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Military

Omaha Beach Tuesday 6th June 1944

Prime Christophe

ISBN: PB: 9782815103046, Casemate, OREP, August 2016
128 pp., 26.5x20 cm

Tuesday, June 6th 1944. It is dawn and the German lookouts on sentry along the beach of Sables d'Or at the Pointe du Hoc spot some worrying silhouettes in the distance. An incredible number of masts and ships begin to appear as the mist rises. It is...

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Political Science

America

Insecure Majorities Congress and the Perpetual Campaign

Lee Frances E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226409047, ISBN: HB: 9780226408996, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 23 line drawings, 18 tables

As Democrats and Republicans continue to vie for political advantage, Congress remains paralyzed by partisan conflict. That the last two decades have seen some of the least productive Congresses in recent history is usually explained by the growing i...

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Ecology

America

Alaska's Greatest Outdoor Legends Colorful Characters Who Built the Fishing and Hunting Industries

Kelly Doug

ISBN: PB: 9781602232990, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2016
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 100 halftones, 1 map

Outdoor tourism is one of Alaska's biggest industries, and the thousands of people who flock to the state's dramatic landscapes and pristine waters to hunt and fish are supported by a large and growing network of guides, lodges, outfitters, and wildl...

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America

American Guides The Federal Writers' Project and the Casting of American Culture

Griswold Wendy

ISBN: PB: 9780226357836, ISBN: HB: 9780226357669, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 5 maps, 2 line drawings, 45 tables

In the midst of the Great Depression, Americans were nearly universally literate – and they were hungry for the written word. Magazines, novels, and newspapers littered the floors of parlors and tenements alike. With an eye to this market and as a re...

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America

Nut Country Right-Wing Dallas and the Birth of the Southern Strategy

Miller Edward H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226421216, ISBN: HB: 9780226205380, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones

On the morning of November 22, 1963, President Kennedy told Jackie as they started for Dallas, "We're heading into nut country today". That day's events ultimately obscured and revealed just how right he was: Oswald was a lone gunman, but the city th...

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Political Science

America

Alaska Politics and Public Policy The Dynamics of Beliefs, Institutions, Personalities, and Power

Thomas Clive S.

ISBN: HB: 9781602232891, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2016
750 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 8 maps

Politics in Alaska have changed significantly since the last major book on the subject was published more than twenty years ago, with the rise and fall of Sarah Palin and the rise and fall of oil prices being but two of the many developments to alter...

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America

Revolutions Without Borders The Call to Liberty in the Atlantic World

Polasky Janet

ISBN: PB: 9780300219845, ISBN: HB: 9780300208948, Yale University Press, July 2016
392 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.

Nation-based histories cannot do justice to the rowdy, radical interchange of ideas around the Atlantic world during the tumultuous years from 1776 to 1804. National borders were powerless to restrict the flow of enticing new visions of human rights...

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America

American Colonial History Clashing Cultures and Faiths

Kidd Thomas S.

ISBN: PB: 9780300187328, Yale University Press, July 2016
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

Thomas Kidd, a widely respected scholar of colonial history, deftly offers both depth and breadth in this accessible, introductory text on the American Colonial era. Interweaving primary documents and new scholarship with a vivid narrative reconstruc...

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America

Biography & Memoires

Amiable Scoundrel Simon Cameron, Lincoln's Scandalous Secretary of War

Kahan Paul

ISBN: HB: 9781612348148, Casemate, Potomac Books, July 2016
408 pp., 23x15 cm

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Political Science

America

Inside the Presidential Debates Their Improbable Past and Promising Future

Minow Newton N., LaMay Craig L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226434322, University of Chicago Press, July 2016
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 31 tables

Newton Minow's long engagement with the world of television began nearly fifty years ago when President Kennedy appointed him chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. As its head, Minow would famously dub TV a "vast wasteland", thus inaugur...

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