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Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slaveryby Patricia Smith, Charles Johnson, Wgbh Series Research TeamISBN 0156008548 (0-15-600854-8)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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All the King's Menby Robert Penn WarrenISBN 0156012952 (0-15-601295-2)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All the King's Men'Book summary:This landmark book is a loosely fictionalized account of Governor Huey Long of Louisiana, one of the nation's most astounding politicians. All the King's Men tells the story of Willie Stark, a southern-fried politician who builds support by appealing to the common man and playing dirty politics with the best of the back-room deal-makers. Though Stark quickly sheds his idealism, his right-hand man, Jack Burden -- who narrates the story -- retains it and proves to be a thorn in the new governor's side. Stark becomes a successful leader, but at a very high price, one that eventually costs him his life. The award-winning book is a play of politics, society and personal affairs, all wrapped in the cloak of history. [via]
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American Notes and Pictures from Italyby Charles DickensISBN 0192545191 (0-19-254519-1)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Notes and Pictures from Italy'Book summary:"American Notes" was the result of the author's five-month trip to America in 1842. Dickens's travelogue includes the glitter of Boston; a Broadway swarming with hogs; a gruesome penitentiary in Philadelphia; Cincinnati, Louisville, and St Louis; railways and steamboats. Its publication was greeted with dismay: what Dickens described as 'honest and true' was regarded in America as 'a compound of egotism, coxcombry and cockneyism', the product of 'the most coarse, vulgar, impudent and superficial' writer ever to visit the country.
"Pictures from Italy" is a colourful account of a tour made in 1844.
This collectable series is the most comprehensive illustrated Dickens available. Each volume includes up to seventy-six early engravings, many of which appeared in the first editons of these works. The text is derived from the Charles Dickens Edition, revised by the author in the 1860s. [via]
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The American Woman: Her Changing Social, Economic and Political Roles, 1920-1970by William Henry ChafeISBN 0195017854 (0-19-501785-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915by Kevin StarrISBN 0195016440 (0-19-501644-0)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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The Architecture of the Arkansas Ozarksby Donald HaringtonISBN 0156078805 (0-15-607880-5)
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Arden Shakespeare Complete Works: Complete Seriesby Richard ProudfootISBN 0174436157 (0-17-443615-7)
Hardcover, Thomson Learning
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arden Shakespeare Complete Works: Complete Series'Book summary:The Complete Arden Shakespeare, published for the first time in 1998, is now available in an updated hardback edition. The Complete Arden Shakespeare contains the texts of all Shakespeare's plays, edited by leading Shakespeare scholars for the renowned Arden Shakespeare series. The updated edition includes eight newly revised playtexts as published in the Arden Third Series since 1998.A general introduction by the three General Editors of the ongoing Arden Shakespeare series gives the reader an overall view of how and why Shakespeare has become such an influential cultural icon, and how perceptions of his work have changed in the intervening four centuries. The introduction summarises the known facts about the dramatist's life, his reading and use of sources, and the nature of theatrical performance during his lifetime.Brief introductions to each play, written specially for this volume by the Arden General Editors, discuss the date and contemporary context of the play, its position within Shakespeare's 'uvre, and its subsequent performance history. An extensive glossary explains vocabulary which may be unfamiliar to modern readers.A The sound, reliable, critical edition of Shakespeare's workA Updated and revised to include all of the editions currently available in the Arden Third SeriesA Includes The Two Noble Kinsmen, the Poems and the SonnetsA General introduction by the Arden General EditorsA Brief contextual introductions to each playA Glossary with about 400 entries [via]
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Bastogne: The Story of the First Eight Days in Which the 101st Airborne Division Was Closed Within the Ring of German Forcesby Samuel Lyman Atwood MarshallISBN 0160019729 (0-16-001972-9)
Softcover, Bernan Assoc
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Bland Ambition: From Adams to Quayle--The Cranks, Criminals, Tax Cheats, and Golfers Who Made It to Vice Presidentby Steve TallyISBN 0156131404 (0-15-613140-4)
