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The Russia Hoax: The Illicit Scheme to Clear Hillary Clinton and Frame Donald Trump

GREGG JARRETT · Broadside Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett reveals the real story behind Hillary Clinton's deep state collaborators in government and exposes their nefarious actions during and after the 2016 election.The Russia Hoax reveals how persons within the FBI and Barack Obama's Justice Department worked...
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A Shattered Nation: The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy, 1861-1868

Anne Sarah Rubin · The University of North Carolina Press
Pages: 334
Format: Hardcover

Historians often assert that Confederate nationalism had its origins in pre-Civil War sectional conflict with the North, reached its apex at the start of the war, and then dropped off quickly after the end of hostilities. Anne Sarah Rubin argues instead that white Southerners did not actually...
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Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940

Grace Elizabeth Hale · Pantheon
Pages: 427
Format: Hardcover

Making Whiteness is a profoundly important work that explains how and why whiteness came to be such a crucial, embattled--and distorting--component of twentieth-century American identity. In intricately textured detail and with passionately mastered analysis, Grace Elizabeth Hale shows...
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Five Easy Theses: Commonsense Solutions to America's Greatest Economic Challenges

James Martin Stone · Houghton Mifflin
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A business leader and esteemed economic thinker outlines simple solutions to America's five most pressing public policy issues, from healthcare to education to inequality. America today confronts a host of urgent problems, many of them seemingly intractable,...
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Overreached on all sides : the Freedmen's Bureau administrators in Texas, 1865-1868

William L Richter · Texas A&M University Press
Pages: 436
Format: Book

Richter examines the military occupation of Texas and how the policies of a quasi-military bureau affected the state after the Civil War.
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Liars, Leakers and Liberals

JEANINE PIRRO · Center Street
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

As host of her own show on Fox for many years, Judge Jeanine Pirro has seen firsthand how narratives take form, whether they are based in truth or not. In her explosive new book, she will write about some of the most egregious lies she's seen, and take on the Liars, Leakers, and Liberals.
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Love Across Color Lines: Ottilie Assing and Frederick Douglass

Maria Diedrich · Hill & Wang Pub
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

The tragic story of a German journalist and a black American abolitionist comes to life in an intriguing portrait that describes their loving relationship, which lasted twenty-eight years, and the misconceptions on both sides of how their love would end.
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Ten Dollars to Hate: The Texas Man Who Fought the Klan

Patricia Bernstein · Texas A&M University Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Ten Dollars to Hate tells the story of the massive Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s - by far the most "successful" incarnation since its inception in the ashes of the Civil War - and the first prosecutor in the nation to successfully convict and jail Klan members. Dan Moody, a twenty-nine-year-old...
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The Secret World of Oil

Ken Silverstein · Verso, 2014.
Pages: 281
Format: Print book

The oil industry provides the lifeblood of modern civilization, and bestselling books have been written about the industry and even individual companies in it, like ExxonMobil. But the modern oil industry is an amazingly shady meeting ground of fixers, gangsters, dictators, competing governments,...
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Rituals Of Blood: Consequences Of Slavery In Two American Centuries

Orlando Patterson · Civitas Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Comprises three new essays by the Harvard scholar and specialist on the history, sociology, and culture of Americans descended from slaves. Patterson argues that male-female relations are now in a state of crisis, finds elements of Christian sacrificial symbolism in the lynching of Afro-American...
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Nez Perce Women in Transition, 1877-1990

Caroline James · Caxton Press
Pages: 245
Format: Hardcover

Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for the University of Idaho PressIncludes unique individual accounts recorded directly from personal interviews with Nez Perce women ranging in age from twenty to ninety. The narratives, in combination with a broad selection of photographs,...
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Tamales, Comadres, and the Meaning of Civilization

Ellen Riojas Clark · Wings Press
Format: Book

This culinary history unwraps the extensive culture surrounding the tamale, bringing together writers, artists, journalists, and Texas’ regional leaders to honor this traditional Latin American dish. It is filled with family stories, recipes, and artwork, and also celebrates tamaladas—the...
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Apache Reservation: Indigenous Peoples and the American State

Richard J. Perry · University of Texas Press
Pages: 276
Format: Hardcover

"Indian reservations" were the United States' ultimate solution to the "problem" of what to do with native peoples who already occupied the western lands that Anglo settlers wanted. In this broadly inclusive study, Richard J. Perry considers the historical development...
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Lady Bird Johnson: An Oral History

Michael L. Gillette · Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Over a span of eighteen years, Lady Bird Johnson recorded forty-seven oral history interviews with Michael Gillette and his colleagues. These conversations, just released in 2011, form the heart of Lady Bird Johnson: An Oral History, an intimate story of a shy young country girl's transformation...
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American Government: Roots and Reform, 2011 Texas Edition

Karen O'Connor · Pearson Longman
Pages: 991
Format: Book

Updated in a new 2011 Texas edition, American Government: Roots and Reform provides the historical context students need to understand our government and the most crucial and controversial issues affecting the nation in the 21st century. This bestselling book has been extensively revised...
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