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Voices in the Storm: Stories From The Blizzard of '66A look back at the historic winter storm that hit the Northeastern United States in January 1966. Using stories told by those who lived through the blizzard, the book covers topics such as road conditions, school and business closings, food shortages, and the use...
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Crested Butte - From Coal Camp to Ski TownAuthor: Duane a. SmithPublisher: Western Reflections Publishing Co.Published: 06/01/2005Pages: 220Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.46dISBN: 9781932738063
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Irish O'Malley & the Ozark Mountain BoysThe Irish O'Malley Gang represented the final installment of America's great 1930s depression-era "Super Gangs" following in the footsteps of both the John Dillinger and "Ma" Barker/Karpis Gangs. The final version of the outlaw band was the result of the merging of two separate...
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Charlie and the Shawneetown Dame: Love and Madness in the Roaring TwentiesCharlie and the Shawneetown Dame, based on a true story, recounts one of the most famous turf wars waged during the madness called Prohibition. The outsized ambition of Charlie Birger - a flamboyant, slightly mad Al Capone wannabe - brought him from New York...
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Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and ReasonSixteen years after Ren Descartes' death in Stockholm in 1650, a pious French ambassador exhumed the remains of the controversial philosopher to transport them back to Paris. Thus began a 350-year saga that saw Descartes' bones traverse a continent, passing between kings, philosophers, poets,...
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Kingfish: The Reign of Huey P. LongFrom the moment he took office as governor in 1928 to the day an assassin's bullet cut him down in 1935, Huey Long wielded all but dictatorial control over the state of Louisiana. A man of shameless ambition and ruthless vindictiveness, Long orchestrated elections,...
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American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, September 1857In September 1857, a wagon train passing through Utah laden with gold was attacked. Approximately 140 people were slaughtered; only 17 children under the age of eight were spared. This incident in an open field called Mountain Meadows has ever since been the focus...
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Last Battle: The Classic History of the Battle for BerlinThe classic account of the final offensive against Hitler's Third Reich. The Battle for Berlin was the culminating struggle of World War II in the European theater, the last offensive against Hitler's Third Reich, which devastated one of Europe's historic capitals and marked the...
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The Deals That Made the World: Reckless Ambition, Backroom Negotiations, and the Hidden Truths of Business"Excellent. ... Impressive." --Financial TimesAn award-winning investigative journalist takes us inside the ten business deals that have transformed the modern worldWe tend to think of our world as controlled by forces we basically understand, primarily the politicians we elect. But in The Deals That...
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A Radical Line: From the Labor Movement to the Weather UndergroundIn this elegant family history, journalist Thai Jones traces the past century of American radical politics through the extraordinary exploits of his own family. Born in the late 1970s to fugitive leaders of the Weather Underground and grandson of Communists, spiritual pacifists, and civil...
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Hanging Captain Gordon: The Life and Trial of an American Slave TraderOn a frosty day in February 1862, hundreds gathered to watch the execution of Nathaniel Gordon. Two years earlier, Gordon had taken Africans in chains from the Congo -- a hanging offense for more than forty years that no one had ever enforced. But...
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Vietnam the Necessary War: A Reinterpretation of America's Most Disastrous Military ConflictMichael Lind casts new light on one of the most contentious episodes in American history in this controversial bestseller. In this groundgreaking reinterpretation of America's most disatrous and controversial war, Michael Lind demolishes enduring myths and put the Vietnam War in its proper context--as...
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Concise Untold History of the United StatesA companion to Oliver Stone's ten-part documentary series of the same name, this guide offers a people's history of the American Empire: "a critical overview of US foreign policy...indispensable" (former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev); "brilliant, a masterpiece " (Daniel Ellsberg); "Oliver Stone's new book...
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To Gettysburg and Beyond: The Parallel Lives of Joshua Chamberlain and Edward Porter AlexanderReaders of the bestselling novel, "The Killer Angels," or viewers of Ted Turner's movie "Gettysburg" and PBS's "The Civil War" have become familiar with Chamberlain and Alexander, two men who made their mark on history. This dual biography of the two officers-one Union and...
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Yokohama Burning: The Deadly 1923 Earthquake and Fire That Helped Forge the Path to World War IIYokohama Burning is the story of the worst natural disaster of the twentieth century: the earthquakes, fires, and tsunamis of September 1923 that destroyed Yokohama and most of Tokyo and killed 140,000 people during two days of horror. With cinematic vividness and from multiple...
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The Cooper's Wife Is Missing: The Trials of Bridget ClearyIn 1895 twenty-six-year-old Bridget Cleary disappeared from her cottage in rural County Tipperary and remained missing for several days. At last her body was discovered, bent, broken, and badly burned in a shallow grave. Within a few days, her unimaginable story came to light:...
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Writers Guide To Everyday Life In The Wild West 1840-1900 Pod EdEveryday Life in the Wild West shows you firsthand what it was like to tame the praries, fight the battles and build the boomtowns. From the vittles people ate (including boudins and buffalo humps) to what they wore (such as linsey-woolsey, caliso and duck),...
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Sherman: Soldier, Realist, AmericanWhen Liddell Hart's Sherman was first published in 1929, it received encomiums such as these: A masterly performance . . . one of the most thorougly dignified, one of the most distinguished biographies of the year. -- Henry Steele Commager, New York Herald Tribune...
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Daring Young Men: The Heroism and Triumph of the Berlin Airlift, June 1948-May 1949In the early hours of June 26, 1948, phones began ringing across America, waking up the airmen of World War II--pilots, navigators, and mechanics--who were finally beginning normal lives with new houses, new jobs, new wives, and new babies. Some were given just forty-eight...
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The Betrayal of the Negro, from Rutherford B. Hayes to Woodrow WilsonBetween the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and the end of World War I in 1918, African Americans experienced their nadir. The Betrayal of the Negro (originally published as The Negro in American Life and Thought: The Nadir, 1877-1901 and subsequently expanded) is the...
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