The Kidnap Years: The Astonishing True History of the Forgotten Epidemic That Shook Depression-Era America, Paperback - David Stout

A chilling true crime book that chronicles the wave of abductions that terrorized the U.S. during the Great Depression, including the most infamous...

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In his first work of narrative nonfiction, Matthew Pearl, bestselling author of acclaimed novel The Dante Club, explores the little-known true stor...

In his first work of narrative nonfiction, Matthew Pearl, bestselling author of acclaimed novel The Dante Club, explores the little-known true stor...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jonathan SmeleThis volume offers a comprehensive and original analysis and reconceptualization of the compendium of struggl...

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Soul of a People is about a handful of people who were on the Federal Writer's Project in the 1930s and a glimpse of America at a turning point. Th...

Although the 1932 kidnapping of aviator Charles Lindbergh's baby was a worldwide sensation, it was only one of an estimated three thousand ransom k...

Reducere. DescriptionBehind the Scenes (1868) is both a slave narrative and a portrait of the First Family of America, especially of Mary Todd Lincoln, wife ...

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"Dr. Gamow, physicist and gifted writer, has sketched an intriguing portrait of the scientists and clashing ideas that made the quantum revolution....

In this illuminating work of history, Shlaes follows the struggles of those now forgotten people, from a family of butchers in Brooklyn who dealt a...

Reducere. James Grant's story of America's last governmentally untreated depression: A bible for conservative economists, this "carefully researched history....

An original interpretation of the wars that ravaged Russia for decades after the toppling of the Romanovs.

Reducere. The astonishing memoir of a free man who was sold into slavery in Louisiana where he was kept for12 years a powerful, riveting condemnation of slav...

Pulitzer-prize winning author David Halberstam's eyewitness account provides a riveting narrative of how the United States created a major foreign ...

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Description Ten Days That Shook the World is an undisputed classic of political reportage. A stunning first-hand account overflowing with urgency a...

An impassioned firsthand account of the Russian Revolution, which celebrates its 100th anniversary in March 2017 An American journalist and revolut...

Reducere. The "intelligent and sweeping" (Booklist) story of the crucial year that prefigured the events of the American Revolution in 1776--and how Boston's...

Reducere. The once-thriving houseboat communities along Arkansas' White River are long gone, and few remember the sensational murder story that set local dar...

Reducere. Did you know that the unemployment rate between 1933 and 1934 was one in four people?The stock market crash of 1929 didn't cause the Great Depressi...

A newly updated edition of the best-selling primer on the social, political, and economic challenges facing Central and South America Ten years aft...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Gilded Age, then keep reading...From a modern perspective, it may seem that the United State...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Gilded Age, then keep reading...From a modern perspective, it may seem that the United State...

A new edition of a classic book by one of Scotland's most eminent historians (originally published by Mainstream as Culloden and the Last Clansman)...

Reducere. The once-thriving houseboat communities along Arkansas' White River are long gone, and few remember the sensational murder story that set local dar...

Reducere. Nearly every depressed person is assured by doctors, well-meaning friends and family, the media, and ubiquitous advertisements that the underlying ...

An entertaining and fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the hit TV show that defined an era, tying into the 25th anniversary of Friends.

Description27 April 1944. Exercise Tiger. German E-boats intercept rehearsals for the D-Day landings... On a dark night in 1944, a beautiful stretc...

Reducere. In this explosive little book, the first publisher to devote his newspaper to the coverage of AIDS and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome details the role of...

Reducere. The British colony of West Florida--which once stretched from the mighty Mississippi to the shallow bends of the Apalachicola and portions of what ...

Reducere. DescriptionAre the tribes of Israel really "lost" or were they hidden as prophesied in Psalms 83?The Bible seems to indicate a multi national consp...

Reducere. Ten Days That Shook the World (1919) is a book by the American journalist and socialist John Reed about the October Revolution in Russia in 1917, w...

Reducere. Former South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) forensic photographer Lieutenant Rita Y. Shuler leads us through the twenty-eight days of ter...

Publisher: International Publishers Co Inc., U.S.Author(s): John ReedNumber of pages: 464Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 133 x 203 x 29Cover type...

DescriptionFrom the famous strike of 1892, through the century-long fight for a union and union democracy, Homestead Steel Mill--the Final Ten Year...

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Margarita Fajardo tells the story of the cepalinos, Latin American economists and policymakers, and their dependentista critics, whose ideas about ...