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A Breakfast for Bonaparte: U.S. National Security Interests from the Heights of Abraham to the Nuclear Ageby Eugene V. RostowISBN 0160359694 (0-16-035969-4)
Hardcover, National Defense University Press
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The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Storiesby Jack London, Robert C. Leitz, Earle LaborISBN 019282709X (0-19-282709-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Cities in Revolt Urban Life in America, 1743-1776by Carl BridenbaughISBN 019501362X (0-19-501362-X)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Complete Worksby William Shakespeare, William J. CraigISBN 0192541013 (0-19-254101-3)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Complete Works of Shakespeareby CraigISBN 0192541021 (0-19-254102-1)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Complete Works/Red Leather Editionby William ShakespeareISBN 0191900451 (0-19-190045-1)
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Courtby Mark Twain, M. Thomas IngeISBN 0192839020 (0-19-283902-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court'Book summary:When A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court was published in 1889, Mark Twain was undergoing a series of personal and professional crises. In his Introduction, M. Thomas Inge shows how what began as a literary burlesque of British chivalry and culture developed to tragedy and into a novel that remains a major literary and cultural text for generations of new readers. This edition reproduces a number of the original drawings by Dan Beard, of whom Twain said "He not only illustrates the text but he illustrates my thoughts." [via]
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The Conquest of the Incasby John HemmingISBN 0156028263 (0-15-602826-3)
Softcover, Harcourt
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The Continental Armyby Robert K. WrightISBN 0160019311 (0-16-001931-1)
Softcover, Bernan Assoc
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Custer Battlefield, a History and Guide to the Battle of the Little Bighorn: Custer Battlefieldby Robert M. UtleyISBN 0160035449 (0-16-003544-9)
Softcover, Bernan Assoc
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Defining Vision: The Battle for the Future of Televisionby Joel BrinkleyISBN 0156005972 (0-15-600597-2)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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Family and Nationby Daniel P. MoynihanISBN 0156301407 (0-15-630140-7)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Fifth Avenue: A Very Social Historyby Kate SimonISBN 015630712X (0-15-630712-X)
Softcover, Harcourt
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The First World Warby Michael HowardISBN 0192804456 (0-19-280445-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The First World War'Book summary:Now more than ever, a clear historical understanding of the conflicts that have engulfed the world is essential. In The First World War , one of the most respected historians of his generation offers a brief but hugely readable narrative account of WWI, its causes and consequences, and the many historical controversies surrounding the origin and conduct of the war. Karl von Clausewitz wrote that war is a trinity composed of the policy of the government, the activities of the military, and the passions of the people. Michael Howard argues that "each of these must be taken into account if we are to understand both why the war happened and why it took the course it did." In nine brisk chapters, Howard lays out the historical situation in Europe in 1914, the dispositions of the major belligerents prior to the war, the causes of war, the major campaigns, the entrance of the United States, the crisis, victory, and settlement of the war. Along the way, he offers compelling insights into the political motivations, military actions, and the "passions of the people" that contributed most strongly to the outcome of the war. There is no other short history of WWI on the market today written by a historian of Michael Howard's stature. For anyone wishing to gain a quick but authoritative understanding of one of the most crucial events of the twentieth century, The First World War is the best place to begin. [via]
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A Flame of Pure Fire: Jack Dempsey and the Roaring '20sby Roger KahnISBN 0156014149 (0-15-601414-9)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Flight and Rebellion : Slave Resistance in Eighteenth-Century Virginiaby Gerald W. MullinISBN 0195017889 (0-19-501788-9)
Softcover, Oxford University Press
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The Founding of New Societies; Studies in the History of the United States, Latin America, South Africa, Canada, and Australia.by Louis HartzISBN 0156327287 (0-15-632728-7)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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Friendly Persuasionby Jessamyn WestISBN 015602909X (0-15-602909-X)
