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Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles RyderSelected by Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the century and called "Evelyn Waugh's finest achievement" by the New York Times, Brideshead Revisited is a stunning exploration of desire, duty, and memory.The wellsprings of desire and the impediments to love...
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A Carpetbagger in Reverse: Arthur W. Mitchell, America's First Black Democratic CongressmanFrom Alabama to Congress--Arthur W. Mitchell's fight for justice rewrote the rules of Black political power.A Carpetbagger in Reverse offers a landmark reassessment of the life, career, and accomplishments of groundbreaking Congressman Arthur W. Mitchell, the first Black Democrat elected to Congress and the...
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The Last Mixtape: Physical Media and Nostalgic CyclesA reflection on the evolution of physical media into metaphor, through the history of music curation. Obsolescence makes the heart grow fonder, at least in the case of the mixtape. Not all technologies are so lucky. Some (say, wax cylinders) fade almost completely from...
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How the Irish Became WhiteThe Irish came to America in the eighteenth century, fleeing a homeland under foreign occupation and a caste system that regarded them as the lowest form of humanity. In the new country - a land of opportunity - they found a very different form...
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My Struggle: Mein Kamphf - Mein Kampt - Mein KampfMein Kampf ("My Struggle") is a political manifesto written by Adolf Hitler. It was his only complete book and became the bible of National Socialism in the German Third Reich. It was published in two volumes, which dated 1925 and 1927. By 1939 it...
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Hollywood on the TiberHollywood on the Tiber is a dazzling blend of the epic and intimate featuring a glittering cast of screen gods and goddesses. This vibrant chronicle recounts how Hank Kaufman and Gene Lerner became unsung movers and shakers of a unique and unrepeatable era: the...
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Society as I Have Found ItStep back in time to 19th-century New York high society with Ward McAllister's captivating account, "Society As I Have Found It." A prominent figure and self-proclaimed arbiter of taste, McAllister offers an unparalleled glimpse into the exclusive world of socialites and the intricate rules...
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Writing the Big Book: The Creation of A.A.The definitive history of writing and producing the"Big Book" of Alcoholics Anonymous, told through extensive access to the group's archives.Author: William H. SchabergPublisher: Central Recovery PressPublished: 05/18/2021Pages: 712Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 2.40lbsSize: 9.50h x 6.50w x 1.80dISBN: 9781949481556About the AuthorWilliam H. Schaberg is a scholar...
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The Young Lords: 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 socialist vision for a new...
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Menhaden: A Biologist's Thirty-Two Year Journey with the Fish and the FisheryA Narrative of the U.S. Menhaden Fisheries: IndustryHistory, Fishing Operations, Product Journey, Fisheries Management, and Government Research Insights from the Beaufort Laboratory offers a well-detailed exploration of the U.S. purse-seine fisheries for menhaden, a cornerstone of American commercial fisheries.Covering the decades since the 1980s,...
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The Man Who Invented Conservatism: The Unlikely Life of Frank S. Meyer"...a wise book about an important and overlooked American journalist and intellectual." -- The Wall Street Journal Frank Meyer devised the blueprint for American conservatism--fusionism--championed by Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, and so many to this day. Yet long before and far away, Communists in...
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Alias Agnes: The Notorious Tale of a Gilded Age SpyAuthor: Elizabeth A. DeWolfePublisher: University Press of KentuckyPublished: 04/29/2025Pages: 368Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.12lbsSize: 8.10h x 5.84w x 0.97dISBN: 9781985902244About the AuthorDeWolfe, Elizabeth A.: - Elizabeth A. DeWolfe, professor of history and cofounder of the women's and gender studies program at the University of New...
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The Breach: Iran-Contra and the Assault on American DemocracyA president defying Congress. Disrespect for the law. Attacks on the press. Evasion in the courts. The privatization of war. Quid pro quos with foreign nations. The mounting dangers to American democracy have long been with us. But all these perils first emerged together...
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Cold War Country: How Nashville's Music Row and the Pentagon Created the Sound of American PatriotismCountry music maintains a special, decades-long relationship to American military life, but these ties didn't just happen. This readable history reveals how country music's Nashville-based business leaders on Music Row created partnerships with the Pentagon to sell their audiences on military service while selling...
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The Pink Scar: How Nazi Persecution Shaped the Struggle for LGBTQ+ RightsThe Third Reich subjected some one hundred thousand individuals to a pernicious anti-homosexual campaign that included censorship, surveillance, medical experimentation, and death. Credible scholarship suggests that as many as fifteen thousand were interned in concentration camps, though the actual names and numbers of all...
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You Are Not a Kinesthetic Learner: The Troubled History of the Learning Style IdeaA compelling history of the learning style concept and how it was shaped by shifting ideas in psychology, anthropology, and education. The widely embraced notion that we all process information in one of three distinct modes--visual, auditory, or kinesthetic--has informed educational practices for decades....
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Whiskerology: The Culture of Hair in Nineteenth-Century AmericaA surprising history of human hair in nineteenth-century America, where length, texture, color, and coiffure became powerful indicators of race, gender, and national belonging. Hair is always and everywhere freighted with meaning. In nineteenth-century America, however, hair took on decisive new significance as the...
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The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multivolume history of the American nation. In the newest volume in the series, The Republic for Which It Stands, acclaimed historian Richard White offers a fresh and integrated interpretation of Reconstruction and the...
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Robert H. Jackson: A Life in JudgmentAuthor: G. Edward WhitePublisher: Oxford University PressPublished: 10/01/2025Pages: 408Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.50lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.40w x 1.50dISBN: 9780197778432About the AuthorG. Edward White is the David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law and the author of twenty books...
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The Titans of the Twentieth Century: How They Made History and the History They MadeAn engaging and original historical portrait of eight of the most influential political figures of the twentieth century: Woodrow Wilson, Lenin, Hitler, Churchill, FDR, Gandhi, David Ben-Gurion, and Mao. The Titans of the Twentieth Century addresses an age-old question: what is the impact of...
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