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Abandon Ship!: The Saga of the U. S. S. Indianapolis, the Navy's Greatest Sea Disasterby Richard F. NewcombISBN 038081904X (0-380-81904-X)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Advise and Consentby Allen DruryISBN 0380010070 (0-380-01007-0)
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An Album of Memories: Personal Histories from the Greatest Generationby Tom BrokawISBN 0375760415 (0-375-76041-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Album of Memories: Personal Histories from the Greatest Generation'Book summary:Tom Brokaw has turned his popular book The Greatest Generation into a trilogy. After that first success came The Greatest Generation Speaks. Now there's An Album of Memories, a collection of letters and photos sent to Brokaw by readers who grew up during the Depression and came of age during World War II.
An Album of Memories simply overflows with nostalgia. "We were privileged to grow up in a time when honor, truth, loyalty, duty, and patriotism were real and meant something," writes Robert Cromer. Another correspondent, Douglas G. Fish, describes his own wartime experience--and that of many others--with an elegant simplicity: "I went in the service as a boy and came out a man." There are poignant letters from the dead. One reader submitted this one, sent home in 1942: "Dear Mom, I got your package and Dot's letter today. Boy, the cookies were swell, all the boys send their thanks. Not a one of them was crushed either." Almost exactly a year later, the writer was killed on a bombing run. Another man shares "the last letter my father wrote, three days before he died." It reads: "Tomorrow is D-Day at Iwo Jima--right on Japan's front doorstep--we will go in and lay nets sometime during the assault.... I have faith in God to help us through to victory but am prepared to die for America and face our Lord if He so wills it." The son who sent this letter to Brokaw wasn't even born until after his father had been killed: "I read [this letter] every year on Memorial Day, cry a lot, and think of what a hero he was," he writes.
It's hard not to agree with that assessment, and it applies to so many of those who fought bravely in Europe or the Pacific, as well as those who maintained the home front. All of them have their say in this attractive volume. --John J. Miller [via]
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Alex Haley's Queen: The Story of an American Familyby David Stevens, Alex HaleyISBN 0380702754 (0-380-70275-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alex Haley's Queen: The Story of an American Family'Book summary:Once in every generation, there is a landmark book that adds a new richness to all our lives. For millions of people of all colors, that book was Alex Haley's Roots. Roots was an instant success, winning a Pulitzer Prize and spawning the most-watched miniseries in television history. Alex Haley's legacy has had as great an impact on American families as any story in the twentieth century. Now, from the author of Roots, comes Alex Haley's Queen - the saga of his father's family. Lovers of sweeping generational epics will find much to rejoice in here. Once again, this is a personal saga, but one played out against the broad canvas of American history. The story begins in Ireland, where Haley's white great-great-grandfather, James Jackson, Sr., is born. From there we travel with Jackson to Nashville, where he meets Andrew Jackson, the future president of the United States. The two men become business partners, and James Jackson makes his fortune. He establishes his grand plantation, The Forks of Cypress, in Alabama, while Andrew ascends to the White House, and the rumblings that will explode into the Civil War gather force. James's son Jass Jackson inherits the plantation just as the genteel, well-ordered antebellum world begins to crumble. His adolescent attraction to the beautiful and strongwilled slave named Easter blossoms into a powerful and lasting love, and from their passionate union comes Queen - the heroine of the tale, Alex Haley's grandmother. This is history at its most compelling - from the Irish sod to the settlement of the South; from the Trail of Tears to the battlefield at Manassas; from the agonies of slavery to the tribulations of freedom - all rendered with the eye fortelling detail and the sense of historical significance that readers have come to expect of Haley. In this, his final book, Alex Haley has created a truly multicultural family saga, the capstone to one of the great, classic American stories. The television miniseries of Alex Hal [via]
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American Tragedyby Lawrence Schiller, James WillwerthISBN 0380730596 (0-380-73059-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Tragedy'Book summary:Just when you thought every drop of bathos, blather, and recrimination that could be squeezed out of the O. J. Simpson murder trial had been, along comes this book, which reveals the "Dream Team," Simpson's cabal of defense lawyers, as an even less charming bunch of egomaniacs and prevaricators than anyone imagined. Johnnie Cochran is a puffed-up silver-tongued bantam with suspicions that his celebrity client is, after all, guilty; Robert Shapiro is a status-obsessed moron; F. Lee Bailey almost derails the whole defense strategy more than once with his courtroom mishaps. How did these guys win? Produced by Larry Schiller, who co-wrote Simpson's jailhouse bestseller I Want to Tell You and who has a history of plumbing the depths of famously sordid murder cases, this book carries its own lurid fascination. [via]
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At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black Americaby Philip DrayISBN 0375754458 (0-375-75445-8)
Softcover, Modern Library
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Babbittby Sinclair Lewis, Richard LingemanISBN 0375759255 (0-375-75925-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Babbitt'Book summary:In the fall of 1920, Sinclair Lewis began a novel set in a fast-growing city with the heart and mind of a small town. For the center of his cutting satire of American business he created the bustling, shallow, and myopic George F. Babbitt, the epitome of middle-class mediocrity. The novel cemented Lewiss prominence as a social commentator.
