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Brave Hearted: The Women of the American West
Katie Hickman - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Hardcover
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"Absolutely compelling" -- Christina Lamb, Sunday Times (UK) The dramatic, untold stories of the diverse array of women who helped transform the American West.As the internationally bestselling historian Katie Hickman writes, "Myth and misunderstanding spring from the American... |
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American Aristocrats: A Family, a Fortune, and the Making of American Capitalism
Harry S Stout - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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The story of an ambitious family at the forefront of the great middle-class land grab that shaped early American capitalismAmerican Aristocrats is a multigenerational biography of the Andersons of Kentucky, a family of strivers who passionately believed in the promise of America.... |
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Blood and Treasure: Daniel Boone and the Fight for America's First Frontier
Bob Drury - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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It is the mid-eighteenth century, and in the 13 colonies founded by Great Britain, anxious colonists desperate to conquer and settle North America's "First Frontier" beyond the Appalachian Mountains commence a series of bloody battles. These violent conflicts are waged against... |
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The Europeans: Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture
Orlando Figes - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover
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From the "master of historical narrative" (Financial Times) , a dazzling, richly detailed, panoramic work -- the first to document the genesis of a continent-wide European culture.The nineteenth century in Europe was a time of unprecedented artistic achievement. It was also... |
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Rasputin: Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs
Douglas Smith - Farrar
Format: Print book
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On the centenary of the death of Rasputin comes a definitive biography that will dramatically change our understanding of this fascinating figureA hundred years after his murder, Rasputin continues to excite the popular imagination as the personification of evil. Numerous biographies, novels,... |
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Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
Andrea Pitzer
Format: Hardcover
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The human story has always been one of perseverance - often against remarkable odds. The most astonishing survival tale of all might be that of 16th-century Dutch explorer William Barents and his crew of sixteen, who ventured farther north than any Europeans before and, on their third polar... |
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Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
SARAH SMARSH - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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An eye-opening memoir of working-class poverty in the American Midwest.During Sarah Smarsh's turbulent childhood in Kansas in the 1980s and 1990s, the forces of cyclical poverty and the country's changing economic policies solidified her family's place among the working poor. By telling... |
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Wild Bill: The True Story of the American Frontier's First Gunfighter
Tom Clavin - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive true story of Wild Bill, the first lawman of the Wild West, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dodge City.In July 1865, "Wild Bill" Hickok shot and killed Davis Tutt in Springfield, MO -- the first quick-draw duel on the frontier. Thus... |
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