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First published in 1956, this is an account of the arming of the Union forces in the Civil War, and of Lincoln's part in it. It has never been told in any comprehensive way before, and shows Lincoln in a new and engaging light.Lincoln was determin...

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Originally published in 1955, this book tells the story of General Jubal Anderson Early (1816-1894), a lawyer and Confederate general in the American Civil War. He served in the Eastern Theater of the war for the entire conflict, as a division com...

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Originally published in 1956, in this book Benjamin P. Thomas tells the story of the village where Abraham Lincoln lived from 1831 to 1837. His three-part examination of the village often referred to as Lincoln's "e;Alma Mater"e; features ...

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Originally published in 1962, this is the true story account of one of Florida's most chilling crimes.Joseph Peel, a crooked municipal judge of Palm Beach, Florida, is accused of killing fellow judge, Curtis Chillingworth, of the superior court, w...

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John A. Caruso's The Appalachian Frontier is a stirring drama of the beginnings of American westward expansion. It traces the advance of the frontier in the area between the Ohio and Tennessee rivers and the development of the American character-t...

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First published in 1962, this is a biography of John Forsyth (1780-1841), who was Governor of Georgia and Secretary of State under both Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren. Alvin Laroy Duckett chronicles Forsyth's achievements portraying him as on...

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First published in 1959, this pair of meditations by the revered civil-rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. contains the theological roots of his political and social philosophy of nonviolent activism. Eloquent and passionate, reasoned and sensit...

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First published in 1962, David E. Miller's award-winning work on the Hole-in-the-Rock episode was arguably his greatest achievement as a historian. One of the great set-pieces of Mormon history, the San Juan Mission had become clouded by myth and ...

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Originally published in 1962, this book is the true account of Gomillion v. Lightfoot, a case concerned with the denial of Negro voting rights in Tuskegee, Alabama in order to politically manipulate that township's boundaries, and the first case o...

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Originally published in 1961, author Carl Berger has "e;attempted to encompass the story of propaganda and subversion in the American Revolutionary War. The archives and literature of the Revolution contain many intriguing references to "e...

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This small book, first published in 1926, is comprised of three lectures on the American Revolution considered as a Social Movement, which were delivered by renowned historian and author J. Franklin Jameson in November 1925 on the Louis Clark Vanu...

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In his foreword, Jim Bishop says of Jackie Gleason that when the comedian read the manuscript for the Fust time "e;he did not ask that anything be either omitted or altered. And yet there were parts of this biography that made him wince."e...

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Francesca Maria Cabrini was born in 1850 in a small village on the Lombard Plain of Italy. At the moment of her birth, a cloud of snow-white doves appeared and circled the village, an augury of her future sanctity. Tiny frail and sickly, she was e...

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Originally published in 1947, this book is considered one of the best ever written on hunting the African buffalo."e;John F. Burger, Afrikander and author of this book, would heartily endorse any theatrical effort to simulate the charge of an ...

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In 1921 there burst upon the New York social scene the famous Morgan twins, Thelma and Gloria, whose names in the decade that followed came to spell glamour and excitement in that magic world of the "e;international set."e; Two continents ...

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First published in 1962, this is a biography of Benjamin Franklin Butler, (1818-1893), aka "e;Beast"e; Butler, an American lawyer, politician, soldier and businessman from Massachusetts, who became best known as a political major general o...

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The Shark and the Sardines is a scathing allegorical short story by Juan Jose Arevalo Bermejo (1904-1990), who was the first of the reformist presidents of Guatemala (1944-1951). As a country that had seen a series of dictatorships following its i...

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Originally published in 1951, this is a richly illustrated paean to San Francisco's cable cars dating from the years when they were in jeopardy and were eventually saved (though not entirely) through the efforts of activist citizens.

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The Earth Shook, The Sky Burned is the dramatic, complete account of the San Francisco earthquake of April 18, 1906. In the early morning of that day, the sleeping city was rocked by a violent earth tremor that ravaged buildings, heaved streets, a...

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This tome is the second volume of Holman Hamilton's landmark biography of Zachary Taylor (1784-1850), the 12th President of the United States. It examines Taylor's brief but important political career and traces Taylor's life from his return to th...

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Until the publication of this first volume in 1941, Zachary Taylor (1784-1850), the 12th President of the United States, was strangely overlooked by modern-day biographers. Fortunately, journalist and newspaper editor Holman Hamilton has ably rect...

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First published in 1952, this is historian Edmund S. Morgan's second book on family life in the American colonies. An informative, well-researched and well written book, Morgan sketches the day-to-day life of colonial Virginians. From the planters...

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While Morgan's literary portfolio shows remarkable diversity, it is studded with works on Puritanism. "e;Visible Saints"e; further solidifies his reputation as a leading authority on this subject.An expanded version of his Anson G. Phelps ...

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First published in 1953, this book tells the story of John Butterfield, a mid-19th Century stagecoach and freight line operator and his line of stagecoaches, which took passengers and mail across the U.S. in the 1850s.Born on a farm in Berne, New ...

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First published in 1944, this is an unusual little edition concerning the infamous Kate Bender and her family, also known as the "e;Bloody Benders,"e; who owned an inn and small general store in Labette County of southeastern Kansas from 1...

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Few members of the Wilson family expected young Thomas Woodrow to go into politics. It was unthinkable to them that he could do anything but follow the family tradition and go straight into the Presbyterian ministry, as his father and grandfather ...

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Originally published in 1954, this book tells the story of Louis McHenry Howe (1871-1936), an American reporter for the New York Herald who became best known for acting as an early political advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt.Affectionatel...

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Brower had left San Francisco with the intention of making a short dash north on a whaling ship bound for the mythic Arctic Circle. Adventure had a way of following Charlie Brower. His initial landing turned into a fifty-year long ice-bound lifest...

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Originally published in 1928, this is a biography of Colonel Charles Lindbergh (1902-1974), an aviation pioneer and hero of the times.Nicknamed "e;Slim,"e; "e;Lucky Lindy,"e; and "e;The Lone Eagle,"e; Charles Augustus Lindb...

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"e;To millions there has never a fighter like Jack Dempsey, and there never will be again."e;Originally published in 1960, this is the autobiography from boxing heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey himself, as told to U.S. sports writers Bob ...

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