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Break It Up: Secession, Division, and the Secret History of America's Imperfect Union

Break It Up: Secession, Division, and the Secret History of America's Imperfect Union

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When Hollywood Was Right: How Movie Stars, Studio Moguls, and Big Business Remade American Politics

When Hollywood Was Right: How Movie Stars, Studio Moguls, and Big Business Remade American Politics

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The Negro and the Nation: A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement

The Negro and the Nation: A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement

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Author: George S. MerriamBinding: HardbackPublished: Henry Holt, 1906Condition remarks:Book: Ex-libraryJacket: No dust jacketPages: Aging or markingMarkings: Previous ownerThis book provides a comprehensive historical account of American slavery and the subsequent...
American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America

American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America

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Author: Robert HughesBinding: HardbackPublished: Harvill Press, 1997Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book provides a comprehensive overview of the evolution of American art, reflecting the cultural and...
America

America

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Author: Jean BaudrillardBinding: HardbackPublished: Verso, 1988Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsAmerica by Jean Baudrillard explores the aspirations and disappointments of America's early days of automobility, reflecting on the...
The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery

The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery

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Author: Bill James Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 An Edgar Award finalist for Best Fact Crime, this "impressive...open-eyed investigative inquiry wrapped within a cultural history of rural America" (The...
Our Woman in Havana: Reporting Castro's Cuba

Our Woman in Havana: Reporting Castro's Cuba

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The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White

The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White

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Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution

Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution

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Author: Mike Duncan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 Few in history can match the revolutionary career of the Marquis de Lafayette. Over fifty incredible years at the heart of...
Lying in State: Why Presidents Lie -- And Why Trump Is Worse

Lying in State: Why Presidents Lie -- And Why Trump Is Worse

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Author: Eric Alterman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 If there's one thing we know about Donald Trump, it's that he lies. But he's by no means the first president...
The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.

The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.

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Author: Peniel Joseph Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X are the two most iconic figures of the Civil Rights movement. To most Americans,...
A Girl Stands at the Door: The Generation of Young Women Who Desegregated America's Schools

A Girl Stands at the Door: The Generation of Young Women Who Desegregated America's Schools

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Author: Rachel Devlin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 A new history of school desegregation in America, revealing how girls and women led the fight for interracial education The struggle...
The Inner World of American Psychiatry 1890-1940: Selected Correspondence

The Inner World of American Psychiatry 1890-1940: Selected Correspondence

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Author: Gerald N. Grobbinding: HardbackPublished: Rutgers Univ Press, 1985Condition: book: Very good, jacket: Unblemished, page: Good, markings: No markingsThis book compiles selected correspondence that sheds light on the development of...
South America Overland: From New York to Tierra del Fuego

South America Overland: From New York to Tierra del Fuego

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Author: Iain Finlay & Trish Sheppardbinding: HardbackPublished: Angus & Robertson, 1980Condition: book: Very good, jacket: Unblemished, page: Good, markings: No markingsThis book takes readers on an adventurous journey through South...
Oro

Oro

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Author: Cizia Zykebinding: HardbackPublished: Bantam Press, 1987Condition: book: Very good, jacket: Unblemished, page: Good, markings: No markingsOro is a captivating tale by Cizia Zyke, originally published in multiple languages. This...
Confessions of a Taoist on Wall Street : a Chinese American Romance

Confessions of a Taoist on Wall Street : a Chinese American Romance

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Author: William David Paynebinding: HardbackPublished: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 1984Condition: book: Very good, jacket: Unblemished, page: Good, markings: No markingsThis book tells the story of a Chinese American's experiences...
Butterfly Sings to Pacaya: Travels in Mexico, Guatemala and Belize

Butterfly Sings to Pacaya: Travels in Mexico, Guatemala and Belize

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Author: Nigel Pridebinding: HardbackPublished: Constable, 1978Condition: book: Very good, jacket: Unblemished, page: Good, markings: No markingsIn this captivating narrative, artist and lecturer Nigel Pride recounts a year-long expedition in 1974...
An American Experience

An American Experience

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Author: Allan Ashboltbinding: HardbackPublished: Victor Gollancz with Australasian Book Society , 1966Condition: book: Very good, jacket: Wear and tear, page: Good, markings: No markingsAn American Experience offers a compelling look...
The Boat and the Town

The Boat and the Town

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Author: Geoffrey Moorhousebinding: HardbackPublished: Little, Brown & Company, 1979Condition: book: Very good, jacket: Wear and tear, page: Good, markings: No markingsSubjects: Fishers --New England. Lobster fisheries --New England. Atlantic herring...
Independence: Sovereignty and Social Justice in the Thinking of the Liberator Simon Bolivar

Independence: Sovereignty and Social Justice in the Thinking of the Liberator Simon Bolivar

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Author: Acosta, Vladimirbinding: HardbackPublished: Pool Reading, 1975Condition: book: Good, jacket: No dust jacket, page: Good, markings: No markingsThis book explores the profound impact of Simón Bolívar, a key figure in...
Sangay Survived: The Story of the Ecuador Volcano Disaster

