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Black November: The Carl D. Bradley TragedyMichigan's "storms of November" are famous in song, lore, and legend and have taken a tragic toll, breaking the hulls of many ships and sending them to cold, dark, and silent graves on the bottoms of the Great Lakes. On November 18, 1958, when...
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Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, & the Great DepressionThe study of two great demagogues in American history--Huey P. Long, a first-term United States Senator from the red-clay, piney-woods country of nothern Louisiana; and Charles E. Coughlin, a Catholic priest from an industrial suburb near Detroit. Award-winning historian Alan Brinkely describes their modest...
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Folly Cove: A Smuggler's True Tale of the Pot RebellionAn audacious pot-smuggling tale of the early days-57,000 pounds of high-grade marijuana from Colombia to Massachusetts by shrimp boat.A lot of people got high, a few people got rich, and nobody got hurt. As far as we were concerned, we broke a law that...
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The President Is a Sick Man: Wherein the Supposedly Virtuous Grover Cleveland Survives a Secret Surgery at Sea and Vilifies the Courageous NewspapeAn extraordinary yet almost unknown chapter in American history is revealed in this extensively researched expos . On July 1, 1893, President Grover Cleveland boarded a friend's yacht and was not heard from for five days. During that time, a team of doctors removed...
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Los Asesinos de la Luna de Las Flores: Los Crímenes En La Nación Osage Y El Nación Osage Y El Nacimiento del FBI / Killers of the Flower Moon: The OsaBEST-SELLER DEL NEW YORK TIMESFINALISTA DEL NATIONAL BOOK AWARD Desconcertante y cautivadora ...] una historia que abrasar tu alma. --Dave Eggers, New York Times Book Review MEJOR LIBRO DEL SHELF AWARENESS DE 2017 Elogiado como mejor libro del a o por Wall Street Journal,...
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The Banquet Years: The Origins of the Avant-Garde in France, 1885 to World War IThe definitive chronicle of the origins of French avant-garde literature and art, Roger Shattuck's classic portrays the cultural bohemia of turn-of-the-century Paris who carried the arts into a period of renewal and accomplishment and laid the groundwork for Dadaism and Surrealism. Shattuck focuses on...
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The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil RightsIt was the final speech of a long day, August 28, 1963, when hundreds of thousands gathered on the Mall for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. In a resounding cadence, Martin Luther King Jr. lifted the crowd when he told of...
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Patriotic Fire: Andrew Jackson and Jean Laffite at the Battle of New OrleansDecember 1814: its economy in tatters, its capital city of Washington, D.C., burnt to the ground, a young America was again at war with the militarily superior English crown. With an enormous enemy armada approaching New Orleans, two unlikely allies teamed up to repel...
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The Cedarville Conspiracy: Indicting U.S. SteelOn the morning of May 7, 1965, the American freighter Cedarville collided with the Norwegian vessel Topdalsfjord in heavy fog in the Straits of Mackinac. Ultimately, ten crew members of the Cedarville died and a legal battle ensued implicating U.S. Steel---the company that owned...
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Gentlemen Volunteers: The Story of the American Ambulance Drivers in the First World WarThey left Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Michigan, and Stanford to drive ambulances on the French front, and on the killing fields of World War I they learned that war was no place for gentlemen. The tale of the American volunteer ambulance drivers of the First...
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It Happened in the Old West: Remarkable Events that Shaped HistoryThese are the stories of what happened in the West as the trickle then flood of Easterners and immigrants first began to flow into the plains, deserts, and mountains between the Pacific Ocean and the Mississippi River and, finally, far north into The Last...
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The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own WordsThe World of Raymond Chandler shows how Chandler precariously balanced the values of a classical English education against those of a fast-evolving America during the years before the Great War; how he adopted Los Angeles as his home after WWI, with Hollywood in turn...
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The Silent Generation: A Memoir of the Depression Babies, The Parents of the BabyboomersAuthor: Anthony StolzPublisher: 1st Book LibraryPublished: 09/12/2002Pages: 108Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.38lbsSize: 9.20h x 6.02w x 0.28dISBN: 9781403329400This title is not returnable
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It Is Well With My Soul: Horatio Spafford's StoryThe name Horatio Spafford may not be well known, but the hymn he wrote, "It Is Well With My Soul," and the story that inspired it are famous and powerful. In this volume is that story in the form of a three-act, full-length play....
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The New Freedom: A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a PeopleThe New Freedom: A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by...
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The Life and Legacy of D. M. Renton: Pasadena and Santa Catalina Island, California 1902-1936A fascinating and unique story about David M. Renton, "DM", who was a well known builder of Craftsman homes and other structures in Pasadena, CA, and who later was General Manager of Santa Catalina Island, CA. The book is set in the dynamic history...
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Winter Light: The Memoir of a Child of Holocaust SurvivorsAuthor: Grace FeuervergerPublisher: Amsterdam PublishersPublished: 09/08/2024Pages: 302Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.98lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.68dISBN: 9789493322608
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John Stark of Rogers' Rangers: a Famous Ranger and His Associates During the French & Indian War: The Life of General John Stark of New Hampshire byThe early military career of a great American soldier and patriotStudents of the history of the American War of Independence will be familiar with Major-General John Stark of the Continental Army who served at Bunker Hill, Trenton, Princeton and notably at Bennington, 1777. However,...
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Memories of the Dakota Sioux War, 1862: Two Eyewitness Accounts of the Uprising in Southwest Minnesota----Recollections of the Sioux Massacre by OscarThe Indian War fought during the American Civil WarThe Dakota Sioux War (also known as the Little Crow Uprising and Little Crow's War, named after the Sioux leader) raged briefly from August to December, 1862 along the Minnesota River. The native Americans had suffered...
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Flashback to 1967 - A Time Traveler's Guide: From the original Time-Traveler Flashback Series of Yearbooks. Celebrating the year 1967-A Thoughtful, UnLet's FLASHBACK to 1967, a very special year. Was this the year you were bornWas this the year you were married? Let's travel back in time to celebrate your year, THE YEAR 1967, with this compact 75-page book packed with fun-filled fabulous facts. Enjoy...
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