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20 Years at Hull Houseby Jane AddamsISBN 0899682596 (0-89968-259-6)
Hardcover, Lightyear Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: '20 Years at Hull House'Book summary:While on a trip to East London in 1883, Jane Addams witnessed a distressing scene late one night: masses of poor people were bidding on rotten vegetables that were unsalable anywhere else.
Their pale faces were dominated by that most unlovely of human expressions, the cunning and shrewdness of the bargain-hunter who starves if he cannot make a successful trade, and yet the final impression was not of ragged, tawdry clothing nor of pinched and sallow faces, but of myriads of hands, empty, pathetic, nerveless, and workworn, showing white in the uncertain light of the street, and clutching forward for food which was already unfit to eat.
This scene haunted Addams for the next two years as she traveled through Europe, and she hoped to find a way to ease such suffering. Five years later, she visited Toynbee Hall, a London settlement house, and resolved to replicate the experiment in the U.S. On September 18, 1889, Jane Addams and her friend Ellen Starr moved into the second floor of a rundown mansion in Chicago's West Side. From the outset, they imagined Hull-House as a "center for a higher civic and social life" in the industrial districts of the city. Addams, Starr, and several like-minded individuals lived and worked among the poor, establishing (among other things) art classes, discussion groups, cooperatives, a kindergarten, a coffee house, a lending library, and a gymnasium. In a time when many well-to-do Americans were beginning to feel threatened by immigrants, Hull-House embraced them, showed them the true meaning of democracy, and served as a center for philanthropic efforts throughout Chicago.
Hull-House also provided an outlet for the energies of the first generation of female college graduates, who were educated for work yet prevented from doing it. In some respects, however, Addams's impressive work, often hailed by historians as "revolutionary," was nothing of the sort. She embraced the sexual stereotypes of her day, and, though she was clearly an independent woman, soothed public fears by acting primarily in the traditional roles of nurturer and caregiver. Hull-House was a rousing success, and it inspired others to follow in Addams's footsteps.
Though Twenty Years at Hull-House is meant to be an autobiography, it is Hull-House itself that stands in the spotlight. Addams devotes the first third of the book to her upbringing and influences, but the remainder focuses on the organization she built--and the benefits accruing to those who work with the poor as well as to the poor themselves. At times Addams's prose is difficult to follow, but her ideals and her actions are truly inspiring. A classic work of history--and a model for today's would-be philanthropists. --Sunny Delaney [via]
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark TwainISBN 0895980126 (0-89598-012-6)
Softcover, Andor Pub Co
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All the King's Menby Robert Penn WarrenISBN 0899662900 (0-89966-290-0)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friendsby Dwight David EisenhowerISBN 0915992043 (0-915992-04-3)
Softcover, Amer Anthropological Assn
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Attracted to Americaby Danish Immigrant Archive, Ivan E. NielsenISBN 0930697138 (0-930697-13-8)
Hardcover, Lur Publications, Danish Immigrant Archive, Dana College
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The Awakeningby Kate ChopinISBN 0899682707 (0-89968-270-7)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Babbittby Sinclair LewisISBN 0899666221 (0-89966-622-1)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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The Battle of Chickamaugaby William Glenn RobertsonISBN 0915992779 (0-915992-77-9)
Hardcover, Eastern National Park and Monument Association
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The Battle of Gettysburgby Harry W. Pfanz, Scott HartwigISBN 0915992639 (0-915992-63-9)
Hardcover, Eastern National Park and Monument Association
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The Battles for Chattanoogaby Peter CozzensISBN 0915992957 (0-915992-95-7)
Hardcover, Eastern National Park and Monument Association
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The Bell Jarby Sylvia PlathISBN 0899668151 (0-89966-815-1)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Betrayal: How the Clinton Administration Sold Out American Securityby Bill GertzISBN 0895263173 (0-89526-317-3)
Hardcover, Regnery Publishing, Incorporated, An Eagle Publishing Company
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Bitter Melon: Inside America's Last Rural Chinese Townby Jeff Gillenkirk, James MotlowISBN 0930588584 (0-930588-58-4)
Softcover, Heyday Books
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Book of the Presidentsby Vincent WilsonISBN 0910086028 (0-910086-02-8)
Softcover, Amer History Research Assoc
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The British and American Women's Trade Union Leagues, 1890-1925: A Case Study of Feminism and Classby Robin Miller JacobyISBN 0926019686 (0-926019-68-6)
Hardcover, Carlson Pub
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But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studiesby Gloria Hull, Barbara Smith, Patricia Bell ScottISBN 0912670959 (0-912670-95-9)
