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Teddy Roosevelt: Una Guía Fascinante de la Vida de Theodore Roosevelt, el Vigésimo Sexto Presidente de los Estados Unidos de AméricaSi quiere descubrir la fascinante vida de Teddy Roosevelt siga leyendo...La familia Roosevelt se convertiría en una dinastía política en Estados Unidos, desde finales del siglo XIX hasta mediados del siglo XX. La presencia de los Roosevelt en Estados Unidos se remonta a su...
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Ask a Suffragist: Stories and Wisdom from America's First FeministsSince the Women's March on Washington and the Me Too movement, a new, more diverse generation of feminists is raising questions about how to effect change. Ask a Suffragist: Stories and Wisdom from America's First Feminists channels the first generation of American feminists as...
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America's West: A History, 1890-1950The American West has influenced important national developments throughout the twentieth century, not only in the cultural arena, but also in economic development, in political ideology and action, and in natural resource conservation and preservation. Using regionalism as a lens for illuminating these national...
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Banking Panics of the Gilded AgeThis is the first major study of post-Civil War banking panics in almost a century. The author has constructed for the first time estimates of bank closures and their incidence in each of the five separate banking disturbances. The author also reevaluates the role...
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Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian MafiaHailed in Italy as the best book ever written about the mafia in any language, Cosa Nostra is a fascinating, violent, and darkly comic account that reads like fiction and takes us deep into the inner sanctum of this secret society where few have...
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Unrequited Toil: A History of United States SlaveryWritten as a narrative history of slavery within the United States, Unrequited Toil details how an institution that seemed to be disappearing at the end of the American Revolution rose to become the most contested and valuable economic interest in the nation by 1850....
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JFK vs. Allen Dulles: Battleground IndonesiaFor those interested in the assassination of JFK, the untold story of Indonesia, gold, JFK, Allen Dulles, the CIA, and secret military coups. Two of the most fascinating figures in history, John F. Kennedy, thirty-fifth president of the United States, and Allen Dulles, our...
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The Virus and the Vaccine: Contaminated Vaccine, Deadly Cancers, and Government NeglectJonas Salk's polio vaccine is regarded as a veritbale medical miracle, for it largely eradicated one of the most feared diseases of the 20th century. But the story of the vaccine has a dark side, one that has never been fully told before. Between...
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How Wars End: Why We Always Fight the Last Battle: A History of American Intervention from World War I to AfghanistanIN 1991 THE UNITED STATES trounced the Iraqi army in battle only to stumble blindly into postwar turmoil. Then in 2003 the United States did it again. How could this happen? How could the strongest power in modern history fight two wars against the...
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A Concise History of New ZealandNew Zealand was the last major landmass, other than Antarctica, to be settled by humans. The story of this rugged and dynamic land is beautifully narrated, from its origins in Gondwana some 80 million years ago to the twenty-first century. Philippa Mein Smith highlights...
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Save my Children: An Astonishing Tale of Survival and its Unlikely HeroA young Jewish boy and his siblings fleeing a world destroyed by hate. A notoriously cruel anti-Semite hunting for Jews. Why did this murderer risk his own life to save the children?An 11-year-old boy and his siblings fight for survival after the evil of...
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Only a Bad Dream?: Childhood Memories of the HolocaustOne of the youngest survivors of the Warsaw ghetto, author Sahbra Anna Markus lived a life only those who have survived Hitler's hell can imagine. In Only a Bad Dream? she narrates the drama of her early years through her most vivid memories. Sahbra...
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Vivi's WarArthur ColaIn the small village of San Pietro Avellana in the Apennine Mountains in Abruzzo, a young boy of fourteen, Vivi Colaianni, roams its mountainous area spying on the Nazi movements near the final years of World War II. With his friend Amedeo Frattini,...
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La Estación / The StationConspiración y aventura en la Estación Central de Milán, desde donde salían los trenes de deportados judíos durante la 2a Guerra Mundial. La novela que ha cautivado a prensa y público en Italia en 2022. Milán, abril de 2003. Riccardo Mezzanotte es un joven...
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Freedom at Risk: Reflections on Politics, Liberty, and the StateJames L. Buckley may be the only American alive who has held high office in each branch of the federal government as senator of New York, undersecretary of state under Ronald Reagan, and a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C....
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My Mameleh: A MemoirAuthor: Mariette GoldbergPublisher: Austin MacauleyPublished: 08/18/2023Pages: 130Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.56lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.38dISBN: 9798886937732
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Las Chicas del GuetoHanna Majewski y su hermana menor, Stefa, no pueden ser más diferentes: mientras que Hanna deja Polonia para vivir libre de las ataduras que su religión le impone, Stefa es una adolescente modelo, obediente y comprometida con las tradiciones judías. Sin embargo, ambas están...
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Los Amantes de la CostaMatelda, la matriarca de la familia Cabrelli, siempre ha sido una mujer fuerte y decidida, pero es hasta ahora, al final de su vida, que está determinada a desentrañar la gran historia de amor de su madre, Domenica. Un secreto guardado durante años: el...
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Morning BreaksOn August 7, 1970, a revolt by Black prisoners in a Marin County courthouse stunned the nation. In its aftermath, Angela Davis, an African American activist-scholar who had campaigned vigorously for prisoners' rights, was placed on the FBI's "ten most wanted list." Captured in...
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Crack: Rock Cocaine, Street Capitalism, and the Decade of GreedA shattering account of the crack cocaine years from award-winning American historian David Farber, Crack tells the story of the young men who bet their lives on the rewards of selling 'rock' cocaine, the people who gave themselves over to the crack pipe, and...
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