Category: History

Cuba: A Short History (Cambridge History of Latin America)

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press : March 1993

Seller ID: 498548

ISBN-13: 9780521436823

Cuba: A Short History brings together four chapters from Volumes 3, 5, and 7 of The Cambridge History of Latin America to provide for scholars, students and general readers a concise history of this important island nation. Contributors, top scholars in the field, trace the political, economic, and social development of Cuba from the middle of the eighteenth century to the present day. The concluding chapter, updated for this volume, considers the dilemmas and challenges that Castro's Cuba faces in the wake of the Soviet Union's collapse. Each chapter is accompanied by a bibliographical essay ...
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Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the Civil War

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Publisher: Dover Publications : June 1959

Seller ID: 768268

ISBN-13: 9780486227313

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Second only to Mathew Brady as the foremost early American photographer was Alexander Gardner, the one-time manager of Brady's Washington salon and Brady's chief photographer in the field during the early days of the Civil War. Indeed, Gardner -- who later photographed the War independently -- often managed the famous horse-drawn photographic laboratory and took many of the pictures that used to be attributed to Brady. He accompanied the Union troops on their marches, their camps and bivouacs, their battles, and on their many hasty retreats and routs during the early days of the War. In 1866 A...
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Hitler's Exiles: Personal Stories of the Flight from Nazi Germany to America

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Publisher: The New Press : May 2000

Seller ID: 633168

ISBN-13: 9781565845916

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A 1998 Los Angeles Times Book of the Year, Hitler's Exiles is a panoramic, first-person account of the flight from Hitler's Germany to America. From forgotten archives and obscure published sources, Hitler's Exiles brings to life the unknown voices of that harrowing time by focusing on the ordinary people who underwent a most extraordinary voyage. Also included are little-known writings by such major figures as Thomas Mann, Hannah Arendt, and Bertolt Brecht. Hitler's Exiles is at once a moving human account and a new classic of the literature of exile.

The Oxford History of the American West

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Publisher: Oxford University Press : May 1994

Seller ID: 482645

ISBN-13: 9780195059687

Binding: Hardcover

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When we think of the American West, we tend to conjure up images that are known the world over: bearded forty-niners leading pack mules up a mountain trail, the Oklahoma land stampede, Custer's Last Stand, and especially the range-riding, quick-shooting cowboy. But these familiar images are only a small part of western history. From the arrival of the Navajos in the Southwest more than seven hundred years ago, to the first Spanish settlements in New Mexico in the late sixteenth century, to the large Mormon migration to the Great Salt Lake, to the tourists flocking to the neon landscape of mode...
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The Story of the Titanic As Told by Its Survivors (Dover Maritime)

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Publisher: Dover Publications : June 1960

Seller ID: 534012

ISBN-13: 9780486206103

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Why does the sinking of the Titanic hold such fascination for us? Many reasons have been advanced for the continuing fascination of this epic tragedy, but none, we think, can contribute as much to an understanding of it as the four accounts collected in this volume.All four authors were survivors, and each presents the catastrophe from his own viewpoint; the icy waters, the cries of the drowning, the confusion, and the heroism, are given an intensely personal immediacy.This volume contains, complete and unabridged, The Loss of the S.S. Titanic, by Lawrence Beesley, and The Truth about the Tita...
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The Times Were a Changin': The Sixties Reader

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Publisher: Three Rivers Press : July 1998

Seller ID: 576231

ISBN-13: 9780609803370

Binding: Trade Paperback

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This is a must-have anthology of the milestone speeches, manifestos, court decisions, and groundbreaking journalism of the Sixties. No other period in American history has been more liberating, more confusing, more unforgettable, and had a more direct impact on the way we navigated the profound changes that swept over the country in the following three decades. From Betty Friedan to Barry Goldwater, from the formidable presence of the Kennedy brothers to the unimaginable influence of Woodstock, Pulitzer prize-winning author Irwin Unger and journalist Debi Unger present the complexities of a vo...
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Lost in Shangri-La