Softcover, Feminist Pr
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Cape Cod Pilotby Jeremiah Digges, Josef BergerISBN 0930350723 (0-930350-72-3)
Softcover, Univ Pr of New England
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cape Cod Pilot'Book summary:America's greatest naval historian, Samuel Eliot Morison, writes about America's greatest naval hero in this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography. The Scottish-born John Paul Jones struck several severe blows to English morale during the American Revolution, as he fearlessly ravaged the king's ships within sight of British shores. With tactical brilliance and almost reckless courage, Jones eagerly attacked larger foes and soundly beat them. During one famous engagement, his opposing commander called out and offered Jones the opportunity to surrender. Jones's immortal response: "I have not yet begun to fight!" This marvelous book is a fitting tribute to a controversial yet romantic figure, who now lies buried at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. [via]
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Causes of the Civil War: Institutional Failure or Human Blunderby Hans L. TrefousseISBN 0898744725 (0-89874-472-5)
Softcover, Krieger Pub Co
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Children of the Wild Westby Russell FreedmanISBN 0899191436 (0-89919-143-6)
Hardcover, Clarion Books
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The Civil War's Common Soldierby William Marvel, James I. RobertsonISBN 0915992655 (0-915992-65-5)
Hardcover, Eastern National Park and Monument Association
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Constitutional Journal: A Correspondent's Report from the Convention of 1787by Jeffrey St. JohnISBN 0915463423 (0-915463-42-3)
Hardcover, Jameson Books
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Coolidge: An American Enigmaby Robert SobelISBN 0895262479 (0-89526-247-9)
Softcover, Perseus Distribution Services
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Daniel Boone: Frontier Adventuresby Keith Brandt, John LawnISBN 0893758442 (0-89375-844-2)
Softcover, Troll Communications L.L.C.
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Democracy in Americaby Alexis De Tocqueville, Bruce ErohnenISBN 089526160X (0-89526-160-X)
Hardcover, Perseus Distribution Services
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Democracy in America'Book summary:Classic analysis of America's unique political character, quoted heavily by politicians and perennially popping up on history professors' reading lists. The book's enduring appeal lies in the eloquent, prophetic voice of Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859), a French aristocrat who visited the United States in 1831. A thoughtful young man in a still-young country, he succeede in penning this penetrating study of America's people, culture, history, geography, politics, legal system, and economy. Tocqueville asserts, I confess that in America I saw more than America; I sought the image of democracy itself, with its inclinations, its character, its prejudices, and its passions, in order to learn what we have to fear or hope from its progress. [via]
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Discovering America's Past: Customs, Legends, History & Lore of Our Great NationISBN 0895775204 (0-89577-520-4)
Hardcover, Readers Digest
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The Era of Good Feelingsby George DangerfieldISBN 0929587146 (0-929587-14-6)
Softcover, Ivan R Dee
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First Lady from Plainsby Rosalynn CarterISBN 0896215652 (0-89621-565-2)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The First Salute/a View of the American Revolutionby Barbara TuchmanISBN 0896219445 (0-89621-944-5)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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Forge of Union Anvil of Liberty: A Correspondent's Report on the First Federal Elections, the First Federal Congress, and the Bill of Rightsby Jeffrey St. JohnISBN 0915463628 (0-915463-62-8)
Hardcover, Jameson Books
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Founding Father: The Story of Joseph P. Kennedy, a Study in Power, Wealth and Family Ambitionby Richard J. WhalenISBN 0895267330 (0-89526-733-0)
Softcover, Regnery Publishing, Incorporated, An Eagle Publishing Company
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Gay Sunshine Interviewsby Winston LeylandISBN 0917342615 (0-917342-61-5)
Hardcover, Gay Sunshine Press, Incorporated
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Ghost Ships of the Great Lakesby Dwight BoyerISBN 0912514477 (0-912514-47-7)
Softcover, Freshwater Pr
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The Grapes of Wrathby John SteinbeckISBN 0895773872 (0-89577-387-2)
Hardcover, Reader's Digest Association
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Grapes of Wrath'Book summary:When The Grapes of Wrath was published in 1939, America, still recovering from the Great Depression, came face to face with itself in a startling, lyrical way. John Steinbeck gathered the country's recent shames and devastations--the Hoovervilles, the desperate, dirty children, the dissolution of kin, the oppressive labor conditions--in the Joad family. Then he set them down on a westward-running road, local dialect and all, for the world to acknowledge. For this marvel of observation and perception, he won the Pulitzer in 1940.
