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City of sedition : the history of New York during the Civil War
John Strausbaugh · Twelve
Pages: 432
Format: Print book
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In a single definitive narrative, CITY OF SEDITION tells the spellbinding story of the huge-and hugely conflicted-role New York City played in the Civil War. No city was more of a help to Abraham Lincoln and the Union war effort, or more of a hindrance. No city raised more men, money,... |
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Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
Henry Louis Gates Jr. · Bulfinch; Edition Unstated edition
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
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Unchained Memories is a riveting compilation of more than forty narratives drawn from interviews with former slaves conducted in the 1930s by the government's Works Progress Administration. The book is an adaptation of HBO's documentary special for 2003, also titled Unchained Memories... |
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Richard III: England's Most Controversial King
CHRIS SKIDMORE · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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From acclaimed historian Chris Skidmore comes the authoritative biography of Richard III, England's most controversial king, a man alternately praised as a saint and cursed as a villain.Richard III is one of English history's best known and least understood monarchs. Immortalized by Shakespeare... |
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Whiskey Breakfast: My Swedish Family, My American Life
Richard C. Lindberg · Univ Of Minnesota Press
Format: Paperback
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Chicago in the 1920s: Clark Street was the city’s last Swedetown, a narrow corridor of weather-beaten storefronts, coal yards, and taverns running along the north side of the city and the locus of Swedish community life in Chicago during the first half of the twentieth century. It represented... |
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The Annotated Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
ULYSSES S GRANT · Liveright
Pages: 1024
Format: Hardcover
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With kaleidoscopic, trenchant, path-breaking insights, Elizabeth D. Samet has produced the most ambitious edition of Ulysses Grant's Memoirs yet published.One hundred and thirty-three years after its 1885 publication by Mark Twain, Elizabeth Samet has annotated this lavish edition of Grant's... |
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Screen Deco: A Celebration of High Style in Hollywood
Howard Mandelbaum · Hennessey & Ingalls
Pages: 209
Format: Paperback
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Long sought-after in the out-of-print market, SCREEN DECO is a witty and detailed look at the fabulous Art Deco designs in the films of the Twenties and Thirties. Lavishly illustrated with stills from movies famous and obscure, SCREEN DECO appeals to the film historian as well as anyone... |
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Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
Svetlana Alexievich · Random House
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The magnum opus and latest work from Svetlana Alexievich, the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature - a symphonic oral history about the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new RussiaNAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON... |
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