Babbitt basks in his pedestrian success and the popularity it has brought him. He demands high moral standards from those around him while flirting with women, and he yearns to have rich friends while shunning those less fortunate than he. But Babbitts secure complacency is shattered when his best friend is sent to prison, and he struggles to find meaning in his hollow life. He revolts, but finds that his former routine is not so easily thrown over. [via]More editions of Babbitt:
Bachelor Girl: 100 Years of Breaking the Rules-A Social History of Living Singleby Betsy IsraelISBN 038079778X (0-380-79778-X)
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The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Franciscoby Marilyn ChaseISBN 0375757082 (0-375-75708-2)
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Barnby AviISBN 0380725622 (0-380-72562-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Barn'Book summary:The schoolmaster says nine-year-old Benjamin is the finest student he's ever seen-fit for more than farming; destined for great things someday But his father's grave illness brings Ben home,from school and compels him to strive forsomething great right now -- to do the one thing that will please Father so much he'll want to live. But first Ben must convince his older sister andbrother to work with him. And together, they succeed in ways they never dreamed possible.
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Ben Franklin and the Magic Squaresby Frank Murphy, Richard WalzISBN 0375806210 (0-375-80621-0)
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Bullwhip Days: The Slaves Rememberby James MellonISBN 0380708841 (0-380-70884-1)
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The Buying of the Presidentby Charles Lewis, Alejandro Benes, Meredith O'BrienISBN 0380784203 (0-380-78420-3)
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Catherwoodby Marly YoumansISBN 0380729881 (0-380-72988-1)
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Chariots for Apollo: The Untold Story Behind the Race to the Moonby Charles R. Pellegrino, Joshua StoffISBN 0380802619 (0-380-80261-9)
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For eight frantic years the engineers would design and redesign, the scientists would argue, and brave men would trust their lives to virtually untested machinery. This dramatic chronicle of the race to the moon takes us behind the scenes of this awesome quest, into the minds of the people whose lives were devoted to it and changed by it, and through the missions themselves -- including the tragedy of Apollo 13. A riveting portrait of ingenuity, determination, and raw human courage, "Chariots for Apollo is the powerful story of how one society came together to reach its goal -- a quarter of a million miles away. [via]
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Common Sense and Other Writingsby Thomas Paine, Gordon S. WoodISBN 0375760113 (0-375-76011-3)
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Courtby Mark Twain, Daniel Carter Beard, Roy BlountISBN 0375757805 (0-375-75780-5)
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The Cowboy Way: Seasons of a Montana Ranchby David McCumberISBN 0380788411 (0-380-78841-1)
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Crossing to Safetyby Wallace Earle Stegner, Watkins, T. H. (AFT), Terry Tempest WilliamsISBN 037575931X (0-375-75931-X)
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Dear Mr. Henshawby Beverly ClearyISBN 0380709589 (0-380-70958-9)
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Dear Mr. Henshaw, I am sorry I was rude in my last letter... Maybe I was mad about other things, like Dad forgetting to send this month's support payment. Mom tried to phone him at the trailer park where, as Mom says, he hangs his hat.
