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The True Story of the Hatfield and McCoy FeudThe True Story of the Hatfield and McCoy Feud is an unbiased look behind the battle lines into the causes and effects of the most notorious feud in American history. Comprised of first hand accounts, L.D. Hatfield gives a concise, factual compilation of the...
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The Haymarket Trial: Selected Testimony from the Trial of the Chicago AnarchistsFrom the trial record. The testimony of selected prosecution and defense witnesses, defendant statements to the court, the appeal decision, and the governor's pardon.Author: Albert Parsons, August Vincent Theodore SpiesPublisher: Red and Black PublishersPublished: 01/27/2011Pages: 404Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.19lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.83dISBN:...
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The Professor and the President: Daniel Patrick Moynihan in the Nixon White HouseWhat happens when a conservative president makes a liberal professor from the Ivy League his top urban affairs adviser? The president is Richard Nixon, the professor is Harvard's Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Of all the odd couples in American public life, they are probably the...
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Informing the Inklings: George MacDonald and the Victorian Roots of Modern FantasyMagdalen College, where C.S. Lewis taught in Oxford, was an appropriate site for the "Informing the Inklings" conference hosted by the George MacDonald Society. Participants explored how MacDonald and fellow literary figures such as S.T. Coleridge, Lewis Carroll, Charles Kingsley, and Andrew Lang paved...
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Room at the Top"Remember the name John Braine. You'll be hearing quite a lot about him. Room at the Top is his first novel and it is a remarkable one . . . it's a long time since we heard the hunger of youth really snarling and...
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Billy Liar'Buy, borrow or beg Keith Waterhouse's outstanding new novel. I can't recommend it too highly. Waterhouse has an uncanny gift for recapturing every attitude, agony and phrase of childhood and youth.' - Daily Mirror 'I wished I'd written Keith Waterhouse's first novel; and now,...
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Feliciano and Lady Bird: A Texas TaleThe moving tale of a Tejano and his relationship with the former First Lady of the United States.Author: Vernon SchmidPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished: 05/22/2013Pages: 110Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 9.00h x 5.90w x 0.60dISBN: 9781489538819This title is not returnable
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1000 Americans: The Real Rulers of the U.S.A.The Big Powers, Press, Plutocrats & Politics 1000 AMERICANS is loaded with explosive revelations of plans by that master-group of financiers and politicians often referred to cynically as 'the boys in the back room.' The author takes us boldly into all the nation's significant...
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Tejanos and Texas Under the Mexican Flag, 1821-1836Historians have amply recorded the battles and the Anglo-Americans' military, economic, and political domination of the Mexican lands after 1836. But few studies have documented the reverse flow in the interchange while Anglo and Mexican co-existed under the Mexican flag in the previous years....
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Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays: Volume 450In this latest collection of his highly provocative essays, Thomas Sowell once again demonstrates why he is one of the most thoughtful, readable, and controversial thinkers of our time. With his usual unrelenting candor, he cuts through the stereotypes, popular mythology, and what he...
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The Oxford History of the First World WarbHistories you can trust./b The First World War, now a century ago, still shapes the world in which we live, and its legacy lives on, in poetry, in prose, in collective memory and political culture. By the time the war ended in 1918, millions...
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The Browning Automatic RifleFor nearly fifty years the hard-hitting, mobile Browning Automatic Rifle, or BAR, served in US infantry units as a light squad automatic base of fire weapon, providing quick bursts of concentrated fire. It was developed in response to the central dilemma of infantry combat...
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12 Million Black VoicesOriginally published in 1948, 12 Million Black Voices pairs Richard Wright's beautiful prose with stunning photographs from the Farm Security Administration's files from the Great Depression. The images, curated by Edwin Rosskam, include photographs shot by legendary American artists like Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange,...
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The Coming of the Terror in the French RevolutionBetween 1793 and 1794, thousands of French citizens were imprisoned and hundreds sent to the guillotine by a powerful dictatorship that claimed to be acting in the public interest. Only a few years earlier, revolutionaries had proclaimed a new era of tolerance, equal justice,...
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Mexicans in the Making of AmericaA Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year According to census projections, by 2050 nearly one in three U.S. residents will be Latino, and the overwhelming majority of these will be of Mexican descent. This dramatic demographic shift is reshaping politics, culture, and fundamental...
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Einstein in Love: A Scientific RomanceIn Einstein in Love, Dennis Overbye has written the first profile of the great scientist to focus exclusively on his early adulthood, when his major discoveries were made. It reveals Einstein to be very much a young man of his time-draft dodger, self-styled bohemian,...
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Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920'sFrederick Lewis Allen (July 5, 1890 Boston, Massachusetts - February 13, 1954 New York City) was the editor of Harper's Magazine and also notable as an American historian of the first half of the twentieth century. His specialty was writing about what was at...
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Educated for Freedom: The Incredible Story of Two Fugitive Schoolboys Who Grew Up to Change a NationThe powerful story of two young men who changed the national debate about slavery In the 1820s, few Americans could imagine a viable future for black children. Even abolitionists saw just two options for African American youth: permanent subjection or exile. Educated for Freedom...
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The BazookaThe bazooka was the popular name given to the innovative US rocket-propelled, man-portable antitank weapon that saw widespread service with US and other forces from 1942 to the early 1980s and was described by Eisenhower as one of the four "Tools of Victory" -...
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The Uzi Submachine GunThe Uzi submachine gun is one of the most recognizable weapons in history. Its familiarity stems in part from the sheer diversity of its users. Uzis have been seen gripped and fired by US secret service agents and SWAT teams, Israeli soldiers, European special...
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