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The Age of Innocenceby Edith Wharton, Carol J. SingleyISBN 0395980798 (0-395-98079-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age of Innocence'Book summary:Somewhere in this book, Wharton observes that clever liars always come up with good stories to back up their fabrications, but that really clever liars don't bother to explain anything at all. This is the kind of insight that makes The Age of Innocence so indispensable. Wharton's story of the upper classes of Old New York, and Newland Archer's impossible love for the disgraced Countess Olenska, is a perfectly wrought book about an era when upper-class culture in this country was still a mixture of American and European extracts, and when "society" had rules as rigid as any in history. [via]
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The Age of Manufactures, 1700-1820: Industry, Innovation, and Work in Britainby Maxine BergISBN 0415069351 (0-415-06935-1)
Softcover, Routledge
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Aloneby Richard Evelyn ByrdISBN 0399100164 (0-399-10016-4)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alone'Book summary:[via]When Admiral Richard E. Byrd set out on his second Antarctic expedition in 1934, he was already an international hero for having piloted the first flights over the North and South Poles. His plan for this latest adventure was to spend six months alone near the bottom of the world, gathering weather data and indulging his desire to taste peace and quiet long enough to know how good they really are. But early on things went terribly wrong. Isolated in the pervasive polar night with no hope of release until spring, Byrd began suffering inexplicable symptoms of mental and physical illness. By the time he discovered that carbon monoxide from a defective stovepipe was poisoning him, Byrd was already engaged in a monumental struggle to save his life and preserve his sanity.
When Alone was first published in 1938, it became an enormous bestseller. This edition keeps alive Byrds unforgettable narrative for new generations of readers.
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American Foreign Relationby Kenneth J. Hagan, Thomas G. Paterson, J. Garry CliffordISBN 0395938872 (0-395-93887-2)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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American Foreign Relations: A History to 1920by Kenneth J. Hagan, Thomas G. Paterson, J. Garry CliffordISBN 0395938864 (0-395-93886-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Archaeology of Knowledgeby Michel FoucaultISBN 0415045371 (0-415-04537-1)
Softcover, Routledge
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Battle Readyby Tom Clancy, Tony Koltz, Tony ZinniISBN 0399151761 (0-399-15176-1)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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The Best American Short Stories, 1999by Amy Tan, Katrina KenisonISBN 039592684X (0-395-92684-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best American Short Stories, 1999'Book summary:A great story gets its hooks into you right from the start; you know you're in the hands of a good writer when the very first sentence transports you wholly into another world. "Mother preferred Zulu servants." "It must be, Ruth thought, that she was going to die in the spring." "Who would have thought that a war of such proportions would bother to turn in its fury against the fools of Chelm?"
The 21 fictions featured in The Best American Short Stories 1999 have very little in common--but whether they're about ranchers or commuters, romantic seekers or New Age pilgrims, what they do share is a sense of urgency. In each of them, there's a kind of voice that announces its need to be heard. "I'm not a bad guy," pleads the narrator of "The Sun, the Moon, the Stars," and even though he cheats on his girlfriend, by the end of Junot Díaz's story you might be tempted to agree anyway. (Especially considering the charming way he turns Melville's Bartleby the Scrivener into a verb--as in, "A lot of the time she Bartlebys me, says, 'No, I'd rather not.'") "Real Estate," by that master of bittersweet comedy Lorrie Moore, starts by repeating "Ha! Ha! Ha!" for two solid pages but becomes a rueful take on marriage, house-hunting, and even death: "The body, hauling sadnesses, pursued the soul, hobbled after. The body was like a sweet dim dog trotting lamely toward the gate as you tried slowly to drive off, out the long driveway. Take me, take me too, barked the dog."