It's not easy being the new kid in town, with recently divorced parents, no dog anymore, and a lunch that gets stolen every day (all the "good stuff," anyway). Writing letters, first to the real Mr. Henshaw, and then in a diary to a pretend Mr. Henshaw, may be just what he needs.This Newbery Medal-winning book, by the terrifically popular and prolific Beverly Cleary (Ramona Quimby, Age 8 and Runaway Ralph), exhibits a subtlety and sensitivity that will be appreciated by any youngster who feels lonely and troubled during the transition into adolescence. Winner of numerous other awards, including two Newbery Honors, Cleary teams up with Caldecott winner Paul O. Zelinsky, who creates a quiet backdrop for the realistic characters. (Ages 8 to 12) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Disinheritedby Dale Van EveryISBN 0380513269 (0-380-51326-9)
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Dreamland: Travels Inside the Secret World of Roswell and Area 51by Phil PattonISBN 0375753850 (0-375-75385-0)
Softcover, Villard Books
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Dukakis: The Man Who Would Be Presidentby Richard Gaines, Michael SegalISBN 0380707020 (0-380-70702-0)
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Duty: A Father, His Son and the Man Who Won the Warby Bob GreeneISBN 0380814110 (0-380-81411-0)
Softcover, Perennial
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Encounter at Eastonby AviISBN 0380732416 (0-380-73241-6)
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The End of History and the Last Manby Francis FukuyamaISBN 0380720027 (0-380-72002-7)
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The Escape from Homeby AviISBN 0380728753 (0-380-72875-3)
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Escape North!: The Story of Harriet Tubmanby Monica Kulling, Teresa FlavinISBN 0375801545 (0-375-80154-5)
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The Feminization of American Cultureby Ann DouglasISBN 038001968X (0-380-01968-X)
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The First Emancipator: Slavery, Religion, and The Quiet Revolution of Robert Carterby Andrew LevyISBN 0375761047 (0-375-76104-7)
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Flophouse : Life on the Boweryby David Isay, Stacy Abramson, Harvey WangISBN 0375758313 (0-375-75831-3)
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Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Dollby M. G. LordISBN 0380720493 (0-380-72049-3)
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Great American Political Thinkersby Bernard E. BrownISBN 0380839156 (0-380-83915-6)
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The Great Divideby Studs TerkelISBN 038070854X (0-380-70854-X)
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Growing Up Black: From Slave Days to the Present-25 African-Americans Reveal the Trials and Triumphs of Their Childhoodsby Jay DavidISBN 0380766329 (0-380-76632-9)
Softcover, Avon Books
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Hazardous Duty: One of America's Most Decorated Soldiers Reports from the Front With the Truth About the U.S. Military Todayby Tom Mathews, David H. HackworthISBN 0380727420 (0-380-72742-0)
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Hear That Train Whistle Blow!: How the Railroad Changed the Worldby Milton MeltzerISBN 0375829229 (0-375-82922-9)
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Hearts and Bonesby Margaret LawrenceISBN 0380788799 (0-380-78879-9)
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A History of the Twentieth Century Vol. 1 : 1900-1933by Martin GilbertISBN 0380713934 (0-380-71393-4)
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House of the Seven Gablesby Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mary OliverISBN 0375756876 (0-375-75687-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'House of the Seven Gables'Book summary:First published in 1851, The House of the Seven Gables is one of Hawthorne's defining works, a vivid depiction of American life and values replete with brilliantly etched characters. The tale of a cursed house with a "mysterious and terrible past" and the generations linked to it, Hawthorne's chronicle of the Maule and Pyncheon families over two centuries reveals, in Mary Oliver's words, "lives caught in the common fire of history." This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition uses the definitive text as prepared for The Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne; this is the Approved Edition of the Center for Scholarly Editions (Modern Language Association). It includes newly commissioned notes on the text. [via]
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I Hear America Singing!: Folksongs for American Familiesby Kathleen Krull, Allen Garns, Arlo GuthrieISBN 0375825274 (0-375-82527-4)
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In Our Defense: The Bill of Rights in Actionby Ellen Alderman, Caroline KennedyISBN 0380717204 (0-380-71720-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In Our Defense: The Bill of Rights in Action'Book summary:We The PeopleThe Bill of Rights defines and defends the freedoms we enjoy as Americans -- from the right to bear arms to the right to a civil jury. Using the dramatic true stories of people whose lives have been deeply affected by such issues as the death penalty and the right to privacy, attorneys Ellen Alderman and Caroline Kennedy reveal how the majestic priciples of the Bill of Rights have taken shape in the lives of ordinary people, as well as the historic and legal significance of each amendment. In doing so, they shed brilliant new light on this visionary document, which remains as vital and as controversial today as it was when a great nation was newly born. [via]
