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A Child of Christian Blood: Murder and Conspiracy in Tsarist Russia: The Beilis Blood Libel
Edmund Levin · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pages: 377
Format: Print book
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A Jewish factory worker is falsely accused of ritually murdering a Christian boy in Russia in 1911, and his trial becomes an international cause célèbre. On March 20, 1911, thirteen-year-old Andrei Yushchinsky was found stabbed to death in a cave on the outskirts of Kiev. Four months... |
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France: A Modern History from the Revolution to the War with Terror
Jonathan Fenby · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 576
Format: Print book
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With the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815, the next two centuries for France would be tumultuous. Critically acclaimed historian and political commentator Jonathan Fenby provides an expert and riveting journey through this period as he recounts and analyzes... |
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The American Thriller
Gary Hoppenstand · Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Amenia, NY
Pages: 222
Format: Print book
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An exploration of the authors and literary works that identify with the American thriller, this volume examines the prominent themes and stories. It presents a variety of new essays on this genre in which "ordinary" heroes are faced with an enemy set on destroying them or something... |
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Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War
Karen Abbott · Harper
Format: Hardcover
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Karen Abbott, the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and "pioneer of sizzle history" (USA Today) , tells the spellbinding true story of four women who risked everything to become spies during the Civil War.Karen Abbott illuminates one of the most fascinating... |
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Eye of the Sixties: Richard Bellamy and the Transformation of Modern Art
Judith E Stein · Farrar
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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A man with a preternatural ability to find emerging artists, Richard Bellamy was one of the first advocates of pop art, minimalism, and conceptual art. The founder and director of the fabled Green Gallery on Fifty-Seventh Street, the witty, poetry-loving art lover became a legend of the avant-garde,... |
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The Framers' Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution
Michael J Klarman · Oxford University Press
Pages: 880
Format: Print book
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Americans revere their Constitution. However, most of us are unaware how tumultuous and improbable the drafting and ratification processes were. As Benjamin Franklin keenly observed, any assembly of men bring with them "all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion,... |
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Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People
Elizabeth A. Fenn · Farrar Straus & Giroux
Pages: 456
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for HistoryEncounters at the Heart of the World concerns the Mandan Indians, iconic Plains people whose teeming, busy towns on the upper Missouri River were for centuries at the center of the North American universe. We know of them mostly because Lewis... |
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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
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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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The Bombers and the Bombed: Allied Air War Over Europe 1940-1945
R J Overy · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 562
Format: Hardcover
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The ultimate history of the Allied bombing campaigns in World War IITechnology shapes the nature of all wars, and the Second World War hinged on a most unpredictable weapon: the bomb. Day and night, Britain and the United States unleashed massive fleets of bombers to kill and terrorize... |
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Zero Night: The Untold Story of World War Two's Greatest Escape
Mark Felton · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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On August 30, 1942 - 'Zero Night' - 40 Allied officers staged the most audacious mass escape of World War II. Months of meticulous planning and secret training hung in the balance during three minutes of mayhem as the officers boldly stormed the huge double fences at Oflag Prison.... |
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Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt
Sarah Jaffe · Nation Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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"Sarah Jaffe marches into the class war, fighting the good fight with a pen as sharp as any sword." - Bill Moyers"The most compelling social and political portrait of our age." - Robin D. G. KelleyWe are witnessing a moment of unprecedented political engagement and social... |
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