The prize must have come, at least in part, because alongside the poverty and dispossession, Steinbeck chronicled the Joads' refusal, even inability, to let go of their faltering but unmistakable hold on human dignity. Witnessing their degeneration from Oklahoma farmers to a diminished band of migrant workers is nothing short of crushing. The Joads lose family members to death and cowardice as they go, and are challenged by everything from weather to the authorities to the California locals themselves. As Tom Joad puts it: "They're a-workin' away at our spirits. They're a tryin' to make us cringe an' crawl like a whipped bitch. They tryin' to break us. Why, Jesus Christ, Ma, they comes a time when the on'y way a fella can keep his decency is by takin' a sock at a cop. They're workin' on our decency."
The point, though, is that decency remains intact, if somewhat battle-scarred, and this, as much as the depression and the plight of the "Okies," is a part of American history. When the California of their dreams proves to be less than edenic, Ma tells Tom: "You got to have patience. Why, Tom--us people will go on livin' when all them people is gone. Why, Tom, we're the people that live. They ain't gonna wipe us out. Why, we're the people--we go on." It's almost as if she's talking about the very novel she inhabits, for Steinbeck's characters, more than most literary creations, do go on. They continue, now as much as ever, to illuminate and humanize an era for generations of readers who, thankfully, have no experiential point of reference for understanding the depression. The book's final, haunting image of Rose of Sharon--Rosasharn, as they call her--the eldest Joad daughter, forcing the milk intended for her stillborn baby onto a starving stranger, is a lesson on the grandest scale. "'You got to,'" she says, simply. And so do we all. --Melanie Rehak [via]
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The Great Gatsbyby F. Scott Fitzgerald, Michael Graves, Press Collection (Library of Congress), Arion PressISBN 0910457050 (0-910457-05-0)
Hardcover, Arion Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Gatsby'Book summary:In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple + intricately patterned." That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned, and above all, simple novel became The Great Gatsby, arguably Fitzgerald's finest work and certainly the book for which he is best known. A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the author's generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology. Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some of Fitzgerald's--and his country's--most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed, and the promise of new beginnings. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning--" Gatsby's rise to glory and eventual fall from grace becomes a kind of cautionary tale about the American Dream.
It's also a love story, of sorts, the narrative of Gatsby's quixotic passion for Daisy Buchanan. The pair meet five years before the novel begins, when Daisy is a legendary young Louisville beauty and Gatsby an impoverished officer. They fall in love, but while Gatsby serves overseas, Daisy marries the brutal, bullying, but extremely rich Tom Buchanan. After the war, Gatsby devotes himself blindly to the pursuit of wealth by whatever means--and to the pursuit of Daisy, which amounts to the same thing. "Her voice is full of money," Gatsby says admiringly, in one of the novel's more famous descriptions. His millions made, Gatsby buys a mansion across Long Island Sound from Daisy's patrician East Egg address, throws lavish parties, and waits for her to appear. When she does, events unfold with all the tragic inevitability of a Greek drama, with detached, cynical neighbor Nick Carraway acting as chorus throughout. Spare, elegantly plotted, and written in crystalline prose, The Great Gatsby is as perfectly satisfying as the best kind of poem. [via]
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I Love Myself When I Am Laughing ... and Then Again When I Am Looking Mean and Impressiveby Zora Neale HurstonISBN 0912670665 (0-912670-66-5)
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Imperial Alibis: Rationalizing U. S. Intervention after the Cold Warby Stephen R. ShalomISBN 0896084485 (0-89608-448-5)
Softcover, Pluto Press
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John Brown's Bodyby Stephen Vincent BenetISBN 092958726X (0-929587-26-X)
Softcover, Ivan R Dee
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› Find signed collectible books: 'John Brown's Body'Book summary:One of the most widely read poems of our time, John Browns Body is Stephen Vincent Benéts masterful retelling of the Civil War. A book of great energy and sweep, it swings into view the entire course of that terrible and decisive war, lighting up the lives of soldiers, leaders, and civilians, North and South, amidst the conflict. Generations of readers have found the book a compelling and moving experience.
"Magnificently readable."New Statesman.
"It is not one of your tours de forces of intellect and technique, to be admired and then tucked away on the library shelf. It is a library of storytelling itself, a poem extraordinarily rich in action as well as actors, vivid, varied, and so expressive of many men and moods that prose could never have carried its electric burden."Saturday Review.
