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Adoption, Memory, and Cold War Greece: Kid pro quo?
This book presents a committed quest to unravel and document the postwar adoption networks that placed more than 3,000 Greek children in the United States, in a movement accelerated by the aftermath of the Greek Civil War and by the new conditions of the global Cold War. Greek-to-American adoptions and, regrettably, also their transactions and transgressions, provided the blueprint for the first large-scale international adoptions, well before these became a mass phenomenon typically associated with Asian children. The story of these Greek postwar and Cold War adoptions, whose procedures ranged from legal to highly irregular, has never been told or analyzed before. Adoption, Memory, and Cold War Greece answers the important questions: How did these adoptions from Greece happen? Was there any money involved? Humanitarian rescue or kid pro quo? Or both? With sympathy and perseverance, Gonda Van Steen has filled a decades-long gap in our understanding, and provided essential information to the hundreds of adoptees and their descendants whose lives are still affected today.Read more
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Advertising the American Dream: Making Way for Modernity, 1920-1940
It has become impossible to imagine our culture without advertising. But how and why did advertising become a determiner of our self-image? Advertising the American Dream looks carefully at the two decades when advertising discovered striking new ways to play on our anxieties and to promise solace for the masses.As American society became more urban, more complex, and more dominated by massive bureaucracies, the old American Dream seemed threatened. Advertisers may only have dimly perceived the profound transformations America was experiencing. However, the advertising they created is a wonderfully graphic record of the underlying assumptions and changing values in American culture. With extensive reference to the popular media—radio broadcasts, confession magazines, and tabloid newspapers—Professor Marchand describes how advertisers manipulated modern art and photography to promote an enduring “consumption ethic.”
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Al Capone’s Beer Wars: A Complete History of Organized Crime in Chicago during Prohibition
Although much has been written about Al Capone, there has not been–until now–a complete history of organized crime in Chicago during Prohibition. This exhaustively researched book covers the entire period from 1920 to 1933. Author John J. Binder, a recognized authority on the history of organized crime in Chicago, discusses all the important bootlegging gangs in the city and the suburbs and also examines the other major rackets, such as prostitution, gambling, labor and business racketeering, and narcotics. A major focus is how the Capone gang — one of twelve major bootlegging mobs in Chicago at the start of Prohibition–gained a virtual monopoly over organized crime in northern Illinois and beyond. Binder also describes the fight by federal and local authorities, as well as citizens’ groups, against organized crime. In the process, he refutes numerous myths and misconceptions related to the Capone gang, other criminal groups, the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, and gangland killings. What emerges is a big picture of how Chicago’s underworld evolved during this period. This broad perspective goes well beyond Capone and specific acts of violence and brings to light what was happening elsewhere in Chicagoland and after Capone went to jail. Based on 25 years of research and using many previously unexplored sources, this fascinating account of a bloody and colorful era in Chicago history will become the definitive work on the subject.Read more
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Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala (David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies): The Story of the American Coup in … Expanded (Series on Latin…
Bitter Fruit is a comprehensive and insightful account of the CIA operation to overthrow the democratically elected government of Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala in 1954. First published in 1982, this book has become a classic, a textbook case of the relationship between the United States and the Third World. The authors make extensive use of U.S. government documents and interviews with former CIA and other officials. It is a warning of what happens when the United States abuses its power.Read more
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BLM: Notebook, Black-Lives-Matter, Movement, Unity, Solidarity, Strength, Raised Fist, 120 lined pages, Large sized 8.5″ x 11″, Civil Rights, Show Support, Journal for work or…
Symbolic of what is important today, right now. Show your support and pride for BLM. This is a peaceful way to show everyone around you where you stand. This notebook can be used at home, in your office, business, school or anywhere you want to write, create, take notes, make lists or reminders. Stand in the gap and be on the right side of history.Read more
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Brotherhood: When West Point Rugby Went to War
“We’re better off for having these men among us.”—Wall Street Journal
Before 9/11, the rugby team at West Point learned to bond on a sports field. This is what happened when those 15 young men became leaders in war.
Filled with drama, tragedy, and personal transformations, this is the story of a unique brotherhood. It is a story of American rugby and a story of the U. S. Army created through intimate portraits of men shaped by West Point’s motto: “Duty, Honor, Country.”
Some of the players deployed to Afganistan and Iraq, some to Europe. Some became infantry, others became fliers. Some saw action, some did not. One gave his life on a street in Baghdad when his convoy was hit with an IED. Two died away from the battlefield but no less tragically.
Journalist Martin Pengelly, a former rugby player himself, was given extraordinary access to tell this story, a story of a brutal sport and even more brutal warfare.
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Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
The American West, 1860-1890: years of broken promises, disillusionment, war and massacre.
Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos and ending with the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee, this extraordinary book tells how the American Indians lost their land, lives and liberty to white settlers pushing westward. Woven into a an engrossing saga of cruelty, treachery and violence are the fascinating stories of such legendary figures as Sitting Bull, Cochise, Crazy Horse and Geronimo.
First published in 1970, Dee Brown’s brutal and compelling narrative changed the way people thought about the original inhabitants of America, and focused attention on a national disgrace.
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Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History Workbook: Superpower relations and the Cold War, 1941-91
Exam board: Edexcel
Level: GCSE
Subject: History
First teaching: September 2016
First exams: Summer 2018Practise and perfect the knowledge and skills that students need to achieve their best grade in the Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History exams.
Packed full of consolidation activities and exam-style questions, this time-saving Workbook makes it easier to reinforce understanding throughout the course and prepare for examination.
– Apply, embed and recap knowledge using tried-and-tested consolidation activities that put the large amount of content into context
– Develop the exam skills required for the 9-1 examinations with a bank of practice questions that covers every question type and includes mark allocations to indicate how much time students should spend on an answer
– Help students identify their revision needs and understand how to improve their responses by consulting the online answers/answer guidance for each activity and question
– Use flexibly for homework or classwork, during the course or for revision and exam practice
– Feel confident about exam preparation, knowing that the activities and questions have been carefully created by a team of experienced examiners and practising teachers
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Fashion through the centuries coloring book: Renaissance to the 20th century, Victorian, colonial America, baroque, rococo, historical clothing, … women style in time, decades…
Fashion through the centuries coloring book- 50 illustrations of dresses through the centuries. Put color to the inspirational pictures of clothing. Look how clothes looked at the Victorian era, the 20s or why not in renaissance style. Perfect for the history interested, fashion lovers, costume designers, girls, women, mom, friend or cultural historians. Relax and start experimenting with colors.Read more
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Fire and Rain: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Wars in Southeast Asia
This gripping account interweaves Nixon and Kissinger’s pursuit of the war in Southeast Asia and their diplomacy with the Soviet Union and China with on-the-ground military events and US domestic reactions to the war conducted in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.Fire and Rain is a compelling, meticulous narrative of the way national security decisions formed at the highest levels of government affect the lives of individuals at home and abroad. By drawing these connections, Carolyn Woods Eisenberg brings to life policy decisions about Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, conveying their significance to a new generation of readers. She breaks fresh ground in contextualizing Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger’s decisions within a wider institutional and societal framework. While recognizing the distinctive personalities and ideas of these two men, this study more broadly conveys the competing roles and impact of the professional military, the Congress, and a mobilized peace movement.
Drawing upon a vast collection of declassified documents, Eisenberg presents an important re-interpretation of the Nixon Administration’s relations with the Soviet Union and China vis a vis the war in Southeast Asia. She argues that in their desperate effort to overcome, or at least overshadow, their failure in Vietnam, Nixon and Kissinger made major concessions to both nations in the field of arms control, their response to the India-Pakistan war, and the diplomacy surrounding Taiwan–much of this secret. Despite policymakers’ claims that the Vietnam War was a “national security” necessity that would demonstrate American strength to the communist superpowers and “credibility” to friendly governments, the historical record suggests a different reality.
A half-century after the Paris Peace Conference marking the withdrawal of US troops and advisors from Vietnam and foreign troops from Laos and Cambodia, Fire and Rain is a dramatic account of geopolitical decision making, civil society, and the human toll of the war on the people of Southeast Asia.
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Five Days in November: In Commemoration of the 60th Anniversary of JFK’s Assassination
Secret Service agent Clint Hill reveals the stories behind the iconic images of the five tragic days surrounding President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in this 60th anniversary edition of the New York Times bestseller.On November 22, 1963, three shots were fired in Dallas, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, and the world stopped for four days. For an entire generation, it was the end of an age of innocence.
That evening, a photo ran on the front pages of newspapers across the world, showing a Secret Service agent jumping on the back of the presidential limousine in a desperate attempt to protect the President and Mrs. Kennedy. That agent was Clint Hill.
Now Hill commemorates the sixtieth anniversary of the tragedy with this stunning book containing more than 150 photos, each accompanied by his incomparable insider account of those terrible days. A story that has taken Hill half a century to tell, this is a “riveting, stunning narrative” (Herald & Review, Illinois) of personal and historical scope. Besides the unbearable grief of a nation and the monumental consequences of the event, the death of JFK was a personal blow to a man sworn to protect the first family, and who knew, from the moment the shots rang out in Dallas, that nothing would ever be the same.
