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Against Sustainability: Reading Nineteenth-Century America in the Age of Climate CrisisAgainst Sustainability responds to the twenty-first-century environmental crisis by unearthing the nineteenth-century U.S. literary, cultural, and scientific contexts that gave rise to sustainability, recycling, and preservation. Through novel pairings of antebellum and contemporary writers including Walt Whitman and Lucille Clifton, George Catlin and Louise...
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Labor Rights Are Civil Rights: Mexican American Workers in Twentieth-Century AmericaIn 1937, Mexican workers were among the strikers and supporters beaten, arrested, and murdered by Chicago policemen in the now infamous Republic Steel Mill Strike. Using this event as a springboard, Zaragosa Vargas embarks on the first full-scale history of the Mexican-American labor movement...
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UFO: The Inside Story of the Us Government's Search for Alien Life Here - And Out ThereFrom Garrett M. Graff, New York Times bestselling author of Raven Rock, The Only Plane in the Sky, and Pulitzer Prize finalist for history Watergate, comes the first comprehensive and eye-opening exploration of our government's decades-long quest to solve one of humanity's greatest mysteries:...
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Hitchcock's Blondes: The Unforgettable Women Behind the Legendary Director's Dark ObsessionBestselling author of Capote's Women Laurence Leamer shares an engrossing account of the enigmatic director Alfred Hitchcock that finally puts the dazzling actresses he cast in his legendary movies at the center of the story. Alfred Hitchcock was fixated--not just on the dark, twisty...
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Halloween: From Pagan Ritual to Party NightBoasting a rich, complex history rooted in Celtic and Christian ritual, Halloween has evolved from ethnic celebration to a blend of street festival, fright night, and vast commercial enterprise. In this colorful history, Nicholas Rogers takes a lively, entertaining look at the cultural origins...
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His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a LifeFrom one of America's most respected journalists and modern historians comes the first full-length biography of Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States and Nobel Prize-winning humanitarian.Author: Jonathan AlterPublisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintPublished: 12/02/2020Pages: 16Binding Type: Library BindingWeight: 3.09lbsSize: 9.30h x 6.20w...
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The Warsaw Sisters: A Novel of WWII PolandOn a golden August morning in 1939, sisters Antonina and Helena Dąbrowska send their father off to defend Poland against the looming threat of German invasion. The next day, the first bombs fall on Warsaw, decimating their beloved city and shattering the world of...
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Women of the PostInspired by true events, Women of the Post brings to life the heroines who proudly served in the all-Black battalion of the Women's Army Corps in WWII, finding purpose in their mission and lifelong friendship. 1944, New York City. Judy Washington is tired of...
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The Swiss NurseBased on the true story of an astonishingly brave woman who saved hundreds of mothers and their children during the Spanish Civil War and World War II.Elisabeth Eidenbenz left Switzerland in 1937 to aid children orphaned during the Spanish Civil War. Now, her work...
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Reporter: A Memoir"Reporter is just wonderful. Truly a great life, and what shines out of the book, amid the low cunning and tireless legwork, is Hersh's warmth and humanity. This book is essential reading for every journalist and aspiring journalist the world over." --John le Carr...
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The Car: The Rise and Fall of the Machine That Made the Modern WorldAuthor: Bryan AppleyardPublisher: Thorndike Press a Part of Gale a Cengage CompPublished: 04/05/2023Pages: 536Binding Type: Library BindingWeight: 1.45lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.40w x 1.10dISBN: 9798885787437
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The American Experiment: Dialogues on a DreamThe text of this Large Print edition is unabridged.Author: David M. RubensteinPublisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintPublished: 12/22/2021Pages: 811Binding Type: Library BindingWeight: 1.85lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.40dISBN: 9781432893521
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The Cheyenne Indians: Their History and Ways of Life, Volume II"A half-century spent in rubbing shoulders with the Cheyennes... forbids me to think of them except as acquaintances, comrades, and friends. While their culture differs from ours in some respects, fundamentally they are like ourselves, except in so far as their environment has obliged...
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The Vagabonds: The Story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison's Ten-Year Road TripIn 1914 Henry Ford visited Thomas Edison in Florida and toured the Everglades. The following year they joined together on a summer camping trip and decided to call themselves the Vagabonds. They continued their summer road trips until 1925. Although they traveled with an...
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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century#1 New York Times Bestseller - A historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authoritarianism.The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new...
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Unlikely Heroes: Franklin Roosevelt, His Four Lieutenants, and the World They MadeDrawing on new materials, Unlikely Heroes constructs an entirely fresh understanding of FDR and his presidency by spotlighting the powerful, equally wounded figures whom he raised up to confront the Depression, then to beat the Axis.Only four people served at the top echelon of...
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Ordinary Lives: Recovering Deaf Social History Through the American CensusThe collective social history of deaf people in America has yet to be written. While scholars have focused their attention on residential schools for the deaf, leaders in the deaf community, and prominent graduates of these institutions, the lives of "ordinary" deaf individuals have...
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Writing Against Reform: Aesthetic Realism in the Progressive EraThroughout the Progressive Era, reform literature became a central feature of the American literary landscape. Works like Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-Paper," and Jacob Riis's How the Other Half Lives topped bestseller lists and jolted middle-class readers into action....
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Blood and Ink: The Barbary Archive in Early American Literary HistoryIn the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Algerian piracy in the Mediterranean loomed large in the American imagination. An estimated seven hundred American citizens, sailors, and naval officers were taken captive over the course of the Barbary Crises (1784-1815), and this overseas danger...
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The 319th in ActionThe 319th in Action, recorded by Lieutenant William B. Monroe who later was a commentator for Meet the Press, was compiled by a member of that famed group of WWII aviators, Harold E. Oyster, and his wife, Esther M. Oyster Queneau. It records the...
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