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1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Debs -The Election that Changed the Country
Beginning with former president Theodore Roosevelt's return in 1910 from his African safari, Chace brilliantly unfolds a dazzling political circus that featured four extraordinary candidates. When Roosevelt failed to defeat his chosen successor, William ...more |
James Chace |
2010-01-16 |
$14.95 |
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A Bright and Guilty Place
A captivating chronicle of how the City of Angels lost its soul Los Angeles was the fastest growing city in the world, mad with oil fever, get-rich-quick schemes, celebrity scandals, and religious fervor. It was also rife with organized crime, with a |
Richard Rayner |
2009-06-22 |
$25.00 |
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A Troubled Dream: The Promise and Failure of School Desegregation in Louisiana
Examines the failed desegregation efforts in Louisiana as a case study to show how desegregation has followed the same unsuccessful pattern across the United States. ...more |
Bankston Carl L. III &
Stephen J. Caldas |
2010-01-12 |
$49.95 |
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American Lightning
"An unforgettable tale of murder, deceit, celebrity, media manipulation, and film as propaganda, when the bombing of the Los Angeles Times building exposed the deadly 'national dynamite plot' by trade unionists to terrorize America with one-hundred bombings ...more |
Howard Blum |
2009-08-06 |
$24.95 |
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American Passage
For most of New York's early history, Ellis Island had been an obscure little island that barely held itself above high tide. Today the small island stands alongside Plymouth Rock in our nation's founding mythology as the place where many of our ancestors |
Vincent J. Cannato |
2009-06-21 |
$19.95 |
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Atomic America: How a Deadly Explosion and a Feared Admiral Changed the Course of Nuclear History
On January 3, 1961, nuclear reactor SL-1 exploded in rural Idaho, spreading radioactive contamination over thousands of acres and killing three men: John Byrnes, Richard McKinley, and Richard Legg. The Army blamed "human error" and a sordid love triangle. ...more |
Todd Tucker |
2009-03-28 |
$26.00 |
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Ava's Man
Rick Bragg brings his astonishing gift for storytelling to the tale of his grandfather, a man who kept his family one step ahead of poverty and starvation. Charlie Bundrum was a roofer, a carpenter, a bootlegger, and a fisherman. He could not read, but ...more |
Rick Bragg |
2010-03-05 |
$13.95 |
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Between a River and a Mountain: The AFL-CIO and the Vietnam War
Between a River and a Mountain details American labor's surprisingly complex relationship to the American war in Vietnam. Breaking from the simplistic story of "hard hat patriotism," Wehrle uses newly released archival material to demonstrate the AFL-CIO's ...more |
Edmund F. Wehrle |
2010-03-09 |
$27.95 |
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Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years
Brothers begins on the shattering afternoon of November 22, 1963, as a grief-stricken Robert Kennedy urgently demands answers about the assassination of his brother. Bobby's suspicions immediately focus on the nest of CIA spies, gangsters, and Cuban exiles ...more |
David Talbot |
2010-02-17 |
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CAMELOT & THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION: HOW THE ASSASSI: How the Assassination of John F. Kennedy Shattered American Liberalism
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James Piereson |
2010-03-04 |
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Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy
In 1958, an African-American handyman named Jimmy Wilson was sentenced to die in Alabama for stealing two dollars. Shocking as this sentence was, it was overturned only after intense international attention and the interference of an embarrassed John Foster ...more |
Mary L. Dudziak |
2009-12-08 |
$29.95 |
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Corporate Governance: Promises Kept, Promises Broken
In the wake of the Enron meltdown and other corporate scandals, the United States has increasingly relied on Securities and Exchange Commission oversight and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which set tougher rules for boards, management, and public accounting ...more |
Jonathan R. Macey |
2009-08-28 |
$35.00 |
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Devil's Sanctuary: An Eyewitness History of Mississippi Hate Crimes
Recalling the state's shameful racist history of lynching, arson, denial of rights, false imprisonment, and other heinous crimes, this riveting narrative explores how Mississippi became a safe haven for the most violent and virulent racists, who were immune ...more |
James L. Dickerson |
2009-08-03 |
$21.95 |
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Drake's Fortune: The Fabulous True Story of the World's Greatest Confidence Artist
His scam was as simple as it was brazen. Before and during the Great Depression, Oscar Hartzell persuaded tens of thousands of Midwesterners to part with millions of dollars to start a legal fund that would see the mythical fortune of Sir Francis Drake ...more |
Richard Rayner |
2008-08-16 |
$9.95 |
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Driving with the Devil
Â"Moonshiners put more time, energy, thought, and love into their cars than any racer ever will. Lose on the track and you go home. Lose with a load of whiskey and you go to jail.Â" —Junior Johnson, NASCAR legend and one-time whiskey runnerTodayÂ's NASCAR ...more |
Neal Thompson |
2009-07-26 |
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Eisenhower and Adenauer: Alliance Maintenance under Pressure, 1953-1960
In the early years of the Atlantic Alliance, no bilateral relationship was more important than that between the Federal Republic of Germany and the United States. Even so, the West German-American alliance was taxing for both sides during much of the ...more |
Steven J. Brady |
2010-01-16 |
$80.00 |
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Faith in the City: Preaching Radical Social Change in Detroit
"The dynamics of Black Theology were at the center of the 'Long New Negro Renaissance,' triggered by mass migrations to industrial hubs like Detroit. Finally, this crucial subject has found its match in the brilliant scholarship of Angela Dillard. No one ...more |
Angela Denise Dillard |
2010-01-19 |
$24.95 |
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Flapper
Blithely flinging aside the Victorian manners that kept her disapproving mother corseted, the New Woman of the 1920s puffed cigarettes, snuck gin, hiked her hemlines, danced the Charleston, and necked in roadsters. More important, she earned her own keep, ...more |
Joshua Zeitz |
2009-03-28 |
$13.95 |
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For Both Cross and Flag: Catholic Action, Anti-Catholicism, and National Security Politics in World War II San Francisco
Against a backdrop of war and anti-Catholic sentiment, one man loses his rights because he is falsely accused ...more |
William Issel |
2009-12-08 |
$35.00 |
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Fordlandia
The stunning, never before told story of the quixotic attempt to recreate small-town America in the heart of the Amazon In 1927, Henry Ford, the richest man in the world, bought a tract of land twice the size of Delaware in the Brazilian Amazon. His i ...more |
Greg Grandin |
2009-12-10 |
$27.50 |
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