fighting Faiths: The Abrams Case, the Supreme Court, and Free SpeechJacob Abrams et al. v. United States is the landmark Supreme Court case in the definition of free speech. Although the 1918 conviction of four Russian Jewish anarchists--for distributing leaflets protesting America's intervention in the Russian revolution--was upheld, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes's dissenting opinion...
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Thomas Nast, Political Cartoonist: Political CartoonistIf it is true that the pen is mightier than the sword and that one picture is worth a thousand words, Thomas Nast must certainly rank as one of the most influential personalities in nineteenth-century American history. His pen, dipped in satire, aroused an...
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My Race to Freedom: A Life in the Civil Rights MovementGwendolyn Patton's parents moved north from Alabama to Detroit in the Great Migration, ensuring that their children would avoid the worst that the post-Reconstruction South had to offer. As a young woman, Patton would return to Montgomery, Alabama, just in time for the civil...
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Ohio's War: The Civil War in DocumentsIn 1860, Ohio was among the most influential states in the nation. As the third-most-populous state and the largest in the middle west, it embraced those elements that were in concert-but also at odds-in American society during the Civil War era. Ohio's War uses...
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Black, Buckskin, and Blue: African American Scouts and Soldiers on the Western FrontierBlack, Buckskin, and Blue takes an in-depth look at African Americans who were scouts and soldiers on the United States western frontier during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The author explores the incidents and adventures black men were involved in during the westward movement...
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Gold, the Real Bills Doctrine, and the Fed: Sources of Monetary Disorder, 1922-1938The gold standard is often blamed for causing "the Great Contraction" - the unprecedented collapse of the U.S. money stock that began after the 1929 stock market crash and led to the Great Depression.In Gold, the Real Bills Doctrine, and the Fed: Sources of...
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