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Jefferson's Children: The Story of One American Familyby Jane Feldman, Shannon LanierISBN 0375821686 (0-375-82168-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jefferson's Children: The Story of One American Family'Book summary:The controversy over the relationship between Thomas Jefferson and his African American slave Sally Hemings has raged for generations. Shannon Lanier, a 20-year-old descendant of Jefferson and Hemings, was inspired to delve deeper into the debate after attending the Monticello Association's yearly meeting in 1999. On the heels of the discovery through DNA evidence of a link between Jefferson and Hemings, excitement was running high at Jefferson's famous homestead. Lanier, who is black, encountered Jeffersons who embraced him, and those who wouldn't even shake his hand. He met Hemingses who looked as white as Jeffersons, Jeffersons who refused to acknowledge the scientific evidence, and Hemingses who were angry at having to prove their lineage. In this climate of stirred-up emotions and racial tensions, Lanier, along with photographer Jane Feldman, decided to write this book in hopes of unraveling some of the mystery, and giving members of one of America's largest, most well-known families a chance to speak. The result is a fascinating look at race relations, history--both oral and written, and family ties. The authors interview dozens of individuals who claim--or disclaim--shared ancestry. Many of those interviewed believe that, DNA testing or not, the connection between these families is a powerful symbol of America; to acknowledge the link would be a major step toward racial harmony. Eager, friendly, and astute, Lanier brings out the heartfelt thoughts and emotions of his extended family, while Feldman's photos capture the expressions of hope and joy on their faces. (Ages 11 and older) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Jefferson's Children : The Story of One American Familyby Shannon Lanier, Jane Feldman, Kate KlimoISBN 0375805974 (0-375-80597-4)
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Liberty!: How the Revolutionary War Beganby Lucille Recht Penner, David WenzelISBN 0375822003 (0-375-82200-3)
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Live from Death Rowby Mumia Abu-JamalISBN 0380727668 (0-380-72766-8)
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Lord Kirkle's Moneyby AviISBN 0380728761 (0-380-72876-1)
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Maggie, a Girl of the Streetsby Stephen CraneISBN 0375756892 (0-375-75689-2)
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Meet Benjamin Franklinby Maggie Scarf, Pat FogartyISBN 0375815244 (0-375-81524-4)
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Meet George Washingtonby Joan Heilbroner, Stephen MarchesiISBN 0375803971 (0-375-80397-1)
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Meet Thomas Jeffersonby Marvin Barrett, John EdensISBN 0375812113 (0-375-81211-3)
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The Men Who Wear the Star : The Story of the Texas Rangersby Robinson, Charles M., IIIISBN 0375757481 (0-375-75748-1)
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The Messenger Readerby Sondra Kathryn WilsonISBN 037575539X (0-375-75539-X)
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Middletown, America: One Town's Passage from Trauma to Hopeby Gail SheehyISBN 0375761012 (0-375-76101-2)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Murder and Spies, Lovers and Lies: Settling the Great Controversies of American Historyby Marc MappenISBN 038077514X (0-380-77514-X)
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The New Gilded Ageby David RemnickISBN 0375757155 (0-375-75715-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The New Gilded Age'Book summary:The New Yorker caters to America's upper classes; it's the kind of magazine meant to be accompanied by a glass of pricey Merlot. Over the years its elitism has waxed and waned. Ex-editor Tina Brown worked valiantly to inject a dose of pop-cultural crassness into its ivory-tower sensibilities: profiling celebrities and publishing fashion issues where models stared out from every page, looking chilly. When David Remnick took over in the late '90s, the magazine shifted, grew quieter and more circumspect, and the old guard breathed a collective sigh of relief.
The New Gilded Age collects essays and profiles from 1999 and 2000 and reveals Remnick's New Yorker to be obsessed with money and business--arguably less interesting than celebrity, but also deeper ways of looking at America and power. The title refers to the period of technological revolution symbolized by the rise of Microsoft, the booming of Silicon Valley, and the end of the belief that an Ivy League education will get you anywhere.
What's admirable about this New Yorker is its timeliness; the way, without seeming like a panicked "edge" magazine, it managed to document and acknowledge the shifting sands of the millennial moment. Standouts in this regard: William Finnegan on the protesters behind the 1999 WTO riots in Seattle; Ken Auletta following Bill Gates through various meltdowns as he comes to terms with the federal government's antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft. These are painstakingly reported pieces in which style is submerged. The more audacious writers tend to be women. In "Everywoman.com," Joan Didion describes Martha Stewart in a flood of rapt lyricism:
This is not a story about a woman who made the best of traditional skills. This is a story about a woman who did her own I.P.O. This is the "woman's pluck" story, the dust-bowl story, the burying-your-child-on-the-trail story, the I-will-never-go-hungry-again story, the Mildred Pierce story, the story about how the sheer nerve of even professionally unskilled women can prevail, show the men; the story that has historically encouraged women in this country, even as it has threatened men.