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Forbidden Signs: American Culture and the Campaign against Sign Language
Forbidden Signs explores American culture from the mid-nineteenth century to 1920 through the lens of one striking episode: the campaign led by Alexander Graham Bell and other prominent Americans to suppress the use of sign language among deaf people.The ensuing debate over sign language invoked such fundamental questions as what distinguished Americans from non-Americans, civilized people from “savages,” humans from animals, men from women, the natural from the unnatural, and the normal from the abnormal. An advocate of the return to sign language, Baynton found that although the grounds of the debate have shifted, educators still base decisions on many of the same metaphors and images that led to the misguided efforts to eradicate sign language.
“Baynton’s brilliant and detailed history, Forbidden Signs, reminds us that debates over the use of dialects or languages are really the linguistic tip of a mostly submerged argument about power, social control, nationalism, who has the right to speak and who has the right to control modes of speech.”—Lennard J. Davis, The Nation
“Forbidden Signs is replete with good things.”—Hugh Kenner, New York Times Book Review
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Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Prometheus comes the first effort to set the Cuban Missile Crisis, with its potential for nuclear holocaust, in a wider historical narrative of the Cold War–how such a crisis arose and why, at the very last possible moment, it never happened.“Fresh and thrilling…. A fascinating work of history that is very relevant to today’s politics.” –Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of The Code Breaker
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Martin J. Sherwin introduces a dramatic new view of how luck and leadership avoided a nuclear holocaust during the October 1962 Cuban missile crisis. Set within the sweep of the Cold War and its nuclear history, every chapter of this gripping narrative of the origins and resolution of history’s most dangerous thirteen days offers lessons and a warning for our time. Gambling with Armageddon presents a riveting, page turning account of the crisis as well as an original exploration of the evolving place of nuclear weapons in the Post-World War II world.
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Herman Miller: A Way of Living
‘There have been many books about Herman Miller, its ethos, designers, and furniture, but none as comprehensive as this.’ – Interior Design
The acclaimed chronicle of the rich history of this innovative furniture company, from its founding in the early twentieth century to today
For more than 100 years, Michigan-based Herman Miller has played a central role in the evolution of modern and contemporary design, producing timeless classics while creating a culture that has had a remarkable impact on the development of the design world. Herman Miller is known as much for its pioneering designs and international influence as for its emphasis on environment and community service.
In this far reaching survey, new and archival photography illustrates the evolution of Herman Miller’s furniture designs over the course of the century. Featuring the stories and creations of legendary designers including Ray and Charles Eames, George Nelson, and Alexander Girard, and through its thousands of illustrations, this book tells the Herman Miller story as never before, documenting its defining moments and key leaders, and making Herman Miller: A Way of Living an indispensable volume for the bookshelves of design-lovers around the globe.
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Humphrey Bogart: A Life from Beginning to End (Biographies of Actors)
Discover the remarkable life of Humphrey Bogart…
Free BONUS Inside!Even half a century after his death, Humphrey Bogart remains one of the most iconic actors of all time. The epitome of class and cool, he embodied the ultimate tough guy—and no one wore a fedora quite like him.
“Bogie” began life under uncertain circumstances, born to parents addicted to drugs and disorder, but he would rise above these difficulties to become a star. From Broadway to Hollywood, he became a top-billed actor, the likes of which the world has rarely seen. With films such as Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, and The African Queen, he emerged as one of the greatest actors of the Golden Age of Hollywood. Here, in this book, we will explore the life and legend of this dashing icon in full.
Discover a plethora of topics such as
- In the Navy
- First Forays into Film
- The Marriage Business
- The Battling Bogarts
- Superstardom: Casablanca
- Illness and Death
- And much more!
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Killers of the Flower Moon: Oil, Money, Murder and the Birth of the FBI
WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FACT CRIME
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NON-FICTION
SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION
**SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY MARTIN SCORSESE STARRING LEONARDO DICAPRIO AND ROBERT DE NIRO**‘A riveting true story of greed, serial murder and racial injustice’ JON KRAKAUER
‘A fiercely entertaining mystery story and a wrenching exploration of evil’ KATE ATKINSON
‘A fascinating account of a tragic and forgotten chapter in the history of the American West’ JOHN GRISHAMFrom the bestselling author of The Lost City of Z, now a major film starring Charlie Hunnam, Sienna Miller and Robert Pattison, and the Number One international bestseller The Wager, comes a true-life murder story which became one of the FBI’s first major homicide investigations.
In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions and sent their children to study in Europe.
Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. As the death toll climbed, the FBI took up the case. But the bureau badly bungled the investigation. In desperation, its young director, J. Edgar Hoover, turned to a former Texas Ranger named Tom White to unravel the mystery. Together with the Osage he and his undercover team began to expose one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.
