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Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul

By: Abbott, Karen

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks: June 2008

Seller ID: 184420

ISBN: 0812975995

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Like New

As new.
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Great Speeches

By: ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Dover Pubns: October 1991

Seller ID: 20070824119764

ISBN: 0486268721

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

For someone who claimed he had been educated by "littles" -- a little now and a little then -- Abraham Lincoln displayed a remarkable facility in his use of the written word. The simple yet memorable eloquence of his speeches, proclamations and personal correspondence is recorded here in a representative collection of 16 documents.
This volume contains, complete and unabridged, the Address Before the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois (1838), which emphasized a theme Lincoln was to return to repeatedly, namely, the capacity of a people to govern themselves; the "House Divided" spee...
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The Lincoln-Douglas Debates

By: Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Dover Publications: June 2004

Seller ID: 128501

ISBN: 0486435431

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Like New

Minor imperfections to front cover.
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A History of the Jews

By: ABRAM LEON SACHAR, PH.D.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Alfred a. Knopf: May 1967

Seller ID: 20080513140770

ISBN: B000O3M6SM

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

good. Tight binding, no marks to text. DJ is ripped, chipped and rubbed. 8vo.
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History of the Jews

By: Abram Sachar

Price: $9.50

Publisher: KNOPF: January 1966

Seller ID: 20100908177456

ISBN: B001T8GRVI

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Good, moderate wear, bumped corner, a nice solid unmarked copy. Jacket good -, rubbed with edgewear.
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Hindoo Holiday: An Indian Journal (New York Review Books Classics)

By: Ackerley, J. R.

Price: $18.95

Publisher: NYRB Classics: January 2000

Seller ID: 176809

ISBN: 0940322250

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

In the 1920s, the young J. R. Ackerley spent several months in India as the personal secretary to the maharajah of a small Indian principality. In his journals, Ackerley recorded the Maharajah's fantastically eccentric habits and riddling conversations, and the odd shambling day-to-day life of his court. Hindoo Holiday is an intimate and very funny account of an exceedingly strange place, and one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century travel literature.
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Drawing the Line at the Big Ditch: The Panama Canal Treaties and the Rise of the Right

By: Adam Clymer

Price: $19.95

Publisher: University Press of Kansas: March 2008

Seller ID: 98384

ISBN: 0700615822

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Considered one of America's engineering marvels, the Panama Canal sparked intense debates in the 1970s over the decision to turn it back over to Panama. In this remarkable and revealing tale, noted journalist Adam Clymer shows how the decision to give up this revered monument of the "American century" stirred emotions already rubbed raw by the loss of the Vietnam War and shaped American politics for years.

Jimmy Carter made the Canal his first foreign policy priority and won the battle to ratify the Panama Canal treaties. But, Clymer reveals, the larger war was lost. The issue gave Ronald ...
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Telltale Hearts: The Origins and Impact of the Vietnam Antiwar Movement

By: ADAM GARFINKLE

Price: $12.00

Publisher: St. Martin's Press: August 1995

Seller ID: 20080726145335

ISBN: 0312125208

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

good/good. No marks to text, tight binding, Some minor dampstains and slight soilage. 8vo.
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Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939

By: Adam Hochschild

Price: $15.99

Publisher: Mariner Books: March 2017

Seller ID: 137947

ISBN: 0544947231

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

A New York Times Bestseller

"With all due respect to Orwell, Spain in Our Hearts should supplant Homage to Catalonia as the best introduction to the conflict written in English. A humane and moving book." -- ew Republic

"Excellent and involving . . . What makes Hochschild's] book so intimate and moving is its human scale." --Dwight Garner, New York Times

For three years in the 1930s, the world watched, riveted, as the Spanish Civil War became the battleground in a fight between freedom and fascism that would s...
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Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice

By: Adam Makos

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Ballantine Books: May 2017

Seller ID: 144639

ISBN: 0804176604

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - For readers of Unbroken comes an unforgettable tale of courage from America's "forgotten war" in Korea, by the author of A Higher Call.

Devotion tells the inspirational story of the U.S. Navy's most famous aviator duo, Lieutenant Tom Hudner and Ensign Jesse Brown, and the Marines they fought to defend. A white New Englander from the country-club scene, Tom passed up Harvard to fly fighters for his country. An African American sharecropper's son from Mississippi, Jesse became the navy's first black carrier pilot, defending a nation that wo...
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The Revolutionary Writings of John Adams

By: Adams, John

Price: $18.50

Publisher: Liberty Fund: April 2001

Seller ID: 178883

ISBN: 0865972850

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

The Revolutionary Writings of John Adams presents the principal shorter writings in which Adams addresses the prospect of revolution and the form of government proper to the new United States.