Other standouts in this collection include Alice Munro's "Save the Reaper," a kind of "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" where no one is killed or saved; Rick Bass's haunting evocation of winter in the north country, "The Hermit's Story"; and Tim Gautreax's "The Piano Tuner," about a manic-depressive Creole princess playing cocktail piano in a motel lounge. (This is one tale that truly does end with a bang, not a whimper.) Taken together, they are ample evidence that the American short story is alive, well, and eminently able to--in the words of guest editor Amy Tan--"help us live interesting lives." --Chloe Byrne [via]
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Bond Men Made Free: Medieval Peasant Movements and the English Rising of 1381by Rodney HiltonISBN 0415018803 (0-415-01880-3)
Softcover, Routledge Kegan & Paul
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Hilton views the revolt in the context of a genral European pattern of class conflict. He demonstrates that the peasant movements that disturbed the Middle Ages were not mere unrelated outbreaks of violence but had their roots in common economic and political conditions and in a recurring conflict of interest between peasants and landowners.
Now with a new introduction by Christopher Dyer, this survey is still a leading source for students of medieval English peasantry.
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The Book of Presidentsby Tim TaylorISBN 0405002262 (0-405-00226-2)
Softcover, Ayer Co Pub
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Bums: An Oral History of the Brooklyn Dodgersby Peter GolenbockISBN 0399128468 (0-399-12846-8)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Byzantine Empireby Norman BaynesISBN 0404146414 (0-404-14641-4)
Hardcover, Ams Pr Inc
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Captain Alatristeby Arturo Perez-Reverte, Margaret Sayers PedenISBN 039915275X (0-399-15275-X)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Captain Alatriste'Book summary:The first in a magnificent series of historical novels from the acclaimed, bestselling author of The Club Dumas and The Queen of the South.
Captain Alatriste is the story of a fictional seventeenth-century Spanish soldier who, after being wounded in battle during the Thirty Years' War, is forced to retire from the army. Now he lives the comparatively tame-though hardly quiet-life of a swordsman-for-hire in Madrid. Approached with an offer of work, Alatriste is told to go with another hired blade to an unfamiliar part of the city at midnight and wait. They are received by men who explain that they want Alatriste and his companion to ambush two travelers the following evening, stage a robbery, and give the men a fright. "No blood," they are told.
But then a third figure enters the room. He says the job requires some clarification: he increases the pay, and tells them that, instead, they must murder the two travelers. Then he reveals his identity: Emilio Bocanegra. It is a name synonymous with the Spanish Inquisition, the bloodiest name in Europe. This is a man whose requests cannot be denied.
But the following night, with the attack imminent, it becomes clear to Alatriste that these aren't ordinary travelers. And what happens next is only the first in a series of riveting twists and turns, with implications that will reverberate throughout the courts of Europe.
For anyone who loves the work of Arturo Pirez-Reverte-and those who have not yet discovered the delights of this extraordinary writer-Captain Alatriste is one of the most stylish, singular pleasures to come along in years. [via]More editions of Captain Alatriste:
Charles Kuralt's America: Charles Kuraltby Charles KuraltISBN 0399140832 (0-399-14083-2)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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A Christmas Carolby Charles DickensISBN 0397000332 (0-397-00033-2)
Hardcover, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
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Crime and Punishment in Eighteenth-Century Englandby Frank McLynnISBN 0415010144 (0-415-01014-4)
Hardcover, Routledge, Chapman & Hall, Incorporated
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The Crime of the Century: The Leopold and Loeb Caseby Hal HigdonISBN 0399114912 (0-399-11491-2)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Diary Of An Early American Boy: Noah Blake 1805by Eric SloaneISBN 0396083374 (0-396-08337-4)
Hardcover, Dodd Mead
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The Discovery of Freedom: Man's Struggle against Authorityby Rose Wilder Lane, Paul Avrich Collection (Library of Congress)ISBN 0405004257 (0-405-00425-7)
Hardcover, Arno Press
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Why, Commas Really Do Make a Difference!by Lynne Truss, Bonnie TimmonsISBN 0399244913 (0-399-24491-3)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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This picture book is sure to elicit gales of laughterand better punctuationfrom all who read it.
