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Released: April 18, 2013
"A valuable contribution to the history of Chicago, worthy of a place alongside William Cronon's Nature's Metropolis (1991)."
A readable, richly detailed history of America's second city--which, laments novelist/historian and Chicagoan Dyja (
Walter White: The Dilemma of Black Identity in America, 2008, etc.), has become a third city, perhaps even less.
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Released: April 16, 2013
"An excellent choice for bikers and those who appreciate how a city's history can be changed by the simplest of passions."
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Released: April 16, 2013
"A fascinating treatment of both environmentalism and the structure of activism at the time."
The story of how April 22, 1970, began the tradition of Earth Day and helped to create the modern environmental movement.
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Released: April 16, 2013
"A rich excavation of both British and Afghan sources, with gorgeous colored reproductions of Muslim and romantic renderings of the action and characters."
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Released: April 12, 2013
"A generally persuasive, impassioned book-length essay. While his conclusions (and language) sometimes grow repetitive, they nonetheless serve to underscore at every turn an incisive argument buttressed by millennia of evidence."
Historian and editor Cannadine (History/Princeton Univ.;
Mellon, 2006, etc.) constructs a stirring critique of history that questions conventional approaches to narrating the human chronicle.
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Released: April 9, 2013
"Read this book for the portrait of Benedict Arnold. The tales of the two Revolutionary-era women leave a great deal to be desired."
Stuart (
The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation, 2008, etc.) draws on her long experience writing about women and social history to show that strong women have always driven their husbands to perform prominent actions, both good and bad.
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Released: April 9, 2013
"Armchair military historians will relish this account of bringing down the biggest prey in the German fleet."
Military historian Bishop (
Battle of Britain, 2009, etc.) fashions an exciting, detail-packed account of the British obsession with dismantling Hitler's prize battleship.
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Released: April 9, 2013
"A darkly enlightening tale--thoroughly researched, gracefully written--about Enlightenment thought, male arrogance and the magic of successful matrimony."
The award-winning author of
The Knife Man (2005) returns with a true-life, truly bizarre tale set in Georgian England.
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Released: April 9, 2013
McMeekin (History/Koç Univ.;
The Russian Origins of the First World War, 2011, etc.) treads familiar ground but delivers a thoroughly rewarding account that spares no nation regarding the causes of World War I, although Germany receives more than its share of blame.
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Released: April 9, 2013
"An engaging study of a shocking tragedy, in which the author takes pains to view all sides."
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Released: April 9, 2013
"Superb history combined with superficial punditry."
May (History/Univ. of Delaware;
The Informant: The FBI, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Murder of Viola Liuzzo, 2011, etc.) explores the agitation for, and the passage and continuing significance of, the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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Released: April 9, 2013
"Arana ably captures the brash brilliance of this revered and vilified leader."
Inspired biography of the great Latin American revolutionary, with great depth given to his fulsome ideas.
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