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Sitcom : a history in 24 episodes from I love Lucy to Community
Saul Austerlitz · Chicago Review Press Pages: 406 Format: eBook
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"Obsessively watched and critically ignored, sitcoms were a distraction, a gentle lullaby of a kinder, gentler America--until suddenly the artificial boundary between the world and television entertainment collapsed. In this book we track the growth of the sitcom, following the path... |
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The Handy Civil War Answer Book
Samuel Willard Crompton · Visible Ink Press Pages: 410 Format: Paperback
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Battles, Blood, Honor, and HeroismThe nation's highest-casualty, bloodiest war is still discussed, studied, and acted out. It continues to affect the political boundaries of today. From the economic, political, and social forces behind the conflict, through the first shots fired at Fort... |
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Hunting the Truth: Memoirs of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld
BEATE KLARSFELD · Farrar, Straus and Giroux Pages: 464 Format: Hardcover
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In this dual autobiography, the Klarsfelds tell the dramatic story of fifty years devoted to bringing Nazis to justice. They were born on opposite sides of the Second World War: Beate grew up in the ruins of a defeated Weimar Germany, while Serge, a Jewish boy in France, was hiding in a cupboard... |
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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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Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich
Norman Ohler · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Pages: 304 Format: Hardcover
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A fast-paced narrative that discovers a surprising perspective on World War II: Nazi Germany's all-consuming reliance on drugs The Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. But as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping new history, the Third Reich was saturated... |
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The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race
Jesmyn Ward · Scribner Pages: 240 Format: Hardcover
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National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin's 1963 examination of race in America, The Fire Next Time, as a jumping off point for this groundbreaking collection of essays and poems about race from the most important voices of her generation and our time.In light of recent... |
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The art of rivalry : four friendships, betrayals, and breakthroughs in modern art
Sebastian Smee · Random House Pages: 416 Format: Print book
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Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Sebastian Smee tells the fascinating story of four pairs of artists - Manet and Degas, Picasso and Matisse, Pollock and de Kooning, Freud and Bacon - whose fraught, competitive friendships spurred them to new creative heights. Rivalry is at the heart... |
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Masters of the Word: How Media Shaped History
William J. Bernstein · Grove Press; First Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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William J. Bernstein’s A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World, an Economist and Financial Times Best Book of the Year, placed him firmly among the top flight of historians like Jared Diamond and Bill Bryson, capable of distilling major trends and reams of information into... |
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American epic : when music gave america her voice.
Elijah Wald · Touchstone Pages: 288 Format: Hardcover
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The companion book to the groundbreaking PBS and BBC documentary series celebrating the pioneers and artists of American roots music - blues, gospel, folk, Cajun, Appalachian, Hawaiian, Native American - without which there would be no jazz, rock, country R&B, or hip hop today.Jack... |
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No Friends but the Mountains: Dispatches from the World's Violent Highlands
Judith Matloff · Basic Books Pages: 272 Format: Print book
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A veteran war correspondent journeys to remote mountain communities across the globe - from Albania and Chechnya to Nepal and Colombia - to investigate why so many conflicts occur at great heightsMountainous regions are home to only ten percent of the world's population yet host a strikingly... |
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The Boys in the Bunkhouse: Servitude and Salvation in the Heartland
Dan Barry · Harper Pages: 340 Format: Print book
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With this Dickensian tale from America's heartland, New York Times writer and columnist Dan Barry tells the harrowing yet uplifting story of the exploitation and abuse of a resilient group of men with intellectual disability, and the heroic efforts of those who helped them to find justice... |
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ANONYMOUS. · Scribner Pages: 368 Format: Hardcover
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The Feud: The Hatfields and McCoys: The True Story
Dean King · Little, Brown and Company; 1st edition Format: Hardcover
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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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