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View book details for Global TV
Exporting Television and Culture in the World Market
NYU Press
A reporter for the Los Angeles Times once noted that I Love Lucy is said to be on the air somewhere in the world 24 hours a day. That Lucys madcap antics can be watched anywhere at any time is …
View book details for Fighting over the Founders
How We Remember the American Revolution
NYU Press
Explores how politicians, screenwriters, activists, biographers, jurists, museum professionals, and reenactors portray the American Revolution. The American Revolution is all around us. It is pictured as big as billboards and as small as postage stamps, evoked in political campaigns and …
View book details for Mobsters, Unions, and Feds
The Mafia and the American Labor Movement
NYU Press
The first book to document organized crimes exploitation of organized labor and the massive federal cleanup effortNowhere in the world has organized crime infiltrated the labor movement as effectively as in the United States. Yet the government, the AFL-CIO, and …
View book details for Jewish Women Pioneering the Frontier Trail
A History in the American West
NYU Press
The image of the West looms large in the American imagination. Yet the history of American Jewry and particularly of American Jewish womenhas been heavily weighted toward the East. Jewish Women Pioneering the Frontier Trail rectifies this omission as the …
View book details for The Shtetl
New Evaluations
NYU Press
Dating from the sixteenth century, there were hundreds of shtetlsJewish settlementsin Eastern Europe that were home to a large and compact population that differed from their gentile, mostly peasant neighbors in religion, occupation, language, and culture. The shtetls were different …
View book details for Honoring Sergeant Carter
A Family's Journey to Uncover the Truth About an American Hero
HarperCollins
Allene Carter's father-in-law was a decorated veteran. Yet it was not until the Carter family received a call from the White House that she discovered he was a heroic force in the Rhineland campaign. President Clinton awarded the Medal of …
View book details for My Journey with Farrah
A Story of Life, Love, and Friendship
HarperCollins
A beautiful testament to the powerful love and friendship the two women shared as they searched for a miracle.Wichita Falls Times Record NewsIn My Journey with Farrah, Farrah Fawcetts longtime friend Alana Stewart shares her personal diaries from her three …
View book details for The Debate Over Slavery
Antislavery and Proslavery Liberalism in Antebellum America
NYU Press
Frederick Douglass and George Fitzhugh disagreed on virtually every major issue of the day. On slavery, women's rights, and the preservation of the Union their opinions were diametrically opposed. Where Douglass thundered against the evils of slavery, Fitzhugh counted its …
View book details for Seven Day Fiance
A Love and Games Novel
Entangled Publishing, LLC
Angelle Prejean is in a pickle. Her family is expecting her to come home with a fiancea fiance who doesn't exist. Well, he exists, but he definitely has no idea Angelle told her mama they were engaged. Tattooed, muscled, and …
View book details for Tolstoy and the Purple Chair
My Year of Magical Reading
HarperCollins
NinaSankovitch has crafted a dazzling memoir that remindsus of the most primal function of literature-to heal, to nurture and to connectus to our truest selves." Thrity Umrigar, author of The Space Between UsCatalyzedby the loss of her sister, a mother …
View book details for Make 'Em Laugh
Short-Term Memories of Longtime Friends
HarperCollins
The beloved Hollywood star and New York Times bestselling author of Unsinkable continues her intimate chat with fans in this entertaining collection of anecdotes, stories, jokes, and random musings from a woman who has seen it alland done most of …
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The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution
HarperCollins
Not only a historical rockument of the revolutionary 90s counterculture Riot Grrrl movement. . . but also a rousing inspiration for a new generation of empowered rebel girls to strap on guitars and stick it to The Man. Vanity FairGirls …
HarperCollins
There comes a time in every woman's life when she must get herself a man or give up the idea entirely...After three long years of patiently waiting for her reluctant, handsome, gentlemanly Amos Dewey, to pop the question, Augusta Mudd--owner …
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How Abraham Lincoln Used the Telegraph to Win the Civil War
HarperCollins
The Civil War was the first "modern war." Because of the rapid changes in American society, Abraham Lincoln became president of a divided United States during a period of technological and social revolution. Among the many modern marvels that gave …
View book details for The Great Trials of Clarence Darrow
The Landmark Cases of Leopold and Loeb, John T. Scopes, and Ossian Sweet
HarperCollins
Wonderfully evocative... Donald McRae captures the Great Defender in all his complexity.... A joy to read. Kevin Boyle, National Book Award-winning author of Arc of Justice "Astonishingly vivid." James Tobin, Award-winning author of Ernie Pyles War The story of the …
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Edited by Jeffrey Toobin, CNNs senior legal analyst and New York Times bestselling author of The Nine, The Best American Crime Reporting 2009 is a must-have for the true crime reader, complete with the most gripping, suspenseful, and brilliant stories …
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My Life as a Skateboarder Junkie Inmate Pastor
HarperCollins
A mix of Tony Hawk and Brian Welch comes together in skateboarding legend Christian Hosoi, who reveals everything about his rise, fall, and redemption, in this amazing tell-allfrom being named the greatest skater of all time to bottoming out on …
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When kaspar the cat first arrived at Londons Savoy Hotel, it was Johnny Trott who carried him in. After all, Johnny was a bellboy and was responsible for all of Countess Kandinskys things including Kaspar. But when tragedy befalls the …
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Malachy McCourt, bestselling author of A Monk Swimming, shares the extraordinary story of how he went from living the headlong and heedless life of a world-class drunk to becoming a sober, loving father and grandfather, still happily married after thirty-five …
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A Story of Unexpected Joy
HarperCollins
The Anti-Romantic Child is remarkable. This haunting and lyrical memoir will be an invaluable and heartening guide to all who find themselves in similar situations and indeed anyone confronting an unforeseen challenge.Marie Brenner, writer for Vanity Fair and author of …
View book details for 32 Candles
A Novel
HarperCollins
32 cheers for Ernessa T. Carter! Shes created one of the freshest, funniest characters Ive ever read....32 Candles is a charmer.Carleen Brice, author of Orange Mint and Honey 32 Candles by exciting newcomer Ernessa T. Carter is the slightly twisted, …
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Stories and Visions for a Better Future
HarperCollins
Inspired by New York Times bestselling author Neal Stephenson, some of today's leading writers, thinkers, and visionaries have come together in this anthology of stories, set in the near future, that reignites the iconic and optimistic visions of the golden …
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The Genius and Madness of America's First Female Tycoon
HarperCollins
When J. P. Morgan called a meeting of New York's financial leaders after the stock market crash of 1907, Hetty Green was the only woman in the room. The Guinness Book of World Records memorialized her as the World's Greatest …
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Freud, The Freudians, and the Making of
HarperCollins
A masterful history of one of the most important movements of our time, Revolution in Mind is a brilliant, engaging, and radically new workthe first ever to fully account for the making of psychoanalysis. In a sweeping narrative, George Makari …
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Lao Shes great novel. The New York Times A beautiful new translation of the classic Chinese novel from Lao She, one of the most acclaimed and popular Chinese writers of the twentieth century, Rickshaw Boy chronicles the trials and misadventures …
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