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The Uncommon Wisdom of Ronald Reagan: A Portrait in His Own WordsGathers quotations by President Reagan about his childhood, education, political career, opinions on public issues, and perspectives on coping with illness and retirement.Author: Bill Adler Jr., Ronald ReaganPublisher: Little Brown and CompanyPublished: 07/01/1996Pages: 176Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 9.32h x 6.12w x 0.66dISBN: 9780316056007Audience: Young...
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The Tragedy and the Triumph of Phenix City AlabamaIn the first chronological and gripping narrative of the events that crippled Phenix City, Alabama, Margaret Anne Barnes tells the true story of how economic hard times in the Depression led a mayor to barter immunity from prosecution to gamblers and gangsters in exchange...
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Climax: The History of Colorado's Climax Molybdenum Mine--Mountain Press Pub Co.High atop the Continental Divide, the Climax Mine opened during World War I to meet military needs for molybdenum and became the most successful American company of the Great Depression. Voynick's deft portrayal of Climax and its people, with over 100 rare photographs, make...
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The Wyoming Ranch Letters: The Collected Correspondence of a Woman Settler on the American Frontier-Letters of a Woman Homesteader & Letters on aAn authentic voice from the western frontier Elinore Pruitt Stewart is renowned for her books 'Letters of a Woman Homesteader' and its sequel 'Letters on an Elk Hunt, ' both of which are included in this Leonaur good value, two-in-one edition. Born in 1876...
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1963: A Turning Point in Civil RightsThe year 1963 was a monumental year and a turning point in civil rights history. What transpired in 1963, which was described as "the long, hot summer," has left an enduring impact that still resonates and is noted in his riveting historical saga, "1963...
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The Forgotten Heroes of Liberty: Chaplains and Clergy of the American RevolutionThis volume, written by the highly acclaimed 19th century historian Joel Tyler Headley, explores the vital, but often neglected, role of ministers of the Gospel to the cause of liberty in the founding of this great nation. Headley (1813-1897) gives dozens and dozens of...
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Custerology: The Enduring Legacy of the Indian Wars and George Armstrong CusterOn a hot summer day in 1876, George Armstrong Custer led the Seventh Cavalry to the most famous defeat in U.S. military history. Outnumbered and exhausted, the Seventh Cavalry lost more than half of its 400 men, and every soldier under Custer's direct command...
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The Sweet Hell Inside: The Rise of an Elite Black Family in the Segregated SouthFrom National Book Award winner Edward Ball comes The Sweet Hell Inside, the story of the fascinating Harleston family of South Carolina, the progeny of a Southern gentleman and his slave, who cast off their blemished roots and prospered despite racial barriers. Enhanced by...
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The Eighties: A ReaderThe America of the 1980s is often caricatured as a time of yuppie greed and self-absorption. But what was driving that decades rampant pursuit of individual pleasure? What were the cultural forces behind Madonna's "Material Girl" and Oliver Stone's Wall Street? These fascinating essays,...
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Goodnight from LondonFrom USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Robson--author of Moonlight Over Paris and Somewhere in France--comes a lush historical novel that tells the fascinating story of Ruby Sutton, an ambitious American journalist who moves to London in 1940 to report on the Second World War,...
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In the Shadow of the Oval Office: Profiles of the National Security Advisers and the Presidents They Served--From JFK to George W. BushThe most solemn obligation of any president is to safeguard the nation's security. But the president cannot do this alone. He needs help. In the past half century, presidents have relied on their national security advisers to provide that help. Who are these people,...
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Lead Time: A Journalist's EducationThe essential Garry Wills, Lead Time offers a provocative view of a pivotal era in America from one of our most esteemed historians. In this collection of essays, written between 1968 and 1982, Wills explores American culture, politics, and mores, and demonstrates his astute...
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Hell in a Very Small Place: The Siege of Dien Bien PhuFrom the acclaimed scholar and reporter, a thorough and revealing account of the historic turning point in Vietnam's long struggle--the 1954 battle for Dien Bien PhuLike Gettysburg, Stalingrad, Midway, and Tet, the battle at Dien Bien Phu--a strategic attack launched by France against the...
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1920: The Year of the Six PresidentsThe presidential election of 1920 was among history's most dramatic. Six once-and-future presidents-Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, and Teddy and Franklin Roosevelt-jockeyed for the White House. With voters choosing between Wilson's League of Nations and Harding's front-porch isolationism, the 1920 election shaped modern America. Women...
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The Age of Jackson"The outgrowth of a series of lectures entitled 'A reinterpretation of Jacksonian democracy' delivered at the Lowell Institute in Boston in the fall of 1941."--Acknowledgements.Author: Arthur M. SchlesingerPublisher: Back Bay BooksPublished: 11/28/1988Pages: 577Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.67lbsSize: 8.58h x 5.86w x 1.47dISBN: 9780316773430
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Halfbreed: The Remarkable True Story of George Bent--Caught Between the Worlds of the Indian and the White ManThis is the story of the amazing and uncommon life of George Bent-a "halfbreed" born to a prominent white trader and his Indian wife-whose lifetime spanned one of the most exciting epochs in our nation's history. Raised as a Cheyenne but educated in white...
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Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates That Defined AmericaFrom the two-time winner of the prestigious Lincoln Prize, a stirring and surprising account of the debates that made Lincoln a national figure and defined the slavery issue that would bring the country to war. In 1858, Abraham Lincoln was known as a successful...
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The Communist"I admire Russia for wiping out an economic system which permitted a handful of rich to exploit and beat gold from the millions of plain people... As one who believes in freedom and democracy for all, I honor the Red nation." --FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS,...
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The Georgetown Ladies' Social Club: Power, Passion, and Politics in the Nation's CapitalIn this definitive portrait of the political and social life of Georgetown, bestselling biographer C. David Heymann chronicles the dinner parties, correspondence, overlappings, and underpinnings of some of the most influential women in Washington's history. The Georgetown Ladies' Social Club -- a term coined...
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The Vertigo Years: Europe, 1900-1914Europe, 1900-1914: a world adrift, a pulsating era of creativity and contradictions. The major topics of the day: terrorism, globalization, immigration, consumerism, the collapse of moral values, and the rivalry of superpowers. The twentieth century was not born in the trenches of the Somme...
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