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Gossip Men J. Edgar Hoover, Joe McCarthy, Roy Cohn, and the Politics of Insinuation
ISBN: HB: 9780226624822, University of Chicago Press, May 2021
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones
J. Edgar Hoover, Joseph McCarthy, and Roy Cohn were titanic figures in the midcentury United States, wielding national power in government and the legal system through intimidation and insinuation. Hoover's FBI thrived on secrecy, threats, and illega...
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£28,00
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Go Play Outside! Tips, Tricks, and Tales from the Trails
ISBN: PB: 9781602234390, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, January 2021
210 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Having children doesn't mean that you can't enjoy every season in the great outdoors – even if you happen to live in the middle of Alaska. Whether you're biking eighty miles into the heart of Denali National Park, cross-country skiing to a remote cab...
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£18,00
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Groundbreakers, Rule-breakers & Rebels 50 Unstoppable St. Louis Women
ISBN: PB: 9781883982980, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, November 2020
104 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 colour plates
The history of women's activism in St. Louis began long before 1920, when Missouri ratified the Nineteenth Amendment and gave women the right to vote. Women have always been a fundamental – but too often unfairly forgotten – part of what made St. Lou...
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£12,00
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Growing Up with the Country Family, Race, and Nation After the Civil War
ISBN: PB: 9780300248395, ISBN: HB: 9780300180527, Yale University Press, January 2020
256 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 42 black&white illus.
Following the lead of her own ancestors, Kendra Field's epic family history chronicles the westward migration of freedom's first generation in the fifty years after emancipation. Drawing on decades of archival research and family lore within and beyo...
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£20,00
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£35,00
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Great River City How the Mississippi Shaped St. Louis
ISBN: PB: 9781883982959, University of Chicago Press, Missouri Historical Society Press, November 2019
240 pp., 30.4x22.8 cm, 151 colour plates, 199 halftone
For St. Louis, the Mississippi has always been more than just a river. It's been the focus of the local economy, a shaping force on millions of lives, and a mirror for the city's triumphs, embarrassments, joys, and tragedies. Through fifty-six snapsh...
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£27,00
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Gateway to the Pacific Japanese Americans and the Remaking of San Francisco
ISBN: PB: 9780226592749, ISBN: HB: 9780226592602, University of Chicago Press, January 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones
In the decades following World War II, municipal leaders and ordinary citizens embraced San Francisco's identity as the "Gateway to the Pacific", using it to reimagine and rebuild the city. The city became a cosmopolitan center on account of its newf...
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£27,00
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£79,00
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George Washington The Wonder of the Age
ISBN: PB: 9780300240207, Yale University Press, November 2018
368 pp., 21x14 cm
<p>A much-needed concise biography of America's first president. As editor of the award-winning Library of America collection of George Washington's writings and a curator of the great man's original papers, John Rhodehamel has establishe...
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£13,99
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Grounds for Dreaming Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the California Farmworker Movement
ISBN: PB: 9780300240146, Yale University Press, July 2018
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 31 black&white illus.
Known as "The Salad Bowl of the World", California's Salinas Valley became an agricultural empire due to the toil of diverse farmworkers, including Latinos. A sweeping critical history of how Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants organized for the...
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£22,00
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Generals of Shiloh Character in Leadership, April 6-7, 1862
ISBN: HB: 9781611213690, Casemate, Savas Beatie, April 2018
312 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 6 maps, 58 images
"Character is destiny" wrote Greek Philosopher Heraclitus more than twenty-five centuries ago. Douglas Southall Freeman, the Army of Northern Virginia's preeminent historian, echoed that view when he wrote, "Further study... may prove both more profi...
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£26,00
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God's Businessmen Entrepreneurial Evangelicals in Depression and War
ISBN: HB: 9780226509778, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The evangelical embrace of conservatism is a familiar feature of the contemporary political landscape. What's less well-known, however, is that the connection predates the Reagan revolution, going all the way back to the Depression and World War II....
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£34,00
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