In 1948, most white people in the North had no idea how unjust life was for the ten million African Americans living in the South. But that suddenly changed after Ray Sprigle, a white journalist from Pittsburgh, went undercover and...
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Author:Schneider, JasonSummary:Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain could not have envisioned what his death would mean to Generation X – or that he would influence one young man from small-town Quebec to take his own life . . .
3,000 Miles is the story of Andre, a...
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Author:Robertson, RaySummary:It's 1979 and Tom Buzby is thirteen years old and living in the small town of Chatham with his father and older sister. So far, so normal. But Tom's dad is the local tattoo artist, his older sister might be in love with the new girl in...
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Author:Caldwell, Wilber W.Summary:For the two generations who have grown up since Lyndon Johnson was president, the events as well as the thinking behind the revolutionary and romantic pretensions of the 1960s are almost equally unclear. This was the era of the Beatles...
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Author:Burns, EricSummary:The Roaring Twenties is the only decade in American history with a widely applied nickname, and our fascination with this era continues. From prohibition to immigration, the birth of jazz, and the rise of expatriate literature, 1920 was...
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Author:Lockwood, IngersollSummary:This near-future political satire about the election of a new president argues that socialism and populism will eventually give rise to chaos and disaster. Authored by Ingersoll Lockwood-around whom conspiracy theories concerning the...
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Author:Bach, SebastianSummary:Sebastian Bach, who has sold over twenty million records both as the lead singer of Skid Row and as a solo artist and has also appeared on Broadway and television, here tells the story of a man who achieved his wildest dreams only to...
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America's beloved and distinguished historian presents, in a book of breathtaking excitement, drama, and narrative force, the stirring story of the year of our nation's birth, 1776, interweaving, on both sides of the Atlantic, the...
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On the seventy-fifth anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki comes this account of the war-room drama inside the cabinets of the United States and Japan that led to Armageddon on August 6, 1945.
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Author:Zuckoff, MitchellSummary:13 Hours presents, for the first time, the true account of the events of September 11, 2012, in Benghazi. This is the story, told in spine-tingling detail, of what happened on the ground, as told by the men who faced terrorism head-on--...
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Author:Johnson, SimonSummary:Johnson and Kwak examine not only how Wall Street's ideology, wealth, and political power among policy makers in Washington led to the financial debacle of 2008, but also what the lessons learned portend for the future.
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Author:Northup ,SolomonSummary:12 Years a Slave is the harrowing account of a black man, born free in New York State, who was drugged, kidnapped, and sold into slavery in 1841. Having no way to contact his family, and fearing for his life if he told the truth,...
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Author:Edin, Kathryn J.Summary:Jim Yong Kim of the World Bank estimates that extreme poverty can be eliminated in 17 Years. This is clearly cause for celebration. However, this good news can make us oblivious to the fact that there are, in the United States, a...
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Author:Brace, C. LoringSummary:A tour de force work by a leading scholar, "Race" Is a Four-Letter Word explores the history of the concept of race in America, the reasons why the concept has no biological validity, and the ways in which it grew to become accepted as...
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Author:Woods, Randall BennettSummary:World War II commando, Cold War spy, and CIA director under presidents Nixon and Ford, William Egan Colby played a critical role in some of the most pivotal events of the twentieth century. A quintessential member of the greatest...
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Author:Cole, Clay, Hinckley, DavidSummary:There was a small sliver of time between Be-Bop and Hip-Hop, when a new generation of teenagers created rock 'n' roll. Clay Cole was one of those teenagers he was the host of his own Saturday night, pop music television show. Clay Cole'...
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Author:Minor, Robert NeilSummary:A cultural critique of growing up in the USA, including such topics as our universities as purveyors of hopelessness and the dynamics of "getting laid" taught in high school, which emphasizes that taking on the "straight" role is...
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Author:Weeks, Kent M.Summary:In Search of Civility: Confronting Incivility on the College Campus addresses a way that an existing institution—the modern American college—can actively foster civility instead of expecting students to develop this virtue on their own...
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Author:Boles, BlakeSummary:What would you do if you could go to college without going to high school? Would you travel abroad, spend late nights writing a novel, volunteer in an emergency room, or build your own company? What dreams would you be pursuing right...
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Author:Gibby, DarinSummary:America loves innovation and the can-do spirit that made this country what it is—a world leader in self-government, industry and technology, and pop culture. Everything about America has at one point or another been an experiment and a...
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