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The Bellwether: Why Ohio Picks the President

Kyle Kondik · Ohio University Press
Pages: 172
Format: Print book

Since 1896, Ohio voters have failed to favor the next president only twice (in 1944 and 1960) . Time after time, Ohio has found itself in the thick of the presidential race, and 2016 is shaping up to be no different. What about the Buckeye State makes it so special? In The Bellwether, Kyle...
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American Rhapsody: Writers, Musicians, Movie Stars, and One Great Building

Claudia Roth Pierpont · Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2016.
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Ranging from the shattered gentility of Edith Wharton's heroines to racial confrontation in the songs of Nina Simone, American Rhapsody presents a kaleidoscopic story of the creation of a culture. Here is a series of deeply involving portraits of American artists and innovators who have...
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The Feud: The Hatfields and McCoys: The True Story

Dean King · Little, Brown and Company; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

For more than a century, the enduring feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys has been American shorthand for passionate, unyielding, and even violent confrontation. Yet despite numerous articles, books, television shows, and feature films, nobody has ever told the in-depth true story...
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Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners

Therese Oneill · Little
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

A scandalously honest guide to the secrets of Victorian womanhood."If Unmentionable does not secure the Pulitzer Prize for Most Fascinating Book Ever, the whole gig is rigged. Therese Oneill opens the doors to everything we secretly wanted to know about the Victorian era, but didn't...
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Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and Power

Michael Kranish · Scribner
Pages: 464
Format: Print book

A comprehensive biography of Donald Trump, the Republican front-runner in the presidential election campaign. Trump Revealed will be reported by a team of award-winning Washington Post journalists and co-authored by investigative political reporter Michael Kranish and senior editor Marc...
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The PARTISAN DIVIDE: Congress in Crisis

Tom Davis · FastPencil Premiere
Format: Hardcover

"Martin Frost and Tom Davis are uniquely qualified to examine how constant conflict in Washington keeps too many good things from happening. The Partisan Divide: Congress in Crisis is a smart book that asks the right questions and offers some intriguing solutions." — President...
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Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement

Devery S. Anderson · University Press of Mississippi
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover

Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement offers the first truly comprehensive account of the 1955 murder and its aftermath. It tells the story of Emmett Till, the fourteen-year-old African American boy from Chicago brutally lynched for a harmless...
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My Father and Atticus Finch: A Lawyer's Fight for Justice in 1930s Alabama

Joseph Madison Beck · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 218
Format: Print book

The story of Foster Beck, the author's late father, whose defense of a black man accused of rape in 1930s Alabama foreshadowed the trial at the heart of To Kill a Mockingbird.As a child, Joseph Beck heard the stories -- when other lawyers came up with excuses, his father courageously defended...
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Conspiracy Theory in America

Lance deHaven-Smith · University of Texas Press
Format: Hardcover

Ever since the Warren Commission concluded that a lone gunman assassinated President John F. Kennedy, people who doubt that finding have been widely dismissed as conspiracy theorists, despite credible evidence that right-wing elements in the CIA, FBI, and Secret Service—and possibly...
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Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery: Where War Comes Home

Robert M. Poole · Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover

While On Hallowed Ground chronicled the history of the cemetery, Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery is the powerful contemporary biography of a five-acre plot where many of those killed in Iraq and Afghanistan have been laid to rest alongside service members from earlier wars. Gifted...
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