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Paradise Now: The Story of American Utopianism
Chris Jennings · Random House
Pages: 488
Format: Print book |
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For readers of Jill Lepore, Joseph J. Ellis, and Tony Horwitz comes a lively, thought-provoking intellectual history of the golden age of American utopianism - and the bold, revolutionary, and eccentric visions for the future put forward by five of history's most influential utopian movements.... |
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Thank You for Your Service
David Finkel · Farrar Straus & Giroux
Pages: 256
Format: Print book |
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From a MacArthur Fellow and the author of The Good Soldiers, a profound look at life after warThe wars of the past decade have been covered by brave and talented reporters, but none has reckoned with the psychology of these wars as intimately as the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David... |
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The Oregon Trail : an illustrated edition of Francis Parkman's western adventure
Francis Parkman · Zenith Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book |
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Enjoy this fully and beautifully illustrated edition of this classic travel memoir written by Francis Parkman, the nineteenth century's most famous historian. "The Oregon Trail: The Complete Illustrated Edition, " by Francis Parkman, is the best known work by the 19th century's... |
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Candy: A Century of Panic and Pleasure
Samira Kawash · Faber & Faber; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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For most Americans, candy is an uneasy pleasure, eaten with side helpings of guilt and worry. Yet candy accounts for only 6 percent of the added sugar in the American diet. And at least its honest about what it is--a processed food, eaten for pleasure, with no particular nutritional benefit.... |
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The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State
Lisa McGirr · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover |
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A groundbreaking history of Prohibition and a new creation story for the powerful American state.Prohibition has long been portrayed as a "noble experiment" that failed, a newsreel story of glamorous gangsters, flappers, and speakeasies. Now at last Lisa McGirr dismantles this... |
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The Other Paris
Luc Sante · Farrar Straus Giroux
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover |
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A trip through Paris as it will never be again-dark and dank and poor and slapdash and truly bohemianParis, the City of Light, the city of fine dining and seductive couture and intellectual hauteur, was until fairly recently always accompanied by its shadow: the city of the poor, the outcast,... |
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Top Dog: The Story of Marine Hero Lucca
Maria Goodavage · Dutton
Format: Hardcover |
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The New York Times bestselling author of Soldier Dogs returns with the incredible, true story of K-9 Marine hero Lucca, and the handlers who fought alongside her through two bloody wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In Top Dog, Maria Goodavage takes readers into the life of Lucca K458, a decorated... |
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