In "Landing from the Sky," Adrian Nicole LeBlanc creates a portrait of a young Puerto Rican woman with too many kids and too much trouble. The writing here is exquisite and passionate: "Jessica created an aura of intimacy wherever she went. You could be talking to her in the middle of Tremont and feel as if a confidence were being exchanged beneath a tent of sheets."Jessica's story seems far from the world of The New Yorker's target audience. When in "My Misspent Youth" Meghan Daum laments her poverty and credit card debt, then reveals she lives alone in a $1,500-a-month apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side, you have to wonder: Did the poor thing ever hear of roommates? As both a document and celebration of such rarefied and privileged attitudes, The New Gilded Age is a rich, informative glimpse into America at the turn of the millennium--before the NASDAQ crashed and the dot-com kids went home to count their losses. --Emily White [via]
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The Next Centuryby David HalberstamISBN 0380717069 (0-380-71706-9)
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One Bugle No Drumsby William HopkinsISBN 0380704552 (0-380-70455-2)
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The Opportunity Readerby Sondra Kathryn WilsonISBN 0375753796 (0-375-75379-6)
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Our Town: A Play in Three Actsby Thornton Niven WilderISBN 0380005573 (0-380-00557-3)
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The Ox-Bow Incidentby Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Wallace Earle StegnerISBN 0375757023 (0-375-75702-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ox-Bow Incident'Book summary:Set in 1885, The Ox-Bow Incident is a searing and realistic portrait of frontier life and mob violence in the American West. First published in 1940, it focuses on the lynching of three innocent men and the tragedy that ensues when law and order are abandoned. The result is an emotionally powerful, vivid, and unforgettable re-creation of the Western novel, which Clark transmuted into a universal story about good and evil, individual and community, justice and human nature. As Wallace Stegner writes, [Clark's] theme was civilization, and he recorded, indelibly, its first steps in a new country. [via]
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The Phoenix Programby Douglas ValentineISBN 0380709015 (0-380-70901-5)
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A Promise to Remember: The Names Project Book of Lettersby Joe BrownISBN 0380767112 (0-380-76711-2)
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Quicksilverby Neal StephensonISBN 0380977427 (0-380-97742-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Quicksilver'Book summary:In Quicksilver, the first volume of the "Baroque Cycle," Neal Stephenson launches his most ambitious work to date. The novel, divided into three books, opens in 1713 with the ageless Enoch Root seeking Daniel Waterhouse on the campus of what passes for MIT in eighteenth-century Massachusetts. Daniel, Enoch's message conveys, is key to resolving an explosive scientific battle of preeminence between Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz over the development of calculus. As Daniel returns to London aboard the Minerva, readers are catapulted back half a century to recall his years at Cambridge with young Isaac. Daniel is a perfect historical witness. Privy to Robert Hooke's early drawings of microscope images and with associates among the English nobility, religious radicals, and the Royal Society, he also befriends Samuel Pepys, risks a cup of coffee, and enjoys a lecture on Belgian waffles and cleavage-all before the year 1700.
In the second book, Stephenson introduces Jack Shaftoe and Eliza. "Half-Cocked" Jack (also know as the "King of the Vagabonds") recovers the English Eliza from a Turkish harem. Fleeing the siege of Vienna, the two journey across Europe driven by Eliza's lust for fame, fortune, and nobility. Gradually, their circle intertwines with that of Daniel in the third book of the novel.
The book courses with Stephenson's scholarship but is rarely bogged down in its historical detail. Stephenson is especially impressive in his ability to represent dialogue over the evolving worldview of seventeenth-century scientists and enliven the most abstruse explanation of theory. Though replete with science, the novel is as much about the complex struggles for political ascendancy and the workings of financial markets. Further, the novel's literary ambitions match its physical size. Stephenson narrates through epistolary chapters, fragments of plays and poems, journal entries, maps, drawings, genealogic tables, and copious contemporary epigrams. But, caught in this richness, the prose is occasionally neglected and wants editing. Further, anticipating a cycle, the book does not provide a satisfying conclusion to its 900 pages. These are minor quibbles, though. Stephenson has matched ambition to execution, and his faithful, durable readers will be both entertained and richly rewarded with a practicum in Baroque science, cypher, culture, and politics. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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Ramonaby Helen H. JacksonISBN 038000383X (0-380-00383-X)
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The Return of the Indianby Lynne Reid BanksISBN 0380702843 (0-380-70284-3)
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The Rise and Fall of the American Teenagerby Thomas HineISBN 0380728532 (0-380-72853-2)
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Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War IIby Robert KursonISBN 0375760989 (0-375-76098-9)
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Shrub: The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bushby Molly Ivins, Lou DuboseISBN 0375757147 (0-375-75714-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shrub: The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bush'Book summary:"Youthful political reporters are always told there are three ways to judge a politician," write Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose in Shrub. "The first is to look at the record. The second is to look at the record. And third, look at the record." The record under scrutiny in this brief, informative book belongs to one George W. Bush--dubbed "Shrub" by Ivins--governor of Texas and 2000 presidential hopeful. These two veteran journalists know how politics are played in Texas and they've done their homework, writing a comprehensive examination of Bush's professional and political life that's a lively read, to boot. And if the title alone doesn't convey their particular slant, perhaps the following caveat from the introduction will: "If, at the end of this short book, you find W. Bush's political résumé a little light, don't blame us. There's really not much there. We have been looking for six years."
Beginning with his admission to the Texas National Guard during the Vietnam War (where he bypassed a waiting list of about 100,000), the authors go on to deconstruct his losing congressional bid, his failed career as an oil executive, and his role as managing partner of the Texas Rangers baseball team, revealing how he was helped every step of the way by wealthy and influential friends of the family. Ever popular, Dubya has always been good at rounding up powerful players to bankroll a variety of ventures, including political campaigns. For this reason, explain the authors, along with his lineage and social status, Bush's primary allegiance is to the business community. While his speeches may deal with the "entertainment issues" of "God, guns, and gays," Bush is a "wholly owned subsidiary of corporate America," they write. They further point out that Texas ranks near the bottom of the nation in terms of a number of social categories, such as poverty, health insurance for children, and pollution, spearing the governor for his less-than-compassionate conservatism.
