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Rebel in the Ranks: Martin Luther, the Reformation, and the Conflicts That Continue to Shape Our WorldWhen Martin Luther published his 95 Theses in October 1517, he had no intention of starting a revolution. But very quickly his criticism of indulgences became a rejection of the papacy and the Catholic Church emphasizing the Bible as the sole authority for Christian...
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The Rise & Fall of Ecw: Extreme Championship WrestlingIndependent wrestling promotions were once the norm all across the country. But as the nineties began, independents were looking for creative ways to survive. Several banded together to share cost and talent; they were known as Eastern Championship Wrestling. Based out of a warehouse...
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Death on the Cheap: The Lost B Movies of Film NoirRobert Mitchum once commented to Arthur Lyons about his movies of the 1940s and 1950s: Hell, we didn't know what film noir was in those days. We were just making movies. Cary Grant and all the big stars at RKO got all the lights....
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Nemesis: The True Story of Aristotle Onassis, Jackie O, and the Love Triangle That Brought Down the KennedysA longtime investigative journalist uncovers one of the great untold stories of twentieth-century international intrigue, and the secrets it has held until now. Shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis and Bobby Kennedy, two of the world′s richest and most powerful men, disliked one another from the...
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Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White HouseMark Felt's role in history was secured when he decided to share his views on the Watergate break-in with a young reporter on the Washington Post named Bob Woodward. He made sure that the greatest political scandal in the twentieth century, which would besmirch...
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Paris Journal, 1956-65This portrait of a city and an era is drawn from the the author's celebrated "Letter from Paris," a series that appeared in The New Yorker from 1925 to 1975 over the signature "Genêt." Edited by William Shawn; Index.Author: FlannerPublisher: Harper PerennialPublished: 07/28/1988Pages: 312Binding...
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The Most Dangerous Man in America: Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon, and the Hunt for the Fugitive King of LSDFrom Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis, authors of the PEN Center USA award-winning Dallas 1963, comes a madcap narrative about Timothy Leary's daring prison escape and run from the law. On the moonlit evening of September 12, 1970, an ex-Harvard professor with a...
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1963: The Year of the RevolutionBeginning in London and ricocheting across the Atlantic, 1963: The Year of the Revolution is an oral history of twelve months that changed our world--the Youth Quake movement--and laid the foundations for the generation of today.Ariel Leve and Robin Morgan's oral history is the...
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Ida Mae: And Her Passage to ChautauquaMeet Ida Mae. You'll learn to love her as she evolves from a spirited thirteen-year-old into a woman, first journeying from Mammoth Falls, West Virginia, to Pitt University on a music scholarship, and from there to Vietnam as a member of the Women's Army...
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Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler ProjectDuring World War II, Irena Sendler, a Polish Catholic social worker, organized a rescue network of fellow social workers to save 2,500 Jewish children from certain death in the Warsaw ghetto. Incredibly, after the war her heroism, like that of many others, was suppressed...
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Bonga: A Safe Abode in the Wilderness"This historical work is a must read for those interested in Minnesota and the nation's history!"- Leo Soukup, co-author of Ojibwe Imprints on Northern MinnesotaBonga: A Safe Abode in the Wilderness is the incredible story of how an African slave and family made their...
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Back Off I'm a DaltonTragically abused as a young child, by an unstable mother, Frank 'Dalton' Holliday struggled with his fate in the post Sharecropper era in rural South Carolina. Frank eventually managed to escape his mother's grasp and leave Pickens County for dreams of riding the Dalton...
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When They Come for Us, We'll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet JewryThe untold story of the twenty-five-year struggle to free Soviet Jews, drawing on newly released Soviet government documents as well as hundreds of oral interviews, and told from the perspective of the individuals on the frontlines.Author: Gal BeckermanPublisher: Mariner BooksPublished: 09/13/2011Pages: 624Binding Type: PaperbackWeight:...
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The Silent and the Damned: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo FrankThe 1913 murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan would have far-reaching consequences for Georgia and the nation; in the years that followed a Jewish man named Leo Frank was convicted on dubious evidence, a governor's career toppled while an anti-Semite became Georgia's senator, and the...
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Arizona Rattlesnake TalesArizona Rattlesnake Tales takes the reader back to a time when antivenom was nonexistent to experience the unimaginable hardships cowboys and pioneers faced while living among the dreaded rattler. The book includes newspaper clippings from 1866 to 1923, which provide a factual foundation to...
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The Typewriter Is HolyAnyone who cares to understand the cultural ferment of America in the later twentieth century must know of the writings and lives of those scruffy bohemians known as the Beats. In this highly entertaining work, Bill Morgan, the country's leading authority on the movement...
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Hen Frigates: Passion and Peril, Nineteenth-Century Women at SeaA hen frigate, traditionally, was any ship with the captain's wife on board. Hen frigates were miniature worlds -- wildly colorful, romantic, and dangerous. Here are the dramatic, true stories of what the remarkable women on board these vessels encountered on their often amazing...
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Out of Control: Global Turmoil on the Eve of the 21st CenturyIf America is to reassert its moral legitimacy, Brzezinski argues, it must address its basic dilemmas, including deepening poverty, inadequate health care and education, a greedy wealthy class opposed to progressive taxation, and the mass media's promotion of sex and violence. In the new...
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Edge of Armageddon: Florida and the Cuban Missile CrisisFor Floridians, who were on the frontline of the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962, tranquility in the face of the possible extermination of much of the world's population was difficult to maintain. Endless convoys of troops and equipment, often tying up public transportation...
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New England Must Not Be Trampled On: The Tragic Death of Jonathan CilleyOn February 24, 1838, Maine Congressman Jonathan Cilley was killed in Maryland by another Congressman from Kentucky in one of the last duels to take place in the United States. At the time, dueling was not illegal, but still Cilley's death was a shock...
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