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The Gay Metropolis: The Landmark History of Gay Life in Americaby Charles KaiserISBN 0156006170 (0-15-600617-0)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Gentlemen of Property and Standing; Anti-Abolition Mobs in Jacksonian Americaby Leonard L. RichardsISBN 0195013514 (0-19-501351-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Gettysburg National Military Parkby Frederick TilbergISBN 0160034159 (0-16-003415-9)
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Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Herby Melanie RehakISBN 015603056X (0-15-603056-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her'Book summary:A plucky "titian-haired" sleuth solved her first mystery in 1930. Eighty million books later, Nancy Drew has survived the Depression, World War II, and the sixties (when she was taken up with a vengeance by women's libbers) to enter the pantheon of American girlhood. As beloved by girls today as she was by their grandmothers, Nancy Drew has both inspired and reflected the changes in her readers' lives. Here, in a narrative with all the vivid energy and page-turning pace of Nancy's adventures, Melanie Rehak solves an enduring literary mystery: Who created Nancy Drew? And how did she go from pulp heroine to icon? The brainchild of children's book mogul Edward Stratemeyer, Nancy was brought to life by two women: Mildred Wirt Benson, a pioneering journalist from Iowa, and Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, a well-bred wife and mother who took over as CEO after her father died. In this century-spanning story, Rehak traces their roles--and Nancy's--in forging the modern American woman. [via]
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The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People 1770-1868by V. A. C. GatrellISBN 0192853325 (0-19-285332-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Hawaii Pono a Social Historyby Lawrence H. FuchsISBN 0156396025 (0-15-639602-5)
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Home Runby George PlimptonISBN 0156011549 (0-15-601154-9)
Softcover, Harcourt Trade Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Home Run'Book summary:The ideal pitch for a hitter is a fastball that hangs over the plate long enough to be knocked beyond the outfield fence. Home Run, a literary tribute to batters with a knack for the long ball, presents accounts of some of the most famous home runs in baseball history.
In this smart collection edited by George Plimpton, some of the best writers on baseball (Robert W. Creamer, Roger Angell) and some of the best American writers, period (Don DeLillo, John Updike), provide unique portraits of famous sluggers (Ruth, Williams, Aaron, and Josh Gibson, to name a few), their myths, and the circumstances of famous home runs (with nods to the pitchers who served them up). And as a bonus, Plimpton includes a chronology describing a century's worth of milestones.
These writers do vastly more than document baseball history: they write about something they love, and write with conviction. For example, Japanese ballplayer Sadaharu Oh, who hit 868 career homers (to Aaron's 755), describes the feeling of hitting one out in "A Zen Way of Baseball": "As the ball makes its high, long arc beyond the playing field, the diamond and the stands suddenly belong to one man. In that brief, brief time you are free of all demands and complications.... In this moment [you] are free." --Michael Ferch [via]
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House of the Seven Gablesby Nathaniel Hawthorne, Michael Davitt BellISBN 0192836455 (0-19-283645-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'House of the Seven Gables'Book summary:The sins of one generation are visited upon another in a haunted New England mansion until the arrival of a young woman from the country breathes new air into mouldering lives and rooms. Written shortly after The Scarlet Letter re-addresses the theme of human guilt in a style remarkable in both its descriptive virtuosity and its truly modern mix of fantasy and realism. [via]
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Jell-O : A Biographyby Carolyn WymanISBN 0156011239 (0-15-601123-9)
Softcover, Harcourt Trade Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jell-O : A Biography'Book summary:The author of SPAM: A Biography is back again-This time with the definitive biography of an even bigger edible American icon: JELL-0![via]
Who didn't grow up on JELL-O gelatin? Hospitals dished it out after your tonsils were removed and Mom always had a box stashed away in case of a dessert emergency.
For more than one hundred years, Jell-O has reigned as "America's Most Famous Dessert," selling more than one million packages a day and more than 500 million each year.
But where and when and how did it all begin? No one is more qualified than junk food authority Carolyn Wyman to tell the whole amazing truth of this fruit flavored dessert.
