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Lawrence Gushee - Pioneers of Jazz, The Story of t he Creole Band (2005).pdf

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Patricia Grabowski - Robert E. Lee, Confederate Ge neral (2000).jpg

Clear and concise biographies of the best-known Civil War personalities- Includes interesting and informative sidebars- Presented in an easy-to-read format- Complements school curriculum

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Patricia Grabowski - Robert E. Lee, Confederate Ge neral (2000).pdf

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Paul Lockhart - The Drillmaster of Valley Forge, T he Baron de Steuben and the Making of the American Army (2008).jpg

USA Books - Paul Lockhart - The Drillmaster of Valley Forge, The B...n de Steuben and the Making of the American Army 2008.jpg

The image of the Baron de Steuben training Washington's ragged, demoralized troops in the snow at Valley Forge is part of the iconography of our Revolutionary heritage, but most history fans know little more about this fascinating figure.
In the first book on Steuben since 1937, Paul Lockhart, an expert in European military history, finally explains the significance of Steuben's military experience in Europe. Steeped in the traditions of the Prussian army of Frederick the Great—the most ruthlessly effective in Europe—he taught the soldiers of the Continental Army how to fight like Europeans. His guiding hand shaped the army that triumphed over the British at Monmouth, Stony Point, and Yorktown. And his influence did not end with the Revolution. Steuben was instrumental in creating West Point, and in writing the "Blue Book"—the first official regulations of the American army. His principles have guided the American armed forces to this day.

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Stewart Bell - Bayou of Pigs, The True Story of an Audacious Plot to Turn a Tropical Island into a C riminal Paradise (2008).jpg

USA Books - Stewart Bell - Bayou of Pigs, The True Story of an Aud...o Turn a Tropical Island into a Criminal Paradise 2008.jpg

The story of how a criminal Shangri-La almost happened.
In 1981, a small but heavily armed force of misfits from the United States and Canada set off on an unlikely mission: to invade the impoverished Caribbean island of Dominica, overthrow its government in a coup d'etat, and install a new bought-off prime minister. For two years, the gangleaders recruited manpower, wooed investors, forged links with the mob, stockpiled weapons, and planned their assault. They called it Operation Red Dog. They were going to make millions. All that stood in their way were two federal agents from Louisiana on the biggest case of their lives. Bayou of Pigs tells a remarkable story of foreign military intervention, revolutionary politics, greed, treachery, stupidity, deceit, and one of the most outlandish crimes ever attempted: the theft of a nation.

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Tara Baukus Mello, Arthur Meier Schlesinger - John Smith, English Explorer and Colonist (2000).jpg

A biography of the colonist and explorer who led the struggling Jamestown colony through its early years and helped found Virginia.

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Tara Baukus Mello, Arthur Meier Schlesinger - John Smith, English Explorer and Colonist (2000).pdf

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Victor Thorn - Hillary (And Bill), The SEX Volume (2008).jpg

In HILLARY (And Bill): The SEX Volume—Part One of the Clinton Trilogy, Bill and Hillarys meteoric rise to success is chronicled. It s a carefully plotted path that eventually led them to the White House.
But along the way, a series of compromises had to be made, including a prearranged marriage, clandestine assignments for the CIA, and Hillary s ultimate role as a "fixer" for her husband s many dalliances. Pulling no punches, investigative journalist Victor Thorn paints a compelling portrait of secrecy, deceit, violence, and betrayal that shatters the myth Mrs. Clinton has spent so many years trying to create.

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Victor Thorn - Hillary (And Bill), The SEX Volume (2008).pdf

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Wendy Conklin - Christopher Columbus (2008).jpg

Christopher Columbus set out on August 3, 1492, to find the East by sailing west. Over the course of a few years, he convinced the king and queen of Spain to pay for his trip, promising them fame and riches in return. Columbus discovered more than he bargained for he had found a new continent.

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Wendy Conklin - Christopher Columbus (2008).pdf

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Daniel Coyle - Lance Armstrong's War (2005).jpg

Lance Armstrong's War is the extraordinary story of greatness pushed to its limits, a vivid, behind-the-scenes portrait of Armstrong—perhaps the most accomplished athlete of our time—as he faces his biggest test: a historic sixth straight victory in the Tour de France, the toughest sporting event on the planet.

