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My Black Country: A Journey Through Country Music's Black Past, Present, and Future
Alice Randall - Atria/Black Privilege Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Alice Randall, award-winning professor, songwriter, and author with a "lively, engaging, and often wise" (The New York Times Book Review) voice, offers a lyrical, introspective, and unforgettable account of her past and her search for the first family of Black country music..... |
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The Great Abolitionist: Charles Sumner and the Fight for a More Perfect Union
Stephen Puleo - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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The groundbreaking biography of a forgotten civil rights hero.. In the tempestuous mid-19th century, as slavery consumed Congressional debate and America careened toward civil war and split apart-when the very future of the nation hung in the balance-Charles Sumner's voice rang strongest,... |
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An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
Doris Kearns Goodwin - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America's most beloved historians, artfully weaves together biography, memoir, and history. She takes you along on the emotional journey she and her husband, Richard (Dick) Goodwin embarked upon... |
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The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing
Adam Moss - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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From former editor of New York magazine Adam Moss, a collection of illuminating conversations examining the very personal, rigorous, complex, and elusive work of making art. What is the work of art? In this guided tour inside the artist's head, Adam Mosstraces the evolution of transcendent... |
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Native Nations: A Millennium in North America
Kathleen DuVal - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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A magisterial history of Indigenous North America that places the power of Native nations at its center, telling their story from the rise of ancient cities more than a thousand years ago to fights for sovereignty that continue today. "A feat of both scholarship and storytelling."... |
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Sunshine State Mafia: A History of Florida's Mobsters, Hit Men, and Wise Guys
Doug Kelly - University Press of Florida
Format: Paperback
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Inside accounts and little known stories of criminal networks in Florida's past A vivid, wild ride through a century of Mafia lore, this book tells stories of organized crime rings that have settled in Florida and made the state their base of operations for bootlegging, gambling, extortion,... |
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Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History
Nur Masalha - Zed Books
Format: Paperback
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This rich and magisterial work traces Palestine's millennia-old heritage, uncovering cultures and societies of astounding depth and complexity that stretch back to the very beginnings of recorded history.. Starting with the earliest references in Egyptian and Assyrian texts, Nur Masalha... |
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