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Silent Travelers: Germs, Genes and the Immigrant Menace
Amid concerns over use of TB and AIDS to exclude immigrants, this book looks at how earlier generations grappled with such problems, from the Irish immigrants of New York wrongly...
Disturber of the Peace: Memoirs of a Foreign Correspondent
The book titled Disturber of the Peace: Memoirs of a Foreign Correspondent by the author Harrison E. Salisbury. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...
Mississippi Blood (Penn Cage, Book 6)
A father on trial for murder. A son whose world is falling apart. The No.1 New York Times bestselling final volume of the ground-breaking Natchez Burning Trilogy by Greg Iles....
Why I Cook
Tom Colicchio cooked his first recipe at 13 years old-a stuffed eggplant from an issue of Cuisine magazine that he picked up out of boredom-and it changed his life. Now...
Pound/The Little Review
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Gathers Pound's letters to the publisher of the Little Review and provides background information on this period in Pound's life.
Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe
This is a biography of American writer Thomas Wolfe by Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Herbert Donald. The book follows Wolfe from improbable affairs to drunken brawls, from his mother's "Old...
Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health
We all witness, in advertising and on supermarket shelves, the fierce competition for our food dollars. In this engrossing expose, Marion Nestle goes behind the scenes to reveal how the...
The Dawn of Universal History
This comprehensive anthology of newly translated writings presents some of Aron's most important essays in 20th-century intellectual history and political commentary.. In this collection of essays written over a period...
"I Cease Not to Yowl": Ezra Pound's Letters to Olivia Rossetti Agresti
During the height of his own literary acclaim, Ezra Pound became notorious for supporting Mussolini, openly criticizing Franklin Delano Roosevelt during the war, and launching anti-Semitic tirades. Until now the...
The Politics of Literary Reputation
This is a fascinating study - part biography, part cultural history - about George Orwell and his literary reputation. No one gained such sudden fame as Orwell did in the...
American Notes
Charles Dickens' notes on America: its people, its culture, its laws and its foibles When Charles Dickens set out for America in 1842 he was the most famous man of...
Los Angeles, Capital of the Third World
The book titled Los Angeles, Capital of the Third World by the author David Rieff. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Fashion Faux Parr
Fashion Faux Parr showcases Martin Parr's collection of fashion photography for the first time in one book. More than 250 color images, many previously unpublished, explore a wide variety of...
Vital Rails: The Civil War History of the Charleston and Savannah
Completed in 1860 and spanning more than one hundred miles across rice fields, salt marshes, and seven rivers and creeks, the Charleston & Savannah Railroad was designed to revolutionize the...
Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Troubled Times
The distinguished author of Working explores the theme of hope in the midst of challenging times in a collection of oral histories that links hope with a spirit of activism,...
Plunder: Private Equity's Plan to Pillage America
"A damning indictment of private equity" (New York Review of Books), this authoritative expose shows what it is, how it kills businesses and jobs, how the government helps, and how...
Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK
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The assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, continues to inspire interest ranging from well-meaning speculation to bizarre conspiracy theories and controversial filmmaking. But in this landmark book,...
Going to Miami: Exiles, Tourists and Refugees in the New America
Miami has been fashioned by many different groups of people and the author traces this aspect, from the time when real-estate hucksters invented it and architects made it into a...
Iron Muse: Photographing the Transcontinental Railroad
The construction of the transcontinental railroad (1865-1869) marked a milestone in United States history, symbolizing both the joining of the country's two coasts and the taming of its frontier wilderness...
Writers in Hollywood, 1915-51
The book titled Writers in Hollywood, 1915-51 by the author Ian Hamilton. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Continental Divide: Values and Institutions of the United States and
Representing social and political research, the theoretical foundations of "Continental Divide" are drawn from diverse sources - historical accounts, interpretations of literature and other creative arts, quantitative analyses by social...
Advocates
With a wealth of examples and quotations from a variety of countries, Pannick considers the principles, practice, and morality of the advocate's role in the justice system. He assesses difficulties...
The Thurber Carnival
The hilarious writing of James Thurber, author of 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty', collected in this classic anthology This collection brings together the best of James Thurber's brilliantly funny,...
My American Century
A collection of Studs Terkel most memorable interviews a panoramic chronicle of America from the 1920's onwards. For over 30 years, millions of readers have enjoyed Studs Terkel's groundbreaking, provocative...