Made newly vulnerable by age, fate, fame, doping allegations, and an unprecedented army of challengers, Armstrong fights on all fronts to do what he does like no one else: exert his will to win. That will, which has famously lifted him beyond his humble Texas roots, beyond cancer, and to unparalleled heights of success, is revealed by acclaimed journalist Daniel Coyle in new and startling dimensions.

We see how Armstrong rebuilds after his near-loss in the 2003 Tour, discovering new strategies to cope with his aging body. How he fills the holes in his life after his painful divorce from his wife, Kristin, and the ensuing time apart from his three young children. How he manages the exceedingly difficult trick of being Lance Armstrong—a combination of world-class athlete, celebrity, regular guy, and, for many Americans, secular saint.

But a saint's life it's not. To function at his peak, Armstrong requires what his friends artfully call "stimulus"—and if it's lacking, he won't hesitate to create some. We see Armstrong operating at the turbulent center of a fast-orbiting cast of swaggering Belgian tough guys, controversial Italian sports doctors, piranha-toothed lawyers, and jittery corporations, not to mention a certain female rock star. We see the subtle mind games he plays with himself and with rivals Tyler Hamilton, Jan Ullrich, and Iban Mayo. We see him through the eyes of his teammates, competitors, and friends, and explore his powerful relationship with his mother, Linda. We see what happens three weeks before the Tour, when he's faced with a double challenge: a blowout defeat in an important race and the release of a controversial book seeking to link him to performance-enhancing drugs. And finally we see it all culminate in the Tour de France, where Armstrong will rise to new and unexpected levels of domination.

Along the way, Lance Armstrong's War journeys through the little-known landscape of professional bike racing, a Darwinian world of unsurpassed beauty and brutality, a world teeming with underdogs, gurus, groupies, and wholly original characters, where athletes do not so much choose the sport as the sport chooses them.

Over the season, Armstrong and these characters collide in raw and sometimes violent theater. From the first training camps to the triumphal ride into Paris, Lance Armstrong's War provides a hugely insightful look into the often-inspiring, always surprising core of this remarkable man and the world that shapes him.

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Erin Steuter, Deborah Wills - At War with Metaphor , Media Propaganda and Racism in the War on Terror (2008).jpg

USA Books - Erin Steuter, Deborah Wills - At War with Metaphor, Me... Media Propaganda and Racism in the War on Terror 2008.jpg

At War with Metaphor offers a compelling analysis of our public discussions of the war on terror and the binding conceptual metaphors through which they are framed. Examining the images of animal, insect, and disease that shape and limit our understanding of the war, and tying these images to historical and contemporary uses of propaganda and media filters, the authors explore how news media, including political cartoons and talk radio, are enmeshed in this damaging, dehumanizing language.

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Erin Steuter, Deborah Wills - At War with Metaphor , Media Propaganda and Racism in the War on Terror (2008).pdf

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Michael Moore - Querschüsse. Downsize This (2003).jpg

USA Books - Michael Moore - Querschsse. Downsize This 2003.jpg

Michael Moore at his best! Bitterböse, nie politically correct und unfair nach allen Seiten nimmt er aufs Korn, was den "Stupid White Men" heilig ist: den Kongress genauso wie das Amt des Präsidenten der USA -- und vor allem und immer wieder die großen Konzerne, denn: "Big Business will alles mögliche -- aber bestimmt nicht, dass Du ein besseres und leichteres Leben hast." Er schlägt vor, den viel zu langen Namen "United States of America" schlicht in "The Big One" zu ändern, die Regierung zur Kostensenkung nach Mexiko auszulagern (machen das die großen Firmen nicht genauso?) und möchte den nächsten Präsidenten in einem Dragster-Rennen ermitteln. "Der letzte Rebell Amerikas" (Der Spiegel) nimmt scheinbar nichts ernst - und hat gerade dadurch eine durchschlagende Wirkung. Der geniale Vorläufer zu "Stupid White Men" ist unverändert gültig.