Complete with over two hundred photographs and illustrations, JELL-O: A Biography uncovers everything from the history of the product and its marketing and sales strategies through the year to off-the-wall recipes and alternative uses such as Jell-O shots and Jell-O wrestling.
Jell-O is not just a food product, it is part of America's history and culture. Painstakingly researched and playfully presented, JELL-O: A Biography is the sweet story of the primordial slime's success and a fabulously entertaining read. After all, there's always room for Jell-O.
AMAZING BUT TRUE:
Little-known facts about America's Most Famous Dessert
-- By the 1920s Jell-O was served as a good ol' American welcome treat to immigrants at Ellis Island.
--Though Jell-O sponsored his radio show for years, according to his wife, Jack Benny "never ate the stuff."
--Who does eat it? Residents of Salt Lake City and Des Moines are neck-and-neck in annual Jell-O consumption-a competition they take very seriously.
--As a teenager, actor John Malkovich lost 70 pounds in 6 months on a Jell-O only diet.
--In Cecil B. De Mille's 1923 production of The Ten Commandments, Moses's parted Red Sea was created by superimposing running actors onto footage of a quivering strawberry Jell-O mold.
--A salad or a dessert? The great debate continues . . .More editions of Jell-O : A Biography:
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Killing the Dream: James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.by Gerald L. PosnerISBN 0156006510 (0-15-600651-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Killing the Dream: James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.'Book summary:It's been 30 years since Martin Luther King Jr. was shot to death in Memphis, an event that reverberated throughout a startled country still coming to terms with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Like Kennedy's, King's assassination sparked conspiracy theories about who or what faction was ultimately responsible for his death. Did James Earl Ray act alone? Or was he a patsy?
In Killing the Dream, Gerald Posner, author of Case Closed, brings to light interesting new evidence, from confidential files to previously undisclosed facts, in an attempt to discriminate rumor from truth. Posner looks for answers to questions about where the fatal shot was fired from, the role of elite military personnel who were present in the area, and what social connections drove Ray in the year leading up to the murder.
Besides focusing on the day of the assassination and the courtroom battles that followed, Posner's book also offers a detailed examination of Ray's life, from his years in the army to his career as a petty hood. This well-researched study of the characters and the events preceding and following the murder makes for an honest, non-sensationalist journalistic account of events that have been distorted and convoluted over time. [via]
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Leaves of Grassby Walt Whithman, Jerome LovingISBN 0192834096 (0-19-283409-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leaves of Grass'Book summary:The first edition of "Leaves of Grass" had received little attention until a positive review appeared, in fact written by Walt Whitman himself. Described by Emily Dickinson as "disgraceful" and by Emerson as "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America had yet contributed to world literature", the book went on to provoke strong reactions from its readers. It is not only the allusions to sex and physiology that disturbed Whitman's critics but also his departure from the rules of conventional poetry. He broke down the standard metered line, discarded the obligatory rhyming scheme and freely expressed himself in the living vernacular of American speech. Today Whitman is regarded as America's Homer or Dante, and his work as the touchstone for literary originality in the New World. Whitman saw his verses as more than a "literary performance", they were an expression of his own "emotional and other personal nature". In this sense "Leaves of Grass" is autobiography, but the poet's vision embraces the vigorous spirit of the whole American nation. This edition reproduces the 1891-2 text and includes Whitman's Preface to the 1855 edition as well as Emerson's famous letter of 1855 greeting Whitman "at the beginning of a great career". [via]
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Let Us Build Us a City: Eleven Lost Townsby Donald HaringtonISBN 0156505304 (0-15-650530-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Let Us Build Us a City: Eleven Lost Towns'Book summary:Let Us Build Us a City is a group portrait of 11 "lost towns" in Donald Harington's native Arkansas. Yet this is no mere backwoods travelogue. His book, the author tells us, is "the story of communities that aspired to dignity and achieved serenity." These are towns, in other words, whose ambitious founders never quite managed to merge imagination with reality. "How does a once-flourishing town aspiring to call itself 'City' endure the long days of its decline?" asks Harington. The answer, in most cases, is quite well--though not perhaps in the way its inhabitants intended. One need not be familiar with Arkansas to appreciate this tour of lonely highways; there are lost towns everywhere. But seldom are they explored with such joy and wonder as in this gem of a book.
