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I May Not Get There with You: The True Martin Luther King JrMichael Eric Dyson--a cutting edge African American intellectual a la Henry Louis Gates and Cornel West--reignites the legacy of Martin Luther King in this relevant, revolutionary, and human look at the American icon's true ideology. A private citizen who transformed the world around him,...
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The Holocaust in American LifePrize-winning historian Peter Novick illuminates the reasons Americans ignored the Holocaust for so long -- how dwelling on German crimes interfered with Cold War mobilization; how American Jews, not wanting to be thought of as victims, avoided the subject. He explores in absorbing detail...
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Ethiopia on the Verge of Modernity: The Transfer of Power During Zewditu's Reign 1916-1930The following book focuses on the Empress Zewditu, who reigned over Ethiopia when the later Hayle Sillase I still held the status of Heir to the Throne and performed a supporting role to the Empress in ruling over the country. As a person, Zewditu,...
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American Emperor: Aaron Burr's Challenge to Jefferson's AmericaIn this vivid and brilliant biography, David Stewart describes Aaron Burr, the third vice president, as a daring and perhaps deluded figure who shook the nation's foundations in its earliest, most vulnerable decade. In this vivid and brilliant biography, David O. Stewart portrays Aaron...
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Evitchka: A True Story of Survival, Hope and LoveBefore World War II, there were two hundred Jewish children in the small town of Humenné, Czechoslovakia. After the war, there were six. Evitchka was one of them. Her survival is a testament to the luck, determination, and resilience of her parents and the...
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Ching Ling Foo: America's First Chinese SuperstarChing Ling Foo: America's First Chinese Superstar tells the incredible story of the iconic Chinese magician Ching Ling Foo's obstacle laden rise to unprecedented fame and private railway car riding fortune as a bustling, polyglot, entertainment mad, ever richer, disruptive technology embracing America burst...
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Making War, Thinking History: Munich, Vietnam, and Presidential Uses of Force from Korea to KosovoIn examining the influence of historical analogies on decisions to use--or not use--force, military strategist Jeffrey Record assesses every major application of U.S. force from the Korean War to the NATO war on Serbia. Specifically, he looks at the influence of two analogies: the...
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Vindicating the Founders: Race, Sex, Class, and Justice in the Origins of AmericaThis controversial, convincing, and highly original book is important reading for everyone concerned about the origins, present, and future of the American experiment in self-government.Author: Thomas G. WestPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublished: 11/28/2000Pages: 240Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 9.08h x 6.01w x 0.60dISBN: 9780847685172
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Jefferys's Itinerary; Or Travellers Companion, Through England, Wales, and Part of Scotland, Containing All the Direct and Principal Cross Roads; ...The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions...
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Strike Up the Band: New York City in the Roaring TwentiesA spirited chronicle of New York's economic and cultural boom during the outstanding decade of the Roaring Twenties. This is the story of the zest for life that gripped New York in the postwar years of the 1920s. The decade ushered in an era...
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Radicals and Rogues: The Women Who Made New York ModernFrom artists to activists, an explosive and eye-opening new history of the women who gave us New York. This is the story of a group of women whose experiments in art and life set the tone for the rise of New York as the...
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Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our TimesThe Cold War roots of liberalism's present crisis By the middle of the twentieth century, many liberals looked glumly at the world modernity had brought about, with its devastating wars, rising totalitarianism, and permanent nuclear terror. They concluded that, far from offering a solution...
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Fairey 1915-60One of the many ingredients required for creating a great aircraft company is the ability to diversify, and this was just one of the strengths that would keep the Fairey Aviation Company in business for more than four decades. Like so many other aircraft...
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White Market Drugs: Big Pharma and the Hidden History of Addiction in AmericaThe contemporary opioid crisis is widely seen as new and unprecedented. Not so. It is merely the latest in a long series of drug crises stretching back over a century. In White Market Drugs, David Herzberg explores these crises and the drugs that fueled...
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The Metaphysical Club Lib/E: A Story of Ideas in AmericaThe Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., future associate justice of the United States Supreme Court; William James, the father of modern American psychology; and Charles...
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Heaven on Earth Lib/E: The Rise, Fall, and Afterlife of SocialismSocialism was man's most ambitious attempt to supplant religion with a doctrine claiming to ground itself in science. Each failure to create societies of abundance or give birth to the New Man inspired more searching for the path to the promised land: revolution, communes,...
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Mr. Wilson's War Lib/E: From the Assassination of McKinley to the Defeat of the League of NationsBeginning with the assassination of McKinley and ending with the defeat of the League of Nations by the United States Senate, the twenty-year period covered by John Dos Passos in this lucid and fascinating narrative changed the whole destiny of America. This is the...
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The Young Lords Lib/E: A Radical HistoryAgainst the backdrop of America's escalating urban rebellions in the 1960s, an unexpected cohort of New York radicals unleashed a series of urban guerrilla actions against the city's racist policies and contempt for the poor. Their dramatic flair, uncompromising vision, and skillful ability to...
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Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 19681968. The Vietnam War was raging. President Lyndon Johnson, facing a challenge in his own Democratic Party from the maverick antiwar candidate Eugene McCarthy, announced that he would not seek a second term. In April, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated and riots broke...
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The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old ManOne of our nation's most prominent writers finds the truth about how to live a long and happy life in the centenarian next door.When a veteran Washington journalist moved to Kansas, he met a new neighbor who was more than a century old. Little...
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