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Living Hell: The Dark Side of the Civil War
Michael C. C. Adams · Johns Hopkins University Press; 1st Printing edition Format: Hardcover
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Many Americans, argues Michael C. C. Adams, tend to think of the Civil War as more glorious, less awful, than the reality. Millions of tourists flock to battlefields each year as vacation destinations, their perceptions of the war often shaped by reenactors who work hard for verisimilitude... |
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Reproducing Racism: How Everyday Choices Lock In White Advantage
Daria Roithmayr · BiblioBazaar Pages: 205 Format: Hardcover
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This book is designed to change the way we think about racial inequality. Long after the passage of civil rights laws and now the inauguration of our first black president, blacks and Latinos possess barely a nickel of wealth for every dollar that whites have. Why have we made so little... |
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The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels, and the History of American Comedy
Kliph Nesteroff · Grove Press Pages: 425 Format: Print book
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In The Comedians, comedy historian Kliph Nesteroff brings to life a century of American comedy with real-life characters, forgotten stars, mainstream heroes and counterculture iconoclasts. Based on over two hundred original interviews and extensive archival research, Nesteroff's groundbreaking... |
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Edward VII: The Prince of Wales and the Women He Loved
Catharine Arnold · St. Martin's Press Pages: 304 Format: Hardcover
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Edward Prince of Wales, better known as "Bertie," was the eldest son of Queen Victoria. Charming and dissolute, he was a larger-than-life personality with king-size appetites. A lifelong womanizer, Bertie conducted his countless liaisons against the glittering backdrop of London... |
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Commanding the Storm: Civil War Battles in the Words of the Generals Who Fought Them
John Richard Stephens · Lyons Press Format: Print book
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From Beauregard and Custer to Lee and Sherman, twelve commanders from each side vividly describe what they and their men experienced at twelve of the war’s most legendary battles from Fort Sumter to Appomattox Court House in accounts gathered from letters, memoirs, reports, and testimonies.... |
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Our Sister Republics: The United States in an Age of American Revolutions
Caitlin Fitz · Liveright Publishing Corp Pages: 352 Format: Print book
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A major new interpretation recasts U.S. history between revolution and civil war, exposing a dramatic reversal in sympathy toward Latin American revolutions. In the early nineteenth century, the United States turned its idealistic gaze southward, imagining a legacy of revolution and republicanism... |
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The Wrath of Cochise: The Bascom Affair and the Origins of the Apache Wars
Terry Mort · Pegasus; 1 edition Format: Hardcover
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In a powerful evocation of the spirit and drama of the American West, the harrowing story of the feud that ignited the Apache Wars. In February 1861, the twelve-year-old son of Arizona rancher John Ward was kidnapped by Apaches. Ward followed their trail and reported the incident to patrols... |
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Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865
James Oakes · W. W. Norton & Company; First edition Format: Hardcover
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A powerful history of emancipation that reshapes our understanding of Lincoln, the Civil War, and the end of American slavery.Freedom National is a groundbreaking history of emancipation that joins the political initiatives of Lincoln and the Republicans in Congress with the courageous... |
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Conspiracy Theory in America
Lance deHaven-Smith · University of Texas Press Format: Hardcover
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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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Alone: Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk: Defeat Into Victory
MICHAEL KORDA · Liveright Pages: 525 Format: Hardcover
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Combining epic history with rich family stories, Michael Korda chronicles the outbreak of World War Two and the great events that led to Dunkirk.An epic of remarkable originality, Alone captures the heroism of World War II as movingly as any book in recent memory. Bringing to vivid life... |
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The Rise of Athens: The Story of the World's Greatest Civilization
Anthony Everitt · Random House Pages: 592 Format: Print book
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A magisterial account of how a tiny city-state in ancient Greece became history's most influential civilization, from the bestselling author of acclaimed biographies of Cicero, Augustus, and Hadrian Filled with tales of adventure and astounding reversals of fortune, The Rise of Athens... |
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