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Dirty Waters Confessions of Chicago's Last Harbor Boss

Nelson R. J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226334493, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones, 6 maps

In 1987, the city of Chicago hired a former radical college chaplain to clean up rampant corruption on the waterfront. R. J. Nelson thought he was used to the darker side of the law – he had been followed by federal agents and wiretapped due to his a...

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Military

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Lincoln's Greatest Journey Sixteen Days that Changed a Presidency, March 24 - April 8, 1865

Trudeau Noah

ISBN: HB: 9781611213263, Casemate, Savas Beatie, September 2016
336 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 28 images, 11 maps

March 1865: The United States was at a crossroads and, truth be told, Abraham Lincoln was a sick man. "I am very unwell," he confided to a close acquaintance. A vast and terrible civil war was winding down, leaving momentous questions for a war-weary...

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Biography & Memoires

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American Ulysses A Life of Ulysses S. Grant

White Ronald C.

ISBN: HB: 9781400069026, Casemate, Presidio Press, September 2016
816 pp., 23.5x15.9 cm, 120 illus.

A major new biography of the Civil War general and American president, by the author of the New York Times bestseller, A. Lincoln. The dramatic story of one of America's greatest and most misunderstood military leaders and presidents, this is a majo...

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Political Science

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Loving and Leaving Washington Reflections on Public Service

Yochelson John

ISBN: HB: 9781612348247, Casemate, Potomac Books, September 2016
296 pp., 23x15 cm

John Yochelson was seventeen when he first heard President Kennedy's call, "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country". Responding to the call to public service, he had a front-row seat from the mid-1970s through...

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America

General

Fixers Devolution, Development, and Civil Society in Newark, 1960-1990

Rabig Julia

ISBN: HB: 9780226388311, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones, 1 table

Stories of Newark's postwar decline are easy to find. But in "The Fixers", Julia Rabig supplements these tales of misery with the story of the many imaginative challenges to the city's decline mounted by Newark's residents and suburban neighbors. In...

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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

Chicago's Block Clubs How Neighbors Shape the City

Seligman Amanda I.

ISBN: PB: 9780226385853, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones

What do you do if your alley is strewn with garbage after the sanitation truck comes through? Or if you're tired of the rowdy teenagers next door keeping you up all night? Is there a vacant lot on your block accumulating weeds, needles, and litter? F...

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Other

America

Landscapes of the Secular Law, Religion, and American Sacred Space

Howe Nicolas

ISBN: HB: 9780226376776, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones

"What does it mean to see the American landscape in a secular way?" asks Nicolas Howe at the outset of this innovative, ambitious, and wide-ranging book. It's a surprising question because of what it implies: we usually aren't seeing American landsca...

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America

Paying with Their Bodies American War and the Problem of the Disabled Veteran

Kinder John M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226420714, ISBN: HB: 9780226210094, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 41 halftones, 3 line drawings, 1 table

Christian Bagge, an Iraq War veteran, lost both his legs in a roadside bomb attack on his Humvee in 2006. Months after the accident, outfitted with sleek new prosthetic legs, he jogged alongside President Bush for a photo op at the White House. The p...

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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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