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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant FamiliesPulitzer Prize-winning author James Agee and renowned photgrapher Walker Evans's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is a landmark work of American photojournalism "renowned for its fusion of social conscience and artistic radicality" (The New York Times)In the summer of 1936, James Agee and...
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Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream: The Most Revealing Portrait of a President and Presidential Power Ever WrittenAn engrossing biography of President Lyndon Johnson from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Team of Rivals Hailed by the New York Times as "the most penetrating, fascinating political biography I have ever read," Doris Kearns Goodwin's extraordinary and insightful book draws from meticulous research...
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Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen BombHere, for the first time, in a brilliant, panoramic portrait by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, is the definitive, often shocking story of the politics and the science behind the development of the hydrogen bomb and the birth...
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The Power of Our Supreme Court: How the Supreme Court Cases Shape DemocracyMr. Beat Connects the Supreme Court History Right to You!Mr. Beat's The Power of Our Supreme Court is the Supreme Court book of decisions that affect the everyday lives of Americans everywhere. The real democracy of America unveiled. What does the supreme court do?...
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Hidden History: An Exposé of Modern Crimes, Conspiracies, and Cover-Ups in American PoliticsThe US government has spent as much time covering up conspiracies as it has helping the American people. In Hidden History, you will see the amount of effort that our government has dedicated over the past fifty years to lying and covering up the...
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Alexander Graham Bell: The Reluctant Genius and His Passion for InventionAn essential portrait of an American giant whose innovations revolutionized the modern world. The popular image of Alexander Graham Bell is that of an elderly American patriarch, memorable only for his paunch, his Santa Claus beard, and the invention of the telephone. In this...
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On Dark and Bloody Ground: An Oral History of the West Virginia Mine WarsAn oral history of the West Virginia Mine Wars published to coincide with the centennial of the Battle of Blair Mountain. In 1972 Anne Lawrence came to West Virginia at the invitation of the Miners for Democracy movement to conduct interviews with participants in,...
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The Manhattan Project: The Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of Its Creators, Eyewitnesses, and HistoriansOn the seventy-fifth anniversary of the first atomic bomb, discover new reflections on the Manhattan Project from President Barack Obama, hibakusha (survivors), and the modern-day mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.The creation of the atomic bomb during World War II, codenamed the Manhattan Project, was...
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King's Counsellor: Abdication and War: The Diaries of Sir Alan Lascelles Edited by Duff Hart-Davis'Brilliantly entertaining and historically priceless' Spectator 'Fascinating ... as much a contribution to royal legend as to the history of the war' Daily Telegraph As Assistant Private Secretary to four monarchs, 'Tommy' Lascelles had a ringside seat from which to observe the workings of...
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The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of ReconstructionAbsorbing . . . Riveting . . . A legal thriller.--Kevin Boyle, The New York Times Book Review Following the Civil War, Colfax, Louisiana, was a town like many where African Americans and whites mingled uneasily. But on April 13, 1873, a small army...
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1848: Year of RevolutionA lively, panoramic history of a revolutionary year (New York Times) In 1848, a violent storm of revolutions ripped through Europe. The torrent all but swept away the conservative order that had kept peace on the continent since Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo in 1815...
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American Nightmare: The History of Jim CrowFor a hundred years after the end of the Civil War, a quarter of all Americans lived under a system of legalized segregation called Jim Crow. Together with its rigidly enforced canon of racial etiquette, these rules governed nearly every aspect of life--and outlined...
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Enid Blyton: A Literary LifeThis book is a study of the best-selling writer for children Enid Blyton (1897-1968) and provides a new account of her career. It draws on Blyton's business correspondence to give a fresh account of a misunderstood figure who for forty years was one of...
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The Ambassadors: Thinking about Diplomacy from Machiavelli to Modern TimesHistory does not run in straight lines. Instead of inevitable progress, what we get is more often false starts, blind alleys, random events, good intentions that go wrong. Robert Cooper's incisive and elegant book is therefore not a continuous diplomatic history. Richelieu and Mazarin...
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Jesse James: A Captivating Guide to a Wild West Outlaw Who Robbed Trains, Banks, and Stagecoaches across the Midwestern United StatIf you want to discover the captivating life of Jesse James, then keep reading...In the minds of many Americans, the name of Jesse James and the Wild West are practically synonymous. The bank robberies, with bullets flying from one side to the other of...
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Trumpography: How Biblical Principles Paved the Way to the American PresidencyBehind-the-scenes stories merged to history as seen through the lens and eyes of campaign photographer, Gene Ho: the principles that powered Donald Trump to become the president of the United States of America. "He who has ears, let him hear" (Matt. 13:9).Author: Gene HoPublisher:...
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Standing Next to History: An Agent's Life Inside the Secret ServiceStanding Next to History presents the extraordinary account of Ronald Reagan's Secret Service bodyguard with stories that will make even a diehard West Wing fan go speechless.Joseph Petro served for 23 years as a special agent in the United States Secret Service; eleven of...
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Over the Earth I Come: The Great Sioux Uprising of 1862December 26, 1862. On the day after Christmas, in Mankato, Minnesota, thirty-eight Indians were hanged on the order of President Lincoln. This event stands today as the greatest mass execution in the history of the United States. In Over The Earth I Come, Duane...
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15 Minutes: General Curtis Lemay and the Countdown to Nuclear AnnihilationPacked with startling revelations, this inside look at the secret side of the Cold War exposes just how close America came to total annihilation During the Cold War, a flight crew had 15 minutes to get their nuke-laden plane in the air from the...
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Brotherly Love: A Mickey Mathews MysteryThe mystery started in the spring of 1946 with a letter. Someone "drops a dime" on bootleggers, and one of the smugglers is Frank's brother, Jack. But that's the least of Mickey Mathews' worries. Jack's wife has been murdered, and soon after, Jack disappears....
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