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The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife and the Missing Corpse
Piu Marie Eatwell · Head of Zeus Format: Hardcover
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The extraordinary story of the Druce-Portland affair, one of the most notorious, tangled, and bizarre legal cases of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras In 1897 an elderly widow, Anna Maria Druce, made a strange request of the London Ecclesiastical Court: it was for the exhumation... |
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Seven American Deaths and Disasters
Kenneth Goldsmith · powerHouse Books Format: Paperback
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What are the words we use to describe something that we never thought we'd have to describe? In Seven American Deaths and Disasters, Kenneth Goldsmith transcribes historic radio and television reports of national tragedies as they unfurl, revealing an extraordinarily rich linguistic... |
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The Glass Universe
Dava Sobel · Viking Pages: 324 Format: Print book
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New from #1 New York Times bestselling author Dava Sobel, the "inspiring" (People) , little-known true story of women's landmark contributions to astronomy"A joy to read." - The Wall Street JournalNamed one of the best books of the year by NPR, The Economist, Smithsonian,... |
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The End of the Suburbs: Where the American Dream Is Moving
Leigh Gallagher · Portfolio Hardcover Format: Hardcover
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The government in the past created one American Dream at the expense of almost all others: the dream of a house, a lawn, a picket fence, two children, and a car. But there is no single American Dream anymore.” For nearly 70 years, the suburbs were as American as apple pie. As the middle... |
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Smithsonian Treasures of American History
Kathleen M Kendrick · Smithsonian Books Pages: 120 Format: Print book
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The National Museum of American History--our country's largest history museum and one of the Smithsonian's most visited--preserves three million objects that capture the American story. From this vast collection, curators have handpicked more than 150 of the Museum's most... |
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Out of Ashes: A New History of Europe in the Twentieth Century
Konrad H. Jarausch · Princeton University Press Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping history of twentieth-century Europe, Out of Ashes tells the story of an era of unparalleled violence and barbarity yet also of humanity, prosperity, and promise. Konrad Jarausch describes how the European nations emerged from the nineteenth century with high hopes for continued... |
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The Return of George Washington: 1783-1789
Edward Larson · William Morrow; 1St Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Edward J. Larson recovers a crucially important—yet almost always overlooked—chapter of George Washingtons life, revealing how Washington saved the United States by coming out of retirement to lead the Constitutional Convention and serve as our first... |
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The Manor: Three Centuries at a Slave Plantation on Long Island
Mac Griswold · Farrar, Straus and Giroux; First Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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Mac Griswold’s The Manor is the biography of a uniquely American place that has endured through wars great and small, through fortunes won and lost, through histories bright and sinister—and of the family that has lived there since its founding as a Colonial New England... |
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The Secret History of World War II: Spies, Code Breakers, and Covert Operations
Neil Kagan · National Geographic Soc Pages: 352 Format: Print book
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From spy missions to code breaking, this richly illustrated account of the covert operations of World War II takes readers behind the battle lines and deep into the undercover war effort that changed the course of history. From the authors who created Eyewitness to World War II and numerous... |
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