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The Poetry of Strangers

By Brian Sonia-Wallace

"Before he became an award-winning writer and poet, Brian Sonia-Wallace set up a typewriter on the street with a sign that said 'Poetry Store' and discovered something surprising: all over America, people want poems"--

Published: Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Published by: Harper Perennial

Available in: Paperback (9780062870223)

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The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found

By Violet Moller

"Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan, London, and subsequently published in hardcover in the United States, by Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, in 2019"--Colophon.

Published: Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Published by: Anchor Books

Available in: Paperback (9781101974063)

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Age of Danger: Keeping America Safe in an Era of New Superpowers, New Weapons, and New Threats

By Andrew Hoehn, Thom Shanker

An urgent look at how America's national security machine went astray and how it fails to keep us safe--and what we can do to fix it. Again and again, American taxpayers are asked to open their wallets and pay for a national security machine that costs $1 trillion operate. Yet time and time again, the US government gets it wrong on critical issues.

Published: Tuesday, May 9, 2023

Published by: Grand Central Publishing

Available in: Hardcover (9780306829109)

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Living on the Edge: An American Generation's Journey Through the Twentieth Century

By Richard A Settersten Jr, Glen H Elder Jr, Lisa D Pearce

History carves its imprint on human lives for generations after. When we think of the radical changes that transformed America during the twentieth century, our minds most often snap to the fifties and sixties: the Civil Rights Movement, changing gender roles, and new economic opportunities all point to a decisive turning point.

Published: Friday, January 29, 2021

Published by: University of Chicago Press

Available in: Hardcover (9780226748092)

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Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck

By William Souder

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2020 in Nonfiction A resonant biography of America's most celebrated novelist of the Great Depression.

Published: Tuesday, October 13, 2020

Published by: W W Norton & Company

Available in: Hardcover (9780393292268)

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Murder in New Orleans: The Creation of Jim Crow Policing

By Jeffrey S Adler

New Orleans in the 1920s and 1930s was a deadly place. In 1925, the city's homicide rate was six times that of New York City and twelve times that of Boston. Jeffrey S. Adler has explored every homicide recorded in New Orleans between 1925 and 1940--over two thousand in all--scouring police and autopsy reports, old interviews, and crumbling newspapers.

Published: Friday, August 2, 2019

Published by: University of Chicago Press

Available in: Hardcover (9780226643311)

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A Muted Fury: Populists, Progressives, and Labor Unions Confront the Courts, 1890-1937

By William G Ross

"A fascinating account of an often neglected but critical era of American political and legal history, namely 1890 through 1937. By tracing the changing nature of judicial reform movements, Ross provides an excellent contribution to the burgeoning field of social movements and state power broadly conceived." --Victoria Hattam, Yale University

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Published: Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Published by: Princeton University Press

Available in: Hardcover (9780691634036)

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My Young Life

By Frederic Tuten

"Born in the Bronx to a Sicilian mother and Southern father, Frederic Tuten always dreamed of being an artist. Determined to trade his neighborhood streets for the romantic avenues of Paris, he learned to paint and draw, falling in love with the process of putting a brush to canvas, and the feeling it gave him. At fifteen, he decided to leave high school and pursue the bohemian life he'd read about in books, a life of salons and cafes and "worldly women" from whom he could learn and grow. But, before he could, he would receive an extraordinary education, right in his own backyard"--

Published: Tuesday, March 24, 2020

Published by: Simon & Schuster

Available in: Paperback (9781501194467)

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The New Deal: A Modern History

By Michael Hiltzik

Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal began as a program of short-term emergency relief measures and evolved into a truly transformative concept of the federal government's role in Americans' lives. More than an economic recovery plan, it was a reordering of the political system that continues to define America to this day. With this book, writer Michael Hiltzik offers fresh insights into this inflection point in the American experience. He shows how Roosevelt, through force of personality, commanded the loyalty of the fiscal conservatives and radical agrarians alike--yet the same character traits that made him a great leader would sow the seeds of the New Deal's end. Understanding the New Deal may be more important today than at any time in the last eight decades. Conceived in response to a devastating financial crisis very similar to America's most recent downturn--the New Deal remade the country's economic and political environment in six years of intensive experimentation, and provided a model for subsequent presidents who faced challenging economic conditions, right up to the present.

Published: Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Published by: Free Press

Available in: Paperback (9781439154496)

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The New Era in American Mathematics, 1920-1950

By Karen Hunger Parshall

A meticulously researched history on the development of American mathematics in the three decades following World War I As the Roaring Twenties lurched into the Great Depression, to be followed by the scourge of Nazi Germany and World War II, American mathematicians pursued their research, positioned themselves collectively within American science, and rose to global mathematical hegemony.

Published: Tuesday, February 22, 2022

Published by: Princeton University Press

Available in: Hardcover (9780691197555)

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The Poetry of Strangers

The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found

Age of Danger: Keeping America Safe in an Era of New Superpowers, New Weapons, and New Threats

Living on the Edge: An American Generation's Journey Through the Twentieth Century

Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck

Murder in New Orleans: The Creation of Jim Crow Policing

A Muted Fury: Populists, Progressives, and Labor Unions Confront the Courts, 1890-1937

My Young Life

The New Deal: A Modern History

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