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The explosive, dark secrets behind America's post-WWII science programs from the author of the New York Times bestseller Area 51. In the chaos following WW...

The Wholesome Image Of America Propagated By Hollywood In The 1940s, '50s And '60s Is One Of The Most Persistent In Popular Culture: Loving Wives, Smiling C...

The rough-hewn general who rose to the nation’s highest office, and whose presidency witnessed the first political skirmishes that would lead to the Civi...

"This abridgment…is still the best one-volume biography of Lee." —Chicago Tribune "Lee provides an opportunity for a new generation to better understa...

A Definitive And Extraordinary Account Of Recent Broadway History—spanning From The Debut Of Andrew Lloyd Weber’s Sunset Boulevard To Disney’s The Lio...

breaking Their Silence, Witnessees Expose A Cover-up In Jfk's AssassinationCategories: History United StatesState & Local

The Dramatic Story Of The Signature Environmental Disaster Of Our Time And An Inspiring Tale Of Scientific Resistance By A Relentless Physician Who Stood Up...

Monumental tells, for the first time, the incredible story of Oscar James Dunn, a New Orleanian born into slavery who became America's first Black lieuten...

For The Fiftieth Anniversary Of The Film, W.k. Stratton's Definitive History Of The Making Of The Wild Bunch, Named One Of The Greatest Westerns Of All Time...

On July 18, 1863, the African American soldiers of the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Infantry led a courageous but ill-fated charge on Fort Wagner, a key bast...

This Text Provides A Definitive Account Of The Fighting Between The Army Of The Potomac And Robert E. Lee's Army Of Northern Virginia At Cemetery Hill And C...

A valuable and compelling portrait of the daily life of Americans during the Victorian era—the fourth volume in the Everyday Life in America series K...

Young readers will love exploring the gigantic rocks, roaring waterfalls, and majestic trees that can be found throughout Yosemite National Park.Follow Ran...

There Are Few Industrialists In History Who Could Match Elon Musk's Relentless Drive And Ingenious Vision. A Modern Alloy Of Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Howa...

"Read this man's book." --James EllroyA harrowing, edge-of-your-seat narrative of murder and secrets, revenge and heroism in the City of Angels―the real ...

In 1949, Florida's Orange Industry Was Booming With Cheap Jim Crow Labor. When A White Seventeen-year-old Groveland Girl Cried Rape, Vicious Sheriff Mccall ...

Contains new facts concerning Nixon, Watergate, and the death of Dorothy Hunt, wife of E. Howard HuntDorothy Hunt, “An Amoral and Dangerous Woman” tell...

Documents The Trial Of A Man Charged With Dozens Of Counts Of Arson In A Rural Virginia County, Sharing Insight Into His Struggles With Addiction, His Relat...

Coastal cuisine from Asbury Park to Cape May, with 50 recipes from your favorite beachside restaurants and farm-fresh New Jersey ingredients for a perfect ...

On December 3. 1999, the call crackled in to the men of Worchester, Massachusetts Fire Department: a three-alarm warehouse blaze in a six-story windowless c...

Jedwin Smith. Includes Index.Categories: Science & Math Earth SciencesGeography

A Memoir Of A City, An Industry, And A Dynasty In Decline, And The Story Of A Young Artist's Struggle To Find Her Way Out Of The Ruins. Frances Stroh's Earl...

Amity Shlaes, author of The Forgotten Man, delivers a brilliant and provocative reexamination of America’s thirtieth president, Calvin Coolidge, and the d...

Join New York Times bestselling author Guy Fieri, host of the hugely popular Food Network show Diners, Drive-ins and Dives, as he takes you on a tour of 6...

Philadelphia Stories is a kind of family album. As in their earlier volume, Still Philadelphia: A Photographic History, 1890-1940, Miller, Vogel, and Davis...

Slapped with a libel suit after an appearance on a talk show, Malachy McCourt crows, "If they could only see me now in the slums of Limerick, a big shot, su...

For us to perceive any of the worlds that exist beside our own, not only do we have to covet them but we need to have sufficient energy to seize them. In ...

A humorous and rousing set of literal and figurative sojourns as well as amission statement about comprehending, protecting, and truly experiencing the outd...

Using Many Never-reported Facts, Award-winning Writer Anne Hagedorn Auerbach Chronicles The Compelling And Tragic Story Behind The Downfall Of Thoroughbr...

In 1975, Charleston voters elected a young attorney and former state lawmaker as the city's new mayor. Joseph Patrick Riley Jr., just 32 at the time, promis...

The Famed Chef Of The Inn At Little Washington Shares 110 Of His Favorite Recipes, Accompanied By An Account Of The Inn's Development From A Farmhouse Kitch...

In Gotham, Edwin G. Burrows And Mike Wallace Have Written An Epic As Vast And Varied As The City It Chronicles. Drawing On The Work Of Hundreds Of Scholars ...

Higher education hails Asian American students as model minorities who face no educational barriers given their purported cultural values of hard work and p...

not Long After Adam Gopnik Returned To New York At The End Of 2000 With His Wife And Two Small Children, They Witnessed One Of The Great And Tragic Events ...

Chapter 1. The Accusation -- Chapter 2. Blood Libel In The Modern World -- Chapter 3. Who Done It : The Immigrants? -- Chapter 4. The Massena Case And Ameri...

The emergence of the lower houses of assembly is a major theme in American history: their quest for power became the most significant single feature of poli...

A Memoir By A Uss Arizona Survivor Describes His Experience Of The Attacks That Left Him With Burns Over More Than Sixty-five Percent Of His Body, His Resol...

While the fathers were off founding the country, what were the women doing? Running their husband s businesses, raising their children plus providing polit...

Originally published in 1995 to huge critical acclaim and a finalist for the NBCC Award for Nonfiction, Madeleine Blais’s In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle...

In the tradition of Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air and Sebastian Junger’s The Perfect Storm comes a true tale of riveting adventure in which two weekend scub...

A Portrait Of Washington, D.c. During The Days Of World War Ii. Waiting -- The Battle For Washington -- Bureaucracies At War -- Locked In Deadly Struggle .....

More than twenty years ago, a disillusioned college graduate named Peter Jenkins set out with his dog Cooper to look for himself and his nation. His memoi...

Describes Social Life And Customs Of The Working People In New York After The Revolution. Includes Sections On Apprentices And Youths, Journeymen, Master Cr...

The 1977 Sorokin Award–winning story of Buffalo Creek in the aftermath of a devastating flood.On February 26, 1972, 132-million gallons of debris-filled m...

A History Of Texas High School Football Teams That Have Won Four Or More State Championships Since 1920-- Rick Sherrod. Includes Bibliographical References ...

The summer of 1967 turned out to be one of the most exciting – and improbable – seasons in the history of baseball. Dubbed “The Impossible Dream,” t...

Former President George H.W. Bush, revealed through his letters and writings from 1941 to 2010, is “worth its weight in gold…a valuable update of the li...

Explores the history of the trail and celebrated the frontiersmen and their dogs who braved its dangers.Categories: History United StatesState & Local ...