By: /Zuckoff, Mitchell

Price: $6.50

Publisher: : February 2014

Seller ID: 745425

ISBN-13: 9780061988356

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In May 1945, a group consisting of American airmen and members of the Women's Army Corps who were stationed in Dutch New Guinea took a sightseeing trip. They were looking for a valley that was not marked on maps, but had been spotted by pilots. However, their day out turned into a nightmare when the plane crashed into that valley, leaving only three survivors: two Army officers and one WAC. Lost in Shangri-La is the amazing story of the three Americans and their battle to survive in unknown and seemingly inescapable terrain. Mitchell Zuckoff brings to life the hair-raising adventures faced by...
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Designing Camelot: The Kennedy White House Restoration

By: Abbott, James A./ Rice, Elaine

Price: $25.00

Publisher: : November 2011

Seller ID: 715688

ISBN-13: 9780471375142

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Firsthand accounts and photographs chronicle the restoration of the White House during the Kennedy Administration. Designing Camelot recounts one of the most influential interior design projects in American history, the restoration of the White House during the Kennedy administration. Fueled by the intense fascination with the charismatic First Family, the project had a profound effect on the popular American imagination and taste in interior furnishings. Emphasizing the historic restoration of each room and the efforts to have these rooms reflect the personalities and tastes of Jack and Jack...
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American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee

By: Abbott, Karen

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks : March 2012

Seller ID: 350155

ISBN-13: 9780812978513

Binding: Trade Paperback

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER America was flying high in the Roaring Twenties. Then, almost overnight, the Great Depression brought it crashing down. When the dust settled, people were primed for a star who could distract them from reality. Enter Gypsy Rose Lee, a strutting, bawdy, erudite stripper who possessed a gift for delivering exactly what America needed. With her superb narrative skills and eye for detail, Karen Abbott brings to life an era of ambition, glamour, struggle, and survival. Using exclusive interviews and never-before-published material, she vividly delves into Gypsy's world, in...
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The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America

By: Abbott, Karen

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Crown : August 2019

Seller ID: 581717

ISBN-13: 9780451498625

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The epic true crime story of the most successful bootlegger in American history and the murder that shocked the nation, from the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy "Gatsby-era noir at its best."--Erik Larson An ID Book Club Selection - NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST HISTORY BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SMITHSONIAN In the early days of Prohibition, long before Al Capone became a household name, a German immigrant named George Remus quits practicing law and starts trafficking whiskey. Within two years he's a multi-milliona...
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Letters of Abelard and Heloise

By: Abelard

Price: $2.50

Publisher: : October 2011

Seller ID: 377104

ISBN-13: 9780140442977

Binding: Trade Paperback

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The story of Heloise and Abelard remains one of the world's most celebrated and tragic love affairs."
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise (Penguin Classics)

By: Abelard, Peter,Heloise,

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Publisher: Penguin Books : April 2004

Seller ID: 675660

ISBN-13: 9780140448993

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Through the letters between Abelard and Heloise, we follow the path of their 12th-century romance, from its reckless and ecstatic beginnings when Heloise became Abelard's pupil, through the suffering of public scandal and enforced secret marriage, to their eventual separation. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative tex...
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John Adams Under Fire: The Founding Father's Fight for Justice in the Boston Massacre Murder Trial

By: Abrams, Dan,Fisher, David

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Hanover Square Press : March 2021

Seller ID: 572161

ISBN-13: 9781335996190

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

*NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*"An expert, extremely detailed account of John Adams' finest hour."--Kirkus ReviewsHonoring the 250th Anniversary of the Boston MassacreThe New York Times bestselling author of Lincoln's Last Trial and host of LivePD Dan Abrams and David Fisher tell the story of a trial that would change history.An eye-opening story of America on the edge of revolution.History remembers John Adams as a Founding Father and our country's second president. But in the tense years before the American Revolution, he was still just a lawyer, fighting for justice in one of the most exp...
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Nightmare Scenario: Inside the Trump Administration's Response to the Pandemic That Changed History

By: Abutaleb, Yasmeen,Paletta, Damian

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Publisher: Harper : June 2021

Seller ID: 723662

ISBN-13: 9780063066052

Binding: Hardcover

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Instant #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellerFrom the Washington Post journalists Yasmeen Abutaleb and Damian Paletta--the definitive account of the Trump administration's tragic mismanagement of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the chaos, incompetence, and craven politicization that has led to more than a half million American deaths and counting.Since the day Donald Trump was elected, his critics warned that an unexpected crisis would test the former reality-television host--and they predicted that the president would prove unable to meet the moment. In 2020, that crisis came to pas...
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Battling Bella: The Protest Politics of Bella Abzug

