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The Electrifying Fall of Rainbow City: Spectacle and Assassination at the 1901 World's FairThe Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, dazzled with its new rainbow-colored electric lights. It showcased an array of wonders, like daredevils attempting to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel, or the "Animal King" putting the smallest woman in the world and also...
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Children of the City: At Work and at PlayThe turn of the twentieth century was a time of explosive growth for American cities, a time of nascent hopes and apparently limitless possibilities. In Children of the City, David Nasaw re-creates this period in our social history from the vantage point of the...
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The Children of Henry VIIIBehind the facade of politics and pageantry at the Tudor court, there was a family drama. Nothing drove Henry VIII, England's wealthiest and most powerful king, more than producing a legitimate male heir and so perpetuating his dynasty. To that end, he married six...
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Lincoln's Last Speech: Wartime Reconstruction and the Crisis of ReunionWhat did Abraham Lincoln envision when he talked about "reconstruction?" Assassinated in 1865, the president did not have a chance to begin the work of reconciling the North and South, nor to oversee Reconstruction as an official postwar strategy. Yet his final speech, given...
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The Human Factor: Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher, and the End of the Cold WarWhy did the Cold War end when it did? Few questions have generated more heated debate over the course of the last three decades. Archie Brown, one of the foremost experts on the subject, shows why the popular view that Western economic and military...
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John Wayne's Wild West: An Illustrated History of Cowboys, Gunfighters, Weapons, and EquipmentJohn Wayne is the most iconic cowboy actor of all time, even now, thirty years after his death. His unique style brilliantly characterized a whole troupe of western characters, from rancher to cowboy to sheriff to scout, and left his fans with numerous popular...
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Destiny Betrayed: Jfk, Cuba, and the Garrison CaseThrilling and informative guide to the life and death of JFK Ideal for fans of In Cold Blood and Oliver Stone's JFK Revised and expanded version of DiEugenio's original book Twenty years ago, before the ages of Obama and Trump, James DiEugenio wrote the...
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The Secret Team: The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World"Offers uncommonly penetrating insight....A rare glimpse into Covert and Black Operations.--New York Times Bestselling author, Governor Jesse Ventura, from his Foreword. The Secret Team, L. Fletcher Prouty's expose of the CIA's brutal methods of maintaining national security during the Cold War, was first published...
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The Nixon Tapes: 1973"A revealing selection . . . [a] heroic service." -- New York Times Book Review "Endlessly fascinating . . . Essential for students of late-twentieth-century history and the American presidency." -- Kirkus Reviews "[A] monumental effort . . . Astonishing." -- Austin American-Statesman Between...
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Empire of Deception: The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the NationIt was a time of unregulated madness. And nowhere was it madder than in Chicago at the dawn of the Roaring Twenties. Enter a slick, smooth-talking, charismatic lawyer named Leo Koretz, who enticed hundreds of people to invest as much as $30 million upward...
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What I Saw: Reports from Berlin 1920-1933The Joseph Roth revival has finally gone mainstream with the thunderous reception for What I Saw, a book that has become a classic with five hardcover printings. Glowingly reviewed, What I Saw introduces a new generation to the genius of this tortured author with...
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Twenty Miles from a Match: Homesteading in Western NevadaTwenty Miles From a Match, originally published in 1978, is the autobiography of an indomitable woman and her family's twenty years of adventures and misadventures in a desert wilderness. In 1908, a venturesome woman named Sarah Olds packed up her brood and went homesteading...
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When America First Met China: An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of SailBrilliantly illuminating one of the least-understood areas of American history, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin now traces our fraught relationship with China back to its roots: the unforgiving nineteenth-century seas that separated a brash, rising naval power from a battered ancient empire. It is...
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The Circus FireThe acclaimed author of Emily, Alone and Henry, Himself brings all his narrative gifts to bear on this gripping account of tragedy and heroism--the great Hartford circus fire of 1944. It was a midsummer afternoon, halfway through a Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus...
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Holy Living: Jonathan Edwards's Seventy Resolutions for Living the Christian LifeIn Holy Living, author Matthew Everhard explores the "resolutions" Jonathan Edwards wrote when he was just nineteen years old, revealing how they are still beneficial to Christians today.Though not yet ordained, Edwards (1703-1758) wrote these short but powerful aphorisms to guide his life, and...
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The Astronomer and the Witch: Johannes Kepler's Fight for His MotherJohannes Kepler (1571-1630) was one of the most admired astronomers who ever lived and a key figure in the scientific revolution. A defender of Copernicus' s sun-centered universe, he famously discovered that planets move in ellipses, and defined the three laws of planetary motion....
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D-Day to Carpiquet: The North Shore Regiment and the Liberation of EuropeThe brutal battlefields of Europe during World War II were the testing ground for the young men of the 1st Battalion of the North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment. On June 6, 1944, the soldiers landed on the coast of France as part of the...
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Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of the Twentieth CenturyThis study of the historical shift between the 19th and 20th centuries is "an illuminating work of massive insight" on the complex ideas and events that dramatically differentiate both eras (Alan Moore, author of V for Vendetta and Watchmen). "An always-provocative view of an...
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Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American IndependenceNATIONAL BESTSELLER - A distinctive portrait of the crescendo moment in American history from the Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian"Accessible and electric.... [Ellis] crisply covers the decisive and improbable events of 1776.... [A] dramatic slice of history." --USA TodayThe summer months of 1776 witnessed the...
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'68: El Otoño Mexicano de la Masacre de TlatelolcoIn 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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