Shrub is not a complete Bush whacking, though. The authors laud the governor's record on education, in which he has managed to raise standards, push local control of schools, and launch a successful reading campaign. They also cite his wooing of the Hispanic vote and his ability to bridge the gap between the Christian right and the economic conservatives within the Republican party as evidence of true political acumen, though they maintain he lacks a penchant for actual governing: "From the record, it appears that he doesn't know much, doesn't do much and doesn't care much about governing." Bush has admitted that he dislikes reading, particularly about policy issues, and that he hates meetings and briefings, causing the authors to wonder, "The puzzle of Bush is why someone with so little interest in or attention for policy, for making government work, would want the job of president, or even governor."
Love him or leave him, Shrub leaves much to consider about the man who would be president. And it can be read in about a day. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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Sky Boys: How They Built the Empire State Buildingby Deborah Hopkinson, Ransome, James, E.ISBN 0375836101 (0-375-83610-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sky Boys: How They Built the Empire State Building'Book summary:This Boston GlobeHorn Book Honor Book and ALA-ALSC Notable Children's Book provides a riveting brick-by-brick account of how one of the most amazing accomplishments in American architecture came to be. Its 1930 and times are tough for Pop and his son. But look! On the corner of 34th Street and 5th Avenue, a building straight and simple as a pencil is being built in record time. Hundreds of men are leveling, shoveling, hauling. Theyre hoisting 60,000 tons of steal, stacking 10 million bricks, eating lunch in the clouds. And when they cut ribbon and the crowds rush in, the boy and his father will be among the first to zoom up to the top of the tallest building in the world and see all of Manhattan spread at their feet. [via]
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Snafu: Great American Military Disastersby Geoffrey ReganISBN 0380767554 (0-380-76755-4)
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Soldier's Storyby Omar Nelson Bradley, A. J. LieblingISBN 0375754210 (0-375-75421-0)
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The Star Spangled Bannerby Francis Scott KeyISBN 0375815961 (0-375-81596-1)
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Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Manby Susan FaludiISBN 0380720450 (0-380-72045-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man'Book summary:Susan Faludi, author of the feminist bestseller Backlash, has done it again with an exhaustive report on the betrayals felt by working men throughout the United States. American men are angry and discontented, she argues in Stiffed, because their sense of what it is to be a man has been destroyed by everything from corporate downsizing and the shrinking military of the post cold war era to the increase in local sports teams leaving town. Whether she's interviewing the teenage male members of Southern California's infamous Spur Posse (who collected "points" for every female they had sex with), Cleveland football fans shaken by the departure of the Browns football team, militia movement activists, or Sylvester Stallone, Faludi seems stuck on the idea that American men today are man-boys, unable to completely grow up because they never received the nurturing they needed, and now constantly disappointed by life. Yet while many of the men Faludi interviews have real problems--bad luck and sad, troubled lives--somehow Stiffed still seems a bit whiny. Faludi's "travels through a postwar male realm" are a fascinating slice of male American life "under siege" at the end of the 20th century, even if she does finally leave us like the men she talked to--still wondering just what went wrong. --Linda Killian [via]
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Storm Warriorsby Elisa CarboneISBN 0375806644 (0-375-80664-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Storm Warriors'Book summary:The year is 1895 and young Nathan Williams wants nothing more than to be a "storm warrior," one of the brave men of the U.S. Lifesaving Service on Pea Island, off the North Carolina shore. Again and again, Nathan has helped the team rescue frightened sailors from floundering ships during the winter storm season. But Nathan's father is a fisherman, and he expects Nathan to be the same. After all, Pea Island is the single station open to African American surfmen, and the precious few jobs are passed from father to son. Still, Nathan is coached in lifesaving skills by the Pea Island crew and dares to hope that one day he may share in their ranks. But after helping with a particularly difficult rescue, Nathan is forced to face the truth: "In that moment I knew, without a shred of doubt, that I did not have the courage to risk my life that way. The dream, and all the months of hoping, blew away as quickly as the foam off the waves." After a close friend makes clear the obvious, Nathan realizes that there are other ways to save lives and discovers his true destiny.