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Michael Moore - Querschüsse. Downsize This (2003).pdf

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Men-at-arms 186 - Jason Hook - The Apaches (1987).jpg

The Apache culture of 1850 was a blend of influences from the peoples of the Great Plains, Great Basin and the South-West, particularly the Pueblos, and – as time progressed – from the Spanish and American settlers. This fascinating work by Jason Hook examines the Apaches, their social structure, religion and warcraft, and outlines the Apache wars and conflicts with the American, including the dramatic story of Crook and Geronimo. This absorbing volume is illustrated with a wealth contemporary photographs, museum examples and eight stunning full page colour plates by Richard Hook, making it the perfect book for anyone interested in this fascinating culture. Men-at-Arms 163 and 186 and Warrior 4 are also available in a single volume special edition as ‘To Live and Die in the West’.

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Elliot J. Gorn - Dillinger's Wild Ride, The Year T hat Made America's Public Enemy Number One (2009).jpg

What is the power of Dillinger's story? Why has it lingered so long? Who was John Dillinger? Gorn illuminates the significance of Dillinger's tremendous fame and the endurance of his legacy, arguing that he represented an American fascination with primitive freedom against social convention. Dillinger's story has much to tell us about our enduring fascination with outlaws, crime and violence, about the complexity of our transition from rural to urban life, and about the transformation of America during the Great Depression.
Dillinger's Wild Ride is a compulsively readable story with an unforgettable protagonist.

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Seyom Brown - The Illusion of Control (2003).jpg

This provocative book assesses the implications of a disturbing trend in U.S. security policy: an increased willingness to use military force as an instrument of diplomacy. In The Illusion of Control, Seyom Brown shows how U.S. officials are relying on force to counter a wide range of threats to America's global interests—eclipsing previous strategies that restricted the use of military force to situations in which the country's vital interests were at stake.Brown points out that a disposition to employ military power broadly as an instrument of diplomacy was on the rise well before September 11, 2001— and it shows every sign of persisting into the future. While resorting to force may seem to be a reliable way to establish control over a disorderly world, Brown cautions that expecting to gain and maintain control through military prowess could turn out to be a dangerous illusion. In fact, employing new military technologies in an effort to control international terrorist activities, wars, and civil conflicts is likely to pull the United States into excessive commitments and imprudent action.

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Seyom Brown - The Illusion of Control (2003).pdf

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Virginia DeJohn Anderson - Creatures of Empire, Ho w Domestic Animals Transformed Early America (2004 ).jpg

When we think of the key figures of early American history, we think of explorers, or pilgrims, or Native Americans-not cattle, or goats, or swine. But as Virginia DeJohn Anderson reveals in this brilliantly original account of colonists in New England and the Chesapeake region, livestock played a vitally important role in the settling of the New World. Livestock, Anderson writes, were a central factor in the cultural clash between colonists and Indians as well as a driving force in the expansion west. By bringing livestock across the Atlantic, colonists believed that they provided the means to realize America's potential, a goal that Indians, who lacked domestic animals, had failed to accomplish. Settlers believed that Indians who learned to keep livestock would also advance along the path toward civility and Christian faith.

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Virginia DeJohn Anderson - Creatures of Empire, Ho w Domestic Animals Transformed Early America (2004 ).pdf

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Stuart Murray - DK Eyewitness Guides, Wild West (2 002).jpg

Part of the "Eyewitness guides" series, this illustrated text explores the legends of the rough-and-tumble American West. Readers can see a real cowboy cook wagon, discover how the American West was won, how miners panned for gold, and what really happened at the OK Corral.

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Danny Schechter - Embedded, Weapons of Mass Decept ion, How the media failed to cover the war on Iraq (2004).jpg

USA Books - Danny Schechter - Embedded, Weapons of Mass Deception,...on, How the media failed to cover the war on Iraq 2004.jpg

Danny Schechter, a television producer and independent filmmaker, is a notable figure in the media community. As a writer and speaker focused on media issues, Schechter brings to the table a more leftward viewpoint than that which is found in today's mainstream media (no, the media isn't as 'liberal' as Fox News may tell you, and the fact that people like Schechter no longer exist in the mainstream is testament to that).Schechter is extremely critical of the way the media has conglomerated into a mass of right-leaning, sensationalistic, pro-authority and screw-everyone-else insanity, and, as the inside jacket states, Embedded is his analysis of the media's "cheerleading for a war in which reporting was sanitized, staged, and suppressed".

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Danny Schechter - Embedded, Weapons of Mass Decept ion, How the media failed to cover the war on Iraq (2004).pdf

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J. D. Bowers - Joseph Priestley and English Unitar ianism in America (2007).jpg

Many have argued that American Unitarianism originated solely from within Congregationalism and developed independent of outside influences. William Ellery Channing's "Unitarian Christianity" sermon in 1819 was a key moment in the history of the denomination, as Channing consciously sought to define the parameters of the faith and eliminate all vestiges of competing influences. Yet the American Unitarian tradition was far more complex than its nineteenth-century adherents were willing to admit. In Joseph Priestley and English Unitarianism in America, J. D. Bowers reexamines its origins, course, and development and subsequently reveals the extent to which Joseph Priestley's ideas concerning Congregational polity were recognized and established within the United States.

In contrast to studies that simply trace the history of the denomination as it flows out of New England and is controlled by Bostonians, Bowers shows that Priestley's legacy grew in importance throughout the nineteenth century and held sway throughout many of the frontier regions of the nation. By discussing the complexity of interdenominational rivalry, lack of central control, and a continuous transatlantic exchange among religious liberals, he shows that English Unitarianism continued to serve as an essential and noteworthy foundation for subsequent developments within the American denomination as it endured the challenges of Protestant orthodoxy, unregulated liberalism, Transcendentalism, and the never-ending quest to define liberal religion in America.

This is an insightful account of an often neglected set of tenets and developments in the denomination's history. It uniquely traces the course of continued English influence as it established a new point of reference for understanding the dynamic origins of denominational development, Unitarian thought, and liberal religion.

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J. D. Bowers - Joseph Priestley and English Unitar ianism in America (2007).pdf

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Ronald W. Walker, Richard E. Turley, Glen M. Leona rd - Massacre at Mountain Meadows (2008).jpg

On September 11, 1857, a band of Mormon militia, under a flag of truce, lured unarmed members of a party of emigrants from their fortified encampment and, with their Paiute allies, killed them. More than 120 men, women, and children perished in the slaughter.
Massacre at Mountain Meadows offers the most thoroughly researched account of the massacre ever written. Drawn from documents previously not available to scholars and a careful re-reading of traditional sources, this gripping narrative offers fascinating new insight into why Mormons settlers in isolated southern Utah deceived the emigrant party with a promise of safety and then killed the adults and all but seventeen of the youngest children. The book sheds light on factors contributing to the tragic event, including the war hysteria that overcame the Mormons after President James Buchanan dispatched federal troops to Utah Territory to put down a supposed rebellion, the suspicion and conflicts that polarized the perpetrators and victims, and the reminders of attacks on Mormons in earlier settlements in Missouri and Illinois. It also analyzes the influence of Brigham Young's rhetoric and military strategy during the infamous "Utah War" and the role of local Mormon militia leaders in enticing Paiute Indians to join in the attack. Throughout the book, the authors paint finely drawn portraits of the key players in the drama, their backgrounds, personalities, and roles in the unfolding story of misunderstanding, misinformation, indecision, and personal vendettas.
The Mountain Meadows Massacre stands as one of the darkest events in Mormon history. Neither a whitewash nor an expose, Massacre at Mountain Meadows provides the clearest and most accurate account of a key event in American religious history.

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Ronald W. Walker, Richard E. Turley, Glen M. Leona rd - Massacre at Mountain Meadows (2008).pdf

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Prof. Jeremy I. Levitt JD PhD, Matthew C. Whitaker - Hurricane Katrina, America's Unnatural Disaster (2009).jpg

On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast states of Louisiana and Mississippi. The storm devastated the region and its citizens. But its devastation did not reach across racial and class lines equally. In an original combination of research and advocacy, Hurricane Katrina: America’s Unnatural Disaster questions the efficacy of the national and global responses to Katrina’s central victims, African Americans.
This collection of polemical essays explores the extent to which African Americans and others were, and are, disproportionately affected by the natural and manmade forces that caused Hurricane Katrina. Such an engaged study of this tragic event forces us to acknowledge that the ways in which we view our history and life have serious ramifications on modern human relations, public policy, and quality of life.

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