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Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER – The first full history of Black America’s shocking mistreatment as unwilling and unwitting experimental subjects at the hands of the medical establishment. No one concerned with issues of public health and racial justice can afford not to read this masterful book.“[Washington] has unearthed a shocking amount of information and shaped it into a riveting, carefully documented book.” –New York Times
From the era of slavery to the present day, starting with the earliest encounters between Black Americans and Western medical researchers and the racist pseudoscience that resulted, Medical Apartheid details the ways both slaves and freedmen were used in hospitals for experiments conducted without their knowledge–a tradition that continues today within some black populations.
It reveals how Blacks have historically been prey to grave-robbing as well as unauthorized autopsies and dissections. Moving into the twentieth century, it shows how the pseudoscience of eugenics and social Darwinism was used to justify experimental exploitation and shoddy medical treatment of Blacks. Shocking new details about the government’s notorious Tuskegee experiment are revealed, as are similar, less-well-known medical atrocities conducted by the government, the armed forces, prisons, and private institutions.
The product of years of prodigious research into medical journals and experimental reports long undisturbed, Medical Apartheid reveals the hidden underbelly of scientific research and makes possible, for the first time, an understanding of the roots of the African American health deficit. At last, it provides the fullest possible context for comprehending the behavioral fallout that has caused Black Americans to view researchers–and indeed the whole medical establishment–with such deep distrust.
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My Revision Notes: Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History: Superpower relations and the Cold War, 1941–91 (Hodder GCSE History for Edexcel)
Exam Board: Pearson Edexcel
Level: GCSE
Subject: History
First teaching: September 2016
First exams: Summer 2018Endorsed for Edexcel
Target success in Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision.
Key content coverage is combined with exam-style questions, revision tasks and practical tips to create a revision guide that students can rely on to review, strengthen and test their knowledge.
With My Revision Notes every student can:
> Plan and manage a successful revision programme using the topic-by-topic planner
> Enjoy an interactive approach to revision, with clear topic summaries that consolidate knowledge and related activities that put the content into context
> Build, practise and enhance exam skills by progressing through activities set at different levels
> Improve exam technique through exam-style questions and model answers with commentary from expert authors and teachers
> Get exam ready with extra quick quizzes and answers to the activities available online
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Native American History: An Enthralling Overview of the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole Tribes along with the Trail of Tears (Exploring the Past)
Two manuscripts in one book:- Native American Tribes: An Enthralling Guide to the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole
- Trail of Tears: An Enthralling Guide to the Choctaw and Chickasaw Removal, the Seminole Wars, Creek Dissolution, and Forced Relocation of the Cherokee Tribe
The “Five Civilized Tribes” tried to adapt to the American way of life, while others fought to keep their land. Which was more successful? This book will attempt to tell their story, the story of those five tribes. It will not go back into the distant past, and it will not be able to cover modern issues within the Native American community. But it will tell the story of how a group of people dealt with a world that had suddenly and drastically changed—and continued to change—and how they dealt with these changes as Native Americans.
In the first part of this book, you’ll know:
- The Five Civilized Tribes: Cherokee, Muscogee (Creek), Seminole, Choctaw, and Chickasaw
- The role of disease in the European colonization of America
- Great Native American fighters like Tecumseh, Crazy Horse, and Black Hawk
- Great Native American leaders like Pushmataha, Chief John Ross, and Blue Jacket
- What role Andrew Jackson played in the Indian Removal Act
- The reality of Native Americans who owned slaves
- The real story behind the Trail of Tears
- Great battles like Fallen Timbers, Tippecanoe, Little Bighorn, and St. Clair’s Defeat
- Massacres at Sand Creek and Wounded Knee and the devastation at Prospect Bluff
- How the Native Americans used and were used by the Americans, British, and Spanish in the southeastern United States
The removal of the Native Americans west of the Mississippi River during the 1800s to clear the way for settlers is a tragic story that involves human suffering on a grand scale.
In the second part of this book, you will discover:
- Why tribes developed various forms of Christianity
- The reasons behind chiefs signing treaties to give away native lands
- George Washington’s views on the Native Americans
- The Five Civilized Tribes and how they differed from each other
- How the average person viewed Native Americans in the 19th century
- Davey Crockett’s opinion on the relocation of Native Americans
- The Indian Removal Act of 1830 and how it impacted the Trail of Tears
- And so much more!
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Sign Language Among North American Indians: Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes
Over the period of two years author has devoted the intervals between official duties to collecting and collating materials for the study of sign language. As the few publications on the general subject, possessing more than historic interest, are meager in details and vague in expression, original investigation has been necessary. The high development of communication by gesture among the tribes of North America, and its continued extensive use by many of them, naturally directed the first researches to that continent, with the result that a large body of facts procured from collaborators and by personal examination has now been gathered and classified.Read more
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The American Civil War: An Enthralling Overview of the War Between States (U.S. History)
A nation divided, a war between brothers, and immense political and social consequences—the American Civil War is certainly one of the most famous conflicts in world history.Everyone has heard of the bloody conflict that cost the lives of over one million people. When people think of the Civil War, they think of Abraham Lincoln, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the North-South divide between the American states, but there is so much more to uncover about the American Civil War.
