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Waking GiantThe Bancroft Prize-winning author offers a fascinating history of Jacksonian America. "Waking Giant" captures the turbulence of a democracy caught in the throes of the slavery controversy, the rise of capitalism, and the birth of urbanization. 40 b&w illustrations throughout. |
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I Slept With Joey RamoneWhen the Ramones recorded their debut album in 1976, it heralded the true birth of punk rock. Unforgettable front man Joey Ramone gave voice to the disaffected youth of the seventies and eighties, and the band influenced the counterculture for decades to come. With honesty, humor, and grace, Joey's ... |
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American Chronicles: The Art of Norman RockwellNorman Rockwell (1894-1978), one of the most popular American artists of the past century, has often been regarded as a simple illustrator and his work identified with the covers of the Saturday Evening Post. He is, instead, a total artist. An acute observer of human nature and talented storyteller,... |
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The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 (Middlekauff Robert)The first book to appear in the illustrious Oxford History of the United States, this critically acclaimed volume--a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize--offers an unsurpassed history of the Revolutionary War and the birth of the American republic. Beginning with the French and Indian War and continuin... |
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Global Projects at War: Tectonic Processes of Global Transformation (Estulin Daniel)The break up of countries, the end of the current planetary economic model, the regionalization of economies, the birth of global supra national projects. Change of the cosmic energy of Atlanticism (NATO, USA, North Atlantic) to the Eastern and Pacific zone (Silk Road, China, Eurasia) with Latin Ame... |
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Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow (Gates Henry Louis)Stony the Road presents a bracing alternative to Trump-era white nationalism. . . . In our current politics we recognize African-American history--the spot under our countrys rug where the terrorism and injustices of white supremacy are habitually swept. Stony the Road lifts the rug. --Nell Irvin Pa... |
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Free as a Jew: A Personal Memoir of National Self-Liberation (Wisse Ruth R.)A Jewish child born into the worst of times in Europe grows up during the best of times in North America--only to recognize that it could be moving back in the opposite direction. First came parents with the good sense to flee Europe in 1940 and the good fortune to reach the land of freedom. Their ... |
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The U.S. Constitution Simplified: A Plainspoken Guide to the Founding Principles of the United States (Harper Timothy)What does the US Constitution mean for you? One of the most revered, imitated, and controversial governmental documents in the world, the US Constitution serves as the foundation for the American government and shapes the lives of Americans every day. But how many of us know its history and the imp... |
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They Cant Kill Us All: T… (Wesley Lowery)'A devastating front-line account of the police killings and the young activism that sparked one of the most significant racial justice movements since the 1960s: Black Lives Matter ... Lowery more or less pulls the sheet off America ... essential reading' Junot Díaz, The New York Times, Books of 20... |
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Martin Luther KingMartin Luther King left an indelible mark on 20th-century American history through his leadership of the non-violent civil rights campaigns of the 1950s and 1960s. The election of Barack Obama as America's first black president in November 2008 has spawned a renewed interest in King's role as an age... |
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Finish BigBo Burlingham, the bestselling author of Small Giants, returns with Finish Big, an original guide to exiting your company successfully and gracefully. "Finish Big is for all those founder/leaders who want to do more than take...it is for the ones who want to leave something behind." (Simon Sinek, au... |
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Wayward - Chuck WendigFive years ago, they walked across America to a destination only they knew. The sleepwalkers, as the rest of the country named them, were followed by their shepherds: friends and family who gave up everything to protect them. They finally stopped in Ouray, a small town of Colorado that would become ... |
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Haring-isms - Keith Haring, Princeton University PressEssential quotations from renowned artist and pop icon Keith Haring Keith Haring remains one of the most important and celebrated artists of his generation and beyond. Through his signature bold graphic line drawings of figures and forms dancing and grooving, Haring's paintings, large-scale public m... |
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The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation (Berry Daina Ramey)Groundbreaking look at slaves as commodities through every phase of life, from birth to death and beyond, in early America In life and in death, slaves were commodities, their monetary value assigned based on their age, gender, health, and the demands of the market. The Price for Their Pound of Fle... |
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Making of Home"The idea that 'home' is a special place, a separate place, a place where we can be our true selves, is so obvious to us today that we barely pause to think about it. But, as Judith Flanders shows in this revealing book, 'home' is a relatively new concept. When in 1900 Dorothy assured the citizens o... |
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One Summer - Bill BrysonIn summer 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest), a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and an unknown aviator named Charles Lindbergh who became the most famous man on earth. It was the summe... |
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Daughters of ShandongAn Instant USA Today Bestseller, a Good Morning America Buzz Pick, and a People Book of the Week! Throw open the doors of your heart for the lionhearted girls of Chung s gripping debut they are heroines for the ages." PeopleA propulsive, extraordinary novel about a mother and her daughters harrowing... |
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An American Martyr in Persia: The Epic Life and Tragic Death of Howard Baskerville (Aslan Reza)Little known in America but venerated as a martyr in Iran, Howard Baskerville was a twenty-two-year-old Christian missionary from South Dakota who traveled to Persia (modern-day Iran) in 1907 for a two-year stint teaching English and preaching the gospel. He arrived in the midst of a democratic revo... |
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The Last Stand (Spillane Mickey)ON MICKEY SPILLANES 100TH BIRTHDAY - A BRAND-NEW NOVEL FROM THE MASTER. When legendary mystery writer Mickey Spillane died in 2006, he left behind the manuscript of one last novel hed just completed: THE LAST STAND. He asked his friend and colleague (and fellow Mystery Writers of America Grand Mast... |
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Sigint: The Secret History of Signals Intelligence in the World Wars (Matthews Peter)Communicating in the chaos of war is complicated, but vital. Signals intelligence makes it possible. In World War I, a vast network of signals rapidly expanded across the globe, spawning a new breed of spies and intelligence operatives to code, de-code and analyze thousands of messages. Signallers a... |
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