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Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a UniversityIn 1885 Jane and Leland Stanford cofounded a university to honor their recently deceased young son. After her husband's death in 1893, Jane Stanford, a devoted spiritualist who expected the university to inculcate her values, steered Stanford into eccentricity and public controversy for more...
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On Elizabeth BishopA compelling portrait of a beloved poet from one of today's most acclaimed novelists In this book, novelist Colm T ib n offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most important literary influences--the American poet Elizabeth Bishop....
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The Hidden Hindenburg: The Untold Story of the Tragedy, the Nazi Secrets, and the Quest to Rule the SkiesBy the author of Ashes Under Water (Lyons Press), here is one of the great untold stories of World War II. The Hidden Hindenburg at last reveals the cause of aviation's most famous disaster and the duplicity that kept the truth from coming to...
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A 1960s East End ChildhoodDo you remember playing in streets free of traffic? Dancing to the Beatles? Watching a man land on the Moon on TV? Waking up to ice on the inside of the windows? If the answer is yes, then the chances are that you were...
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It Did Not Start With JFK Volume 1: The Decades of Events that Led to the Assassination of John F KennedyWhy have historians treated the assassination of JFK as if it occurred in a vacuum?Within twenty-six months of John F. Kennedy's murder, there were fifteen attempted assassinations and government overthrows of leftist leaders and regimes throughout the world. All were perpetrated by right-wing anti-Communists.A...
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Making a New DealThis book examines how it was possible and what it meant for ordinary factory workers to become effective unionists and national political participants by the mid-1930s. We follow Chicago workers as they make choices about whether to attend ethnic benefit society meetings or to...
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Food Will Win the War: Minnesota Crops, Cook, and Conservation During World War IMeatless Mondays, Wheatless Wednesdays, vegetable gardens and chickens in every empty lot. When the United States entered World War I, Minnesotans responded to appeals for personal sacrifice and changed the way they cooked and ate in order to conserve food for the boys "over...
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The Story of the Little Big Horn: Custer's Last FightFirst published in 1926 and respected ever since for its measured view of the most famous battle in the American West, The Story of the Little Big Horn asks questions that are still being debated. What were the causes of the debacle that wiped...
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The AlamoJohn Myers Myers authored sixteen books, including Doc Holliday and Tombstone's Early Years, also available as Bison Books.Author: John Myers MyersPublisher: Bison BooksPublished: 12/01/1973Pages: 240Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.56lbsSize: 7.86h x 5.62w x 0.54dISBN: 9780803257795
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Lt. Charles Gatewood & His Apache Wars MemoirLt. Charles B. Gatewood (1853-96), an educated Virginian, served in the Sixth U.S. Cavalry as the commander of Indian scouts. Gatewood was largely accepted by the Native peoples with whom he worked because of his efforts to understand their cultures. It was precisely this...
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Decolonize MulticulturalismFor those interested in continuing the struggle for decolonization, the word "multiculturalism" is mostly a sad joke. After all, institutionalized multiculturalism today is a managerial muck of buzzwords, branding strategies, and virtue signaling that has nothing to do with real struggles against racism and...
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It Did Not Start With JFK Volume 2: The Decades of Events that Led to the Assassination of John F KennedyWhy did Lee Harvey Oswald ask for the only attorney in America who had represented someone who tried to take over the U.S. government?And why did President Eisenhower warn the nation about a Military-Industrial Complex in his last televised address as President?During the Cold...
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Little Lindy Is Kidnapped: How the Media Covered the Crime of the CenturyPublisher: Columbia University PressPublished: 06/21/2022Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 8.70h x 5.60w x 0.90dISBN: 9780231198493
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Books on Trial: Red Scare in the HeartlandHow civil liberties triumphed over national insecurity Between the two major red scares of the twentieth century, a police raid on a Communist Party bookstore in Oklahoma City marked an important lesson in the history of American freedom. In a raid on the Progressive...
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George Kennan for Our TimeGeorge Kennan for Our Time examines the work and thought of the most distinguished American diplomat of the twentieth century and extracts lessons for today. In his writings and lectures, Kennan outlined the proper conduct of foreign policy and issued warnings to an American...
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Lost Voices: The Untold Stories of America's World War I Veterans and Their Families2017 is the 100th anniversary of America's declaration of war against Germany. Many historians take a diminutive stance regarding America's involvement but it cannot be underestimated by any means. It was the reason that brought Germany to it is knees and forced them to...
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Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, TravelsFor some 30 years, Adam Hochschild's voice has been one of the most distinctive in American journalism. With grace and wit, he has brought to a startling variety of subjects a combination of adventurous reporting and personal honesty. Hochschild's readers can count on an...
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The Man in the High Castle and Philosophy: Subversive Reports from Another RealityThe Man in the High Castle is an Amazon TV show, based on the Philip K. Dick novel, about an alternate present (beginning in the 1960s) in which Germany and Japan won World War II, with the former Western US occupied by Japan, the...
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The Donnellys: Massacre, Trial and Aftermath, 1880-1916: 1880-1916A story made all the more shocking because it's true. In 1880, an organized mob of the Donnellys' enemies murder four family members and burn their house to the ground. Another sibling is shot to death in a house a short distance away. William...
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American Prophets: Seven Religious Radicals and Their Struggle for Social and Political JusticeA "powerful text" (Tavis Smiley) about how religion drove the fight for social justice in modern America American Prophets sheds critical new light on the lives and thought of seven major prophetic figures in twentieth-century America whose social activism was motivated by a deeply...
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