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Fire in a Canebrake: The Last Mass Lynching in AmericaIn the tradition of Melissa Faye Greene and her award-winning Praying for Sheetrock, extraordinarily talented debut author Laura Wexler tells the story of the Moore's Ford Lynching in Walton County, Georgia in 1946--the last mass lynching in America, fully explored here for the first...
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The War You've Always Wanted"There's a tricky twist in Mike's new book The War You've Always Wanted, and that hits home with me." -Capt. Dale Dye, Combat Correspondent, USMC (Ret.) Author, Actor, and Filmmaker"...takes you deep into the frustration and horror of the Vietnam War through the eyes...
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Gold Diggers: Striking It Rich in the KlondikeBetween 1896 and 1899, thousands of people lured by gold braved a grueling journey into the remote wilderness of North America. Within two years, Dawson City, in the Canadian Yukon, grew from a mining camp of four hundred to a raucous town of more...
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The Assistant President: South Carolina's James F. ByrnesFew people outside of South Carolina are familiar with the name of, much less the role, James F. Byrnes played in shaping 20th century America. He is the only man in the history of the United States to occupy positions in all three federal...
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King of Heists: The Sensational Bank Robbery of 1878 That Shocked AmericaANOTHER TRUE CRIME STORY FROM J. NORTH CONWAY-NOW IN PAPERBACK!The riveting story of one of America's most notorious crimes and the mysterious man behind it "Engrossing. . . . Conway skillfully paints a backdrop of fierce and flamboyant personalities who paraded across the Gilded...
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Live at the Fillmore East and West: Getting Backstage and Personal with Rock's Greatest LegendsIn 1968, rock promoter Bill Graham launched the Fillmore East in New York City and the Fillmore West in San Francisco, changing music forever. For three years, every major rock band played the Fillmores, performing legendary shows: Jimi Hendrix, the Grateful Dead, Santana, Jefferson...
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Beautiful Bodies: The Adventures of Malvina HoffmanThis is not a story about art. Although Malvina Hoffman was known as America's Rodin, her story is one of adventure, intrigue, and life among the greatest artists and powerbrokers during the early to mid-twentieth century. Every action Malvina undertook broke glass ceilings. She...
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Focus on the Facts: The JFK Assassination ConspiracyAuthor Cellura provides new insight into the events surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. He firmly establishes that suspect Lee Harvey Oswald was not the "lone nut" sniper who gunned the President down from a sixth-floor window of a warehouse that bounded...
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Defending Mexican Valor in Texas: Jose Antonio Navarro's Historical Writings, 1853--1857Jos Antonio Navarro (1795-1871) played a central role in Texas history. A close associate of and facilitator for Stephen F. Austin, he was a signatory of Texas Declaration of Independence from Mexico, an important figure in the drafting of the Texas Constitution, and a...
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Inga: Kennedy's Great Love, Hitler's Perfect Beauty, and J. Edgar Hoover's Prime SuspectInga Arvad was the great love of President John F. Kennedy's life, and also Adolf Hitler's special guest at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. She was an actress, a foreign correspondent, a popular Washington columnist, an explorer who lived among a tribe of headhunters, one...
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Wildest Lives of the Wild West: America through the Words of Wild Bill Hickok, Billy the Kid, and Other Famous WesternersBy and about the greatest celebrities of the Wild West, these are the stories of their adventures told in their own words through excerpts from autobiographies, articles they wrote, newspaper interviews, private journals, personal letters, and court testimony. These glimpses into the worlds of...
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Prairie Man: The Struggle between Sitting Bull and Indian Agent James McLaughlinOne week after the infamous June 1876 Battle of the Little Big Horn, when news of the defeat of General George Armstrong Custer and his 7th Cavalry troops reached the American public, Sitting Bull became the most wanted hostile Indian in America. He had...
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Gold: Firsthand Accounts From The Rush That Made The West, First EditionThe Gold Rush era was an amazing time in our country's history. California had just been occupied during the Mexican-American War and wasn't officially a U.S. territory yet when gold was discovered in 1848. Suddenly the whole world was electrified by the news and...
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My Remembers: A Black Sharecropper's Recollections of the DepressionIn 1929, near Plano, Texas, Eddie Stimpson Jr., weighing 15-1/2 pounds, was born to a 19-year-old father and a 15-year-old mother. The boy, his two sisters and mother all "grew up together," with the father sharecropping along the old Preston Road, the route used...
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Social Change in America: From the Revolution Through the Civil WarThe processes of social change in the late colonial period and early years of the new Republic made a dramatic imprint on the character of American society. These changes over a century or more were rooted in the origins of the United States, its...
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The New Deal: The Depression Years, 1933-40Anthony Badger's notably successful history is not simply another narrative of the New Deal, nor does the figure of Franklin Roosevelt loom as large in his account as in some others. What Mr. Badger does so well is to consider important aspects of New...
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Volunteers in the Texas Revolution: The New Orleans GreysA large number of volunteers came to Texas in the 1830s: some for the promise of free land; a few for the cause of constitutional freedoms; many came for the adventure and a good fight. Such a group came to Texas in 1835. As...
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Aces and Eights: Poker in the Old WestOur images of the big names and places of the Old West often come from the tales of gunfights and violence that were sensationalized by dime novels and yellow journalism in the 19th century, and the myths that came from those stories live on...
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On the Santa Fe TrailThe Santa Fe Trail's role as the major western trade route in the early to mid-nineteenth century made it a critical part of America's Westward expansion and the stories of its heyday include some of the greatest adventures in the history of the Old...
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Marty's Musings: Tales of the Great Depression, World War II, the Korean War, and New JerseyMarty's Musings Tales of the Great Depression, World War II, the Korean War, and New Jersey From the foreword by: James J. Florio, 49th Governor of New Jersey & Lieutenant Commander USNR (Retired) "Marty is a deep and thoughtful observer of the human condition...someone...
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