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Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discoveryby Russell FreedmanISBN 0395845203 (0-395-84520-3)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Enduring Vision: A History of the American Peopleby Nancy Woloch, Harvard Sitkoff, Neal Salisbury, Paul S. Boyer, Joseph F. Kett, Clifford E. Clark, Paul S. BayerISBN 0395960770 (0-395-96077-0)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Enduring Vision: A History of the Modern Peopleby Paul S. Boyer, Clifford E. Clark, Sandra McNairISBN 0395884187 (0-395-88418-7)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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The Enduring Vision Essentials Completeby Paul S. BoyerISBN 0395901200 (0-395-90120-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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England in Transition: Life and Work in the 18th Centuryby Mary D. GeorgeISBN 0404145442 (0-404-14544-2)
Hardcover, Ams Pr Inc
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FDR:the Beckoning of Destiny: 1882-1928; a Historyby Kenneth Sydney DavisISBN 0399109986 (0-399-10998-6)
Hardcover, Putnam
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Final Entries, 1945: The Diaries of Joseph Goebbelsby Joseph Goebbels, H.R. Trevor-RoperISBN 0399121161 (0-399-12116-1)
Hardcover, Putnam
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Edited, Introduced and annotated by Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper, this is a remarkable account from within of the crumbling of the Nazi empire by its arch-apologist. [via]More editions of Final Entries, 1945: The Diaries of Joseph Goebbels:
The First Industrial Nation: An Economic History of Britain 1700-1914by Peter MathiasISBN 041502756X (0-415-02756-X)
Softcover, Routledge
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Fourth Estate a History of Women in the Middle Agesby Shulamith ShaharISBN 041504605X (0-415-04605-X)
Softcover, Routledge
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Frederick the Great: A Military Lifeby Christopher DuffyISBN 0415002761 (0-415-00276-1)
Softcover, Routledge
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From Solon to Socrates: Greek History and Civilization during the Sixth and Fifth Centuries B.C.by Victor EhrenbergISBN 0415040248 (0-415-04024-8)
Softcover, Routledge
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Gender and Medieval Monasticism : The Archaeology of Religious Womenby Roberta GilchristISBN 0415089034 (0-415-08903-4)
Hardcover, Routledge
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Greek Philosophers: From Thales to Aristotleby William Keith Chambers GuthrieISBN 0415040256 (0-415-04025-6)
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Hildegard of Bingen, 1098-1179: A Visionary Lifeby Sabina FlanaganISBN 0415013402 (0-415-01340-2)
Hardcover, Routledge
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Historical Atlas of the WorldISBN 0395892929 (0-395-89292-9)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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A History of Indiaby Hermann Kulke, Dietmar RothermundISBN 0415047994 (0-415-04799-4)
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A History of Irelandby Edmund CurtisISBN 0415027861 (0-415-02786-1)
Softcover, Routledge
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History of the Roman World from 30 Bc to Ad 138by E. T. SalmonISBN 0415045045 (0-415-04504-5)
Softcover, Routledge
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A History of Western Society: From Antiquity to the Enlightenmentby John P. McKay, John Buckler, Bennett D. HillISBN 0395904323 (0-395-90432-3)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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A History of Western Society: From the Revolutionary Era to the Presentby John Buckler, Bennett D. Hill, McKay, Hill, & BucklerISBN 0395904374 (0-395-90437-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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A History Of World Societiesby John P. McKayISBN 0395944945 (0-395-94494-5)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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A History Of World Societies: To 1715by John P. McKay, John Buckler, Bennett D. HillISBN 0395944902 (0-395-94490-2)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Holy Roman Empireby James BryceISBN 0404145167 (0-404-14516-7)
Hardcover, Ams Pr Inc
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The Human Record: Sources of Global Historyby Alfred J. Andrea, James H. OverfieldISBN 0395870887 (0-395-87088-7)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Human Scaleby Kirkpatrick SaleISBN 0399506217 (0-399-50621-7)
Softcover, Perigee
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The Hundred Years Warby Robin NeillandsISBN 0415071496 (0-415-07149-6)
