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Rough RidersRough Riders is a classic biography of Theodore Roosevelt and his early days as a member of that historical unit. This book includes this snippet: DURING the year preceding the outbreak of the Spanish War I was Assistant Secretary of the Navy. While my...
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Mesa Blanca: Whispering AltarToday's Hispanic generation does not always handle the Spanish language as its vernacular. Many a time, major confusion occurs within Hispanic families because of the lack of bilingual skills. In the spiritist community, this language barrier has all too often caused potential mediums to...
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You Can't Win2021 Reprint of the 1926 Edition. Illustrated with photos of contemporary Hobo and Migrant life. You Can't Win is an autobiography by burglar and hobo Jack Black, written in the early to mid-1920s and first published in 1926. It describes Black's life on the...
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Tax Lists of Henry County, Virginia, 1778-1880By: Lela C. Adams, Pub. 1973, Reprinted 2021, 34 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-361-5.In 1776, Patrick County was cut off of Pittsylvania County and was named for Patrick Henry. When first formed, Henry County embraced the whole of what is now Patrick County and the...
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Number 9: Growing Up on a Cotton Plantation in Northeast Arkansas During the Great Depression 1931-1943Author: T. F. Jackson Jr.Publisher: 1st Book LibraryPublished: 08/01/2001Pages: 136Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.51lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.24w x 0.36dISBN: 9780759637184This title is not returnable
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The Fall of Robespierre: 24 Hours in Revolutionary ParisThe day of 9 Thermidor (27 July 1794) is universally acknowledged as a major turning-point in the history of the French Revolution. At 12.00 midnight, Maximilien Robespierre, the most prominent member of the Committee of Public Safety which had for more than a year...
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Indecent Advances: A Hidden History of True Crime and Prejudice Before StonewallEdgar Award finalist, Best Fact CrimeAmerican Masters (PBS), "1 of 5 Essential Culture Reads"One of CrimeReads' "Best True Crime Books of the Year" "A fast-paced, meticulously researched, thoroughly engaging (and often infuriating) look-see into the systematic criminalization of gay men and widespread condemnation of...
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'68: The Mexican Autumn of the Tlatelolco MassacreIn Mexico City on the night of October 2, 1968, at least two hundred students--among thousands protesting election fraud and campaigning for university reform--were shot dead in a bloody showdown with government troops in Tlatelolco Square. The bodies were collected and trucked away and...
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100 Oklahoma Outlaws, Gangsters & LawmenThis book includes difficult-to-find information about significant Oklahoma outlaws who lived and worked during the 100-year period 'from horseback to Cadillac.' While criminal history within Oklahoma is the focus, famous crimes committed elsewhere by Oklahomans, such as the Barker Gang, Wilbur Underhill, and Machine...
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Lincoln's Sword: The Presidency and the Power of WordsWidely considered in his own time as a genial but provincial lightweight who was out of place in the presidency, Abraham Lincoln astonished his allies and confounded his adversaries by producing a series of speeches and public letters so provocative that they helped revolutionize...
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The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the Cia, and the Battle Over a Forbidden BookThe Zhivago Affair is the dramatic, never-before-told story--drawing on newly declassified files--of how a forbidden book became a secret CIA weapon in the ideological battle between East and West. In May 1956, an Italian publishing scout went to a village outside Moscow to visit...
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Battle of the Four Courts: The First Three Days of the Irish Civil WarThe Irish Civil War began at around four o'clock in the morning on June 28, 1922. An 18-pounder artillery piece commanded by soldiers loyal to Michael Collins and the new Irish government began to fire on the Four Courts--a beautiful 18th-century complex of buildings...
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Jfk: An American Coup d'Etat: The Truth Behind the Kennedy AssassinationEver since President John F. Kennedy was gunned down in Dallas 50 years ago, various theories have swirled around what was a key event in American--and world--history. Despite the conclusions of the Warren Report--that the President had been assassinated by a lone gunman, Lee...
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Solid Seasons: The Friendship of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo EmersonA thoughtfully researched, movingly presented dual-biography of two iconic American writers, each trying to find the ideal friend with whom they could share their journey through our imperfect world. Any biography that concentrates on either Henry David Thoreau or Ralph Waldo Emerson tends to...
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Grant's Last Battle: The Story Behind the Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. GrantThe former general in chief of the Union armies during the Civil War . . . the two-term president of the United States . . . the beloved ambassador of American goodwill around the globe . . . the respected New York financier--Ulysses S....
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Prairie Fever: British Aristocrats in the American West 1830-1890From the 1830s onward, a succession of well-born Britons headed west to the great American wilderness to find adventure and fulfillment. They brought their dogs, sporting guns, valets, and all the attitudes and prejudices of their class. Prairie Fever explores why the West had...
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Prussian Artillery in the Campaign of 1866This clear-sighted account provides a concise study of the performance and tactics of the Prussian artillery during the Campaign in Bohemia against the Austrians and Saxons in 1866. Following a brief introduction on the equipment used, the author provides an admirable pr cis of...
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Voltaire in LoveThe inimitable Nancy Mitford's account of Voltaire's fifteen-year relationship with the Marquise du Ch telet--the renowned mathematician who introduced Isaac Newton's revolutionary new physics to France--is a spirited romp in the company of two extraordinary individuals as well as an erudite and gossipy guide...
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Open Letters: Selected Writings, 1965-1990Spanning twenty-five years, this historic collection of writings shows Vaclav Havel's evolution from a modestly known playwright who had the courage to advise and criticize Czechoslovakia's leaders to a newly elected president whose first address to his fellow citizens begins, I assume you did...
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The Measure of Manhattan: The Tumultuous Career and Surprising Legacy of John Randel, Jr., Cartographer, Surveyor, InventorJohn Randel Jr. (1787-1865) was an eccentric and flamboyant surveyor. Renowned for his inventiveness as well as for his bombast and irascibility, Randel was central to Manhattan's development but died in financial ruin. Telling Randel's engrossing and dramatic life story for the first time,...
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