My Life as Author and Editor
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The book titled My Life as Author and Editor by the author H. L. Mencken. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this book.
Walker Evans: A Biography
Based on personal letters and interviews with more than 100 of his friends and colleagues, as well as his two former wives, this is a biography of the American photographer,...
No Minor Chords: My Days in Hollywood
Not many people remember that Andre Previn started his career as a film score composer in Hollywood - arriving at the age of 18. He was a quick learner, and...
The Year of Henry James: The Story of a Novel
In 2004 three major novels featuring Henry James as a character were published - one of them went on to win the Booker Prize. It was not David Lodge's AUTHOR...
Plunder: Private Equity's Plan to Pillage America
"A damning indictment of private equity" (New York Review of Books), this authoritative expose shows what it is, how it kills businesses and jobs, how the government helps, and how...
Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America
The book titled Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America by the author John D'Emilio. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this book.
From the Ends of the Earth: The Jews in the 20th Century
The Jewish story is an extraordinary one: of a 'chosen race' but a 'difficult people', living in all countries but until recently without one to call its own. Over the...
Alexander Hamilton
You've seen the show, you've sung the songs, now read the full story of America's most misunderstood founding father. 'I was swept up by the story. I thought it 'out-Dickens'...
The Romance of American Communism
"Before I knew that I was Jewish or a girl I knew that I was a member of the working class." So begins Vivian Gornick's exploration of how the world...
Living a Big War in a Small Place: Spartanburg, South Carolina, During
Most of what we know about how the Civil War affected life in the Confederacy is related to cities, troop movements, battles, and prominent political, economic, or military leaders. Far...
Daniel Patrick Moynihan: A Portrait in Letters of an American
When Daniel Patrick Moynihan died in 2003 the Economist described him as a philosopher-politician-diplomat who two centuries earlier would not have been out of place among the Founding Fathers. Though...
Go Woke, Go Broke: The Inside Story of the Radicalization of Corporate
A riveting and smashmouth journalistic deep-dive into the progressive madness that has infected and corrupted the world's biggest corporations, threatening the stability of the global economy-and life as we know...
The Court at War: FDR, His Justices, and the World They Made
The inside story of how one president forever altered the most powerful legal institution in the country-with consequences that endure today By the summer of 1941, in the ninth year...
Borneo 1945: The Last Major Allied Campaign in the South-West Pacific
A fascinating account of the last major Allied operation in the South-West Pacific, and the largest Australian military operation of World War II. A week after Pearl Harbor in December...
Mrs Fletcher
NEW YORK TIMES bestseller! From the bestselling author of THE LEFTOVERS and LITTLE CHILDREN comes a penetrating and hilarious new novel about sex, love, and identity on the frontlines of...
You Shall Be as Gods: Pagans, Progressives, and the Rise of the Woke
Our country doesn't have a partisan problem, a political problem, a social problem, or an economic problem. We have a spiritual problem. What in the world is happening? To many...
Hidden Treasure: A timeless children's adventure story from the
From the bestselling author of The Miniaturist . Jessie Burton's Hidden Treasure is the phenomenal page-turning story of two children whose lives collide when they find an ancient treasure with...
Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ' Landslide cuts deeper than any previous book about this president, indeed about any president' The Times 'First there was Fire and Fury , then...
Frank and Al: FDR, Al Smith, and the Unlikely Alliance That Created
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"This is history told the old-fashioned way. The book is only as long as it needs to be, the adroit narrative full of heroes (Smith, Roosevelt, big-city Democratic bosses) and...
The Right to Repair: Reclaiming the Things We Own
In recent decades, companies around the world have deployed an arsenal of tools - including IP law, hardware design, software restrictions, pricing strategies, and marketing messages - to prevent consumers...
The Fed and Lehman Brothers: Setting the Record Straight on a
The bankruptcy of the investment bank Lehman Brothers was the pivotal event of the 2008 financial crisis and the Great Recession that followed. Ever since the bankruptcy, there has been...
THUNDER IN THE HEAVENS
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Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature
From the Jazz Age through the Kennedy administration, Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) stood at the center of the American cultural scene. A champion of the young Ernest Hemingway, a loyal friend...
The Battle of Hurtgen Forest: Untold Story of a Disastrous Campaign
Thirty thousand American GI's were killed or wounded in the longest battle ever fought by the US Army - a battle that has been ignored for more than 40 years....