Softcover, Routledge
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In the Company of Heroes: A True Storyby Steven Hartov, Michael DurantISBN 0399150609 (0-399-15060-9)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemisonby Lois LenskiISBN 039730076X (0-397-30076-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Jefferson and Hamilton: The Struggle for Democracy in Americaby Claude Gernade BowersISBN 0403008301 (0-403-00830-1)
Hardcover, Scholarly Press
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The Joy Luck Clubby Amy TanISBN 0399134204 (0-399-13420-4)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between mothers and daughters. As each woman reveals her secrets, trying to unravel the truth about her life, the strings become more tangled, more entwined. Mothers boast or despair over daughters, and daughters roll their eyes even as they feel the inextricable tightening of their matriarchal ties. Tan is an astute storyteller, enticing readers to immerse themselves into these lives of complexity and mystery. [via]
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King Henry VIby William ShakespeareISBN 041502711X (0-415-02711-X)
Softcover, Thomson Learning
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Kings and Queens of Early Britainby Geoffrey AsheISBN 041347920X (0-413-47920-X)
Hardcover, Methuen
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The Last Stuart: The Life and Times of Bonnie Prince Charlieby David DaichesISBN 0399111093 (0-399-11109-3)
Hardcover, Putnam
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A Life on the Roadby Charles KuraltISBN 0399134883 (0-399-13488-3)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
John Charles Kuralt on the journey of his life. From a southern boy bitten by wanderlust and wonder, to a curious rover writing for newspapers, radio, and TV, to a CBS News correspondent adventuring around the world--from Cuba and Vietnam to the Congo and the North Pole, to his twenty-plus years roaming the back roads of America. In this engaging memoir, Kuralt relives a lifetime of discovering places and people whose unique stories enriched him, shaped him, and fueled his all-consuming passion: to find out what wonderful thing waits just around the next bend.
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The Lowell Offering: Writings by New England Mill Womenby Benita EislerISBN 039701225X (0-397-01225-X)
Hardcover, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
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Lutherby Richard MariusISBN 0397010486 (0-397-01048-6)
Hardcover, Lippincott
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Lyndon: An Oral Biographyby Merle MillerISBN 0399123571 (0-399-12357-1)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Major Problems in the Civil War and Reconstructionby Sean Wilentz, Michael PermanISBN 0395959683 (0-395-95968-3)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Major Problems in the Civil War and Reconstructionby Thomas G. Paterson, Michael PermanISBN 0395868491 (0-395-86849-1)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Major Problems in the History of American Sexuality: Documents and Essaysby Kathy Lee PeissISBN 039590384X (0-395-90384-X)
Softcover, D C Heath & Co
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Make Way for Sam Houstonby Jean FritzISBN 039921304X (0-399-21304-X)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Malafrenaby Ursula Le GuinISBN 0399124101 (0-399-12410-1)
Hardcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Military History and Atlas of the Napoleonic Warsby Vincent J. Esposito, John R. EltingISBN 0404169503 (0-404-16950-3)
Hardcover, A M S Press, Incorporated
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My Lifeby Golda MeirISBN 0399116699 (0-399-11669-9)
Hardcover, Putnam
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The Nazi Revolutionby Allan Mitchell, Theodore S. Hamerow, Holger H. HerwigISBN 0395961475 (0-395-96147-5)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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The Norman Achievement, 1050-1100by David Charles DouglasISBN 0413265803 (0-413-26580-3)
Hardcover, Eyre & Spottiswoode
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Official and Confidentialby Anthony SummersISBN 0399138005 (0-399-13800-5)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Official and Confidential'Book summary:Presidents yearned to fire him, but were daunted by his storehouse of damaging secrets. Public officials and private citizens lived in fear of his illegal surveillance and harassment tactics. Now, in this ground-breaking, at times shocking biography, J. Edgar Hoover, the man who ruled over the FBI for nearly fifty years, emerges definitively as one of the greatest menaces of our times.