"A remarkable piece of imaginative reporting; and one in which not only the forces which make history are embodied in the speech and action of very diverse men and women but the ideas also of which these forces were the driving power."London Times Literary Supplement. [via]
John Paul Jonesby Samuel Eliot MorisonISBN 0930350707 (0-930350-70-7)
Softcover, Univ Pr of New England
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John SteinbeckISBN 0905712706 (0-905712-70-6)
Hardcover, Xs Books
Find This BookBook summary:5 stories in one the grapes of wrath the moon is down cannery row east of eden of mice and men [via]
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John Steinbeckby John SteinbeckISBN 0905712064 (0-905712-06-4)
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The Jungleby Upton Beall SinclairISBN 0899664156 (0-89966-415-6)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Man Without a Countryby Edward HaleISBN 0899681522 (0-89968-152-2)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Means and Ends in American Abolitionism: Garrison and His Critics on Strategy and Tactics, 1834-1850by Aileen S. KraditorISBN 0929587162 (0-929587-16-2)
Softcover, Ivan R Dee
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Moby Dickby Herman MelvilleISBN 0895773228 (0-89577-322-8)
Hardcover, Reader's Digest Association
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The Most Scenic Drives in Americaby Reader's DigestISBN 0895778629 (0-89577-862-9)
Hardcover, Readers Digest
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Most Scenic Drives in America'Book summary:Taking a drive in the country has been popular since horse-and-buggy days. But while the road trip itch is as strong as ever, scenic drives get scarcer year by year. The answer is a collection of the 120 loveliest drives in the U.S., providing maps and tours (with sites along the way itemized and lovingly described), trip length, when to go, nearby attractions, and local information sources. Free time is at a premium these days; rather than waste your leisure time in highway gluts, it's worth taking directions to some of the most beautiful drives the country still has to offer. [via]
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The Mountains of Californiaby John MuirISBN 0898154464 (0-89815-446-4)
Softcover, Ten Speed Press
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The New Nation: A History of the United States During the Confederation, 1781-1789by Merrill JensenISBN 0930350146 (0-930350-14-6)
Softcover, Univ Pr of New England
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Our Enemy, the Stateby Albert J. NockISBN 0930073045 (0-930073-04-5)
Softcover, Japan Society Gallery
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Our Enemy, the State: Including "on Doing the Right Thing"by Albert J. NockISBN 0914156012 (0-914156-01-2)
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Our Nigby R. J. Ellis, Harriet E. WilsonISBN 0905488849 (0-905488-84-9)
Softcover, Nottingham Trent Univ
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Paul Revere: Son of Libertyby Keith BrandtISBN 0893757675 (0-89375-767-5)
Softcover, Troll Communications L.L.C.
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Pieces of the Game: The Human Drama of Americans Held Hostage in Iranby Charles W. ScottISBN 0931948517 (0-931948-51-7)
Hardcover, Xs Books
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Playbook : 7 Plays about Women and Work, Culture and Revolutionby Maxine Klein, Lydia Sargent, Howard ZinnISBN 089608308X (0-89608-308-X)
Softcover, Pluto Press
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Presidential Places: A Guide to the Historic Sites of U.S. Presidentsby Gary FerrisISBN 0895871769 (0-89587-176-9)
Softcover, John F Blair Pub
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The Presidents Of The United States Of Americaby Frank FreidelISBN 0912308567 (0-912308-56-7)
Softcover, White House Historical Assn
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Rebels and Democrats : The Struggle for Equal Political Rights and Majority Rule During the American Revolutionby Elisha P. DouglassISBN 092958712X (0-929587-12-X)
Softcover, Dee Publisher, Ivan R.
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The Red Badge of Courageby Stephen CraneISBN 0895771551 (0-89577-155-1)
Hardcover, Readers Digest Assn
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Ritual of the Wind: North American Indian Ceremonies, Music, and Danceby Jamake HighwaterISBN 091238302X (0-912383-02-X)
Softcover, A. Van der Marck Editions
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The Shakers, Hands to Work, Hearts to God: The History and Visions of the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing from 1774 to the Presentby Amy Stechler Burns, Langdon Clay, Jerome LieblingISBN 0893818607 (0-89381-860-7)
Softcover, Aperture Foundation, Incorporated
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Sncc: The New Abolitionistsby Howard ZinnISBN 0896086798 (0-89608-679-8)
Softcover, South End Pr
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State Terrorism and the United States: From Counterinsurgency to the War on Terrorismby Frederick H. GareauISBN 0932863396 (0-932863-39-6)
Softcover, Clarity Pr
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The Strange Death of President Hardingby Gaston B. Means, May Dixon ThackerISBN 0898755972 (0-89875-597-2)
Softcover, Univ Pr of the Pacific
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Strange Death of President Harding'Book summary:Awesome inside-track from the diaries of Gaston B. Means and his the Department of Justice Investigations. Means asserts that Harding was poisoned. Mrs. Harding employed Gaston Means as a private detective in 1921. Teapot Dome was breaking. The scandal took its toll, and by the spring of 1923, Harding was visibly distraught at what he regarded as the betrayal of his friends who were taking advantage of his kindliness and lax administration. He sought escape from Washington in mid-June by taking a trip to Alaska with his wife and a large entourage. On his way home at the end of July, the president complained of abdominal pain, but he seemed to rally as he rested at a San Francisco hotel. On the evening of August 2, however, as his wife read to him from a magazine, Harding suddenly died from either a heart attack or stroke. This book is full of cool, insider and conspiracy "stuff" (for lack of a better word).
