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Paradise Bronx: The Life and Times of New York's Greatest Borough
Ian Frazier - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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Ian Frazier's magnum opus: a love song to New York City's most heterogeneous and alive borough. For the past fifteen years, Ian Frazier has been walking the Bronx. Paradise Bronx reveals the amazingly rich and tumultuous history of this amazingly various piece of our greatest city.... |
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Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation
Brenda Wineapple - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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"Brenda Wineapple's wonderful account of the Scopes trial sheds light not only on the battles of the past but on the struggles of the present." - Jon Meacham In this magnificent book, award-winning author of The Impeachers brings to life the dramatic story of the 1925 Scopes... |
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The Eastern Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918
Nick Lloyd - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The first major history in fifty years of the often overlooked Eastern Front of the First World War, where a more fluid conflict resulted in the destruction of great empires and the rise of the Soviet Union.Writing in the 1920s, Winston Churchill argued that the First World War on the Eastern... |
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The Stadium: An American History of Politics, Protest, and Play
Frank Andre Guridy - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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The "deep and impactful" story of the American stadium (Howard Bryant, author of Full Dissidence) - from the first wooden ballparks to today's glass and steel mega-arenas - revealing how it has made, and remade, American life.. Stadiums are monuments to recreation, sports,... |
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Mississippi Swindle: Brett Favre and the Welfare Scandal that Shocked America
Shad White - Steerforth
Format: Hardcover
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How America's youngest state auditor uncovered the largest public corruption scandal in the history of the nation's poorest state. "A must read" with all the thrills of a John Grisham novel - for fans of shocking true crime exposés like Black Edge and Bad Blood (Peter... |
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Catherine, the Princess of Wales: A Biography of the Future Queen
Robert Jobson - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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Through the author's extensive connections within the royal household, this dynamic new biography tells the full story of how Catherine, the Princess of Wales, became the woman she is today.. Kate Middleton's life's story seems like a modern-day fairy-tale. An attractive, clever,... |
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