This book will dive into the details of the Civil War and explore what caused it, how it unfolded, and its short- and long-term consequences.
You will discover the following in this book:
- The socio-political situation of 19th-century America before the war
- Roots of the problem of slavery
- Abraham Lincoln and the creation of the Republican Party
- The infamous North-South divide
- Causes of secession and the beginning of the war
- Main actors on both sides, including Ulysses S. Grant, Jefferson Davis, and Robert E. Lee
- Military campaigns that shaped the four-year-long war
- The influential battles of Gettysburg, Chancellorsville, Vicksburg, and Fredericksburg
- The passing of the Emancipation Proclamation
- The assassination of President Lincoln
- Reforms and policies of post-war United States
- And much, much more!
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The Battle of Gettysburg: A Brief Look at Lee, Lincoln, and the Bloody Turning Point in the Civil War
Explore the bloodiest battle of the Civil War, spanning three days of fighting in and around Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The Union victory at Gettysburg marked the beginning of the end of the Confederacy.Consider two men: Robert E. Lee and Abraham Lincoln. What motivated them? How did their decisions lead to the battle in that small town in Pennsylvania? What decisions led to the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans, nearly as many as all American casualties in Vietnam?
Learn about the disobedience, courage, and miscalculations that culminated in this crucial battle for the soul of this country.
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The Civil War Volume I: Fort Sumter to Perryville
A narrative history of the American Civil War, which covers not only the battles and the troop movements but also the social background that brought on the war and led, in the end, to the South’s defeat.Read more
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The Football 100 (Sports)
From The Athletic, powerhouse of sports reporting, comes the definitive story of the greatest football players of all time.
It is a question that has bedeviled football fans for generations: Who’s the best? Of the more than 25,000 men who have suited up during the NFL’s century of existence, which ones stood head and shoulders above all others?
At The Athletic, home to the best newsroom in sports, this question would become a labor of love for dozens of the best football writers on the planet, including Mike Sando and Dan Pompei. Over the course of 100 riveting profiles–each drawing upon unparalleled access and superlative storytelling to offer intimate perspective on what made the greatest players tick–these writers reveal their findings. In the process, they also uncover the history of football.
In the early days of the NFL, the game bore little resemblance to the product we see today. Points were scarce, the forward pass was an exotic strategic curiosity, and most players played all 60 minutes–both sides of the ball. It was on the shoulders of the many greats who starred in the League over the last century that the game of football blossomed. Each profile in The Football 100 uses the vivid narrative storytelling for which The Athletic is known to bring to life extraordinary athletic talents, tactical geniuses who changed the way the game is played, and legendary, outsized personalities. Based on many hundreds of interviews with players, coaches, broadcasters, and others, this is a penetrating look at the greatest players to ever don cleats and pads, as well as a view from the trenches of the harsh realities of a brutal game. 100 photographs throughout the text offer testament to both the glory and the physical toll of football.
Deeply reported, beautifully written, and sure to spark heated debate among football fans of all stripes, The Football 100 sets a new standard for writing about the game.
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The French and Indian War: A Captivating Guide to the North American Conflict between Great Britain and France along with Its Impact on the History of … and the Seven Years’…
How did the French and Indian War change the world and mold history?Most people have heard about the French and Indian War, but you will find that most history classes have “forgotten” to explore some of the most interesting and important facets of this conflict. Its little-told stories and often underrated importance in world history have begun to be buried over the centuries. Was this epic struggle simply another war among many others in history?
Many of the incredible details, stories of legendary heroism, and actual world-changing events have not been given their moment to shine. The French and Indian War was not only about armed battles. It was also an extraordinary story of two empires with long-standing grudges that spilled over into the New World. This clash of titan-like powers shaped the fates of millions of people, numerous tribes, and multiple nations.
Even if you are not a military history “buff,” you will be absorbed in the captivating and shocking aspects of this incredible story, such as:
- Which well-known political leader in history inadvertently began the war in North America
- Which empires battled for control of North America and how beaver pelts caused tensions to boil over
- Why the native tribes formed alliances with those encroaching on their land and how it changed the course of their future forever
- The fascinating cultural differences between the Europeans and the Native Americans and how they viewed war, peace, and relationships with their new “neighbors”
- The man who founded the US Army Rangers and how he became an Adirondack legend
- The near-mythical “Black Watch”
- How the war played in a much larger global struggle between imperial powers
- How this war created an atmosphere ripe for one of history’s most famous revolutions
- And how the seeds were sown for new nations to emerge
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The Greatest Stories of the Old West Ever Told: True Tales and Legends of Famous Gunfighters, Outlaws and Sheriffs from the Wild West
Step back in time and immerse yourself in the rugged landscapes, daring outlaws, fearless lawmen, and untamed frontier spirit that defined an era.
