Fraud: An American History from Barnum to Madoff, Paperback - Edward J. Balleisen

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A history of the making and printing of news.Illustrations: 20 illustrations

In the first full-length scholarly synthesis of the African American Churches of Christ, Edward J. Robinson provides a comprehensive look at the ch...

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Learn why the Roman Republic collapsed -- and how it could have continued to thrive -- with this insightful history from an award-winning author. I...

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PB edition of a full account of the Gallipoli campaign from the Ottoman point of view. Analysis of the defensive strategy and tactics that defeated...

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Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution--the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's la...

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