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Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement
Devery S. Anderson · University Press of Mississippi
Pages: 560
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Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement offers the first truly comprehensive account of the 1955 murder and its aftermath. It tells the story of Emmett Till, the fourteen-year-old African American boy from Chicago brutally lynched... |
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The Witches: Salem, 1692
Stacy Schiff · Little Brown and Company
Pages: 512
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra, the #1 national bestseller, unpacks the mystery of the Salem Witch Trials.
It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's daughter began to scream and convulse. It ended less than... |
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Blue: The LAPD and the Battle to Redeem American Policing
Joe Domanick · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 464
Format: Book |
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An award-winning investigative reporter reveals the troubled history of the LAPD in a gripping story filled with hard-boiled, real-life characters that bring to life the ravages of the criminal justice system.
Vividly drawn and character-driven, Blue is simultaneously... |
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A Nation of Nations: A Great American Immigration Story
Tom Gjelten · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 416
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The dramatic and compelling story of the transformation of America during the last fifty years, told through a handful of families in one suburban county in Virginia that has been utterly changed by recent immigration.
In the fifty years since the 1965 Immigration and Nationality... |
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The Orpheus Clock: The Search for My Family's Art Treasures Stolen by the Nazis
Simon Goodman · Scribner Book Company
Pages: 368
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The passionate, gripping, true story of one man's single-minded quest to reclaim what the Nazis stole from his family, their beloved art collection, and to restore their legacy.
Simon Goodman's grandparents came from German-Jewish banking dynasties and perished in concentration... |
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Murder by Candlelight: The Gruesome Crimes Behind Our Romance with the Macabre
Michael Knox Beran · Pegasus Books
Pages: 384
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Arguing that it is "less the quality of the crimes than the attitude of the age which determines the gruesomeness of its murders," Michael Beran brings to life the ghastly ambiance of a vanished epoch, and gives us a terrifying glimpse of the horror beneath the seeming civility... |
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America's Political Dynasties: From Adams to Clinton
Stephen Hess · Brookings Institution Press,
Pages: 784
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The Constitution states that "no title of nobility shall be granted by the United States," yet it seems political nobility is as American as apple pie. America was founded in rebellion against nobility and inherited status. Yet from the start, dynastic families have been conspicuous... |
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Pope Francis and the New Vatican
Robert Draper · National Geographic Society
Pages: 256
Format: Book |
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National Geographic goes behind-the-scenes of the new papacy with unprecedented, exclusive access to Pope Francis. Embedded with the Pope inside the Vatican for 6 months, award-winning photographer David Yoder captures intimate moments in never-before-seen photographs presented here... |
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The Storm of the Century: Tragedy, Heroism, Survival, and the Epic True Story of America's Deadliest Natural Disaster: The Great Gulf Hurricane of 1900
Al Roker · William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,
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On the afternoon of September 8, 1900, 200-mile-per-hour winds and fifteen-foot waves slammed into Galveston, the prosperous and growing port city on Texas's Gulf Coast. By dawn the next day, when the storm had passed, the city that existed just hours before was gone. Over 8,000... |
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Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America
Ari Berman · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Book |
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Countless books have been written about the civil rights movement, but far less attention has been paid to what happened after the dramatic passage of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) in 1965 and the turbulent forces it unleashed. Give Us the Ballot tells this story for the first... |
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Lafayette in the Somewhat United States
Sarah Vowell · Riverhead Books, 2015.
Pages: 274
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From the bestselling author of Assassination Vacation and The Partly Cloudy Patriot, an insightful and unconventional account of George Washington's trusted officer and friend, that swashbuckling teenage French aristocrat the Marquis de Lafayette.
Chronicling... |
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Thirteen Soldiers: A Personal History of Americans at War
John McCain · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 364
Format: Book |
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John McCain's evocative history of Americans at war, told through the personal accounts of thirteen remarkable soldiers who fought in major military conflicts, from the Revolutionary War of 1776 to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
As a veteran himself, a member of the Senate... |
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Journey to Texas, 1833
Detlef Dunt · University of Texas Press, 2015.
Pages: 182
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In 1834, a German immigrant to Texas, D. T. F. (Detlef Thomas Friedrich) Jordt, aka Detlef Dunt, published Reise nach Texas, a delightful little book that praised Texas as "a land which puts riches in [the immigrant's] lap, which can bring happiness to thousands and to their... |
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Cheney One on One: A Candid Conversation with America's Most Controversial Statesman
James Rosen · Regnery Publishing, 2015.
Pages: 256
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In December 2014, a few weeks before his seventy-fourth birthday, former Vice President Dick Cheney invited Fox News reporter James Rosen into his northern Virginia home. Over three days, Rosen recorded ten hours of conversations with the man known as the "Darth Vader" of American... |
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The Making of Home: The 500-Year Story of How Our Houses Became Our Homes
Judith Flanders · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 368
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The 500-year story of how, and why, our homes have come to be what they are, from the critically acclaimed New York Times-bestselling author of The Invention of Murder and The Victorian City.
The idea that "home" is a special place, a separate... |
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The Cost of Courage
Charles Kaiser · Other Press (NY)
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover |
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"The result is a mix of history, biography and memoir which reads like a nerve-racking thriller." - The Guardian (US) This heroic true story of the three youngest children of a bourgeois Catholic family who worked together in the French Resistance is told by an American writer... |
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Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured
Kathryn Harrison · Doubleday; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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The profoundly inspiring and fully documented saga of Joan of Arc, the young peasant girl whose voices moved her to rally the French nation and a reluctant king against British invaders in 1428, has fascinated artistic figures as diverse as William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Voltaire, George... |
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