By: Abzug, Bella/Zarnow, Leandra Ruth

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Harvard University Press : November 2019

Seller ID: 589672

ISBN-13: 9780674737488

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Bella Abzug's promotion of women's and gay rights, universal childcare, green energy, and more provoked not only fierce opposition from Republicans but a split within her own party. The story of this notorious, galvanizing force in the Democrats' "New Politics" insurgency is a biography for our times. Before Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Elizabeth Warren, or Hillary Clinton, there was New York's Bella Abzug. With a fiery rhetorical style forged in the 1960s antiwar movement, Abzug vigorously promoted gender parity, economic justice, and the need to "bring Congress back to the people." The 1970 con...
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Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department

By: Acheson, Dean

Price: $7.50

Seller ID: 741565

ISBN-13: 9780393304121

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Throughout that time Acheson's was one of the most influential minds and strongest wills at work. It was a period that included World War II, the reconstruction of Europe, the Korean War, the development of nuclear power, the formation of the United Nations and NATO. It involved him at close quarters with a cast that starred Truman, Roosevelt, Churchill, de Gaulle, Marshall, MacArthur, Eisenhower, Attlee, Eden Bevin, Schuman, Dulles, de Gasperi, Adenauer, Yoshida, Vishinsky, and Molotov.
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Zookeeper's Wife

By: Ackerman, Diane

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 62911

ISBN-13: 9780393333060

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

After their zoo was bombed, Polish zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski managed to save over three hundred people from the Nazis by hiding refugees in the empty animal cages. With animal names for these "guests," and human names for the animals, it's no wonder that the zoo's code name became "The House Under a Crazy Star." Best-selling naturalist and acclaimed storyteller Diane Ackerman combines extensive research and an exuberant writing style to re-create this fascinating, true-life story--sharing Antonina's life as "the zookeeper's wife," while examining the disturbing obsessions at the cor...
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Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story (Movie Tie-in)

By: Ackerman, Diane

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Seller ID: 550580

ISBN-13: 9780393354256

Binding: Trade Paperback

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1939: the Germans have invaded Poland. The keepers of the Warsaw zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, survive the bombardment of the city, only to see the occupiers ruthlessly kill many of their animals. The Nazis then carry off the prized specimens to Berlin for their program to create the "purest" breeds, much as they saw themselves as the purest human race. Opposed to all the Nazis represented, the Zabinskis risked their lives by hiding Jews in the now-empty animal cages, saving as many as three hundred people from extermination. Acclaimed, best-selling author Diane Ackerman, fascinated both by ...
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Places and Names: On War, Revolution, and Returning

By: Ackerman, Elliot

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Penguin Books : June 2020

Seller ID: 768365

ISBN-13: 9780525559986

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

From a decorated Marine war veteran and National Book Award finalist, an astonishing reckoning with the nature of combat and the human cost of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria. War hath determined us... - John Milton, Paradise Lost Toward the beginning of Places and Names, Elliot Ackerman sits in a refugee camp in southern Turkey, across the table from a man named Abu Hassar, who fought for al-Qaeda in Iraq and whose connections to the Islamic State are murky. After establishing a rapport with Abu Hassar, Ackerman takes a risk by revealing to him that in fact he was a Marine special op...
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Places and Names: On War, Revolution, and Returning

By: Ackerman, Elliot

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Penguin Press : June 2019

Seller ID: 780742

ISBN-13: 9780525559962

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

From a decorated Marine war veteran and National Book Award finalist, an astonishing reckoning with the nature of combat and the human cost of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria. War hath determined us... - John Milton, Paradise Lost Toward the beginning of Places and Names, Elliot Ackerman sits in a refugee camp in southern Turkey, across the table from a man named Abu Hassar, who fought for al-Qaeda in Iraq and whose connections to the Islamic State are murky. At first, Ackerman pretends to have been a journalist during the Iraq War, but after establishing a rapport with Abu Hassar, he...
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Category: History