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Bigger: A Literary LifeA biography of Native Son's Bigger Thomas that examines his continued relevance in debates over Black men and the violence of racism Bigger Thomas, the central figure in Richard Wright's novel Native Son (1940), eludes easy categorization. A violent and troubled character who rejects...
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The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965Spanning the years 1940 to 1965, The Last Lion: Defender of the Realm begins shortly after Winston Churchill became prime minister--when Great Britain stood alone against the overwhelming might of Nazi Germany. In brilliant prose and informed by decades of research, William Manchester and...
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The Future Was ColorA dazzling novel about the inextricable link between the personal and the political set against the decadence of Hollywood and postwar Los Angeles As a Hungarian immigrant working as a studio hack writing monster movies in 1950s Hollywood, George Curtis must navigate the McCarthy-era...
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Why Surrealism MattersAn elegant consideration of the Surrealist movement as a global phenomenon and why it continues to resonate Why does Surrealism continue to fascinate us a century after André Breton's Manifesto of Surrealism? How do we encounter Surrealism today? Mark Polizzotti vibrantly reframes the Surrealist...
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Power, Politics, and Universal Health Care: The Inside Story of a Century-Long BattleEssential reading for every American who must navigate the US health care system. Why was the Obama health plan so controversial and difficult to understand? In this readable, entertaining, and substantive book, Stuart Altman-internationally recognized expert in health policy and adviser to five US...
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The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old ManOne of our nation's most prominent writers finds the truth about how to live a long and happy life in the centenarian next door. When a veteran Washington journalist moved to Kansas, he met a new neighbor who was more than a century old....
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Oral Roberts and the Rise of the Prosperity GospelIn 1946, God gave Oral Roberts a new Buick. And this just one of many miracles the young, broke preacher learned to expect, as Oral Roberts would go on to build an evangelistic ministry worth millions of dollars, a medical complex, and a university....
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The Day Kennedy Died: Remembering the Man and the MomentFifty years ago on November 22, 1963, in Dallas's Dealey Plaza, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated while traveling in a motorcade with his wife, Jacqueline. LIFE magazine, the weekly pictorial chronicle of events in America and throughout...
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The Shadow of the Empress: Fairy-Tale Opera and the End of the Habsburg MonarchyA beguiling exploration of the last Habsburg monarchs' grip on Europe's historical and cultural imagination. In 1919 the last Habsburg rulers, Emperor Karl and Empress Zita, left Austria, going into exile. That same year, the fairy-tale opera Die Frau ohne Schatten (The Woman Without...
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The Cult of Creativity: A Surprisingly Recent HistoryA history of how, in the mid-twentieth century, we came to believe in the concept of creativity. Creativity is one of American society's signature values. Schools claim to foster it, businesses say they thrive on it, and countless cities say it's what makes them...
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Hear My Sad Story: The True Tales That Inspired "stagolee," "john Henry," and Other Traditional American Folk SongsRead an excerpt and listen to the songs featured in the book at http: //folksonghistory.com/In 2015, Bob Dylan said, "I learned lyrics and how to write them from listening to folk songs. And I played them, and I met other people that played them,...
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The Size of Others' Burdens: Barack Obama, Jane Addams, and the Politics of Helping OthersAmericans have a fierce spirit of individualism. We pride ourselves on self-reliance, on bootstrapping our way to success. Yet, we also believe in helping those in need, and we turn to our neighbors in times of crisis. The tension between these competing values is...
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The Scandalous Hamiltons: A Gilded Age Grifter, a Founding Fathers Disgraced Descendant, and a Trial at the Dawn of Tabloid JournalismAn Alexander Hamilton heir, a beautiful female con artist, an abandoned baby, and the shocking courtroom drama that was splashed across front pages from coast to coast--this is the fascinating true story behind one of the greatest scandals of the Gilded Age, and the...
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Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment ExperienceIn the wake of wartime panic that followed the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor, more than 100,000 Japanese Americans residing along the West Coast of the United States were uprooted from their homes and their communities and banished to internment camps throughout the country....
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The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth CenturyWinner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for CriticismA New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the YearTime magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007 In this sweeping...
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The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815-1914An Economist Best Book of the Year "Sweeping . . . an ambitious synthesis . . . Evans] writes with admirable narrative power and possesses a wonderful eye for local color . . . Fascinating."--Stephen Schuker, The Wall Street JournalFrom the bestselling author of...
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Black Elk: The Life of an American VisionaryWinner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography - Winner of the Society of American Historians Francis Parkman Prize - Winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award for Best Western Biography - A Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award...
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Finks: How the C.I.A. Tricked the World's Best WritersWhen news broke that the CIA had colluded with literary magazines to produce cultural propaganda throughout the Cold War, a debate began that has never been resolved. The story continues to unfold, with the reputations of some of America's best-loved literary figures--including Peter Matthiessen,...
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An Idea Whose Time Has Come: Two Presidents, Two Parties, and the Battle for the Civil Rights Act of 1964A top Washington journalist recounts the dramatic political battle to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the law that created modern America It was a turbulent time in America--a time of sit-ins, freedom rides, a March on Washington and a governor standing in...
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River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton KingdomWinner of the SHEAR Book PrizeHonorable Mention, Avery O. Craven Award "Few books have captured the lived experience of slavery as powerfully."--Ari Kelman, Times Literary Supplement "[One] of the most impressive works of American history in many years."--The Nation "An important, arguably seminal, book...Always...
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