Introducing The Greatest Stories of The Old West Ever Told – a captivating journey into the heart of the Wild West’s most legendary tales!
This book is a treasure trove of the Old West’s most thrilling narratives, expertly curated to bring you the very best of this iconic period in American history.
You’ll meet legendary figures like:
- George Custer, the proud and overconfident Colonel and Civil War hero who led his army into a slaughter at the hands of the Lakota chief Sitting Bull.
- Wild Bill Hickok, one of the most famous gunfighters of the Old West known for surviving gunfight after gunfight before he let his guard down and tragically lost his life in the nefarious town of Deadwood.
- Billy the Kid, the cocky young outlaw and gunfighter forced into a deadly confrontation with his best friend…and who might have gotten away.
- Wyatt Earp, the stalwart and seemingly invincible lawman who was repeatedly outgunned and outnumbered by his opponents in countless famous gunfights and yet miraculously emerged from each one completely unscathed.
- Jesse James, the former Confederate marauder and outlaw who had a knack for getting away with countless robberies all over the country, only to fall to a bullet from a member of his own gang.
- Geronimo, the fierce Apache medicine man who took up arms to seek revenge on the soldiers who brutally murdered his mother, wife, and children.
The Greatest Stories Of The Old West Ever Told is a must-read for history buffs, adventure seekers, and anyone who longs to relive the excitement and intrigue of the Wild West. Whether you’re a seasoned cowboy or a city slicker with a fascination for the frontier, this book will transport you to a time when the West was truly wild.
Don’t miss your chance to saddle up and ride alongside some of history’s most unforgettable characters. Grab your copy today and embark on an unforgettable journey through the pages of the Old West’s greatest stories!
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The Price of Politics
A Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post journalist and author of All the President’s Men traces the behind-the-scenes battle between President Barack Obama and Congress over the nation’s economics. (This book was previously listed in Forecast.)Read more
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The Six: The Untold Story of America’s First Women in Space
The remarkable true story of America’s first women astronauts
‘Lifts the curtain on the moment when Neil Armstrong’s “one small step for man” expanded to encompass the talent, ambition and perseverance of America’s first female astronauts’ MARGOT LEE SHETTERLY, bestselling author of Hidden Figures
‘Strap yourself in for a thrilling ride with genuine American heroes – six women who proved you don’t need the right plumbing to have the right stuff!’ LYNN SHERR, author of Sally Ride: America’s First Woman in Space
When NASA sent astronauts to the moon in the 1960s and 1970s the agency excluded women from the corps, arguing that only military test pilots – a group then made up exclusively of men – had the right stuff. It was an era in which women were steered away from jobs in science and deemed too fragile for space flight. Eventually, though, NASA relented and opened the application process to everyone, regardless of race or gender. From a 1977 candidate pool of 8,000 six elite women were selected – Sally Ride, Judy Resnik, Anna Fisher, Kathy Sullivan, Shannon Lucid, and Rhea Seddon.
In The Six, acclaimed journalist Loren Grush shows these brilliant and courageous women enduring claustrophobic – and sometimes deeply sexist – media attention, undergoing rigorous survival training, and preparing for years to take multi-million-dollar payloads into orbit. Together, the Six helped build the tools that made the space program run. One of the group, Judy Resnik, sacrificed her life when the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded at 46,000 feet. Everyone knows of Sally Ride’s history-making first space ride, but each of the Six would make their mark.
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The Unofficial Guide to Las Vegas (Unofficial Guides)
Save time and money with in-depth reviews, ratings, and details from the trusted source for a successful Las Vegas vacation.
How do some guests always seem to find the best restaurants, the best shows, the best hotels—and still come home with winnings in their pockets? Why do some guests pay full price for their visit when others can save hundreds of dollars? In Las Vegas, every minute and every dollar count. Your vacation is too important to be left to chance, so put the independent guide to Las Vegas in your hands and take control of your trip.
The Unofficial Guide to Las Vegas explains how Sin City works and how to use that knowledge to stay ahead of the crowd. Authors Bob Sehlinger and Seth Kubersky know that you want your vacation to be anything but average, so they employ an expert team of researchers to find the secrets, the shortcuts, and the bargains that are sure to make your vacation exceptional! Find out what’s available in every category, ranked from best to worst, and get detailed plans to make the most of your time in Las Vegas. Stay at a top-rated hotel, eat at the most acclaimed restaurants, and experience all the most popular attractions.
