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Bitter Freedom: Ireland in a Revolutionary World
Maurice Walsh · Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pages: 525
Format: Print book
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"Sets Ireland's post-1916 history in its global and human context, to brilliant effect." -- Neil Hegarty, Irish Times Books of the Year 2015The Irish Revolution has long been mythologized in American culture but seldom understood. Too often, the story of Irish independence and its grinding... |
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Dressing the Decades: Twentieth-Century Vintage Style
Emmanuelle Dirix · Yale University Press
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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An authoritative and visually stunning look at the fashion of the 20th century, Dressing the Decades examines in depth the origins of the most important luxury garments. Each sumptuously illustrated chapter features a detailed overview of a particular decade, including the historical events,... |
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Who Killed These Girls?: Cold Case: The Yogurt Shop Murders
Beverly Lowry · Knopf Publishing Group
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of Crossed Over, another masterful account of a horrible crime: the murder of four girls, countless other ruined lives, and the evolving complications of the justice system that frustrated the massive attempts--for twenty-five years now--to find and punish those who committed... |
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ANONYMOUS. · Scribner
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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The Trial of Adolf Hitler: The Beer Hall Putsch and the Rise of Nazi Germany
DAVID KING · W W NORTON
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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The never-before-told story of the scandalous courtroom drama that paved the way for the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party.On the evening of November 8, 1923, the thirty-four-year-old Adolf Hitler stormed into a beer hall in Munich, fired his pistol in the air, and proclaimed a revolution.... |
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The Age of Genius : the seventeenth century and the birth of the modern mind
A C Grayling · Bloomsbury
Pages: 351
Format: eBook
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"Explores the eventful intertwining of outward event and inner intellectual life to tell, in all its richness and depth, the story of the 17th century in Europe. It was a time of creativity unparalleled in history before or since, from science to the arts, from philosophy to politics... |
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Chester B. Himes: A Biography
Lawrence P Jackson · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 640
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive biography of the groundbreaking African American author who had an extraordinary legacy on black writers globally.In his Chester B. Himes (1909-1984) , Lawrence P. Jackson depicts the improbable life of the controversial writer whose novels confront sexuality, racism, and social... |
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The Butler's Child: An Autobiography
Lewis Steel · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The Butler's Child is the personal story of a Warner Brothers family grandson who spent more than fifty years as a fighting, no holds barred civil rights lawyer. Lewis M. Steel explores why he, a privileged white man, devoted his life to seeking racial progress in often uncomprehending... |
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Be Free or Die: The Amazing Story of Robert Smalls' Escape from Slavery to Union Hero
Cate Lineberry · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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"Be Free or Die makes you want to stand up and cheer. Cate Lineberry has done us all a great service by telling this incredibly moving, thrilling, and important story about an American hero who deserves to be remembered, and admired." -- Candice Millard, author of Hero of the EmpireFacing... |
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The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End
Robert Gerwarth · Farrar
Pages: 464
Format: Print book
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An epic, groundbreaking account of the ethnic and state violence that followed the end of World War I--conflicts that would shape the course of the twentieth centuryFor the Western allies, November 11, 1918 has always been a solemn date--the end of fighting that had destroyed a generation,... |
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Women in the World of Frederick Douglass
Leigh Fought · Oxford University Press
Pages: 424
Format: Hardcover
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In his extensive writings, Frederick Douglass revealed little about his private life. His famous autobiographies present him overcoming unimaginable trials to gain his freedom and establish his identity-all in service to his public role as an abolitionist. But in both the public and domestic... |
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