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  • Season of the Witch

    by David Talbot ...
    The critically acclaimed, national bestseller—a gripping story of the strife and tragedy that led to San Francisco’s ultimate rebirth and triumph.In a kaleidoscopic narrative, New York Times–bestselling author and Salon founder David Talbot tells the gripping story of San Francisco in the turbulent years between 1967 and 1982. The emergence of a diverse cast of characters—Harvey Milk, Janis Joplin ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Texas Rangers

    A Century of Frontier Defense

    Series series Texas Classics
    The renowned historian’s classic study of the Texas Ranger Division, presented with its original illustrations and a foreword by Lyndon B. Johnson.Texas Rangers tells the story of this unique law enforcement agency from its origin in 1823, when it was formed by “Father of Texas” Stephen F. Austin, to the 1930s, when legendary lawman Frank Hamer tracked down the infamous outlaws Bonnie and Clyde. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Downtown

    Its Rise and Fall, 1880–1950

    Winner of a Lewis Mumford Prize: “Extremely engaging reading for those interested in the history of cities and urban experience.” —BooklistWritten by one of this country’s foremost urban historians, Downtown is the first history of what was once viewed as the heart of the American city. It tells the fascinating story of how downtown—and the way Americans thought about downtown—changed over time. ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ty Cobb

    A Terrible Beauty

    The New York Times–bestselling, award-winning biography of the baseball superstar: “The best work ever written on this American sports legend.” —The Boston GlobeTy Cobb is baseball royalty, maybe even the greatest player ever. His lifetime batting average is still the highest in history, and when he retired in 1928, after twenty-one years with the Detroit Tigers and two with the Philadelphia ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $2.99 USD

  • Spies

    The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America

    “This important new book . . . based on archival material . . . shows the huge extent of Soviet espionage activity in the United States during the 20th century” (The Telegraph).Based on KGB archives that have never been previously released, this stunning book provides the most complete account of Soviet espionage in America ever written. In 1993, former KGB officer Alexander Vassiliev was ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights

    **“[A] deeply researched and counterintuitive history . . . Penningroth reframes the conventional story of civil rights.” —Matthew F. Delmont, Washington PostA prize-winning scholar draws on astonishing new research to demonstrate how Black people used the law to their advantage long before the Civil Rights Movement.**The familiar story of civil rights goes like this: once, America’s legal system ... Read more

    $22.99 USD $6.99 USD

  • A Thousand Days

    John F. Kennedy in the White House

    Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner: “Of all the Kennedy books . . . this is the best.” —TimeArthur M. Schlesinger Jr. served as special assistant to President John F. Kennedy throughout his presidency—from the long and grueling campaign to Kennedy’s tragic and unexpected assassination by Lee Harvey Oswald. In A Thousand Days, Schlesinger combines intimate knowledge as one of President ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • American Caesars

    $15.99 USD

  • Unknown Chicago Tales

    Chicago's most famous stories tend to crowd out the competition and shout down alternate perspectives. Visit with the man who founded a 150-year-long Chicago political dynasty. Take a peek at some of the lesser-known Chicago film classics. Review Professor Moriarty's Chicago caper and Annie Oakley's cocaine case. Uncover the lengths to which Chicago's long-celebrated Mr. Pioneer Settler went to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Ghosts in the Schoolyard

    Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side

    by Eve L. Ewing ...
    “Failing schools. Underprivileged schools. Just plain bad schools.”That’s how Eve L. Ewing opens Ghosts in the Schoolyard: describing Chicago Public Schools from the outside. The way politicians and pundits and parents of kids who attend other schools talk about them, with a mix of pity and contempt.But Ewing knows Chicago Public Schools from the inside: as a student, then a teacher, and now a ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Memoirs of a Monticello Slave

    As Dictated to Charles Campbell in the 1840’s by Isaac, One of Thomas Jefferson’s Slaves

    This book, first published in its present form 1951, is a collection of reminiscences by Isaac Jefferson, a tinsmith, blacksmith, and nailer at Monticello, and valued, enslaved artisan of U.S. President Thomas Jefferson. In the 1840 census he was recorded as Isaac Granger, a free man working in Petersburg, Virginia, and it was there that the Rev. Charles Campbell interviewed him and went on to ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Swinging '73

    Baseball's Wildest Season

    Interest and attendance were dropping, and football was ascending. Stuck in a rut, baseball was dying. Then Steinbrenner bought the Yankees, a second-division club with wife-swapping pitchers, leaving the House That Ruth Built not with a slam but a simper. He vowed not to interfere—before soon changing his mind. Across town, Tom Seaver led the Mets’ stellar pitching line-up, and iconic outfielder ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A Great Disorder

    National Myth and the Battle for America

    As culture wars pit us against each other, A Great Disorder looks to the myths that have shaped American identity and reveals how they have brought us to the brink of an existential crisis.Red America and Blue America are so divided they could be two different countries, with wildly diverging views of why government exists and who counts as American. Their ideologies are grounded in different ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • When the Cheering Stopped