Sangay Survived: The Story of the Ecuador Volcano Disaster

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Author: Richard Snailhambinding: HardbackPublished: Hutchinson, 1978Condition: book: Very good, jacket: Unblemished, page: Good, markings: No markingsThis book recounts the dramatic events surrounding the Sangay volcano disaster in Ecuador. It explores...
Bay of Pigs: The Untold Story

Bay of Pigs: The Untold Story

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Author: Peter Wydenbinding: HardbackPublished: Jonathan Cape, 1979Condition: book: Very good, jacket: Unblemished, page: Good, markings: No markingsThis book provides a detailed account of the Bay of Pigs invasion, exploring the...
America's National Parks

America's National Parks

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Author: Nelson Beecher Keyesbinding: HardbackPublished: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1957Condition: book: Very good, jacket: No dust jacket, page: Good, markings: No markingsThis book serves as an informative guide exploring the...
1400 DAYS

1400 DAYS

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Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past

Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past

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Author: Kevin Kruse Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 The United States is in the grip of a crisis of bad history. Distortions of the past promoted in the conservative...
Still Life with Bones: A forensic quest for justice among Latin America's mass graves: CHOSEN AS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2023 BY FT READERS AND THE NEW YORKER

Still Life with Bones: A forensic quest for justice among Latin America's mass graves: CHOSEN AS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2023 BY FT READERS AND THE NEW YORKER

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Author: Dr Alexa Hagerty Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 ONE OF THE NEW YORKER'S BEST BOOKS OF 2023 SO FAR CHOSEN BY FINANCIAL TIMES' READERS' FOR BEST BOOKS OF...
A Traitor to His Species: Henry Bergh and the Birth of the Animal Rights Movement

A Traitor to His Species: Henry Bergh and the Birth of the Animal Rights Movement

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Author: Ernest Freeberg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Gilded Age Americans lived cheek-by-jowl with free range animals. Cities and towns teemed with milk cows in dark tenement alleys, pigs...
Republic of Wrath: How American Politics Turned Tribal, From George Washington to Donald Trump

Republic of Wrath: How American Politics Turned Tribal, From George Washington to Donald Trump

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Author: James A. Morone Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 American politics seems to be in an unprecedented uproar. But in this revelatory work of political history, James A. Morone...
How to Sell a Poison: The Rise, Fall, and Toxic Return of DDT

How to Sell a Poison: The Rise, Fall, and Toxic Return of DDT

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Author: Elena Conis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 The chemical compound DDT first earned fame during World War II by wiping out insects that caused disease and boosting Allied...
Republic of Wrath: How American Politics Turned Tribal, From George Washington to Donald Trump

Republic of Wrath: How American Politics Turned Tribal, From George Washington to Donald Trump

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Author: James A. Morone Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 American politics seems to be in an unprecedented uproar. But in this revelatory work of political history, James A. Morone...
A Traitor to His Species: Henry Bergh and the Birth of the Animal Rights Movement

A Traitor to His Species: Henry Bergh and the Birth of the Animal Rights Movement

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Author: Ernest Freeberg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Gilded Age Americans lived cheek-by-jowl with free range animals. Cities and towns teemed with milk cows in dark tenement alleys, pigs...
The Ads That Won the War

The Ads That Won the War

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Robert Kennedy, in His Own Words: The Unpublished Recollections of the Kennedy Years

Robert Kennedy, in His Own Words: The Unpublished Recollections of the Kennedy Years

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Quarantine!: East European Jewish Immigrants and the New York City Epidemics of 1892

Quarantine!: East European Jewish Immigrants and the New York City Epidemics of 1892

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The Men of the Mounted

The Men of the Mounted

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Crooked: The Roaring 20s Tale of a Corrupt Attorney General, a Crusading Senator, and the Birth of the American Political Scandal

Crooked: The Roaring 20s Tale of a Corrupt Attorney General, a Crusading Senator, and the Birth of the American Political Scandal

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Author: Nathan Masters Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Many tales from the Jazz Age reek of crime and corruption. But perhaps the era's greatest political fiasco-one that resulted in...
The Impulse Society: America in the Age of Instant Gratification

The Impulse Society: America in the Age of Instant Gratification

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When the United States Spoke French: Five Refugees Who Shaped a Nation

When the United States Spoke French: Five Refugees Who Shaped a Nation

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The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America

The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America

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City of Sedition: The History of New York City during the Civil War

City of Sedition: The History of New York City during the Civil War

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Red Apple: Communism and McCarthyism in Cold War New York

Red Apple: Communism and McCarthyism in Cold War New York

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Decision Points

Decision Points

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Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood

Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood

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Life in Camelot: The Kennedy Years

Life in Camelot: The Kennedy Years

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The Rush: A New History of the Gold Rush - America's Fevered Quest for Fortune, 1848-1855

The Rush: A New History of the Gold Rush - America's Fevered Quest for Fortune, 1848-1855

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Our Man in Charleston: Britain's Secret Agent in the Civil War South

Our Man in Charleston: Britain's Secret Agent in the Civil War South

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How the World Was Won: The Americanization of Everywhere

How the World Was Won: The Americanization of Everywhere

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American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy

American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy

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Author: David Corn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 "[Corn is] a great journalist. I love the way he thinks. I love the way he writes. I'm so glad he's...