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The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals
by Jane Mayer  Publisher Comments A dramatic and damning narrative account of how America has fought the War on Terror. In the days immediately following September 11th, the most powerful people in the country were panic-stricken. The radical decisions about how to combat terrorists...
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American Pests: The Losing War on Insects from Colonial Times to DDT
by James E. McWilliams Publisher Comments The World of insects is one we only dimly understand. Yet from Mrs. Ellis's Housekeeping Made Easy, the nineteenth-century guide to using arsenic, cobalt, and quicksilver to kill household infiltrators, to the sophisticated tools of the Orkin Man...
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The Bottom of the Harbor
by Joseph Mitchell Publisher Comments On the centennial of Joseph Mitchell's birth, here is a new edition of the classic collection containing his most celebrated pieces about New York City. Fifty years after its original publication, The Bottom of the Harbor is still considered a...
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Furious Improvisation: How the WPA and a Cast of Thousands Made High Art Out of Desperate Times
by Susan Quinn Publisher Comments A vivid portrait of the turbulent 1930s and the Roosevelt administration as seen through the WPA’s Federal Theater Project.Under the direction of a five-foot redheaded firecracker, Hallie Flanagan, the Federal Theater Project managed to turn a WPA...
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Before Mark Twain: A Sampler of Old, Old Times on the Mississippi (Shawnee Classics)
by John F Mcdermott About the Author John Francis McDermott was a research professor of humanities at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. Before his death in 1981, he had written or edited more than thirty books....
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From Yard to Garden: The Domestication of America's Home Grounds (Center for American Places - Center Books on American Places)
by Christopher Grampp Publisher Comments The garden means more to Americans than simply the plants it contains: It is a gathering place, a retreat from the demands of daily life, and an extension of the family home. The history of the American home garden is fundamentally intertwined with our...
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Dangerous Strangers: Minority Newcomers and Criminal Violence in the Urban West, 1850-2000
by Kevin J Mullen Publisher Comments Have newcomers to American cities been responsible for a disproportionate amount of violent crime? "Dangerous Strangers" takes up this question by examining the incidence of criminal violence among several waves of immigrant/ethnic groups in San...
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The Road to Monticello: The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson
by Kevin J. Hayes Publisher Comments The sheer variety of Jefferson's many pursuits - he was an inventor, horticulturist, statesman, architect, and philosopher, among many other things - almost mask the singularity of his genius. But there is little doubt that our third president was also...
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Did Lincoln and the Republican Party Create the Civil War?: An Argument
by Robert P. Broadwater Synopsis The author seeks to challenge the long-held perceptions of the politics of the American Civil War. He argues that the war was fought not to preserve the Union or free the slaves but rather to establish the political power of the Republican Party within...
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Amerigo: The Man Who Gave His Name to America
by Felipe Fernandez-armesto Publisher Comments In Amerigo, the award-winning scholar Felipe Fernandez-Armesto answers the question What's in a name? by delivering a rousing flesh-and-blood narrative of the life and times of Amerigo Vespucci. Here we meet Amerigo as he really was: a rogue and...
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Iroquois Diplomacy on the Early American Frontier (Penguin Library of American Indian History)
by Timothy J Shannon Publisher Comments A vividly drawn portrait of the powerful Iroquois nation during colonial America In the fourth title in The Penguin Library of American Indian History, Timothy J. Shannon tells the story of the most influential Native American confederacy of the colonial...
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Boone Hall Plantation (Postcards of America)
by Michelle Adams Synopsis Boone Hall Plantation boasts a rich history of over 300 years in the South Carolina Lowcountry....
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Wolf of the Deep: Raphael Semmes and the Notorious Confederate Raider CSS Alabama (Vintage Civil War Library)
by Stephen Fox Publisher Comments The electrifying story of Raphael Semmes and the CSS Alabama, the Confederate raider that destroyed Union ocean shipping and took more prizes than any other raider in naval history. In July, 1862, Semmes received orders to take command of a secret new...
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Seizing Destiny: The Relentless Expansion of American Territory (Vintage)
by Richard Kluger Publisher Comments Less than 100 years after its creation as a fragile republic, the United States more than quadrupled its size, making it the world's third largest nation. No other country or sovereign power had ever grown so big so fast or become so rich and so powerful....
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Teach Yourself the Clinton Factor: Communicating with Charisma (Teach Yourself)
by Dave Gillespie Publisher Comments Be like Bill Teach Yourself The Clinton Factor shows you how to cultivate a charismatic persona in your working life using the 42nd president as your model. The book concentrates on three areas of communicating in which President Clinton excels: story...
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Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell about Life in the Segregated South with CD (Audio)
by William H Chafe Publisher Comments A groundbreaking book-and-audio set of interviews about African American life in the segregated South, now available on an MP3 audio CD. Hailed as "viscerally powerful" (Publishers Weekly) and "a multimedia triumph" (Kansas City Star), Remembering Jim...
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The Shipwreck That Saved Jamestown: The Sea Venture Castaways and the Fate of America (John MacRae Books)
by Lorri Glover Publisher Comments A freshly researched account of the dramatic rescue of the Jamestown settlers The English had long dreamed of colonizing America, especially after Sir Francis Drake brought home Spanish treasure and dramatic tales from his raids in the Caribbean...
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Civil War Tales, Volume 2
by Gary C. Walker Synopsis Stories passed down through the generations....
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The Age of Lincoln
by Orville Burton Publisher Comments Stunning in its breadth and conclusions, The Age of Lincoln is a fiercely original history of the five decades that pivoted around the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. Abolishing slavery, the age’s most extraordinary accomplishment, was not its most...
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The Skyscraper and the City: The Woolworth Building and the Making of Modern New York
by Gail Fenske Publisher Comments Once the world’s tallest skyscraper, the Woolworth Building is noted for its striking but incongruous synthesis of Beaux-Arts architecture, fanciful Gothic ornamentation, and audacious steel-framed engineering. Here, in the first history of this...
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