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  • Hillbilly Elegy

    A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

    von J. D. Vance …
    Hillbilly Elegy recounts Vice President J.D. Vance's powerful origin story...From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate now serving as the Vice President of the United States, an incisive account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class.THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"You will not read a more importa... … Lesen Sie mehr

    Zuvor € 11,99 Jetzt € 7,79

  • These Truths

    A History of the United States

    von Jill Lepore …
    **New York Times BestsellerIn the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation, an urgently needed reckoning with the beauty and tragedy of American history.**Two hundred fifty years after the United States declared its independence and cast off tyranny, … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 13,85

  • PT 109

    An American Epic of War, Survival, and the Destiny of John F. Kennedy

    von William Doyle …
    The extraordinary World War II story of shipwreck and survival that paved John F. Kennedy's path to power – hailed as a “breathtaking account” by James Patterson, “masterfully written” by historian Douglas Brinkley, and “the finest book” ever written on the subject by Lt. Commander William Liebenow, the man who rescued JFK and the PT 109 crew in August 1943.In the early morning darkness of August … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 9,99

  • Summer in New England 1860, Illustrated

    von David Hunter "Porte Crayon" Strother …
    "How would you like to ship with me?" Dick regarded me with a look of mingled surpise and inquiry. "To be explicit: I have been thinking of making the tour of New England in search of sport and adventures. I want a companion. How would you like to ship for the voyage as first mate, with half the fish and half the trouble for your wages?" My kinsman's quench countenance blazed with renewed … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 6,39

  • ABOVE AND BEYOND

    How a tall, lanky kid from the Omaha Housing projects spent a lifetime helping others top their dreams

    von Ann Wead Kimbrough …
    How a tall, lanky kid from the Omaha Housing projects spent a lifetime helping others top their dreams. Above and Beyond recounts the long and grateful life of Dr. Rodney S. Wead. The beatings at the hands of "fake" police officers, blatant racism, and discrimination in his adulthood, paled in comparison to the pains of the abject poverty endured by the young Mr. Wead in north Omaha, NE. Yet, **Dr … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 7,69

  • Taking the Pulse of America

    A Vanguard Baby Boomer Examines the American Scene

    von Martin Street …
    For many Americans, hearing the words, United States of America brings stirring emotions. It is the concept of e pluribus unumout of many, onethat summarizes the sense of national unity that Americans feel, and one that author Martin Street seeks to convey in Taking the Pulse of America.This compendium of 110 essays offers a snapshot of American life today. Street offers opinions and suggestions … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 4,39

  • The Maiden Voyage on the Monitor “Passaic,” Illustrated.

    von Edgar Holden …
    Take a cruise on the Iron Clad Passaic as it survives rough seas and storms to take part in the bombardment of Sumter in 1862. … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 2,73

  • A Small Town's Legacies

    von Laurel Collins …
    A Small Town's Legacies takes the reader on an historical journey that begins in the 1700s with early settlers building homesteads in the swampy wilderness of Northwest Pennsylvania. Their experiences of hardships, ingenuity, and bravery enabled these stalwart people to survive and create a thriving community first known as Coniot.The early residents of Espyville and the generations that followed … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 8,79

  • A History of the City of Brooklyn and Kings County (Volume II)

    von Stephen M. Ostrander …
    A History of the City of Brooklyn and Kings County (Volume II) During the whole period of the Revolution Brooklyn had been peculiarly disturbed. More than any other of the county towns, it had been distracted and prostrated. Farms had been pillaged and the property of exiled Whigs given over to Tory friends of the Governor. Military occupation naturally resulted in great damage to property. … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 2,96

  • A History of the City of Brooklyn and Kings County (Volume I)

    von Stephen M. Ostrander …
    A History of the City of Brooklyn and Kings County (Volume I) At the time of his death, in 1885, Mr. Ostrander had completed considerable MS. for a history of the City of Brooklyn and Kings County; had prepared many chronological notes with a view to fuller writing, and had accumulated a mass of material in the form of transcripts, references, newspaper and other reports. It was his own … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 2,96

  • A History of Presque Isle

    As Told Through Conversation with the Park’S Legendary Hermit, Joe Root

    von Eugene H. Ware …
    Presque Isle State Park, a peninsula extending seven miles into Lake Erie, attracts four million visitors each year. Since the late 1800s, the park has been an ecological and recreational paradise where visitors can enjoy solitude, reflection, and the wonders of nature. At times strong storms are driven in off of Lake Erie, however, and since 1814, man has been struggling to protect Presque Isle … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 4,39

  • The Great Yosemite Holdups

    The Last Stagecoach Robberies on the Road to Yosemite and How One of the Events Was Actually Photographed!

    von William B. Secrest …
         The robberies on the road to Yosemite during the early 1900s were unique for several reasons. Despite the lack of money involved, the number of coaches and passengers robbed at one time, coupled with the fact that the bandits were never apprehended, were reason enough to be remembered.        Even more important, however, was the fact that one of the holdups was actually photographed. This … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 2,96

