Chasing Villa: The Last Campaign of the U.S. Cavalry
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 | Author: Frank Tompkins
Publisher: High Lonesome Books
Media: Books
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Page Count: 272
ISBN-10: 0944383394
ISBN-13: 9780944383391
Condition: New
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Sales Rank: #3,892 in Books
Release Date: November 01, 1996
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On March 9, 1916 the border town of Columbus, New Mexico was attacked by forces under the command of the Mexican revolutionary, Pancho Villa. Eighteen Americans were killed and a number of buildings...
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20th Century, 1945 - Present, 1950s, 1960s, World War I, World War II .... |
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Zero at the Bone: The Playboy, the Prostitute, and the Murder of Bobby Greenlease
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 | Author: John Heidenry
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Media: Books
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Page Count: 240
ISBN-10: 0312376790
ISBN-13: 9780312376796
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Sales Rank: #5,937 in Books
Release Date: July 21, 2009
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In 1953, six-year-old Bobby Greenlease, the son of a wealthy Kansas City automobile dealer and his wife, was kidnapped from his Roman Catholic elementary school by a woman named Bonnie...
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1950s |
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Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use It : by Louis D. Brandeis (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)
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 | Author: Louis D. Brandeis
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Creator: Melvin I. Urofsky (Editor)
Media: Books
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Page Count: 168
ISBN-10: 031210314X
ISBN-13: 9780312103149
Condition: New
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Sales Rank: #13,505 in Books
Release Date: March 15, 1995
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Banks & Banking, Industries & Professions, Business & Investing, 20th Century, 1945 - Present, 1950s ....
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Sex-Crime Panic: A Journey to the Paranoid Heart of the 1950s
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 | Author: Neil Miller
Publisher: Alyson Books
Media: Books
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Page Count: 240
ISBN-10: 1555836593
ISBN-13: 9781555836597
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Sales Rank: #20,043 in Books
Release Date: January 01, 2009
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Following the brutal murders of two children in Sioux City, Iowa, in 1954, police, in an attempt to quell public hysteria, arrested 20 men whom the authorities never claimed had anything to do with...
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1950s, 20th Century, History, Nonfiction |
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All Shook Up: How Rock 'N' Roll Changed America (Pivotal Moments in American History)
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 | Author: Glenn C. Altschuler
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Media: Books
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Page Count: 240
ISBN-10: 0195177495
ISBN-13: 9780195177497
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Sales Rank: #22,675 in Books
Release Date: December 09, 2004
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The birth of rock 'n roll ignited a firestorm of controversy--one critic called it "musical riots put to a switchblade beat"--but if it generated much sound and fury, what, if anything, did...
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Entertainment, Musical Genres, 1950s, 20th Century, History |
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Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies
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 | Author: M. Stanton Evans
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Media: Books
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Page Count: 672
ISBN-10: 1400081068
ISBN-13: 9781400081066
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Sales Rank: #25,380 in Books
Release Date: November 24, 2009
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Accused of creating a bogus Red Scare and smearing countless innocent victims in a five-year reign of terror, Senator Joseph McCarthy is universally remembered as a demagogue, a bully, and a liar....
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1950s |
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The Fifties
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 | Author: David Halberstam
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Media: Books
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Page Count: 816
ISBN-10: 0449909336
ISBN-13: 9780449909331
Condition: New
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Sales Rank: #36,114 in Books
Release Date: May 10, 1994
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The Fifties is a sweeping social, political, economic, and cultural history of the ten years that Halberstam regards as seminal in determining what our nation is today. Halberstam offers...
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1950s, 20th Century, History, Historical Study |
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Parting the Waters : America in the King Years 1954-63
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 | Author: Taylor Branch
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Media: Books
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Page Count: 1088
ISBN-10: 0671687425
ISBN-13: 9780671687427
Condition: New
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Sales Rank: #53,620 in Books
Release Date: November 15, 1989
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Hailed as the most masterful story ever told of the American civil rights movement, Parting the Waters is destined to endure for generations.Moving from the fiery political baptism of Martin...
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1950s, 20th Century, History, 1960s, African Americans, 18th Century ....
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Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies
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 | Author: M. Stanton Evans
Publisher: Crown Forum
Media: Books
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Page Count: 672
ISBN-10: 140008105X
ISBN-13: 9781400081059
Condition: New
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Sales Rank: #59,926 in Books
Release Date: November 06, 2007
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Accused of creating a bogus Red Scare and smearing countless innocent victims in a five-year reign of terror, Senator Joseph McCarthy is universally remembered as a demagogue, a bully, and a liar....
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Biographies & Memoirs, Leaders & Notable People, 1950s, 20th Century, History |
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FDR
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 | Author: Jean Edward Smith
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Media: Books
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Page Count: 880
ISBN-10: 0812970497
ISBN-13: 9780812970494
Condition: New
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Sales Rank: #70,298 in Books
Release Date: May 13, 2008
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One of today’s premier biographers has written a modern, comprehensive, indeed ultimate book on the epic life of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In this superlative volume, Jean Edward Smith combines...
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Biographies & Memoirs, Presidents & Heads of State, Leaders & Notable People, Historical, 20th Century, 1945 - Present ....
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