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Fifty States: Every Question Answered
Lori Baird · Thunder Bay Press
Format: Hardcover
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What was the last state to join the Union? What does the state quarter for Alabama look like? What is the state bird of Texas? All the answers are contained in Fifty States: Every Question Answered! Whether you’re a student or just a history buff, this book is a great reference manual... |
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The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story
Douglas Preston · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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A five-hundred-year-old legend. An ancient curse. A stunning medical mystery. And a pioneering journey into the unknown heart of the world's densest jungle.Since the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran... |
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When Chicago built the American dream
Tom Dyja · Penguin Group US
Pages: 508
Format: eBook
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Much of what defined the nation as it grew into a superpower was produced in Chicago. Before air travel overtook trains, nearly every coast-to coast journey included a stop there, and this flow of people and commodities made it America's central clearinghouse, laboratory, and factory.... |
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The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan
Rick Perlstein · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of Nixonland a dazzling portrait of America on the verge of a nervous breakdown in the tumultuous political and economic times of the 1970s. In January of 1973 Richard Nixon announced the end of the Vietnam War and prepared for a triumphant second term—until... |
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Sitcom : a history in 24 episodes from I love Lucy to Community
Saul Austerlitz · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 406
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"Obsessively watched and critically ignored, sitcoms were a distraction, a gentle lullaby of a kinder, gentler America--until suddenly the artificial boundary between the world and television entertainment collapsed. In this book we track the growth of the sitcom, following the path... |
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Japan 1941: Countdown to Infamy
Eri Hotta · Vintage
Format: Kindle Edition
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Library Journal? 10/15/2013
In 1941, Japan was a resource-strapped country bogged down in a costly war with China. So why did it decide to initiate a war with the United States? Hotta (Pan-Asianism and Japan's War, 1931–45) explores every aspect of this question. She reveals that... |
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Rise of ISIS: A Threat We Can't Ignore
Jay Sekulow · Howard Books; annotated edition edition
Format: Print book
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THE DEFINITIVE BOOK ON ISISJay Sekulow, one of Americas most influential attorneys, closely examines the rise of the terrorist groups ISIS and Hamas, explains their objectives and capabilities and how, if left undefeated, their existence could unleash a genocide of historic proportions.Recently,... |
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Rose Gold: An Easy Rawlins Mystery
Walter Mosley · Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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Rose Gold is two colors, one woman, and a big headache.In this new mystery set in the Patty Hearst era of radical black nationalism and political abductions, a black ex-boxer self-named Uhuru Nolica, the leader of a revolutionary cell called Scorched Earth, has kidnapped Rosemary Goldsmith,... |
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The Reagan Era: A History of the 1980s
Doug Rossinow · Columbia University Press
Format: Hardcover
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In this concise yet thorough history of America in the s Doug Rossinow takes the full measure of Ronald Reagans presidency and the ideology of Reaganism Believers in libertarian economics and a muscular foreign policy Reaganite conservatives in the s achieved impressive success in their... |
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White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
Nancy Isenberg · Viking
Pages: 460
Format: Print book
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The New York Times bestseller"Formidable and truth-dealing...necessary." -The New York Times"With the election looming, this eye-opening investigation into our country's entrenched social hierarchy is acutely relevant." -O Magazine In her groundbreaking bestselling... |
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Prince Charles: The Passions and Paradoxes of an Improbable Life
Sally Bedell Smith · Random House
Pages: 640
Format: Print book
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The first major biography of Prince Charles in more than two decades, with new insights into his family and his two marriages - from the New York Times bestselling author of Elizabeth the Queen Drawing on her extensive access to the Royal Family's inner circle, Sally Bedell Smith delivers... |
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Our One Common Country: Abraham Lincoln And The Hampton Roads Peace Conference Of 1865
James B Conroy · Lyons Press, An Imprint of Globe Pequot Press,
Pages: 390
Format: Print book
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Our One Common Country explores the most critical meeting of the Civil War. Given short shrift or overlooked by many historians, the Hampton Roads Conference of 1865 was a crucial turning point in the War between the States. In this well written and highly documented book, James B. Conroy... |
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