With Storm Warriors, Elisa Carbone has illuminated a fascinating corner of history that is both exciting and meaningful. The novel, based on real people and actual shipwrecks, will be devoured by fans of true adventure stories such as Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild and Jennifer Armstrong's Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World. (Ages 11 and older) --Jennifer Hubert [via]
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Texasby James A. MichenerISBN 0375761411 (0-375-76141-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Texas'Book summary:In this magnificent historical novel, James A. Michener masterfully combines fact and fiction to present Americas richest, most expansive and diversified state. Spanning four and a half centuries, this monumental saga charts the epic history of Texas, from its Spanish roots in the age of the conquistadors, to its modern-day American character, shaped by oil and industry. A stunning achievement by a literary master, Texas is a tale of violence and conflict, patriotism and statesmanship, growth and development. Among Micheners finely drawn cast of characters, emotional and political alliances are made and broken; loyalties are established over the course of Texass remarkable history, only to be betrayed by the expansion of wealth and industry. With Michener as our guide, this novel is as exciting as it is informative. [via]
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Theory of the Leisure Classby Thorstein B. Veblen, Alan WolfeISBN 0375757872 (0-375-75787-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Theory of the Leisure Class'Book summary:Almost a century after its original publication, Thorstein Veblen's work is as fresh and relevant as ever. Veblen's The Theory of the Leisure Class is in the tradition of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations and Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan, yet it provides a surprisingly contemporary look at American economics and society. Establishing such terms as "conspicuous consumption" and "pecuniary emulation," Veblen's most famous work has become an archetype not only of economic theory, but of historical and sociological thought as well. As sociologist Alan Wolfe writes in his Introduction, Veblen "skillfully . . . wrote a book that will be read so long as the rich are different from the rest of us; which, if the future is anything like the past, they always will be." [via]
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This New Oceanby William E. BurrowsISBN 0375754857 (0-375-75485-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'This New Ocean'Book summary:More comprehensive than The Right Stuff, more critical than Apollo 13, This New Ocean is a near-perfect history of the men (and occasional women) who have "slipped the surly bonds of Earth." Eminent science journalist and space expert William E. Burrows covers just about everyone in history--from Daedalus to John Glenn--who ever designed or flew a rocket, trying to "ride the arrow" to the moon and beyond. It's a trail of testosterone from start to finish, but it makes for an engrossing read. One of Burrows's most interesting points is that without the cold war we never would have made it into space. He writes, "...the rocket would forever serve two masters at the same time, or rather a single master with two dispositions: one for war and one for peace." Werner von Braun, Robert Goddard, and other rocketry pioneers may indeed have wanted to explore space, but they knew the only way to get there was on the military's back.
Burrows extensively researched his subject, and he seems to want to include a little bit of everything; too much detail bogs down the narrative in places. Then again, he is no apologist for the space programs of the United States and the former U.S.S.R., and to tell their complete stories requires laying a great deal of political and scientific groundwork. When it comes to the great, memorable moments in space history, Burrows really shines. In telling the stories of Sputnik's first orbit, Neil Armstrong's moonwalk, Challenger's fiery death, and Sojourner's Martian road trip, he captures both the gee-whiz technological accomplishment and the very human emotions of the men and women involved. --Therese Littleton [via]
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Three Negro Classics: Up from Slavery, the Souls of Black Folk, the Autobiography of an Ex Colored Man.by Booker T. WashingtonISBN 0380015811 (0-380-01581-1)
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Too Close to Call: The Thirty-Six-Day Battle to Decide the 2000 Electionby Jeffrey ToobinISBN 0375761071 (0-375-76107-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Too Close to Call: The Thirty-Six-Day Battle to Decide the 2000 Election'Book summary:From the best-selling author of A Vast Conspiracy and The Run of His Life comes Too Close to Call--the definitive story of the Bush-Gore presidential recount. A political and legal analyst of unparalleled journalistic skill, Jeffrey Toobin is the ideal writer to distill the events of the thirty-six anxiety-filled days that culminated in one of the most stunning Supreme Court decisions in history.
Packed with news-making disclosures and written with the drive of a legal thriller, Too Close to Call takes us inside James Baker's private jet, through the locked gates to Al Gore's mansion, behind the covered-up windows of Katherine Harris's office, and even into the secret conference room of the United States Supreme Court. As the scene shifts from Washington to Austin and into the remote corners of the enduringly strange Sunshine State, Toobin's book will transform what you thought you knew about the most extraordinary political drama in American history.
The Florida recount unfolded in a kaleidoscopic maze of bizarre concepts (chads, pregnant and otherwise), unfamiliar people in critically important positions (the Florida Supreme Court), and familiar people in surprising new places (the Miami relatives of Elián González, in a previously undisclosed role in this melodrama). With the rich characterization that is his trademark, Toobin portrays the prominent strategists who masterminded the campaigns--the Daleys and the Roves--and also the lesser-known but influential players who pulled the strings, as well as the judges and justices whose decisions determined the final outcome. Toobin gives both camps a treatment they have not yet received--remarkably evenhanded, nonpartisan, and entirely new.
