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Training Ground: Grant, Lee, Sherman, and Davis in the Mexican War, 1846-1848For four years during the Civil War, Generals Grant and Lee clashed as bitter enemies in a war that bloodied and scorched the American landscape. Yet in an earlier time, they had worn the same uniform and fought together. In The Training Ground, acclaimed...
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Deadly Dozen: Forgotten Gunfighters of the Old West, Vol. 3For every Wild Bill Hickok or Billy the Kid, there was another western gunfighter just as deadly but not as well known. Robert K. DeArment has earned a reputation as the premier researcher of unknown gunfighters, and here he offers twelve more portraits of...
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Theodore Roosevelt: Naturalist in the ArenaTheodore Roosevelt's scientific curiosity and love of the outdoors proved a defining force throughout his hectic life as a rancher and explorer, police commissioner and governor of New York, vice president and president of the United States. Conservation and natural history were parts of...
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David Ferrie: Mafia Pilot, Participant in Anti-Castro Bioweapon Plot, Friend of Lee Harvey Oswald and Key to the JFK AssassinationOf the all the people surrounding the assassination of President Kennedy, few are more mysterious and enigmatic than David William Ferrie of New Orleans. Author Judyth Vary Baker knew David Ferrie personally and worked with him in a covert project in New Orleans during...
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Calamity Jane: The Woman and the LegendForget Doris Day singing on the stagecoach. Forget Robin Weigert's gritty portrayal on HBO's Deadwood. The real Calamity Jane was someone the likes of whom you've never encountered. That is, until now.This book is a definitive biography of Martha Canary, the woman popularly known...
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Thus Fell Tecumseh"Rumpsey-dumpsey, Rumpsey-dumpsey, Colonel Johnson killed Tecumseh " Did he really? Such was the slogan craftily used by Richard M. Johnson's campaign strategists to win him the vice-presidency of the United States in 1836, but . . . If you enjoy solving a real mystery,...
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The People's Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen RevisitedFinalist for the 2015 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism Longlisted for the Lionel Gelber Award for the Best Non-Fiction book in the world on Foreign Affairs An Economist Book of the Year, 2014 A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice...
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Alice Paul: Claiming PowerAlice Paul redirected the course of American political history. Raised by Quaker parents in Moorestown, New Jersey, she would become a passionate and outspoken leader of the woman suffrage movement. In 1913, she reinvigorated the American campaign for a constitutional suffrage amendment and, in...
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William Hunter - Finding Free Speech: A British Soldier's Son Who Became an Early AmericanIn June 1798, President John Adams signed the now infamous Alien & Sedition Acts to suppress political dissent. Facing imminent personal risks, a gutsy Kentucky newspaper editor ran the first editorial denouncing the law's attempt to stifle the freedom of the press. Almost immediately,...
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G.91y: YankeeFinally, an entire book dedicated to the unforgettable twin-engine aircraft that came out of the pen of Giuseppe Gabrielli.The G.91Y is the latest fighter-bomber-reconnaissance aircraft designed and built entirely in Italy. A monograph not to be missed!Author: Federico AnselminoPublisher: Aviation CollectablesPublished: 01/01/2017Pages: 64Binding Type:...
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Before the Eyes of the WorldMexican leaders eagerly anticipated the attention that hosting the world's most visible sporting event would bring, yet they could not have predicted the array of conflicts that would play out before the eyes of the world during the notorious 1968 Mexico City Olympics. Following...
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Norwegians and Swedes in the United States: Friends and NeighborsTo early American immigrants, nineteenth-century newcomers from the Scandinavian peninsula likely seemed all of a type. to immigrants hailing from Norway and Sweden, however, differences in language, culture, and religion sorted them into distinct groupings: not Scandinavian, but Norwegian or Swedish--and proud of their...
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Old Rail Fence Corners: Frontier Tales Told by Minnesota PioneersOld Rail Fence Corners is the story of Minnesota's early settlers in their own words--hardship and happiness on the frontier. These simple, direct accounts, collected at the beginning of the twentieth century, paint vivid pictures of life in Minnesota from the 1840s to the...
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The Double Indemnity Murder: Ruth Snyder, Judd Gray, and New York's Crime of the CenturyQueens Village was a picture-perfect postcard New York suburb. But in March 1927 the fa ade of respectability was stripped away to reveal an underside of greed, lust, and crime. Few incidents in crime history have been so notorious as the murder of Albert...
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The Mormon Rebellion: America's First Civil War, 1857-1858In 1857 President James Buchanan ordered U.S. troops to Utah to replace Brigham Young as governor and restore order in what the federal government viewed as a territory in rebellion. In this compelling narrative, award-winning authors David L. Bigler and Will Bagley use long-suppressed...
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West of Wild Bill HickokOf all the Old West figures whose images eventually found their way into our popular culture, none was better known than Wild Bill Hickok. This book, a companion volume to Joseph Rosa's exhaustive biography, They Called Him Wild Bill, reproduces in one volume nearly...
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The Comanches: Lords of the South Plains Volume 34The fierce bands of Comanche Indians, on the testimony of their contemporaries, both red and white, numbered some of the most splendid horsemen the world has ever produced. Often the terror of other tribes, who, on finding a Comanche footprint in the Western plains...
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A Cowboy DetectiveAfter years of cowboying, Charles A. Siringo had settled down to store-keeping in Caldwell, Kansas, when a blind phrenologist, traveling through, took the measure of his "mule head" and told him that he was "cut out" for detective work. Thereupon, Siringo joined the Pinkerton...
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The Unfinished Agenda of Brown v. Board of EducationPraise for The Unfinished Agenda of Brown V. Board of Education My father, Oliver L. Brown, for whom Brown v. Board of Education is named, was a proud member of a group of a few hundred people, across the country, who took risks by...
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Before the Court of HeavenHistorical Fiction based on a true story. Germany, after World War I. Ernst Werner Techow, son of a magistrate, a child of privilege, joins the violent right-wing response to Germany's defeat. As a member of the para-military Free Corps and the murderous Organization C,...
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