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The Hamlet Fire: A Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government, and Cheap LivesCaptivating and brilliantly conceived. . . [The Hamlet Fire] will provide readers with insights into our current national politics.--The Washington Post A gifted writer (Chicago Tribune) uses a long forgotten factory fire in small-town North Carolina to show how cut-rate food and labor have...
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More Ghost Towns of TexasThere is something romantic yet harshly concrete about an abandoned town. Dreams, conflicts, and losses still haunt what remains, so it's no wonder we call these locales "ghost towns." A companion volume to his Ghost Towns of Texas, T. Lindsay Baker's More Ghost Towns...
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The Long DeathThis compelling narrative explains how Native Americans found themselves time and again betrayed by the ever-expanding white nation of the East, fighting for lands on the edge of the shrinking frontier. Long considered a classic, this edition features an introduction by Dee Brown, author...
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Culture as History: The Transformation of American Society in the Twentieth CenturyWith amazing creativity, clarity, and wit, Warren Susman (1927-1985) takes us on a provocative tour of the highlights of American culture. By looking at all types of 20th-century culture--highbrow, lowbrow, and middlebrow--Susman shows how culture itself has become a battleground for competing visions of...
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Liberate Hawai'i!It has been said that history is written by the victors, but that is no criterion for its truth Liberate Hawai'i boldly challenges the prevailing narrative that the country of Hawai'i was "annexed" in 1898, converted to a "territory" until 1959, and then converted...
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Fascism: 100 Questions Asked and AnsweredAfter World War Two, 'fascist' became the F word of political debate to be applied liberally against anyone who left-wing polemicists disliked. But what did it really mean and what did its British supporters really stand for? In this pre-War book written in convenient...
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Sod and Stubble: The Unabridged and Annotated Edition"A few years ago, as I listened one night to my mother telling incidents of her life pioneering in the semi-arid region of Western Kansas, it occurred to me that the picture of that early time was worth drawing and preserving for the future,...
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Harriet Tubman, the Moses of Her PeopleAfter reaching Philadelphia, Tubman began thinking of her family. "I was a stranger in a strange land," she said later. "My father, my mother, my brothers, and sisters, and friends were in Maryland. But I was free, and they should be free." For 11...
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Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volumes 1 & 2Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, close friend to Napoleon Bonaparte, covers in his first two volumes of his Memoirs the life of the great general from his childhood to the French invasion of Egypt at the end of the 18th century.Author: Louis-Antoine Fauvelet De...
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The Fourth of June'Brilliantly clever . . . mercilessly funny.' - Kenneth Allsop, Daily Mail 'One of the most brilliantly written books since the war.' - Ian Fleming, Sunday Times ' A] clever and pitiless novel.' - Neil Ascherson, Observer ' An] extremely promising and funny first...
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No Middle Path: The Civil War in KerryThe violence and divisions caused by the Civil War in County Kerry in 1922-23 were more vicious, bitter, and protracted than anywhere else in Ireland. For generations, the fratricide, murder, and executions in Kerry have been synonymous with the worst excesses of the brutality...
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But Now I SeeFollowing the tumultuous course of American history in the mid-nineteenth century, here is the story of Nathan Butterfield-a preacher's son whose faith in God is all but destroyed as he experiences the loss of loved ones and friends and witnesses his country being torn...
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Fortress America: How We Embraced Fear and Abandoned DemocracyAn award-winning historian argues that America's obsession with security imperils our democracy in this "compelling" portrait of cultural anxiety (Mary L. Dudziak, author of War Time). For the last sixty years, fear has seeped into every area of American life: Americans own more guns...
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The True Story of the Hatfield and McCoy FeudThe True Story of the Hatfield and McCoy Feud is an unbiased look behind the battle lines into the causes and effects of the most notorious feud in American history. Comprised of first hand accounts, L.D. Hatfield gives a concise, factual compilation of the...
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The Haymarket Trial: Selected Testimony from the Trial of the Chicago AnarchistsFrom the trial record. The testimony of selected prosecution and defense witnesses, defendant statements to the court, the appeal decision, and the governor's pardon.Author: Albert Parsons, August Vincent Theodore SpiesPublisher: Red and Black PublishersPublished: 01/27/2011Pages: 404Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.19lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.83dISBN:...
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The Professor and the President: Daniel Patrick Moynihan in the Nixon White HouseWhat happens when a conservative president makes a liberal professor from the Ivy League his top urban affairs adviser? The president is Richard Nixon, the professor is Harvard's Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Of all the odd couples in American public life, they are probably the...
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Informing the Inklings: George MacDonald and the Victorian Roots of Modern FantasyMagdalen College, where C.S. Lewis taught in Oxford, was an appropriate site for the "Informing the Inklings" conference hosted by the George MacDonald Society. Participants explored how MacDonald and fellow literary figures such as S.T. Coleridge, Lewis Carroll, Charles Kingsley, and Andrew Lang paved...
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Room at the Top"Remember the name John Braine. You'll be hearing quite a lot about him. Room at the Top is his first novel and it is a remarkable one . . . it's a long time since we heard the hunger of youth really snarling and...
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Billy Liar'Buy, borrow or beg Keith Waterhouse's outstanding new novel. I can't recommend it too highly. Waterhouse has an uncanny gift for recapturing every attitude, agony and phrase of childhood and youth.' - Daily Mirror 'I wished I'd written Keith Waterhouse's first novel; and now,...
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Feliciano and Lady Bird: A Texas TaleThe moving tale of a Tejano and his relationship with the former First Lady of the United States.Author: Vernon SchmidPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished: 05/22/2013Pages: 110Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 9.00h x 5.90w x 0.60dISBN: 9781489538819This title is not returnable
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