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The Car: The Rise and Fall of the Machine That Made the Modern WorldA spirited, insightful exploration of our favorite machine and it's cultural impact on society over the past one hundred and fifty years. More than any other technology, cars have transformed American popular culture. Cars have created vast wealth as well as novel dreams of...
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The Music of Time: Poetry in the Twentieth CenturyA revelatory history of twentieth-century poetry by prize-winning poet and memoirist John Burnside Poetry helps us to make sense of our world, transforming what the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam called the "noise of time" into a kind of music. The Music of Time is...
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JFK Assassination Logic: How to Think about Claims of ConspiracyThe mother of all conspiracy theories concerns the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Many of its elements have even become part of American folklore: the single bullet, the grassy knoll shooter, and the mysterious deaths of interested parties.JFK Assassination Logic shows how to...
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Song of Dewey Beard: Last Survivor of the Little BighornThe resistance of great Native American warriors to the U.S. government in the war against the Plains Indians is a well-known chapter in the story of the American West. In the aftermath of the great resistance, as the Indian nations recovered from war, many...
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Six Weeks in the Sioux Tepees: A Narrative of Indian CaptivityThe Dakota War (1862) was a searing event in Minnesota history as well as a signal event in the lives of Dakota people. Sarah F. Wakefield was caught up in this revolt. A young doctor's wife and the mother of two small children, Wakefield...
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George Drouillard: Hunter and Interpreter for Lewis and Clark and Fur Trader, 1807-1810George Drouillard's service to the Lewis and Clark Expedition was long obscured by the stronger light cast on the leaders and Sacagawea. Drawing from the various journals of the expedition and from many more obscure documents, letters, and legal records, M. O. Skarsten presents...
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The Frontier World of Doc HollidayEaten by tuberculosis, sustained by alcohol, John Henry "Doc" Holliday walked the streets of Dodge City, Dallas, Denver, Leadville, Deadwood, and Tombstone in their roistering heydays. The frail-looking dentist could be deadly when the drink wore off and someone crossed him. Doc Holliday was...
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Final Invasion: Plattsburgh, the War of 1812's Most Decisive BattleOn September 1, 1814, under the command of Lt. Gen. Sir George Prevost, nearly 15,000 veteran British troops, fresh from victory over Napoleon, crossed the Canadian-American border--the largest foreign army ever to invade the United States.Opposing the British invasion were Gen. Alexander Macomb and...
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The American People in the Great DepressionOn October 24, 1929, America met the greatest economic devastation it had ever known. In this first installment of his Pulitzer Prize-winning Freedom from Fear, Kennedy tells how America endured, and eventually prevailed, in the face of that unprecedented calamity. Kennedy vividly demonstrates that...
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Nuking Alaska: Notes of an Atomic FugitiveAn autobiographical account, in graphic novel format, of growing up in Cold War Alaska in the shadow of a nuclear arsenal. From the creator of the critically acclaimed graphic novel My Degeneration: A Journey Through Parkinson's comes an unnervingly funny tale of life in...
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The Murder Factory: Life and Work of H. H. Holmes, First American Serial KillerThe simultaneous emergence of the serial killer and the assembly line as expressions of the rationality of modern production methods.In 1896, at the age of 35, Henry Howard Holmes, whose real name was Herman Webster Mudget, became the first serial killer in the United...
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Last Ride of the Iron Horse: How Lou Gehrig Fought ALS to Play One Final Championship SeasonLast Ride of the Iron Horse tells the tale of Lou Gehrig's final year in the Yankee lineup, as he dealt with early effects of the deadly disease ALS. For much of the 1938 season, Gehrig -- dubbed the Iron Horse for his strength...
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Studs Terkel's ChicagoIn a blend of history, memoir, and photography, the Pulitzer Prize winner paints a vivid portrait of this extraordinary American city. Chicago was home to the country's first skyscraper (a ten-story building built in 1884), and marks the start of the famed Route 66....
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Wings of Denial: The Alabama Air National Guard's Covert Role at the Bay of PigsAfter nearly four decades of government denial, the deeds of four Alabama Air National Guardsmen who died at the Bay of Pigs in 1961 have been made public and their names memorialized at the CIA's Wall of Honor in Langley, Virginia. Their stories can...
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With Hitler in the WestIn May 1940, the German Army swept over Europe, unleashing a campaign of battles of annihilation on a hitherto unheralded scale. France was quickly overcome and Holland, along with Belgium, fell in a matter of days. At the head of this vast operation was...
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Pearl Harbor: The Attack That Pushed The Us To Battle (A Captivating Guide To The Surprise Military Strike By The Imperial JapaneseIf You Want To Discover The Captivating History Of Pearl Harbor, Then Keep Reading...The Attack Of The US Pearl Harbor Naval Base Changed The Entire Progress Of World War II, And As A Result, It Was A Very Formative Event Both For The United...
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To Be, or Not... to BopYou don't have to know John Birks 'Dizzy' Gillespie's songs to feel his influence. The self-taught trumpet player rose from a poor but musically driven upbringing to become a jazz mastermind, founding the bebop movement and giving rise to Afro-Cuban music.Author: Dizzy Gillespie, Al...
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The End of the Innocence: The 1964-1965 New York World's FairFrom April 1964 to October 1965, some 52 million people from around the world flocked to the New York World's Fair, an experience that lives on in the memory of many individuals and in America's collective consciousness. Taking a perceptive look back at the...
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The Legend of Baby Doe: The Life and Times of the Silver Queen of the WestIn her pulchritudinous prime Baby Doe was called the Silver Queen of Colorado by journalists and "that shameless hussy" by the proper wives of the men who eyed her. Flirtatious, adventurous, ambitious, Elizabeth McCourt Doe gave everyone a lot to talk about when she...
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Saddles and Spurs: The Pony Express SagaThe story of the Pony Express, which carried transcontinental mail from April 3, 1860 to October 24, 1861, is one of the most invigorating and satisfying episodes in American history. Saddles and Spurs: The Pony Express Saga brings together a storehouse of information about...
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