For all its brilliance, Let Us Build Us a City is nearly impossible to classify. It fuses the travel narrative with history and cultural studies--yet it reads like a novel. It's also a love story that is in no way fictional. Harington begins with a letter from a woman named Kim, who writes to praise his earlier book, Some Other Place, the Right Place. (Since the latter work is itself about a young couple's exploration of ghost towns and their subsequent romance, things immediately get off to a metafictional start.) Kim's letter leads to regular correspondence, in which she details the research she's conducting in one-horse towns throughout Arkansas. The author encourages her, she inspires him, and they agree to collaborate on a book--this one. By the time they meet, they too have learned something of expectation and hope. (Yes, they do get married, although you'll have to read the acknowledgments for details of the ceremony.)
Ultimately, Harington's book is a search for the spirit of each individual place--which is to say, the people. These lost towns are populated by dreamers, outcasts, prevaricators, drunks, madmen, and hermits. There are tales of floods, fires, gold rushes, gunshots, feuds, booms and (mostly) busts, along with other tidbits so strange they could only be true. By themselves, these would be deeply entertaining yarns. In Harington's hands, however, they amount to eloquent requiems for all his stunted cities. And perhaps these Arkansans traded in their dashed dreams for something better. After all, serenity is an admirable quality in a town, even if it happens to be an accidental one. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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The Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858by Abraham Lincoln, JohannsenISBN 0195009215 (0-19-500921-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in Americaby Leo MarxISBN 0195007387 (0-19-500738-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Middletownby Robert Staught LyndISBN 0156595508 (0-15-659550-8)
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Miracles on Maple Hill: Library Editionby Virginia Sorenson, Joe Krush, Beth KrushISBN 015660440X (0-15-660440-X)
Softcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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Modern Temper : A Study and a Confessionby Joseph Wood KrutchISBN 0156617579 (0-15-661757-9)
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Mrs. Paine's Garage and the Murder of John F. Kennedyby Thomas MallonISBN 0156027550 (0-15-602755-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mrs. Paine's Garage and the Murder of John F. Kennedy'Book summary:Ruth Paine befriended Marina Oswald and found Marina's husband, Lee Harvey, a job in the Texas State Book Depository. Thomas Mallon's Mrs. Paine's Garagerevisits the brief intersection of these three lives--what he calls a "collision of innocent intentions and unforeseen enormities." Mallon details the nine-month Paine/Oswald friendship and its rapid post-assassination disintegration. He then sketches Paine's life since (from her testimony before various congressional committees to her current low-profile residence in Florida) and summarizes Paine's place in the churning, obsessive world of conspiracy theorists with snippets of humor. (Former New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison is "Elmer Gantry with subpoena power.") This extended footnote to a footnote to a tragedy, though losing focus and energy by its end, is brisk, revelatory and even-handed. It also handily dispels several seemingly ominous coincidences about the events of November 22, 1963. --H. O'Billovitch [via]
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New Country: A Social History of the American Frontier, 1776-1890by Richard A. BartlettISBN 0195017382 (0-19-501738-2)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'New Country: A Social History of the American Frontier, 1776-1890'Book summary:From borax mule trains to the canoe stop that was Chicago in the 1830s, this book vividly recreated the tale of the westward movement of pioneers into the heartland of North America. With nearly a century separating historian Richard Bartlett from the end of the movement, Bartlett's broad perspective stresses the continuity and inevitability of this greatest element of America's Golden Age. The book focuses on the settlement of the country, the racial and ethnic composition of the people, agriculture, transportation, developments of the land, the growth of towns and cities, and the nature of frontier society as it brilliantly brings to life the frontier experience as lived by millions of Americans. Bartlett concludes that the pioneer's freedom from restrictions in a new country resulted in the unprecedented burst of energy that settled America in some 114 years. [via]