This collection illustrates that it was Adams who, before the Revolution, wrote some of the most important documents on the nature of the British Constitution and the meaning of rights, sovereignty, representation, and obligation.

C. Bradley Thompson is Professor of Political Science at Clemson University and the Executive Director of the Clemson Institute for the Study o...
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SOCIAL CHANGE IN LATIN AMERICA TODAY

By: ADAMS; GILLIN; HOLMBERG

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Vintage Books: January 1960

Seller ID: 20090520157154

ISBN: B000LBYX1K

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Good

Good. Light stain & laminate scuff on cover, hinge partially cracked, one page with dog ear & margin mark, a solid, mostly clean, bright copy. 353 pp.
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Princess of the Hither Isles: A Black Suffragistâ€™s Story from the Jim Crow South

By: Adele Logan Alexander

Price: $32.00

Publisher: Yale University Press: September 2019

Seller ID: 166781

ISBN: 0300242603

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Born in the late nineteenth century into an affluent family of mixed race--black, white, and Cherokee--Adella Hunt Logan (1863-1915) was a key figure in the fight to obtain voting rights for women of color. A professor at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama and a close friend of Booker T. Washington, Adella was in contact with luminaries such as Frederick Douglass, George Washington Carver, and W. E. B. Du Bois. Despite her self-identification as an African American, she looked white and would often pass for white at segregated suffrage conferences, gaining access to information and political ta...
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Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza (Jewish Encounters)

By: Adina Hoffman, Peter Cole

Price: $26.95

Publisher: Schocken: April 2011

Seller ID: 20110607188315

ISBN: 0805242589

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FINALIST

Part of the Jewish Encounter series

One May day in 1896, at a dining-room table in Cambridge, England, a meeting took place between a Romanian-born maverick Jewish intellectual and twin learned Presbyterian Scotswomen, who had assembled to inspect several pieces of rag paper and parchment. It was the unlikely start to what would prove a remarkable, continent-hopping, century-crossing saga, and one that in many ways has revolutionized our sense of what it means to lead a Jewish life.

In Sacred Trash, MacArthur-winning poet and...
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LATIN AMERICA: DIPLOMACY AND REALITY

By: ADOLF A. BERLE

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York, Council on Foreign Relations: January 1962

Seller ID: 20090410155215

ISBN: B000IXKWL6

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Very Good

Very good. Light shelf wear, a clean, solid copy, free of marks. 144 pp.
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Wicked Kansas

By: Adrian Zink

Price: $23.99

Publisher: The History Press: November 2019

Seller ID: 169408

ISBN: 146714388X

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Kansans like to think of their state as a land of industrious, law-abiding and friendly people, and
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The Romanovs Under House Arrest: From the 1917 Diary of a Palace Priest

By: Afanasy I. Belyaev, Victor Potapov

Price: $29.95

Publisher: Holy Trinity Publications: February 2018

Seller ID: 166257

ISBN: 0884654540

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

..".for the last time the former rulers of their own home had gathered to fervently pray, tearfully, and on bended knee, imploring that the Lord help and intercede for them in all of their sorrows and misfortunes."

Thus the Archpriest Afanasy Belyaev described the faith and piety of the Russian Imperial family, whom he served as priest and confessor, on the occasion of the Tsarevich's thirteenth birthday. These selected excerpts from the chaplain's diary open a window into the souls of the now sainted Royal Family and reveal surprising details of the daily realities of the family's...
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Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia

By: Ahmed Rashid

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Yale University Press: April 2001

Seller ID: 20110113183547

ISBN: 0300089023

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Shrouding themselves and their aims in deepest secrecy, the leaders of the Taliban movement control Afghanistan with an inflexible, crushing fundamentalism. The most extreme and radical of all Islamic organizations, the Taliban inspires fascination, controversy, and especially fear in both the Muslim world and the West. Correspondent Ahmed Rashid brings the shadowy world of the Taliban into sharp focus in this enormously interesting and revealing book. It is the only authoritative account of the Taliban and modern day Afghanistan available to English language readers.
Based on his experien...
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