Inside You’ll Find:
- Nearly 100 hotels and casinos described, rated, and ranked―the most offered by any guidebook―plus strategies for scoring the best room rate
- Reviews of more than 100 restaurants―a complete dining guide within the guide, plus the best buffets and brunches
- The best places to play for every casino game
- Almost 50 pages of gambling tips, including how to play, recognizing sucker games, and cutting the house advantage to the bone
- Critical reviews of more than 70 of Las Vegas’s best shows
- Complete coverage of the Las Vegas nightclub, bar, and lounge scene, with surefire advice on how to get into the most exclusive venues
- Detailed instructions for avoiding Strip and I-15 traffic gridlock
- In-depth descriptions and consumer tips on shopping and experiencing attractions
Make the right choices to create a vacation you’ll never forget. The Unofficial Guide to Las Vegas is your key to planning a perfect stay. Whether you’re putting together your annual trip or preparing for your first visit, this book gives you the insider scoop on hotels, restaurants, entertainment, and more.
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The Vietnam War: The Definitive Illustrated History (DK Definitive Visual Histories)
The definitive telling of one of the longest and most controversial wars in US history.Delve into the compelling history and impact of the Vietnam War in reverting detail. This authoritative visual guide unpacks accounts of struggle, sacrifice, and bravery, making this a perfect read for any military history enthusiast.
Inside the pages of this retelling of America’s bloodiest conflict, you’ll discover:
– A vivid, moving, and informative read written in an engaging style.
– A clear and compelling account of the conflict, in short, self-contained events from the Battle of Ia Drang to the Tet Offensive and The Khmer Rouge.
– Biography pages highlight major military and political figures such as Henry Kissinger, President Nixon, General Thieu, and Ho Chi Minh.
– Features on everyday life in the war offering additional context.
– Stunning image double page features display weapons, spy gear, and other equipment that defined the war.
– Maps and feature boxes provide additional information on significant events during the conflict.Created in association with the Smithsonian Institution, this history book for adults is an authoritative history of both the first televised war and its lasting impact through the lenses of both sides of the conflict. The Vietnam War explores all aspects of the conflict and the wider political landscape using compelling text, maps, and archive photography of collections of weapons, aircraft, and armored vehicles.
The military techniques and conduct employed against the inferior technologies of the Viet Cong remain controversial and intriguing to date. Eyewitness accounts and iconic photographs bring events to life – from the background of the conflict to the incidents that drew America into Vietnam, the chronological event
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Three New Deals: Reflections on Roosevelt’s America, Mussolini’s Italy, and Hitler’s Germany, 1933-1939
FDR’s New Deal is today regarded as the democratic ideal, the positive American response to a crisis that forced Germany and Italy toward National Socialism and Fascism.Yet in the 1930s, these regimes were not considered entirely antithetical. In this groundbreaking work, Wolfgang Schivelbusch investigates the shared elements of these three new deals – focusing on their architecture and public works projects – to offer a new explanation for the popularity of Europe’s totalitarian systems. Writing with flair and concision, Schivelbusch casts a different light on the New Deal and puts forth a provocative explanation for the still-mysterious popularity of Europe’s most tyrannical regimes.Read more
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Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
Now in paperback, the #1 New York Times bestselling chronicle of the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty, from CNN anchor and journalist Anderson Cooper and historian and novelist Katherine Howe.
One of the Washington Post’s Notable Works of Nonfiction
When eleven-year-old Cornelius Vanderbilt began to work on his father’s small boat ferrying supplies in New York Harbor at the beginning of the nineteenth century, no one could have imagined that one day he would, through ruthlessness, cunning, and a pathological desire for money, build two empires—one in shipping and another in railroads—that would make him the richest man in America. His staggering fortune was fought over by his heirs after his death in 1877, sowing familial discord that would never fully heal. Though his son Billy doubled the money left by “the Commodore,” subsequent generations competed to find new and ever more extraordinary ways of spending it. By 2018, when the last Vanderbilt was forced out of The Breakers—the seventy-room summer estate in Newport, Rhode Island, that Cornelius’s grandson and namesake had built—the family would have been unrecognizable to the tycoon who started it all.
Now, the Commodore’s great-great-great-grandson Anderson Cooper, joins with historian Katherine Howe to explore the story of his legendary family and their outsized influence. Cooper and Howe breathe life into the ancestors who built the family’s empire, basked in the Commodore’s wealth, hosted lavish galas, and became synonymous with unfettered American capitalism and high society. Moving from the hardscrabble wharves of old Manhattan to the lavish drawing rooms of Gilded Age Fifth Avenue, from the ornate summer palaces of Newport to the courts of Europe, and all the way to modern-day New York, Cooper and Howe wryly recount the triumphs and tragedies of an American dynasty unlike any other.
