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Jackson, 1964: And Other Dispatches from Fifty Years of Reporting on Race in America
Calvin Trillin · Random House Publishing Group
Pages: 304
Format: eBook
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From bestselling author and beloved New Yorker writer Calvin Trillin, a deeply resonant, career-spanning collection of articles on race and racism, from the 1960s to the present In the early sixties, Calvin Trillin got his start as a journalist covering the Civil Rights Movement in the South.... |
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Rejected Princesses: Tales of History's Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics
Jason Porath · Dey Street Books
Pages: 384
Format: eBook
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Blending the iconoclastic feminism of The Notorious RBG and the confident irreverence of Go the F**ck to Sleep, a brazen and empowering illustrated collection that celebrates inspirational badass women throughout history, based on the popular Tumblr blog. Well-behaved women seldom make... |
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ANONYMOUS. · Scribner
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World
Suzy Hansen · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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Suzy Hansen left her country and moved to Istanbul and discovered AmericaIn the wake of the September 11 attacks and the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, Suzy Hansen, who grew up in an insular conservative town in New Jersey, was enjoying early success as a journalist for a high-profile New York... |
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Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century
Tera W Hunter · Belknap Press
Pages: 404
Format: Hardcover
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Americans have long viewed marriage between a white man and a white woman as a sacred union. But marriages between African Americans have seldom been treated with the same reverence. This discriminatory legacy traces back to centuries of slavery, when the overwhelming majority of black... |
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Vulgar Tongues: An Alternative History of English Slang
Max Décharné · Pegasus Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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This rollercoaster ride through the colorful history of slang -- from highwaymen to hip-hop -- is a fresh and exciting take on the subject: entertaining and authoritative without being patronizing, out-of-touch or voyeuristic. Slang is the language of pop culture, low culture, street culture,... |
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Why?: Explaining the Holocaust
Peter Hayes · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 432
Format: Print book
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A bold new exploration that answers the most commonly asked questions about the Holocaust.Despite the outpouring of books, movies, museums, memorials, and courses devoted to the Holocaust, a coherent explanation of why such ghastly carnage erupted from the heart of civilized Europe in the twentieth... |
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Castle of the Eagles: Escape from Mussolini's Colditz
MARK FELTON · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Vincigliata Castle, a menacing medieval fortress set in the beautiful Tuscan hills, has become a very special prisoner of war camp on Benito Mussolini's personal order. Within are some of the most senior officers of the Allied army, guarded by almost two hundred Italian soldiers and a vicious... |
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Alligator Candy: A Memoir
David Kushner · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 256
Format: eBook
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From award-winning journalist David Kushner, a regular contributor to Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and other premier magazines, Alligator Candy is a reported memoir about family, survival, and the unwavering power of love.David Kushner grew up in the early 1970s in the Florida... |
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Gangster Warlords: Drug Dollars, Killing Fields, and the New Politics of Latin America
Ioan Grillo · Bloomsbury Press, 2016.
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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In a ranch south of Texas, the man known as The Executioner dumps five hundred body parts in metal barrels. In Brazil's biggest city, a mysterious prisoner orders hit-men to gun down forty-one police officers and prison guards in two days. In southern Mexico, a meth maker is venerated as a saint... |
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1924: The Year That Made Hitler
Peter Ross Range · Little
Pages: 316
Format: Print book
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The dark story of Adolf Hitler's life in 1924--the year that made a monsterBefore Adolf Hitler's rise to power in Germany, there was 1924. This was the year of Hitler's final transformation into the self-proclaimed savior and infallible leader who would interpret and distort Germany's historical... |
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The Black Panthers: Portraits from an Unfinished Revolution
Bryan Shih · Nation Books
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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October 2016 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party, an organization that remains one of the most misunderstood of the twentieth century. But beyond the labels of "extremist" and "violent" that have marked the party, and behind charismatic... |
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