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I Never Did Like Politics: How Fiorello La Guardia Became America’s Mayor, and Why He Still Matters
$30.00 Read more“In our current dismal passage of American politics, it’s exhilarating to read about a politician who exemplified all the qualities–courage, honesty, vision, energy, disdain for hypocrisy, concern fo
- Author: Golway, Terry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 125028578X
- Language: English
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The Greatest Stories of the Old West Ever Told: True Tales and Legends of Famous Gunfighters, Outlaws and Sheriffs from the Wild West
$11.94 Add to cartStep back in time and immerse yourself in the rugged landscapes, daring outlaws, fearless lawmen, and untamed frontier spirit that defined an era.
Introducing The Greatest Stories of The Old West Ever
- Author: Hunt, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 9798890950109
- Language: English
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The Fifties: An Underground History
$17.99 Add to cartAn “exciting and enlightening revisionist history” (Walter Isaacson, #1 New York Times bestselling author) that upends the myth of the 1950s as a decade of conformity and celebrates a few solitary, br… [more below]
- Author: Gaines, James R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1439101647
- Language: English
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Secession on Trial: The Treason Prosecution of Jefferson Davis
$35.00 Add to cartThis book focuses on the post-Civil War treason prosecution of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, which was seen as a test case on the major question that animated the Civil War: the constitutiona… [more below]
- Series: Studies in Legal History (Paperback)
- Author: Nicoletti, Cynthia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: October 13 2017
- ISBN10: 1108401538
- Language: English
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The Oil Kings: How the U.S., Iran, and Saudi Arabia Changed the Balance of Power in the Middle East
$22.00 Add to cart“Relying on a rich cache of previously classified notes, transcripts, cables, policy briefs, and memoranda, Andrew Cooper explains how oil drove, even corrupted, American foreign policy during a time … [more below]
- Author: Cooper, Andrew Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 11 2012
- ISBN10: 1439155186
- Language: English
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The Beartooth Highway: A History of America’s Most Beautiful Drive
$21.99 Add to cartTraversing the spectacular Beartooth Highway in Montana and Wyoming is an unforgettable experience. The unspoiled mountain scenery along the highway inspired famed news correspondent Charles Kuralt to… [more below]
- Series: Transportation
- Author: Axline, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 29 2016
- ISBN10: 1467135798
- Language: English
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Murder in Chisago County: The Unsolved Johnson Family Mystery
$21.99 Add to cartAt 3:30 a.m. on April 11, 1933, neighbors and firefighters arrived at the farmhouse of Albin and Alvira Johnson to find a smoldering heap where a seemingly happy home once stood. Beneath the ruins, in… [more below]
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Johnson, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1467142336
- Language: English
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Governors Island
$31.99 Add to cartPurchased from the Manhattan tribe of the Wappinger
Confederacy by the Dutch, Governors Island has long been
the secret island in New York’s harbor. Although this pristine island has appeared on maps … [more below]- Author: Glen, Susan L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: May 10 2006
- ISBN10: 1531623174
- Language: English
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Opryland USA
$32.99 Add to cartBy the late 1960s, the Ryman Auditorium the fifth home of the Grand Ole Opry was a deteriorating firetrap in a seedy part of Nashville, yet it still attracted thousands of people each weekend to the s… [more below]
- Author: Phillips, Stephen W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 98
- Publish Date: August 22 2016
- ISBN10: 1531699782
- Language: English
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Fort Niagara: The Key to the Inland Oceans and the French Movement to Dominate North America
$28.99 Add to cartFort Niagara is located twelve miles downriver from the world-renowned Niagara Falls, yet few visitors to either site know this was once Iroquois territory and claimed by France. This volume summarize… [more below]
- Author: Utley, William Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1532070659
- Language: English
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Gilded Age Murder & Mayhem in the Berkshires
$31.99 Add to cartMurder and dark deeds shadowed the extravagance of the Gilded Age in the Berkshires of Massachusetts. In the summer of 1893, a tall and well-dressed burglar plundered the massive summer mansions of th… [more below]
- Author: Amelinckx, Andrew K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: October 12 2015
- ISBN10: 1540212483
- Language: English
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Lost Plantations of the South
$40.00 Add to cartThe great majority of the South’s plantation homes have been destroyed over time, and many have long been forgotten. In Lost Plantations of the South, Marc R. Matrana weaves together photographs, diar… [more below]
- Author: Matrana, Marc R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 11 2009
- ISBN10: 1578069424
- Language: English
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The Gritty Berkshires: A People’s History from the Hoosac Tunnel to Mass MoCA
$34.00 Add to cartAs The Gritty Berkshires makes clear, Massachusetts’ westernmost county is not just art museums, music festivals and beautiful scenery. For generations of working class families who have lived in the
- Author: Seider, Maynard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 652
- Publish Date: April 13 2019
- ISBN10: 188704339X
- Language: English
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44 Years in Darkness: A True Story of Madness, Tragedy and Shattered Love
$15.00 Add to cart44 YEARS IN DARKNESS
A TRUE STORY OF MADNESS, TRAGEDY AND SHATTERED LOVE
BY SYLVIA SHULTSLost in the shadows of Illinois asylums in the nineteenth century is the strange story of Rhoda Derry. Left at
- Author: Shults, Sylvia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: October 10 2016
- ISBN10: 1892523477
- Language: English
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True Crime Stories of Eastern North Carolina
$21.99 Add to cartEastern North Carolina is a land of contrasts, and its crime stories bear this out. A lovelorn war hero or a stalker? Conniving wife or consummate homemaker? Murder or suicide? The answers can be as p… [more below]
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Pickens, Cathy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 28 2020
- ISBN10: 1467145114
- Language: English
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The Cause of Freedom: A Concise History of African Americans
$22.99 Add to cartWhat does it mean to be an American? The story of the African American past demonstrates the difficulty of answering this seemingly simple question.
What does it mean to be an American? The story of t- Author: Holloway, Jonathan Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 04 2021
- ISBN10: 0190915196
- Language: English
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Spirits Along the Columbia River
$21.99 Read moreThe breathtaking scenery of the Pacific Northwest hides a myriad of dark secrets.
From sightings of the Columbia River Sea Serpent, nicknamed Colossal Claude, to tales of Bigfoot encounters dating back
- Series: Haunted America
- Author: Kitmacher, Ira Wesley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1467150568
- Language: English
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Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America
$17.95 Add to cartOn May 4, 1886, a bomb exploded at a Chicago labor rally, wounding dozens of policemen, seven of whom eventually died. A wave of mass hysteria swept the country, leading to a sensational trial, that c… [more below]
- Author: Green, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 13 2007
- ISBN10: 1400033225
- Language: English
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Picturing the Space Shuttle: The Early Years
$45.00 Add to cartRare views of the beginnings of the historic space program, selected and presented by two leading space flight authorities
After the excitement of the first Moon landing, the U.S. space program took a
- Author: Bisney, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1683402057
- Language: English
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Democracy in America
$24.99 Read moreOriginally penned in the mid-eighteenth century by Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America remains one of the most penetrating and astute picture of American life, politics, and morals e
- Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
- Author: de Tocqueville, Alexis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: August 29 2006
- ISBN10: 0061127922
- Language: English
