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The Girls of Murder City: Fame, Lust, and the Beautiful Killers Who Inspired ChicagoWith a thrilling, fast-paced narrative, award-winning journalist Douglas Perry vividly captures the sensationalized circus atmosphere that gave rise to the concept of the celebrity criminal- and gave Chicago its most famous story. The Girls of Murder City recounts two scandalous, sex-fueled murder cases and...
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American Notes for General Circulation: Revised EditionA fascinating account of nineteenth-century America sketched with Charles Dickens's characteristic wit and charm When Charles Dickens set out for America in 1842 he was the most famous man of his day to travel there - curious about the revolutionary new civilization that had...
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Okinawa: The Last Battle of World War IIPenguin delivers you to the front lines of The Pacific Theater with the real-life stories behind the HBO miniseries.Former Marine and Pacific War veteran Robert Leckie tells the story of the invasion of Okinawa, the closing battle of World War II. Leckie is a...
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The Bookshop of the World: Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden AgeThe untold story of how the Dutch conquered the European book market and became the world's greatest bibliophiles--"an instant classic on Dutch book history" (BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review) " An] excellent contribution to book history."--Robert Darnton, New York Review of Books The...
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Transaction Man: Traders, Disrupters, and the Dismantling of Middle-Class AmericaAn Amazon Best History Book of 2019 A splendid and beautifully written illustration of the tremendous importance public policy has for the daily lives of ordinary people. --Ryan Cooper, Washington Monthly Over the last generation, the United States has undergone seismic changes. Stable institutions...
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The Wild Bunch: Sam Peckinpah, a Revolution in Hollywood, and the Making of a Legendary FilmW.K. Stratton's definitive history of the making of The Wild Bunch, named one of the greatest Westerns of all time by the American Film Institute. Sam Peckinpah's film The Wild Bunch is the story of a gang of outlaws who are one big steal...
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Ike and McCarthy: Dwight Eisenhower's Secret Campaign Against Joseph McCarthyThe full, little-known story of how President Dwight Eisenhower masterminded the downfall of the anti-Communist demagogue Senator Joseph McCarthy is "a gripping, detailed account of how the executive branch subtly but decisively defeated one of America's most dangerous demagogues" (The Washington Post). They shook...
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A Glorious Defeat: Mexico and Its War with the United StatesTimothy J. Henderson's A Glorious Defeat provide a short, accessible account of the US-Mexican War.The war that was fought between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848 was a major event in the history of both countries: it cost Mexico half of...
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Autumn Glory: Baseball's First World SeriesA suspenseful account of the glorious days more than a century ago when our national madness began, the first Major League Baseball World Series. A post-season series of games to establish supremacy in the major leagues was not inevitable in the baseball world. But...
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Eisenhower: The White House YearsNewly discovered and declassified documents make for a surprising and revealing portrait of the president we thought we knew.America's thirty-fourth president was belittled by his critics as the babysitter-in-chief. This new look reveals how wrong they were. Dwight Eisenhower was bequeathed the atomic bomb...
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Lone Star Justice: The First Century of the Texas RangersA splendid, indeed brilliant new work by an outstanding historian of the American West. --Howard Lamar, author of The New Encyclopedia of the American West, Sterling Professor Emeritus of History at Yale UniversityA thorough job...a fine book. --Larry McMurtryAuthor: Robert M. UtleyPublisher: Berkley BooksPublished:...
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The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and FreedomVividly drawn . . . this stunning book honors the achievement of the captive Africans who fought for--and won--their freedom."--The Philadelphia Tribune A unique account of the most successful slave rebellion in American history, now updated with a new epilogue--from the award-winning author of...
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Gods and Soldiers: The Penguin Anthology of Contemporary African WritingA one-of-a-kind collection showcasing the energy of new African literature Coming at a time when Africa and African writers are in the midst of a remarkable renaissance, Gods and Soldiers captures the vitality and urgency of African writing today. With stories from northern Arabic-speaking...
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The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of AmericaFINALIST FOR THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER. New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Winner of the 2021 Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction. One of The Washington Post's Top 50 Nonfiction Books of 2020. From a...
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Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American CommunityUpdated to include a new chapter about the influence of social media and the Internet--the 20th anniversary edition of Bowling Alone remains a seminal work of social analysis, and its examination of what happened to our sense of community remains more relevant than ever...
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The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American WestBringing together Custer, Sherman, Grant, and other fascinating military and political figures, as well as great native leaders such as Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and Geronimo, this "sweeping work of narrative history" (San Francisco Chronicle) is the fullest account to date of how the...
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Brothers in Arms: One Legendary Tank Regiment's Bloody War from D-Day to Ve-DayCelebrated military historian James Holland chronicles the experiences in World War II of the legendary tank unit, the Sherwood RangersIn the annals of World War II, certain groups of soldiers stand out, and among the most notable were the Sherwood Rangers. Originally a cavalry...
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Custer's Fall: The Native American Side of the StoryThe true story of the Battle of Little Bighorn--told from the perspective of the native americans who fought in Custer's Last Stand. The day began with the killing of a ten-year-old Native American boy by U.S. cavalry troopers. Before it ended, all of those...
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The Man Who Hated Women: Sex, Censorship, and Civil Liberties in the Gilded AgeSmithsonian Magazine, 10 Best History Books of 2021 - Fascinating . . . Purity is in the mind of the beholder, but beware the man who vows to protect yours." --Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker Anthony Comstock, special agent to the U.S. Post Office,...
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Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the WestWith a new Introduction by the author, this "erudite and brilliantly readable book" (The Observer, London) expertly dissects the political, economic, and social origins of Western civilization to reveal a culture cripplingly enslaved to crude notions of rationality and expertise. With a new introduction...
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