Seabiscuit
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 | Author: Laura Hillenbrand Publisher: Ballantine Books Media: Books Format: Paperback Language: English Page Count: 453 ISBN-10: 0345465083 ISBN-13: 9780345465085 Condition: New Price:   Availability: In Stock. Ships within 24 hours. Sales Rank: #169 in Books Release Date: July 01, 2003
| Short Description: Seabiscuit was one of the most electrifying and popular attractions in sports history and the single biggest newsmaker in the world in 1938, receiving more coverage than FDR, Hitler, or Mussolini. ...
Categories: 20th Century, History, Science, Sports |
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
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 | Author: Erik Larson Publisher: Vintage Media: Books Format: Paperback Language: English Page Count: 447 ISBN-10: 0375725601 ISBN-13: 9780375725609 Condition: New Price:   Availability: In Stock. Ships within 24 hours. Sales Rank: #343 in Books Release Date: February 10, 2004
| Short Description: Bringing Chicago circa 1893 to vivid life, Erik Larson's spellbinding bestseller intertwines the true tale of two men--the brilliant architect behind the legendary 1893 World's Fair, striving to...
Categories: 19th Century, History, Turn of the Century, 20th Century, Nonfiction |
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Drawing the Line: The Collected Works of America's Premier Political Cartoonist
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 | Author: Times (Los Angeles Times) Publisher: Times (Los Angeles Times) Creator: Paul Conrad (Illustrator) Media: Books Format: Hardcover Language: English Page Count: 208 ISBN-10: 1883792541 ISBN-13: 9781883792541 Condition: New Price:   Availability: Back-Order. May take several weeks to ship. Sales Rank: #633 in Books Release Date: June 01, 1999
| Short Description: 200 drawings spanning the period from the 1960s to the 1990s. Product Details Hardcover: 208 pagesPublisher: Times (Los Angeles...
Categories: Entertainment, 20th Century, History |
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Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racsim And White Privilege.
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 | Author: Robert Jensen Publisher: City Lights Publishers Media: Books Format: Paperback Language: English Page Count: 124 ISBN-10: 0872864499 ISBN-13: 9780872864498 Condition: New Price:   Availability: In Stock. Ships within 24 hours. Sales Rank: #650 in Books Release Date: September 01, 2005
| Short Description: In The Souls of Black Folks, W.E.B. DuBois wrote that the question whites wanted to ask him was: "How does it feel to be a problem?" In The Heart of Whiteness, Robert Jensen...
Categories: 20th Century, History, Nonfiction |
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The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague In History
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 | Author: John M. Barry Publisher: Viking Adult Media: Books Format: Hardcover Language: English Page Count: 560 ISBN-10: 0670894737 ISBN-13: 9780670894734 Condition: New Price:   Availability: Back-Order. May take several weeks to ship. Sales Rank: #964 in Books Release Date: February 09, 2004
| Short Description: No disease the world has ever known even remotely resembles the great influenza epidemic of 1918. Presumed to have begun when sick farm animals infected soldiers in Kansas, spreading and mutating...
Categories: 20th Century, History
Other Available Formats: Paperback, Audio CD (Audio Book) |
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Best Damn Garage in Town: My Life & Adventures
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 | Author: Smokey Yunick Publisher: Carbon Press Media: Books Format: Paperback Language: English Page Count: 650 ISBN-10: 0972437835 ISBN-13: 9780972437837 Condition: New Price:   Availability: Back-Order. May take several weeks to ship. Sales Rank: #1,273 in Books Release Date: July 01, 2003
| Short Description: Best Damn Garage in Town: My life and Adventures was originally published as a 3 volume boxed set of 1,100 pages with over 400 photographs. This version of the book combines all the stories and most...
Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Sports, 20th Century, History
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With Malice: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Murder of Officer J.D. Tippit
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 | Author: Dale K. Myers Publisher: Oak Cliff Press Media: Books Format: Hardcover Language: English Page Count: 704 ISBN-10: 0966270975 ISBN-13: 9780966270976 Condition: New Price:   Availability: Back-Order. May take several weeks to ship. Sales Rank: #1,735 in Books Release Date: November 01, 1998
| Short Description: Jean Davison, author of Oswald's Game"Without a doubt, [With Malice] is one of the best books on the JFK assassination I've ever read. It...
Categories: 19th Century, History, 1960s, 20th Century, Nonfiction |
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Essays on the Great Depression
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 | Author: Ben S. Bernanke Publisher: Princeton University Press Media: Books Format: Paperback Language: English Page Count: 320 ISBN-10: 0691118205 ISBN-13: 9780691118208 Condition: New Price:   Availability: In Stock. Ships within 24 hours. Sales Rank: #1,975 in Books Release Date: January 05, 2004
| Short Description: Few periods in history compare to the Great Depression. Stock market crashes, bread lines, bank runs, and wild currency speculation were worldwide phenomena--all occurring with war looming in the...
Categories: Economic History, Economics, Business & Investing, Microeconomics, 20th Century, History |
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America's Great Depression
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 | Author: Rothbard, Murray N Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc. Creator: read by: Emerson (Editor), Brian (Editor) Media: Books Format: Other Language: Englisch Page Count: 1 ISBN-10: 1433219379 ISBN-13: 9781433219375 Condition: New Price:   Availability: In Stock. Ships within 24 hours. Sales Rank: #2,435 in Books Release Date: May 01, 2008
| Short Description: This staple of modern economic literature explains how the American Great Depression was not a crisis for capitalism but merely a downturn in the business cycle, generated by government intervention...
Categories: Economic History, Economics, Business & Investing, 20th Century, History
Other Available Formats: Hardcover, Audio Cassette (Audio Book), Audio CD (Audio Book), Paperback |
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The Last Generation: Work and Life in the Textile Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, 1910-1960
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 | Author: Mary H. Blewett Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press Media: Books Format: Paperback Language: English Page Count: 352 ISBN-10: 0870237136 ISBN-13: 9780870237133 Condition: New Price:   Availability: In Stock. Ships within 24 hours. Sales Rank: #2,774 in Books Release Date: October 01, 1990
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Categories: Job Hunting & Careers, Business & Investing, 20th Century, History |
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