Monsters in America: Our Historical Obsession with the Hideous and the Haunting, Paperback - W. Scott Poole

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America's favorite cultural historian and author of Ghostland takes a tour of the country's most persistent "unexplained" phenomena In a world wher...

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In the tradition of their Haunting of the Presidents, national bestselling authors Joel Martin and William J. Birnes write The Haunting of America:...

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In the 1950s, '60s, and '70s, Minneapolis resident Walter R. Scott produced a series of books profiling the African American community of the Twin ...