Official and Confidential, by the award-winning investigative journalist and author Anthony Summers, is the first book to expose the public and the private J. Edgar Hoover. Other biographers have hinted at the dark secrets in the Director's life, but Summers courageously discloses the truth. After conducting more than eight hundred interviews and obtaining access to previously concealed documents, Summers has created a chilling portrait of a legendary figure who blatantly abused the public trust.
* J. Edgar Hoover, Summers establishes, was a closet homosexual and transvestite. Mafia bosses obtained information about Hoover's sex life and used it for decades to keep the FBI at bay. Without this, the Mafia as we know it might never have gained its hold in America.
* J. Edgar Hoover shamelessly accepted gifts and free lodging from millionaire oilmen, and appropriated FBI facilities for his personal use.
* J. Edgar Hoover influenced the course of World War II by ignoring an early warning about Pearl Harbor.
* J. Edgar Hoover used his knowledge of John F. Kennedy's womanizing to ensure that Lyndon Johnson became Vice President. He relied on dirty tricks to stay in office under Kennedy and subverted the Warren Commission's probe into the investigation of his death.
* J. Edgar Hoover himself was the target of a Watergate-era burglary attempt - and perhaps even a murder plot.
With these and other astonishing disclosures, Summers defines a man and his times. He explores Hoover's troubled youth as the son of a mentally ill father and a highly demanding mother, and the development of the obsessive behavior that dominated his later years. Summers takes the reader on an extraordinary journey, as a zealous young lawyer rebuilds an ineffectual corps of agents into a massive force capable of police-state tactics. With riveting detail, Summers documents Hoover's behind-the-scenes role in war and peace through fifty years and eight presidential administrations.
Richly anecdotal, meticulously researched Official and Confidential depicts some of the most controversial and colorful events of our century. Here is a disturbing lesson in how one man was able to abuse his position of power and change the course of American history. [via]
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Othelloby William ShakespeareISBN 0415027012 (0-415-02701-2)
Softcover, Van Nostrand Reinhold
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Othello'Book summary:This edition of "Othello" aims to shed light on the text of the play as we have come to know it, and on our knowledge of its early history. The professional malpractices of the publisher of the Quarto, as described in documents in the Public Record Office, and the professional zeal of the Folio scribe, who wished to tidy and correct Shakespeare's manuscript, introduced many plausible but post-Shakespearean readings into the text, which call into question a number of our assumptions about the play. As well as investigating the implications of these findings about the early texts, the editor offers a wider background to the play, discussing major critical issues, the play in performance and the relationship between reading and seeing it, and topics such as its date, sources, the famous conundrum of "double time", and its "greatness" compared with "Hamlet" and "King Lear". Commentary notes assist the reader's understanding of the text in detail; many are concerned with the contemporary resonsanaces of its language. [via]
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Pink and Sayby Patricia PolaccoISBN 0399226710 (0-399-22671-0)
Hardcover, Philomel Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pink and Say'Book summary:In a true story, Pinkus Aylee, a black Union soldier, finds Sheldon Curtis left for dead and carries him home to be tended by his mother, but when the two boys attempt to rejoin the Union troops, they are captured and sent to Andersonville Prison. [via]
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A Pioneer Samplerby Barbara Greenwood, Heather CollinsISBN 0395883938 (0-395-88393-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Politics of Diplomacy: Revolution, War and Peace 1989-1992by Thomas M. Defrank, James Addison BakerISBN 0399140875 (0-399-14087-5)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Portrait of America: From Before Columbus to the End of Reconstructionby Stephen B. OatesISBN 0395900778 (0-395-90077-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Pride and Prejudiceby Jane AustenISBN 0396085369 (0-396-08536-9)
Hardcover, Bookthrift Co
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Princes, Pastors and People: The Church and Religion in England, 1529-1689by Christopher Durston, Susan DoranISBN 041505964X (0-415-05964-X)
Softcover, Routledge
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Re-Thinking Historyby Keith JenkinsISBN 0415067782 (0-415-06778-2)
Softcover, Routledge
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The Rise of Professional Society: England Since, 1880by Harold PerkinISBN 041504975X (0-415-04975-X)
Softcover, Routledge
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Roman World 44BC 180ADby Martin GoodmanISBN 0415049709 (0-415-04970-9)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Roman World 44Bc-180Ad'Book summary:Examining the Roman world from an unusual and illuminating angle, this volume explores the central period of the Roman empire from Julius Caesar to Marcus Aurelius.
