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PlutoniumWhen plutonium was first manufactured at Berkeley in the spring of 1941, there was so little of it that it was not visible to the naked eye. It took a year to accumulate enough so that one could actually see it. Now so much...
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Music Comes in SpringtimeWe walked down the steps of the church into the cold December air laughing. Then, I suddenly saw a boy of about fourteen in a cap running past the church, shouting, "The Japs bombed Pearl Harbor! The Japs bombed Pearl Harbor!" For a moment...
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Cuando El Tiempo Se Detuvo: Memorias de la Guerra de Mi Padre Y Lo Que Queda / When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains (SpanisLas únicas pistas que tuvo Ariana Neumann de niña sobre la vida de su padre--el empresario Hans Neumann-- antes de llegar a la Venezuela que lo adoptó eran una foto vieja de sus abuelos paternos, un documento de identidad con un nombre falso y...
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The Triumph of Improvisation: Gorbachev's Adaptability, Reagan's Engagement, and the End of the Cold WarIn The Triumph of Improvisation, James Graham Wilson takes a long view of the end of the Cold War, from the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979 to Operation Desert Storm in January 1991. Drawing on deep archival research and recently declassified papers,...
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Slavery, Scandal, and Steel Rails: The 1854 Gadsden Purchase and the Building of the Second Transcontinental Railroad Across Arizona and New Mexico TwIn 1875, Charles Crocker, Mark Hopkins, Collis Huntington, and Leland Stanford of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company began taking steps to construct a southern transcontinental railroad line east from California. The implementation problems encountered over the next six years, the company's internal disagreements along...
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Billy Jack: His Life, His Story, His WayFor the students of Colerain High School and their friends, life in Cincinnati in the 1950s was an adventure. Now, one of their own shares a look into their lives. This is a story exposing the life of your grandparents. Yes, the lives of...
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The Manly Art: Bare-Knuckle Prize Fighting in America"It didn't occur to me until fairly late in the work that I was writing a book about the beginnings of a national celebrity culture. By 1860, a few boxers had become heroes to working-class men, and big fights drew considerable newspaper coverage, most...
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Tribal Laws, Treaties, and Government: A Lakota PerspectiveOglala Chief Red Cloud is quoted as saying, "The white man made many promises to us, but he kept only one; he promised to take our land and he took it." Initially the method of taking Indian land was through treaties, a legitimate and...
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The Triangle FireMarch 25, 2011, marks the centennial of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, in which 146 garment workers lost their lives. A work of history relevant for all those who continue the fight for workers' rights and safety, this edition of Leon Stein's classic account...
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What Good Is Grand Strategy?: Power and Purpose in American Statecraft from Harry S. Truman to George W. BushGrand strategy is one of the most widely used and abused concepts in the foreign policy lexicon. In this important book, Hal Brands explains why grand strategy is a concept that is so alluring--and so elusive--to those who make American statecraft. He explores what...
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Divided Highways: Building the Interstate Highways, Transforming American Life (Updated)"Anyone who has ever driven on a U.S. interstate highway or eaten at an exit-ramp McDonald's will come away from this book with a better understanding of what makes modern America what it is." - Chicago Tribune"A fascinating work... with a subject central to...
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The St. Valentine's Day Massacre: The Untold Story of the Gangland Bloodbath That Brought Down Al CaponeA Case of Bad Timing and Poor JudgmentThe machine-gun murders of seven men on the morning of February 14, 1929, by killers dressed as cops became the gangland "crime of the century." Or so the story went. Since then it has been featured in...
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Playing for Keeps: A History of Early BaseballIn the late 1850s organized baseball was a club-based fraternal sport thriving in the cultures of respectable artisans, clerks and shopkeepers, and middle-class sportsmen. Two decades later it had become an entertainment business run by owners and managers, depending on gate receipts and the...
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Justice at Dachau: The Trials of an American ProsecutorThe world remembers Nuremberg, where a handful of Nazi policymakers were brought to justice, but nearly forgotten are the proceedings at Dachau, where hundreds of Nazi guards, officers, and doctors stood trial for personally taking part in the torture and execution of prisoners inside...
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Helena Star: An Epic Adventure Through the Murky Underworld of International Drug SmugglingThis is the epic tale of the motor vessel Helena Star. On April 17, 1978, the U.S. Coast Guard seized the aging freighter 140 miles off Washington State's coast with its hold loaded with 37 tons of marijuana--the west coast's largest pot bust--worth an...
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Forts, Fights, and Frontier Sites: Wyoming Historic LocationsFrom Almond Station to Yellowstone National Park, Forts, Fights & Frontier Sites offer precise, compact histories of Wyoming frontier sites?many that have crumbled into the landscape and nearly faded from memory plus a few that have thrived. Author Candy Moulton has a gift for...
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Sixties Sandstorm: The Fight Over Establishment of a Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, 1961-1970In 1961, Senator Philip Hart of Michigan introduced legislation to add Michigan's Sleeping Bear Dunes and 77,000 surrounding acres to America's National Park system. The 1,600 people who lived in the proposed park area feared not only that the federal government would confiscate their...
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The Girl Who Loved Camellias: The Life and Legend of Marie DuplessisThis riveting biography brilliantly explores the short, intense, and passionate life of the country girl from Normandy, who at thirteen fled her brute of a father to go to Paris. Almost overnight she became one of the most admired courtesans of the 1840s--the inspiration...
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Through the Keyhole: Sex, Scandal and the Secret Life of the Country HouseScandal existed long before celebrity gossip columns, often hidden behind the closed doors of the Georgian aristocracy. But secrets were impossible to keep in a household of servants who listened at walls and spied through keyholes. The early mass media pounced on these juicy...
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Revolution Song: The Story of America's Founding in Six Remarkable LivesAt a time when America's founding principles are being debated as never before, Russell Shorto looks back to the era in which those principles were forged. In Revolution Song, Shorto weaves the lives of six people into a seamless narrative that casts fresh light...
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