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First with GunsInspired by Vietnam War classics like Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried and Karl Marlantes's Matterhorn, First with Guns is a thought-provoking exploration of personal identity set amidst a war and an era that forever altered American identity. The novel follows William Dougherty's journey...
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Pipe the Bimbo in Red: Dean Andrews, Jim Garrison and the Conspiracy to Kill JFKPipe the Bimbo in Red is about the connections between Dean Andrews, Clay Shaw, David Ferrie, Lee Oswald and others, and Jim Garrison's search for the truth in JFK's assassination.Author: William Matson Law, Donald JeffriesPublisher: Trine DayPublished: 11/15/2023Pages: 264Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9781634244664
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Evil: The Assassinations of John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Robert Francis Kennedy"EVIL" describes the complete story of the coup d' ' etat including timing, participants, motives and structure. Led by LBJ, it identifies the roles the CIA, FBI, Mafia, Military Intelligence and wealthy persons played in the conspiracy. Key to this was the relationship Gordon...
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Texas Loud, Proud, and Brash: How Ten Mavericks Created the Twentieth-Century Lone Star StateIn Texas Loud, Proud, and Brash: How Ten Mavericks Created the Twentieth-Century Lone Star State, author Rusty Williams profiles ten largely unsung men and women responsible for the Texas you love, hate, and (secretly) envy today. Author: Rusty WilliamsPublisher: Two Dot BooksPublished: 08/01/2023Pages: 212Binding...
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Brave in SeasonSet in 1950 in the rural Midwest, and inspired by real events, this gripping novel explores what happens when an African American railroad repair crew is dropped into a tiny, tight-knit farm community. Will frictions build to an all-too familiar American tragedy, or can...
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Escape from the Pit: A Woman's Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Poland, 1939-1943At the end of 1944, while World War II was still raging, nineteen-year-old Renia Kukielka published her Hebrew language memoir about the Holocaust. The account may well be the first of its kind. In her powerful and raw story, she portrays life in the...
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Berkeley 1900: Daily Life at the Turn of the CenturySince its initial publication a decade ago, Berkeley 1900: Daily Life at the Turn of the Century has captivated readers with its unprecedented blend of serious history, fascinating images, and heartfelt storytelling. Its eyewitness accounts and unique views of Berkeley a hundred years past...
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Grant Park: The Evolution of Chicago's Front YardOn November 4, 2008, when president-elect Barack Obama celebrated his victory with more than one hundred thousand supporters in Chicago, everyone knew where to meet. Long considered the showplace and cultural center of Chicago, Grant Park has been the site of tragedy and tension,...
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1969: The Year Everything ChangedWoodstock, the moon landing, Charles Manson, Richard Nixon, the Vietnam War, and more. A must-read for baby boomers and the generations that came after! Here is a rich, comprehensive narrative, chronicling an unparalleled year in American society in all its explosive ups and downs....
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Victorian Secrets: What a Corset Taught Me about the Past, the Present, and MyselfAuthor: Sarah A. ChrismanPublisher: Skyhorse PublishingPublished: 11/01/2013Pages: 264Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.92lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.00dISBN: 9781626361751About the AuthorSarah A. Chrisman was born in a suburb of Seattle and graduated from the University of Washington in 2002. Alongside her husband, Gabriel, she gives presentations...
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A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas 1492 to the PresentWard Churchill has achieved an unparalleled reputation as a scholar-activist and analyst of indigenous issues in North America. Here, he explores the history of holocaust and denial in this hemisphere, beginning with the arrival of Columbus and continuing on into the present.He frames the...
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Lbj: From MasterMind to the ColossusAuthor: Phillip F. NelsonPublisher: Skyhorse PublishingPublished: 11/18/2014Pages: 640Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.96lbsSize: 9.55h x 6.33w x 1.91dISBN: 9781628736922About the AuthorPhillip F. Nelson is the author of LBJ: The Mastermind of the JFK Assassination. After college, a stint in the Peace Corps, and a corporate career,...
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Arabian Nights of 1934A genre-bending novel of 1001 nights of no-holds-barred, pre-code American movies distilled into a single fevered dreamworld. Arabian Nights of 1934 is a journey through the fevered dreamworld embodied in American movies of the early 1930s: an era that closed abruptly with the enforcement...
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Good Blood: a journey of healingWhen she was a child, her father said that he had "good blood" and it was why he and his wife survived and healed from the Holocaust. The author searched for the meaning and significance of her father's words over two continents and through...
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From Rebel to Ruler: One Hundred Years of the Chinese Communist Party"The definitive, candid, and absorbing history of a political organization...A vital account, based on magnificent research, that shows the party as a colossal, relentless, and enduring machine."--Jane Perlez, former Beijing Bureau Chief, New York Times "If you were to travel back in time to...
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Westering Women and the Frontier Experience, 1800-1915Professor Myres gives frontier women a voice they never had. She uses extensive source material by and about women--letters, journals, and reminiscences from over 400 collections--to study the impact of the frontier on women's lives and the role of women in the West. She...
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Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of InequalityFrom the Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times bestselling coauthor of Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism, candid reflections on the economist's craft When economist Angus Deaton immigrated to the United States from Britain in the early 1980s, he was awed...
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Sentinel of the Southern Plains: Fort Richardson and the Northwest Texas Frontier, 1866-1878Author: Allen Lee HamiltonPublisher: Texas Christian University PressPublished: 01/01/1988Pages: 252Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.96lbsSize: 9.08h x 5.96w x 0.67dISBN: 9780875650739
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Harry and Arthur: Truman, Vandenberg, and the Partnership That Created the Free WorldWith Franklin Roosevelt's death in April of 1945, Vice President Harry Truman and Senator Arthur Vandenberg, the Republican leader on foreign policy, inherited a world in turmoil. With Europe flattened and the Soviets emerging as America's new adversary, Truman and Vandenberg built a tight,...
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A Short History of the Twentieth CenturyThe historian John Lukacs offers a concise history of the twentieth century--its two world wars and cold war, its nations and leaders. The great themes woven through this spirited narrative are inseparable from the author's own intellectual preoccupations: the fading of liberalism, the rise...
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