Martin Goodman focuses on the perspective of its peoples and its fringe areas, rather than from the Emperor's household, giving a balanced view of the Roman world in its entirety.
Goodman outlines and discusses the major aspects of Roman rule and culture, as well as the marginal; the city state of Rome, politics, social and civic life, and religion.The Roman World 44 BCAD 180 offers a stimulating and provocative addition to the study of the Roman world in this period, which will be of vital interest to anyone concerned with the origins of Western civilization.
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Ships and Men of the Great Lakesby Dwight BoyerISBN 0396074464 (0-396-07446-4)
Hardcover, Dodd Mead
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Small Town America: A Narrative History, 1620-The Presentby Richard R. LingemanISBN 0399119884 (0-399-11988-4)
Hardcover, Putnam
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Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk And The Conquest of Polioby Jeffrey KlugerISBN 0399152164 (0-399-15216-4)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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The Stilwell Papersby Joseph W. StilwellISBN 0404202470 (0-404-20247-0)
Hardcover, Ams Pr Inc
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Stonewallby Stephen Gammell, Jean FritzISBN 0399206981 (0-399-20698-1)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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The Sword and the Scimitar: The Saga of the Crusadesby Ernle Dusgate Selby BradfordISBN 0399113754 (0-399-11375-4)
Hardcover, Putnam
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Traitor, the Case of Benedict Arnoldby Jean FritzISBN 0399208348 (0-399-20834-8)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Walden And Civil Disobedienceby Henry David Thoreau, Paul LauterISBN 0395980771 (0-395-98077-1)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walden And Civil Disobedience'Book summary:In addition to pairing Thoreau's two famous works, this volume contains a large section entitled "Contexts and Comments," which includes essays, letters, and excerpts contextualizing and further expanding on Thoreau's themes. Some of the world's most prominent humanitarians and authors have been influenced by and have responded to Thoreau's seminal works; this new edition features writings by Angelina Grimke, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Leo Tolstoy, Mohandas Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr. [via]
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The Way We Lived: Essays and Documents in American Social History 1492-1877by David M. Reimers, Frederick M. BinderISBN 0395959608 (0-395-95960-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Where Do You Think You're Going, Christopher Columbus?by Jean FritzISBN 0399207341 (0-399-20734-1)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Where Do You Think You're Going, Christopher Columbus?by Margot Tomes, Jean FritzISBN 0399207236 (0-399-20723-6)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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White Mythologies: Writing History and the Westby Robert YoungISBN 0415053722 (0-415-05372-2)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'White Mythologies: Writing History and the West'Book summary:Robert Young's investigation of the "history of history", from Hegel and Marx to Althusser and Foucault, calls into question the Eurocentrism of traditional Marxist accounts of a single world history, in which, as he shows, the Third World appears as an unassimilable excess, surplus to the narrative of the West. Young goes on to consider recent questionings of the limits of Western knowledge. He argues that the efforts of Edward Said, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Homi Bhabha to formulate non-historicist ways of thinking and writing history are part of a larger project of a decolonization of history and a deconstruction of the West. [via]
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Wine and the Vine : An Historical Geography of Viticulture and the Wine Tradeby Timothy UnwinISBN 0415031206 (0-415-03120-6)
Hardcover, Routledge, Chapman & Hall, Incorporated
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Written for Childrenby John Rowe TownsendISBN 0397315287 (0-397-31528-7)
Hardcover, Lippincott
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