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O Pioneers!by Willa Cather, Marilee LindemannISBN 0192832166 (0-19-283216-6)
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On Native Grounds: An Interpretation of Modern American Prose Literatureby Alfred KazinISBN 015668750X (0-15-668750-X)
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The Oxford Book of the Seaby Jonathan RabanISBN 0192801945 (0-19-280194-5)
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Paineby Mark PhilpISBN 019287666X (0-19-287666-X)
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Patriotic Goreby Edmund WilsonISBN 0195007301 (0-19-500730-1)
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The People, Yesby Carl SandburgISBN 0156716658 (0-15-671665-8)
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The Pilgrim's Progressby John Bunyan, W. R. OwensISBN 0192803611 (0-19-280361-1)
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The Pioneersby James Fenimore Cooper, James D. WallaceISBN 0192828029 (0-19-282802-9)
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The Pirates Laffite: The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulfby William C. DavisISBN 0156032597 (0-15-603259-7)
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Prairieby Donald RingeISBN 0192837664 (0-19-283766-4)
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The Prairieby James Fenimore CooperISBN 019282824X (0-19-282824-X)
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Presidential Inaugurations : Behind the Scenes: An Informal, Anecdotal History from Washington's Election to the 2001 Galaby Boller, Paul F., Jr.ISBN 0156007592 (0-15-600759-2)
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Pullman; An Experiment in Industrial Order and Community Planning, 1880-1930by Stanley BuderISBN 0195008383 (0-19-500838-3)
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Rights of Man, Common Sense and Other Political Writings: Common Sense and Other Political Writingsby Thomas Paine, Mark PhilpISBN 0192835572 (0-19-283557-2)
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This new edition contains the complete texts of both Rights of Man and Common Sense, as well as six other powerfully political writings--American Crisis I, American Crisis XIII, Agrarian Justice, Letter to Jefferson, Letter Addressed to the Addressers on the Late Proclamation, and Dissertation on the First Principles of Government--all of which illustrate why Paine's ideas still resonate in the modern welfare states of today. [via]More editions of Rights of Man, Common Sense and Other Political Writings: Common Sense and Other Political Writings:
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Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Writingsby Thomas Paine, Mark PhilpISBN 0192828657 (0-19-282865-7)
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The Role of Federal Military Forces in Domestic Disorders 1877-1945by David Clayton, Ronald H. ColeISBN 0160489830 (0-16-048983-0)
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Roosevelt the Lion and the Foxby James MacGregor BurnsISBN 0156788705 (0-15-678870-5)
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Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox 1882-1940by James MacGregor BurnsISBN 0156027623 (0-15-602762-3)
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The Scarlet Letterby Nathaniel Hawthorne, Brian HardingISBN 0192833715 (0-19-283371-5)
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Scorpion Tongues: The Irresistible History of Gossip in American Politicsby Gail CollinsISBN 0156006502 (0-15-600650-2)
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The Second World War: A Short Historyby Robert Alexander Clarke ParkerISBN 0192802070 (0-19-280207-0)
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The Senate 1789-1989: Addresses on the History of the United States Senateby 52071008560ISBN 0160064058 (0-16-006405-8)
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Shakespeareby William ShakespeareISBN 0192541749 (0-19-254174-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shakespeare'Book summary:Book viii, 1164 p. 20 cm. ; Edited with a glossary by W.J. Craig. ; "The Oxford Standard Authors edition of Shakespeare's works was first published in 1905 ... reset in 1943 ... "--T.p. verso. [via]
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The Sixties : Cultural Revolution in Britain, France, Italy, and the United States, 1958-1974by Arthur MarwickISBN 0192881000 (0-19-288100-0)
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While the cultural developments remain in the memory, it was the economic progress, allied to the baby boom, that really invigorated this decade. In America, the percentage of the population below the poverty line halved in the years between 1965 and 1975; in Italy the number of families with television sets and fridges doubled over the same period. "There has been nothing quite like it", Marwick persuasively argues; "nothing would ever be the same again." --Nick Wroe [via]