The post-election period posed a challenge to even the most zealous news junkie: how to keep up with what was happening and sort out the important from the trivial. Jeffrey Toobin has now done this--and then some. With clarity, insight, humor, and a deep understanding of the law, he deconstructs the events, the players, and the often Byzantine intricacies of our judicial system. A remarkable account of one of the most significant periods in our country's history, Too Close to Call is endlessly surprising, frequently poignant, and wholly addictive.
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Travels in Alaskaby John Muir, Edward HoaglandISBN 0375760490 (0-375-76049-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Travels in Alaska'Book summary:The name John Muir has come to stand for the protection of wild land and wilderness in both American and Britain. Born in Dunbar in the east of Scotland in 1838, Muir is famed as the father of American conservation. He founded the Sierra Club and was the first person to promote the idea of national parks. In Travels in Alaska he takes a trip through last century's Alaska. He writes the way he took pictures, in clean, easy-going, enthusiastic prose, with insight, attention, care and genuine feeling. It's a lovely look into a beautiful land and its inhabitants, told in a flowing narrative that's far less rushed than contemporary travel tales. --Acton Lane [via]
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Under Two Flags: The American Navy in the Civil Warby William M. FowlerISBN 0380715511 (0-380-71551-1)
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V Is for Victory : America Remembers World War IIby Kathleen KrullISBN 0375816003 (0-375-81600-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'V Is for Victory : America Remembers World War II'Book summary:A World War II scrapbook of stories, photos, posters, letters home, and other memorabilia for the whole family to share again and again.
Krull delivers a first-rate commemorative volume. Eminently readable, it showcases her talent for distilling history to its anecdotal best and gives a wide-ranging view of the key players and events of this pivotal era in recent history. From Hitler and Roosevelt to Anne Frank, from Rosie the Riveter to Tokyo Rose, from rationing to espionage, Krull spotlights the many dramas played out on the global stage. She augments her impressive writing with strong visual material, including maps, newspaper headlines, artifacts, posters, and hundreds of vintage photographs (many of them unflinching, including those of concentration camp inmates and other victims of the war). Whether for browsing or close study, this is an extraordinary reference book that should be snapped up by parents and teachers alike. Of equal interest to young readers and adults.
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjectsby Mary Wollstonecraft, Katha PollittISBN 0375757228 (0-375-75722-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects'Book summary:First published in 1792, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman was an instant success, turning its thirty-three-year-old author into a minor celebrity. A pioneering work of early feminism that extends to women the Enlightenment principle of "the rights of man," its argument remains as relevant today as it was for Woll-stonecraft's contemporaries. "Mary Wollstonecraft was not the first writer to call for women to receive a real, challenging education," writes Katha Pollitt in the new Introduction. "But she was the first to connect the education of women to the transformation of women's social position, of relations between the sexes, and even of society itself. She was the first to argue that women's intellectual equality would and should have actual consequences. The winds of change sweep through her pages."
This classic work of early feminism remains as relevant and passionate today as it was for Wollstonecraft's contemporaries. This edition includes new explanatory notes.
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Weird and Tragic Shores: The Story of Charles Francis Hall, Explorerby Chauncey C. LoomisISBN 037575525X (0-375-75525-X)
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A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rightsby Mary Ann GlendonISBN 0375760466 (0-375-76046-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights'Book summary:Unafraid to speak her mind and famously tenacious in her convictions, Eleanor Roosevelt was still mourning the death of FDR when she was asked by President Truman to lead a controversial commission, under the auspices of the newly formed United Nations, to forge the worlds first international bill of rights.
A World Made New is the dramatic and inspiring story of the remarkable group of men and women from around the world who participated in this historic achievement and gave us the founding document of the modern human rights movement. Spurred on by the horrors of the Second World War and working against the clock in the brief window of hope between the armistice and the Cold War, they grappled together to articulate a new vision of the rights that every man and woman in every country around the world should share, regardless of their culture or religion.
A landmark work of narrative history based in part on diaries and letters to which Mary Ann Glendon, an award-winning professor of law at Harvard University, was given exclusive access, A World Made New is the first book devoted to this crucial turning point in Eleanor Roosevelts life, and in world history.
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Zeldaby Nancy MilfordISBN 0380007843 (0-380-00784-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Zelda'Book summary:Zelda Sayre began as a Southern beauty, became an international wonder, and died by fire in a madhouse. With her husband, F. Scott Fitzgerald, she moved in a golden aura of excitement, romance, and promise. The epitome of the Jazz Age, together they rode the crest of the era: to its collapse and their own.
From years of exhaustive research, Nancy Milford brings alive the tormented, elusive personality of Zelda and clarifies as never before her relationship with` Scott Fitzgerald. Zelda traces the inner disintegration of a gifted, despairing woman, torn by the clash between her husband's career and her own talent.
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