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The Heart of California: Exploring the San Joaquin Valley2022 Oregon Book Award Finalist A vivid journey through California's vast rural interior, The Heart of California weaves the story of historian Frank Latta's forgotten 1938 boat trip from Bakersfield to San Francisco with Aaron Gilbreath's trip retracing Latta's route by car during the...
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Cut Open the Sky: The Story of Connie Castro JacksonConnie Castro Jackson was born in the San Joaquin Valley labor camps of California during the Great Depression to her white mother who had fled Oklahoma's Dust Bowl and a Filipino man who worked beside her in the camps.From a very early age, Ms....
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The Kissing Sailor: The Mystery Behind the Photo That Ended World War IIOn August 14, 1945, Alfred Eisenstaedt took a picture of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square, minutes after they heard of Japan's surrender to the United States. Two weeks later LIFE magazine published that image. It became one of the most famous...
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Goodbye Wifes and DaughtersOne morning in 1943, close to eighty men descended into the Smith coal mine in Bearcreek, Montana. Only three came out alive. "Goodbye wifes and daughters," wrote two of the miners as they died. The story of that tragic day and its aftermath unfolds...
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When Paris Sizzled: The 1920s Paris of Hemingway, Chanel, Cocteau, Cole Porter, Josephine Baker, and Their FriendsWhen Paris Sizzled vividly portrays the City of Light during the fabulous 1920s, les Années folles, when Parisians emerged from the horrors of war to find that a new world greeted them-one that reverberated with the hard metallic clang of the assembly line, the...
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Fenway 1946: Red Sox, Peace, and a Year of HopeBoston writer Michael Connelly captures the magic of America's return to normalcy after World War II in this intimate portrait of a city and the baseball team it loves. Fenway 1946 celebrates the city, the team, and the spirit of that wonderful 1946 season...
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LBJ and the Conspiracy to Kill Kennedy: A Coalescence of InterestsBest-selling, Oxford-educated investigative author Joseph P. Farrell takes on the Kennedy assassination and the involvement of Lyndon Baines Johnson and the Texas machine that he controlled. Farrell says that a coalescence of interests in the military industrial complex, the CIA, and Lyndon Baines Johnson's...
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The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism Before Its TriumphIn this volume, Albert Hirschman reconstructs the intellectual climate of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to illuminate the intricate ideological transformation that occurred, wherein the pursuit of material interests--so long condemned as the deadly sin of avarice--was assigned the role of containing the unruly...
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Battle Maps of the Civil War: The Western TheaterFrom the American Battlefield Trust, the collection of their popular battle maps of the Western Theater of the American Civil War. "I just love those maps that you guys send to me." It is a phrase that the staff of the American Battlefield Trust...
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We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil RightsIn a revelatory work praised as "excellent and timely" (New York Times Book Review, front page), Adam Winkler, author of Gunfight, once again makes sense of our fraught constitutional history in this incisive portrait of how American businesses seized political power, won "equal rights,"...
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Midnight Assassin: A Murder in America's HeartlandOn the night of December 1,1900, Iowa farmer John Hossack was attacked and killed while he slept at home beside his wife, Margaret. On April 11, 1901, after five days of testimony before an all-male jury, Margaret Hossack was found guilty of his murder...
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Old Jules (Third Edition)First published in 1935, Old Jules is unquestionably Mari Sandoz's masterpiece. This portrait of her pioneer father grew out of "the silent hours of listening behind the stove or the wood box, when it was assumed, of course, that I was asleep in bed....
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Tambora: The Eruption That Changed the WorldA global history of the climate catastrophe caused by the Tambora eruption When Indonesia's Mount Tambora erupted in 1815, it unleashed the most destructive wave of extreme weather the world has witnessed in thousands of years. The volcano's massive sulfate dust cloud enveloped the...
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Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear WeaponsSince their inception, nuclear weapons have multiplied at an alarming rate, leaving everyone from policymakers to concerned citizens wondering what it will take to slow, stop, or even reverse their spread. With clarity and expertise, Joseph Cirincione presents an even-handed look at the history...
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The Foreman's Boys: The Story of Civilian Conservation Corps, Company 1333, Camp S-63, Poe ValleyEmployment prospects for many were bleak at the height of the Great Depression. For unmarried recent high school graduates, the prospect of getting a job was mostly non-existent. President Rosevelt's New Deal plan included the Civilian Conservation Corps, a program specifically targeted to provide...
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Football in the Land of the SovietsA popular history of the emergence of football in early 20th century Russia. Mistrusted and derided, instrumentalized and adored - the story of football in Tsarist and early Soviet Russia is as wild and intriguing as that of the country itself. In many ways,...
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Voices from the Trail of TearsDuring the first half of the 19th century, as many as 100,000 Native Americans were relocated west of the Mississippi River from their homelands in the East. The best known of these forced emigrations was the Cherokee Removal of 1838. Christened Nu-No-Du-Na-Tlo-Hi-Lu--literally "the Trail...
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The Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern PaganismIn the twentieth century, however, the Enlightenment has often been judged harshly for its apparently simplistic optimism. Now a master historian goes back to the sources to give a fully rounded account of its true accomplishments.Author: Peter GayPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublished: 07/17/1995Pages:...
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From Eve to Dawn, a History of Women in the World, Volume III: Infernos and Paradises, the Triumph of Capitalism in the 19th CenturyFrom the New York Times-bestselling author: "A rare find: a page-turning, can't-put-it-down history text." --Library Journal Writing about what she calls the "most cheering period in female history," Marilyn French recounts how nineteenth-century women living under imperialism, industrialization, and capitalism nonetheless organized for their...
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China 1949: Year of RevolutionExcellent. The Economist A gripping account. South China Morning PostWell worth reading. The Morning StarA persuasive and readable narrative. History TodayElegantly written. The Tablet An excellent study. The Chartist Engaging. Asia Times The events of 1949 in China reverberated across the world and throughout...
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