Written with a unique insider’s viewpoint, this is a rollicking, quintessentially American history as remarkable as the family it so vividly captures.
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Vintage Victorian Shabby Chic Ephemera Collection: One-Sided Decorative Paper for Junk Journaling, Scrapbooking, Decoupage, Collages, Card Making & … (Victorian Women Cut-Out…
Vintage Victorian Shabby Chic Ephemera CollectionA hand-curated collection of vintage victorian ephemera. Over 135 authentic vintage images.
This book is a set ofvintage women ephemera like victorian shabby chic women, cards, vintage posters, vintage portraits, vintage fashion women, vintage adverts, shabby jewelry, tags and more…
You can use for:
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- Scrapbook page.
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- Junk Journals.
- Mixed media collages.
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- Smash Journal.
- For Notebook.
- The possibilities are endless….
- Multiple decorative ítems.
Features
• 135+ different full-color designs of varied sizes
• 50 single-sided pages book of 8.5 x 11 size
• High-quality print on premium paper 60# (100 GSM)★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★
★ Please note, sheets are not perforated. You would need to use a crafting knife or scissors to remove the patterned sheets from the pack.
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When America Stopped Being Great: A History of the Present
‘Nick Bryant is brilliant. He has a way of showing you what you’ve been missing from the whole story whilst never leaving you feeling stupid.’ – Emily Maitlis
‘Bryant is a genuine rarity, a Brit who understands America’ – Washington Post
In When America Stopped Being Great, veteran reporter and BBC New York correspondent Nick Bryant reveals how America’s decline paved the way for Donald Trump’s rise, sowing division and leaving the country vulnerable to its greatest challenge of the modern era.
Deftly sifting through almost four decades of American history, from post-Cold War optimism, through the scandal-wracked nineties and into the new millennium, Bryant unpacks the mistakes of past administrations, from Ronald Reagan’s ‘celebrity presidency’ to Barack Obama’s failure to adequately address income and racial inequality. He explains how the historical clues, unseen by many (including the media) paved the way for an outsider to take power and a country to slide towards disaster. As Bryant writes, ‘rather than being an aberration, Trump’s presidency marked the culmination of so much of what had been going wrong in the United States for decades – economically, racially, politically, culturally, technologically and constitutionally.’
A personal elegy for an America lost, unafraid to criticise actors on both sides of the political divide, When America Stopped Being Great takes the long view, combining engaging storytelling with recent history to show how the country moved from the optimism of Reagan’s ‘Morning in America’ to the darkness of Trump’s ‘American Carnage’.
It concludes with some of the most dramatic events in recent memory, in an America torn apart by a bitterly polarised election, racial division, the national catastrophe of the coronavirus and the threat to US democracy evidenced by the storming of Capitol Hill.
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White House by the Sea: A Century of the Kennedys at Hyannis Port
The intimate, multi-generational story of the Kennedy family as seen through their Hyannis Port compound on Cape Cod—the iconic place where they’ve celebrated, mourned, and forged the closest of bonds—based on more than a hundred in-depth interviews by a respected Esquire writer.Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, is synonymous with the Kennedy family. It is where, for a hundred years, America’s most storied political family has come to celebrate, bond, play, and, also, grieve. It is also the setting of so many events we remember: JFK giving his presidential acceptance speech, Jackie speaking with a Life magazine reporter just days after her husband’s assassination, Senator Edward Kennedy seeking refuge after the Chappaquiddick crash, Maria Shriver and Arnold Schwarzenegger tying the knot—and even Conor Kennedy courting pop star Taylor Swift. Anyone who has lived in, worked at, or visited the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port has had a front-row view to history. Now, with extraordinary access to the Kennedy family—and featuring more than fifty rarely-seen images—journalist Kate Storey gives us a remarkably intimate and poignant look at the rhythms of an American dynasty.
Drawing from more than a hundred conversations with family members, friends, neighbors, household and security staff, Storey delivers a rich and textured account of the Kennedys’ lives in their summer refuge. From the 1920s, when Rose and Joseph P. Kennedy rented then bought a home known as The Malcolm Cottage, to today, when many Kennedys have purchased their own homes surrounding what’s now called The Big House, this book delivers many surprising revelations across the decades, including what matriarch Rose considered the family’s greatest tragedy, the rivalrous relationship between brothers Jack and Joe, details about Jackie’s life at the compound, and previously unknown glimpses into JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette’s loving and ill-fated relationship.
Fascinating, engaging, and illuminating, White House by the Sea provides a sweeping history of an American dynasty that has left an indelible mark on our nation’s politics and culture.
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