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"His political ideals shaped by two presidential ancestors-great-grandfather John Adams and grandfather John Quincy Adams-Henry Adams was one of the most powerful and original minds to confront the American scene from the Civil War to the First World War. Printed privately in 1907 and published to wide acclaim shortly after the author's death in 1918, The Education of Henry Adams is a brilliant, idiosyncratic blend of autobiography and history that...
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The bestselling author of "Devil in the White City" turns his hand to a remarkable story set during Hitler's rise to power. The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history.
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Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
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xv, 235 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"Drawing upon the perspectives of neurologists, anthropologists, and historians, as well as her own research, Pagels opens unexpected ways of understanding persistent religious aspects of our culture."--Amazon.com.
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Distributed by Perseus Distribution
Pub. Date
c2012
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xii, 365 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
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A portrait of the life and achievements of the progressive activist, author, and teacher examines his roles as an anti-war veteran, an iconic contributor to the civil rights movement, and dedicated white professor at a historically black college.
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Scribner
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2020.
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xi, 451 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Illuminates the achievements of the nineteenth-century historian, writer, and intellectual, discussing Adams's relationships with political leaders inside and outside of his family and his witness to the dawn of modern America.
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Beacon Press
Pub. Date
c2008
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xiv, 314 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Reveals the complex relationship between Mercy Otis Warren, wife of the president of the Provincial Congress, and John Adams, describing how her provocative writings made her an exception among the largely voiceless women of the eighteenth century.
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Pin?ata Books
Pub. Date
c2007
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill., col. map ; 29 cm.
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Recounts, in Spanish and in English, the story of Ricardo Romo, a Hispanic-American All-American athlete and scholar who became, among other things, a U.S. representative to the United Nations, and the president of University of Texas at San Antonio.
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W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
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288 pages cm
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"A series of brilliant historical portraits combine to create a self-portrait of one of our greatest historians. With characteristic vitality and brilliance, Bernard Bailyn revisits the major phases of his long, pathbreaking career and offers readers newinsights into history and his distinctive approach to understanding it. From his early work on the New England merchants through his groundbreaking study of the American Revolution and on into his...
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2005
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xi, 401 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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John Hope Franklin lived through America's most defining 20th-century transformation, the dismantling of legally-protected racial segregation. A renowned scholar, he has explored that transformation in its myriad aspects, and he was, and remains, an active participant. Born in 1915, he could not but participate: evicted from whites-only train cars, confined to segregated schools, and threatened--once with lynching. And yet he managed to receive a...
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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[2023]
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367 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Drawing on deep archival research, childhood memories, and conversations with relatives, friends, and fellow hostages, a noted historian, a passenger on an airliner hijacked by members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in 1970, sets outto understand both what happened in the Jordan desert and her own fractured family and childhood pain.
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2021.
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"In a forceful but humane narrative, former soldier and head of the West Point history department Ty Seidule's Robert E. Lee and Me challenges the myths and lies of the Confederate legacy-and explores why some of this country's oldest wounds have never healed. Ty Seidule grew up revering Robert E. Lee. From his southern childhood to his service in the U.S. Army, every part of his life reinforced the Lost Cause myth: that Lee was the greatest man who...
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Redwood Press
Pub. Date
2021.
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xii, 222 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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"A co-written project by Irvin and Marilyn Yalom, which describes their heartbreaking journey as a couple married 65 years facing the end of their long partnership. A longtime teacher and therapist on the subject of death anxiety, Dr. Yalom now confrontsthe loss of his wife and his own mortality. This book will offer wisdom from one of the foremost existential psychiatrists and illuminate the importance of relationships-friendship, family, and romantic-as...
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