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#1 The book A History of the Life and Death, Virtues and Exploits of General George Washington was published by priest Mason Locke Weems in 1800. It was a commercial venture, and it worked. The book sold well, going through some eighty editions.
#2 The story of Washington kneeling in the snow at Valley Forge is a lie. There is no historical evidence to support it. Washington...
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Book Preview: #1 The idea of human progress is a myth. While there have been periods of improvement in the way humans treat each other, history is a jagged line with no discernible slope.
#2 There has been steady progress toward liberalism over the last two centuries, but this progress has been met with the rise of the modern police state in response.
#3 The past few decades have...
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A generous, kind pilot with a passion for reducing waste, Ron Forster never imagined he would change the world, but in the 1970s, when the world was living blind to their destruction of the environment, he realized something had to be done. Distraught by the power shortages across the country, he set out to change the tide in favor of privately owned renewable energy, rather than large power monopolies. He came up against power giants, nuclear power...
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#1 The story of the modern Caribbean begins in a small port town in northern North Africa, almost within sight of the Iberian peninsula. On 25 July 1415, the feast day of St. James, Prince Henry of Portugal led a fleet of around 200 ships down the Tagus River to Atlantic Ocean.
#2 The Portuguese were struggling to get wheat and gold from Ceuta. The small kingdom was...
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The story of how a few Chinese immigrants found their way to the Mississippi River Delta in the late 1870s and earned their living with small family operated grocery stores in neighborhoods where mostly black cotton plantation workers lived. What was their status in the segregated black and white world of that time and place? How did this small group preserve their culture and ethnic identity? "Chopsticks in the Land of Cotton"is a social history...
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#1 William Colby was the CIA's first long-term North Vietnam-based operative. He was a Catholic Ivy League man who sounded more like a corporate executive than a secret agent.
#2 The CIA began to send American Special Forces soldiers to train and assist the South Vietnamese who would execute Colby's covert missions. The Green Berets and SEALs weren't working for the...
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Book Preview: #1 The American idea is not to make everyone equal, but to allow everyone to be what God made them. Liberty is the power to do everything that does not interfere with the rights of others.
#2 Liberty is the right to pursue happiness in your own manner. It is the freedom to do as you please, and it leaves everyone else the same right.
#3 The Declaration of Independence...
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#1 Two new concepts that focus on the origins, legacies, and persistence of white supremacy in the United States and other settler societies have emerged in the last few decades. They are settler colonialism, which documents the contact and colonization by a nation that wishes to populate the encountered land, and racial capitalism, which describes the intertwined history...
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A woman ahead of her time, Isabella Bird (1831–1904) ranks among the most adventurous travel writers of her era. In this captivating travelogue, she reports to her sister back home in England on a series of journeys through nineteenth-century Canada and the United States. Bird recounts with passion and sensitivity such sights as wigwams on Prince Edward Island and Quebec's romantic falls of Lorette, in addition to dark encounters with cholera, slavery,...
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Book Preview: #1 Eisman had a special talent for making noise and breaking with consensus opinion. He started as a junior equity analyst at Oppenheimer in December 1991, but was quickly appointed the lead analyst for Aames Financial, a subprime mortgage lender, after telling his superiors that he'd worked on a deal for The Money Store.
#2 Eisman became one of the few analysts at Oppenheimer...
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True tales of history's sea-faring scoundrels and their daring deeds, Buccaneers and Pirates recounts the legends of the notorious brigands who plundered North American coasts from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. Meet Blackbeard, who reveled in shooting down members of his own crew; Henry Morgan, the infamous pirate who eventually became Deputy-Governor of Jamaica; and Jean Lafitte, master of an enormously profitable piracy ring-even though...
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Bishop Charles P. McIlvaine was an important figure in nineteenth century America. As one of the leading evangelicals in the Protestant Episcopal Church, the Ohioan became the pivotal figure in the evangelical Episcopal-Anglican community. Famed as a preacher and speaker, his books and pamphlets were read by trans-Atlantic audience. His endeavors in the United Kingdom resulted in honorary degrees from Cambridge University and Oxford University. Aware...
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#1 Roosevelt's mother, Sara, had never imagined that her son would be president. But he was, and he became the champion of the common man. The depth and purpose that he gained from his paralyzing illness gave him a depth and purpose that had not been noticeable before.
#2 Roosevelt was born with a disability, but he was also endowed with a number of natural talents and...
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#1 Bing Crosby, the most recorded voice in history, sang most of the classic American standards first. He delivered more hit records than any other artist before or since, and turned CBS into a national network. He appeared in seventy-nine movies over a forty-year career.
#2 The youngest of five brothers, Sam Snead grew up around a swanky resort called the Homestead...
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#1 I have a recipe for corn bread, and also for India relish: Elizabeth Scott Hardin, my great-great-great-great-great-grandmother, was said to have hidden in a cave with her children during Indian fighting.
#2 I had a quilt made by my great-great-grandmother Elizabeth Anthony Reese on a wagon journey during which she buried one child, gave birth to another, twice contracted...
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#1 Ben Novack, the home invader, first arrived in New York City in the mid-1930s. He had a retail clothing store with a man named Kemp, but they soon split up.
#2 Carl Fisher was the father of Miami Beach. He made a fortune co-inventing Prest-O-Lite, the acetylene gas used in car headlights for night driving. He then spent his fortune on building a resort on Miami Beach.
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#1 In March 2014, the Lakota Sioux tribe president, Bryan Brewer, declared war on the Keystone XL Pipeline, which would have passed directly through Oceti Sakowin territory.
#2 The KXL also crossed through the permanent reservation boundaries of the Great Sioux Nation, and unceded lands of the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty, which forbids white settlement without Indigenous...
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#1 The planter aristocracy was made up of ten thousand families that owned fifty or more slaves apiece. These were the people who, as the former North Carolina slave William Yancey recalled, gave shape to the government and tone to the society.
#2The planter elite was made up of about fifty southern planters, who each owned at least five hundred slaves. The richest planter...
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#1 The Lincoln-Douglas debates were a clash of champions, but in reality, they were just two people arguing before a popular audience. The real worth of the debates cannot be judged just by popular tradition, which today is largely the tradition of the descendants of Lincoln's camp.
#2 The consensus of more recent opinion contrasts sharply with the folklore surrounding...
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La mirada del autor se centra en estudiar el proceso mediante el cual los revolucionarios cubanos confirieron sentido a su acción colectiva. Una construcción que transita del descontento con la dictadura de Fulgencio Batista, a exhibir una manera propia de ser, incorporando sus propios símbolos, rituales y ceremonias en el Movimiento Revolucionario 26 de Julio. Un proceso que lleva a ascender a su líder, Fidel Castro, al lugar sagrado de los padres...
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