The appendix lists a number of deaths, suicides, investigation notes, a request by Mrs. Harding that no death mask be made, a few details on the death of General Sawyer ("died in the same mysterious manner" as Harding) who may or may not have been in Harding's death room, etc.
The Teapot Dome Scandal (also called The Oil Reserves, or Elk Hills Scandal) in American history, was a scandal of the early 1920s surrounding the secret leasing of federal oil reserves by the Secretary of the Interior, Albert B. Fall. After President Warren G. Harding transferred supervision of the naval oil reserve lands from the Navy to the Department of the Interior in 1921, Fall secretly granted to Harry F. Sinclair of the Mammoth Oil Company exclusive rights to the Teapot Dome (Wyoming) reserves (April 7, 1922). He granted similar rights to Edward L. Doheny of Pan American Petroleum Company for the Elk Hills and Buena Vista Hills reserves in California (1921-22). In return for the leases, Fall received large cash gifts and no-interest "loans." When the affair became known, Congress directed President Harding to cancel the leases; the Supreme Court declared the leases fraudulent and ruled illegal Harding's transfer of authority to Fall. Although the president himself was not implicated in the transactions that had followed the transfer, the revelations of his associates' misconduct took a severe toll on his health; disillusioned and exhausted, he died before the full extent of the wrongdoing had been determined.
In 1920 Harding won the presidency by the greatest popular vote margin to that time. He died during his third year in office and was succeeded by Vice President Calvin Coolidge. His brief administration accomplished little of lasting value, however, and soon after his death a series of scandals doomed the Harding presidency to be judged among the worst in American history. [via]
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Texas Ghost Stories: Fifty Favorites for the Tellingby Tim Tingle, Doc Moore, John L. Davis, John O. WestISBN 0896725197 (0-89672-519-7)
Hardcover, Texas Tech Univ Pr
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Treasures of the Smithsonianby Edwards ParkISBN 0895990121 (0-89599-012-1)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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The Trial of Patty Hearstby Patricia Hearst, United States, Kenneth J. ReevesISBN 0917152026 (0-917152-02-6)
Hardcover, Great Fidelity Press
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Uncle Tom's Cabinby Harriet Beecher StoweISBN 0899663788 (0-89966-378-8)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Uncle Tom's Cabin, Or, Life Among the Lowlyby Harriet Beecher StoweISBN 0895773678 (0-89577-367-8)
Hardcover, Reader's Digest
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Under the Big Stick: Nicaragua and the United States Since 1848by Karl BermannISBN 0896083233 (0-89608-323-3)
Softcover, Compita Pub
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War Is a Racket: The Anti-War Classic by America's Most Decorated General, Two Other Anti=Interventionist Tracts, and Photographs from the Horror of Itby Smedley D. Butler, Adam ParfreyISBN 0922915865 (0-922915-86-5)
Softcover, Feral House
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Washington Goes to Warby David BrinkleyISBN 0896211908 (0-89621-190-8)
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Washington Past and Present: A Guide to the Nation's Capitolby Donald R. Kennon, Richard StrinerISBN 0916200108 (0-916200-10-8)
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We the People: The Story of the United States Capitol Its Past and Its Promiseby Lonnelle AikmanISBN 091620006X (0-916200-06-X)
Softcover, United States Capitol
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We the People a Family Guide to Constitution Cityby Jonathan Storm, Philadelphia InquirerISBN 0912608412 (0-912608-41-2)
Softcover, Middle Atlantic Pr
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Year of the Rat: How Bill Clinton Compromised U.S. Security for Chinese Cashby Edward Timperlake, William C. TriplettISBN 0895263335 (0-89526-333-5)
Hardcover, Perseus Distribution Services
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Zami, a New Spelling of My Nameby Audre LordeISBN 0895941228 (0-89594-122-8)
Softcover, Crossing Pr
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