  • The Postwar Transformation of Albuquerque, New Mexico 1945-1972

    von Robert Turner Wood, PhD …
    From the end of World War II to the closing months of 1972, Albuquerque, New Mexico, underwent as dramatic a transformation as any American city ever has in such a short time. Its population exploded from about 50,000 to more than five times that number, and the median income of its citizens adjusted for inflation doubled. Fundamental changes took place in the character of the city, as the rugged … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 7,58

  • Chicago by Gaslight

    A History of Chicago's Netherworld: 1880-1920

    von Richard Lindberg, Bob Deckert …
    This book revises the picture of the glittering Chicago of impressive mansions and museums; it exposes the city's corrupt underbelly and the realities of life in an age which is often assumed to have been simpler and more moral than ours. Includes chapters on the Haymarket riot, the gamblers' wars, the notorious levee red-light district and institutionalized graft. … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 14,84

  • Sovereignty and Borders

    You Can’T Have One Without the Other

    von Edger J. Burton …
    A nation that fails to protect its borders is not a nation at all.Rather, its a place that invites chaos, criminals, and subversives that will lead the land to become a mere footnote in the annals of history.Edger J. Burton explores how a nation that was once united is divided and in danger of coming apart at the seams in this extended essay that tackles the divisive issues that so many others … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 4,39

  • West Chesterfield History As Seen Through the Eyes of the Writers

    A Proud Neighborhood with Strong Roots

    von Percy Moss …
    The West Chesterfield neighborhood stood tall back in the 1920s, ’30s, ’40s, ’50s, and it still stands tall in the ’60s, ’70s, ’80s, ’90s, and today, 2017! Please organize your neighborhood and stand with us. … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 7,86

  • In Their Shoes

    In Their Shoes

    von Grace Halsell …
    Serien series Chisholm Trail Series
    Probably no American journalist, man or woman, has had a more extraordinary career than Grace Halsell. Before President Lyndon Johnson personally hired her to work in the White House, Halsell had, over a period of two decades, written her way around the world - Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Orient, and the Americas.Born on the windswept plains of West Texas, Halsell was encouraged from the … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 14,18

  • Slave Narratives From Confederate States

    von Work Projects Administration …
    Serien series Slave Narratives Series
    This book contains the complete collection of all narratives told to employees of the Work Projects Administration by former slaves living in the states that comprised the Confederate States of America.  The narratives were collected in 1936-1938 at the time of the Great Depression in the United States.  The narratives in this varied collection include stories of life as a slave, life after the … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 18,29

  • The Missions of New Mexico, 1776

    A Description by Fray Francisco Atanasio Dominguez with Other Contemporary Documents

    von Francisco Atanasio Dominguez, Fray Angelico Chavez …
    Übersetzt von Eleanor B. Adams …
    Fray Francisco Atanasio Domínguez, canonical inspector of the missions of New Mexico in 1776, compared most everything in New Mexico to Mexico City, "the delightful and alluring cradle of my birth, for which no praise is ever adequate." And hardly anything measured up. He disparaged the people of New Mexico and the religious art of Spanish immigrant Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco. Then, by an ironic … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 9,01

  • An American Saga

    Some East Tennessee Taylors

    von W. Eugene Cox, Joyce Cox …
    The story of the Taylors of Tennessee offers a perspective that is as entertaining as it is instructive. Many of the major themes of the broader story are here in abundance, enlivened by the triumphs and travails of some of the individuals who helped to make this land ours-and yours. W. Eugene Cox and Joyce Cox demonstrate how the thread of family connects past to present. In the process, they … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 9,01

  • The Birth, Death, & Resurrection of Fairhaven

    von George Hunsby …
    From his family's arrival in Fairhaven in 1910 to the beginning of the restoration of the area in the mid-1970s, George Hunsby's personalized recollections of this beloved Southside community are told with warmth and humor. Published originally in two volumes in 1975 and 1976, the two books now reappear in this one-volume facsimile edition. … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 8,22

  • The City Different and the Palace

    The Palace of the Governors: Its Role in Santa Fe History; Including Jesse Nusbaum's Restoration Journals

    von Rosemary Nusbaum …
    The year was 1909, and a youthful Jesse Nusbaum had resigned his teaching position at the Normal School at Las Vegas, New Mexico, and had ridden his “…four-horse-power, twin-cylinder, chain-belt-driven, two-speed Excelsior motorcycle over the rough and rocky Santa Fe Trail route, to enter on July 1 at the Old Palace of the Governors.” He was the first employee of the newly-formed Museum of New … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 4,17

  • College for Sale

    The Fall and Rise of a Closed College Campus

    von Richard E. Schneider …
    Nasson College was a small, liberal arts college located in Springvale, Maine. Unfortunately, declining enrollment and questionable management decisions led to its bankruptcy and closing. But the path to closure had been set in motion many years before, long before the college filed for bankruptcy in November 1982. As it turned out, the end of Nasson College was not the end of Nassons story. … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 4,39

  • Notorious Two-Bit Street

    2nd Edition

    von Lyle, Jean Barnes …
    Madams of brothels, houses of gambling, rampant government corruption—all these were found in a late 1800s Mormon community. This is the fascinating, well-researched, true history of Two-Bit Street—a street that became known throughout the world for its ladies of the evening and saloons that never closed. The American West’s wildest poured into this small Utah town after it was chosen to be the … Lesen Sie mehr

    € 8,24