    The Last Years of Woodrow Wilson

    by Gene Smith ...
    The poignant true story of an American president struck by tragedy at the height of his glory.This New York Times bestseller vividly chronicles the stunning decline in Woodrow Wilson’s fortunes after World War I and draws back the curtain on one of the strangest episodes in the history of the American presidency.Author Gene Smith brilliantly captures the drama and excitement of Wilson’s efforts at ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Confidante

    The Untold Story of the Woman Who Helped Win WWII and Shape Modern America

    **Perfect for readers of A Woman of No Importance, Three Ordinary Girls, and Eleanor: A Life comes the first-ever biography of Anna Marie Rosenberg, the Hungarian Jewish immigrant who became FDR’s closest advisor during World War II and, according to Life, “the most important official woman in the world”—a woman of many firsts, whose story, forgotten for too long, is extraordinary, inspiring, and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Smack

    Heroin and the American City

    Series series Politics and Culture in Modern America
    Why do the vast majority of heroin users live in cities? In his provocative history of heroin in the United States, Eric C. Schneider explains what is distinctively urban about this undisputed king of underworld drugs.During the twentieth century, New York City was the nation's heroin capital—over half of all known addicts lived there, and underworld bosses like Vito Genovese, Nicky Barnes, and ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Man Who Never Died

    The Life, Times, and Legacy of Joe Hill, American Labor Icon

    In 1914, Joe Hill was convicted of murder in Utah and sentenced to death by firing squad, igniting international controversy. Many believed Hill was innocent, condemned for his association with the Industrial Workers of the World-the radical Wobblies. Now, following four years of intensive investigation, William M. Adler gives us the first full-scale biography of Joe Hill, and presents never ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Silver Queen: The Fabulous Story Of Baby Doe Tabor

    This is a fascinating autobiography of Baby Doe Tabor, the second wife of pioneer Colorado businessman Horace Tabor, whose rags-to-riches and back to rags again story made her a well-known figure in her own day, and at one time hailed as the “best dressed woman in the West.”It was during Baby Doe’s final years of her life living in a shack on the site of the Matchless Mine, enduring great poverty, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Smoking Typewriters

    The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America

    How did the New Left uprising of the 1960s happen? What caused millions of young people-many of them affluent and college educated-to suddenly decide that American society needed to be completely overhauled? In Smoking Typewriters, historian John McMillian shows that one answer to these questions can be found in the emergence of a dynamic underground press in the 1960s. Following the lead of ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Battle of Ole Miss

    Civil Rights v. States' Rights

    by Frank Lambert ...
    Series series Critical Historical Encounters Series
    James Meredith broke the color barrier in 1962 as the first African American student at Ole Miss. The violent riot that followed would be one of the most deadly clashes of the civil rights era, seriously wounding scores of U.S. Marshals and killing two civilians, and forcing the federal government to send thousands of soldiers to restore the peace. In The Battle of Ole Miss: Civil Rights v. States ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • I Don't Like Mondays

    The True Story Behind America’s First Modern School Shooting

    by N. Leigh Hunt ...
    An in-depth look into America’s first modern school shooting, featuring interviews with witnesses, local reporters, and the killer herself.In 1979, Brenda Spencer, a seemingly average teenage girl living in a nice suburban neighborhood, made and executed plans that would place her in infamy and set a violent and terrifying national precedent. She receives a rifle for Christmas and a month later ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Accommodation

    The Politics of Race in an American City

    by Jim Schutze ...
    The powerful, long-repressed classic of Dallas history that examines the violent and suppressed history of race and racism in the city. Written by longtime Dallas political journalist Jim Schutze, formerly of the Dallas Times Herald and Dallas Observer, and currently columnist at D Magazine, The Accommodation follows the story of Dallas from slavery through the Civil Rights Movement, and the city ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Endpapers

    A Family Story of Books, War, Escape, and Home

    “A powerfully told story of family, honor, love, and truth . . . the beautiful and haunting stories told in this book transcend policy and politics.” —Beto O’RourkeA literary gem researched over a year the author spent living in Berlin, Endpapers excavates the extraordinary histories of the author’s grandfather and father: the renowned publisher Kurt Wolff, dubbed “perhaps the twentieth century’s ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Always the Young Strangers

    The Poet Historians Moving Recollection of His Small Town Youth

    by Carl Sandburg ...
    The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet and historian recalls his midwestern boyhood in this classic memoir.Born in a tiny cottage in Galesburg, Illinois, in 1878, Carl Sandburg grew with America. As a boy he left school at the age of thirteen to embark on a life of work—driving a milk wagon and serving as a hotel porter, a bricklayer, and a farm laborer before eventually finding his place in the world of ... Read more

    $23.99 USD $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus