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America

Flavor and Soul Italian America at Its African American Edge

Gennari John

ISBN: HB: 9780226428321, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
296 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

In the United States, African American and Italian cultures have been intertwined for more than a hundred years. From as early as nineteenth-century African American opera star Thomas Bowers – "The Colored Mario" – all the way to hip-hop entrepreneur...

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America

Political Science

President and the Apprentice Eisenhower and Nixon, 1952-1961

Gellman Irwin F.

ISBN: PB: 9780300223521, Yale University Press, January 2017
816 pp., 22.7x14.7 cm, 32 black&white illus.

More than half a century after Eisenhower left office, the history of his presidency is so clouded by myth, partisanship, and outright fraud that most people have little understanding of how Ike's administration worked or what it accomplished. We kno...

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America

From Power to Prejudice The Rise of Racial Individualism in Midcentury America

Gordon Leah N.

ISBN: PB: 9780226419411, ISBN: HB: 9780226238449, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones

Americans believe strongly in the socially transformative power of education, and the idea that we can challenge racial injustice by reducing white prejudice has long been a core component of this faith. How did we get here? In this first-rate intell...

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America

Founders as Fathers The Private Lives and Politics of the American Revolutionaries

Glover Lorri

ISBN: PB: 9780300219746, ISBN: HB: 9780300178609, Yale University Press, August 2016
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Surprisingly, no previous book has ever explored how family life shaped the political careers of America's great Founding Fathers – men like George Mason, Patrick Henry, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison. In this original and int...

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America

American Guides The Federal Writers' Project and the Casting of American Culture

Griswold Wendy

ISBN: PB: 9780226357836, ISBN: HB: 9780226357669, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 5 maps, 2 line drawings, 45 tables

In the midst of the Great Depression, Americans were nearly universally literate – and they were hungry for the written word. Magazines, novels, and newspapers littered the floors of parlors and tenements alike. With an eye to this market and as a re...

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America

Other Americans in Paris Businessmen, Countesses, Wayward Youth, 1880-1941

Green Nancy L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226324463, ISBN: HB: 9780226306889, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 11 line drawings

While Gertrude Stein hosted the literati of the Left Bank, Mrs. Bates-Batcheller, an American socialite and concert singer in Paris, held sumptuous receptions for the Daughters of the American Revolution in her suburban villa. History may remember th...

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America

Biography & Memoires

Washingtons: A Family History Volume Three: Royal Descents of the Presidential Branch

Glenn Justin

ISBN: HB: 9781611212358, Casemate, Savas Beatie, August 2015
238 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, illus.

The Royal Descents comprises Volume Three of Dr. Justin Glenn's "The Washingtons: A Family History", a comprehensive multi-volume work covering fifteen generations of the "Presidential Branch" of the Washingtons. This study includes more than 63,000...

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America

Attu Boy A Young Alaskan's WWII Memoir

Golodoff Nick

ISBN: PB: 9781602232495, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, May 2015
180 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 40 photos, 2 maps, 2 charts

In the quiet of morning, exactly six months after Pearl Harbor, the Japanese touched down on American soil. Landing on the remote Alaska island of Attu, they assailed an entire village, holding the Alaskan villagers for two months and eventually corr...

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America

Biography & Memoires

Washingtons: A Family History Volume One: Seven Generations of the Presidential Branch

Glenn Justin

ISBN: HB: 9781611212853, Casemate, Savas Beatie, February 2015
692 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, illus.

This ground-breaking series is a comprehensive history that traces the "Presidential line" of the Washingtons. Volume one begins with the immigrant John Washington who settled in Westmoreland Co., Va., in 1657, married Anne Pope, and was the great-gr...

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America

Biography & Memoires

Washingtons: A Family History Volume Four, Part One: Generation Eight of the Presidential Branch

Glenn Justin

ISBN: HB: 9781611212365, Casemate, Savas Beatie, January 2015
468 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, illus.

This ground-breaking series is a comprehensive history that traces the "Presidential line" of the Washingtons. Volume one begins with the immigrant John Washington who settled in Westmoreland Co., Va., in 1657, married Anne Pope, and was the great-gr...

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