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Right Out of California: The 1930s and the Big Business Roots of Modern Conservatism
Kathryn S. Olmsted - New Press
Format: Hardcover
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In a major reassessment of modern conservatism, noted historian Kathryn S. Olmsted reexamines the explosive labor disputes in the agricultural fields of Depression-era California, the cauldron that inspired a generation of artists and writers and that triggered the intervention of FDR's... |
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The Ones Who Got Away: Mighty Eighth Airmen on the run in Occupied Europe
Bill Yenne - Osprey Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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A remarkable collection of accounts of intrepid American aircrew shot down over enemy lines during World War II and how they got away. . To be an airman in the Eighth Air Force flying over the war-torn skies of Europe required skill, tenacity, and luck. Those who were shot down and evaded... |
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American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804
Alan Taylor - W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book
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From the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, a fresh, authoritative history that recasts our thinking about America's founding period.The American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded, orderly event whose capstone, the Constitution, provided the ideal framework for a democratic, prosperous... |
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The Ratline: The Exalted Life and Mysterious Death of a Nazi Fugitive
Philippe Sands - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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Baron Otto von Wchter, Austrian lawyer, husband, father, high Nazi official, senior SS officer, former governor of Galicia during the war, creator and overseer of the Krakow ghetto, indicted after as a war criminal for the mass murder of more than 100,000 Poles, hunted by the Soviets, the Americans,... |
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Abraham: The World's First
Alan M. Dershowitz - Schocken Books Inc
Format: Hardcover
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Part of the Jewish Encounter seriesOne of the world's best-known attorneys gives us a no-holds-barred history of Jewish lawyers: from the biblical Abraham through modern-day advocates who have changed the world by challenging the status quo, defending the unpopular, contributing to the rule... |
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Newton's Apple and Other Myths about Science
Ronald L Numbers - Harvard University Press
Format: Print book
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A falling apple inspired Isaac Newton's insight into the law of gravity -- or so the story goes. Is it true? Perhaps not. But the more intriguing question is why such stories endure as explanations of how science happens. Newton's Apple and Other Myths about Science brushes away... |
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A Nation of Nations: A Great American Immigration Story
Tom Gjelten - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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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 Act, the foreign-born... |
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