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Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America
Chris Arnade · Sentinel
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Widely acclaimed photographer and writer Chris Arnade shines new light on America's poor, drug-addicted, and forgotten--both urban and rural, blue state and red state--and indicts the elitists who've left them behind.Like Jacob Riis in the 1890s, Walker Evans in the 1930s, or Michael... |
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Stonewall: The Definitive Story of the LGBTQ Rights Uprising that Changed America
Martin Duberman · Plume
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback
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The definitive account of the Stonewall Riots, the first gay rights march, and the LGBTQ activists at the center of the movement. "Martin Duberman is a national treasure." - Masha Gessen, The New YorkerOn June 28, 1969, the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York's Greenwich... |
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Songs of America: Patriotism, Protest, and the Music That Made a Nation
Jon Meacham · Random House
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A celebration of America and the music that inspired people and illuminated eras, from the Revolutionary War to the present, by Pulitzer Prize winner Jon Meacham and Grammy winner Tim McGraw. From "The Star Spangled Banner" to "Born in the U.S.A.," Jon Meacham and Tim McGraw... |
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Normandy '44: D-Day and the Retaking of Europe
James Holland · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
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D-Day, June 6, 1944, and the 76 days of bitter fighting in Normandy that followed the Allied landing, have become the defining episode of World War II in the West -- the object of books, films, television series, and documentaries. The story is a familiar one -- and yet, approaching the 75th... |
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The Plaza: The Secret Life of America's Most Famous Hotel
Julie Satow · Twelve
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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Journalist Julie Satow's thrilling, unforgettable history of how one illustrious hotel has defined our understanding of money and glamour, from the Gilded Age to the Go-Go Eighties to today's Billionaire Row. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px... |
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Norco '80: The True Story of the Most Spectacular Bank Robbery in American History
Peter Houlahan · Counterpoint
Pages: 408
Format: Hardcover
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Norco '80 is a gripping true crime account of one of the most violent bank heists in US history. Norco '80 tells the story of how five heavily armed young men -- led by an apocalyptic born-again Christian -- attempted a bank robbery that turned into one of the most violent criminal events... |
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