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Slavery in the Cities: The South, 1820-1860by Richard C. WadeISBN 0195007557 (0-19-500755-7)
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Socialism and Americaby Irving HoweISBN 0156835207 (0-15-683520-7)
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Southwest: Three Peoples in Geographical Change, 1600-1970by D. W. NeinigISBN 0195012895 (0-19-501289-5)
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Stephen A. Douglasby Robert Walter JohannsenISBN 0195016203 (0-19-501620-3)
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Technology in America: A Brief Historyby Alan I. Marcus, Howard P. SegalISBN 0156882558 (0-15-688255-8)
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There Is a River: The Black Struggle for Freedom in Americaby Vincent HardingISBN 0156890895 (0-15-689089-5)
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The Thirteen Principal Upanishadsby Robert Ernest HumeISBN 0195014901 (0-19-501490-1)
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Those Who Save Usby Jenna BlumISBN 0156031663 (0-15-603166-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Those Who Save Us'Book summary:For fifty years, Anna Schlemmer has refused to talk about her life in Germany during World War II. Her daughter, Trudy, was only three when she and her mother were liberated by an American soldier and went to live with him in Minnesota. Trudy's sole evidence of the past is an old photograph: a family portrait showing Anna, Trudy, and a Nazi officer, the Obersturmfuhrer of Buchenwald.[via]
Driven by the guilt of her heritage, Trudy, now a professor of German history, begins investigating the past and finally unearths the dramatic and heartbreaking truth of her mother's life.
Combining a passionate, doomed love story, a vivid evocation of life during the war, and a poignant mother/daughter drama, Those Who Save Us is a profound exploration of what we endure to survive and the legacy of shame.More editions of Those Who Save Us:
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United States Senate Catalogue Of Fine Artby William KlossISBN 0160511720 (0-16-051172-0)
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When I Was a Young Man: A Memoirby Bob Kerrey, J. Robert KerreyISBN 0156027437 (0-15-602743-7)
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White Collar: The American Middle Classesby Charles Wright MillsISBN 0195006771 (0-19-500677-1)
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Wielandby Charles Brockden BrownISBN 0156966808 (0-15-696680-8)
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Wieland; Or the Transformation and Memoirs of Carwin, the Biloquistby Charles Brockden Brown, Emory ElliottISBN 0192836803 (0-19-283680-3)
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Wieland; Or the Transformation and Memoirs of Carwin, the Biloquistby Emory Elliott, Charles Brockden BrownISBN 0192828762 (0-19-282876-2)
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Winter Brothers: A Season at the Edge of Americaby Ivan DoigISBN 0156972158 (0-15-697215-8)
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The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex: A Narrative Account by Owen Chase, First Mateby Owen Chase, Iola Haverstick, Betty ShepardISBN 0156006898 (0-15-600689-8)
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I have no language to paint the horrors of our situation. To shed tears was indeed altogether unavailing and withal unmanly; yet I was not able to deny myself the relief they served to afford me.
This harrowing, first-hand account by First Mate Owen Chase was originally published in 1821, just months after he returned home to Nantucket, and the unfortunate Essex and her crew passed into legend. Twenty years after the wreck, young William Chase, Owen's son, was serving on the Lima when it met another whaler called the Acushnet. The crews spent some time together, and Chase told his father's story to 21-year-old Herman Melville, and lent him a copy of his father's book. The story clearly caught Melville's imagination--"The reading of this wondrous story upon the landless sea, and close to the very latitude of the shipwreck had a surprising effect on me"--and ten years later he published Moby Dick. Literary inspiration aside, The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex is a well-told, truly gripping tale. As Gary Kinder (who, as the author of Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea, knows a thing or two about shipwrecks) notes in his introduction, "As you sit in your chair, the subliminal thought recurs: My god, this really happened." --Sunny Delaney [via]More editions of The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex: A Narrative Account by Owen Chase, First Mate:
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