Category - History
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Finks: How the C.I.A. Tricked the World's Best Writers
HardcoverOriginal price $26.00Original price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /When news broke that the CIA had colluded with literary magazines to produce cultural propaganda throughout the Cold War, a debate began that has...
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The Fugitive Poets: Modern Southern Poetry / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $17.90 - Original price $17.90Original price $17.90$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The indispensable anthology of poetry from the Fugitive group, this collection chronicles the impact of literary modernism on these Southern poet...
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Once Upon a Time: The Way America Was
HardcoverOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /"This book is about once-upon-a-time in America." — Eric Sloane. Writer and artist Eric Sloane had an abiding love for America and worked through...
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White Slaves, African Masters: An Anthology of American Barbary Captivity Narratives
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Some of the most popular stories in nineteenth-century America were sensational tales of whites captured and enslaved in North Africa. White Slav...
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His Very Silence Speaks: Comanche-The Horse Who Survived Custer's Last Stand
PaperbackOriginal price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /His Very Silence Speaks addresses larger issues such as the human relationship to animals and nature, cross-cultural differences in the ways anim...
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The Great War and Modern Memory
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Winner of both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award and named by the Modern Library one of the twentieth century's ...
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Dixie Bohemia: A French Quarter Circle in the 1920s
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In the years following World War I, the New Orleans French Quarter attracted artists and writers with its low rents, faded charm, and colorful st...
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Studies in Classic American Literature
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 - 2 March 1930) was an English writer and poet. His collected works represent, among other things, an e...
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Peculiar Whiteness: Racial Anxiety and Poor Whites in Southern Literature, 1900-1965
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Peculiar Whiteness: Racial Anxiety and Poor Whites in Southern Literature, 1900-1965 argues for deeper consideration of the complexities surround...
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The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $37.00 - Original price $37.00Original price $37.00$51.99$51.99 - $51.99Current price $51.99| /The United States has always imagined that its identity as a nation is insulated from violent interventions abroad, as if a line between domestic...
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The Great War and Modern Memory (25th Anniversary Edition)
HardcoverOriginal price $60.00 - Original price $60.00Original price $60.00$74.99$74.99 - $74.99Current price $74.99| /The year 2000 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of The Great War and Modern Memory, winner of the National Book Award, the Na...
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Essentials
PaperbackOriginal price $8.95 - Original price $8.95Original price $8.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /2022 Reprint of the 1931 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. "Jean Toomer was on...
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Negro: An Anthology
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Reprint Edition of the 1934 Edition. This is the abridged edition of Nancy Cunard's classic collection. In 1934, Nancy Cunard self-published this v...
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Warholcapote: A Non-Fiction Invention
HardcoverOriginal price $26.99Original price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /An enthralling play based on lost tapes between two cultural giants and friends--Andy Warhol and Truman Capote. In 1978 Andy Warhol and Truman Capo...
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Life on the Mississippi, Part 5
PaperbackOriginal price $11.00 - Original price $11.00Original price $11.00$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Life on the Mississippi, Part 5, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preser...
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Reading Colorado: A Literary Road Guide
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Reading Colorado, a high-octane road trip through the diverse literary landscapes of the Centennial State, gathers narratives of exploration, stori...
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Southern/Modern: Rediscovering Southern Art from the First Half of the Twentieth Century
HardcoverOriginal price $65.00 - Original price $65.00Original price $65.00$76.99$76.99 - $76.99Current price $76.99| /Inspired by a companion exhibition, Southern/Modern is the first book to survey progressive art created in the American South during the first half...
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Rifqa
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Rifqa is Palestinian poet Mohammed El-Kurd's ode to his late grandmother, and to the Palestinian struggle for liberation. 'Jerusalem is ours.'Produ...
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Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for DramaAngels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes includes Part One, Millennium Approaches and Part Two, P...
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Civil Disobedience
HardcoverOriginal price $15.77 - Original price $15.77Original price $15.77$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Disgusted by slavery and the Mexican War, Thoreau gave lectures on, "The Rights and Duties of the Individual in relation to Government," which beca...
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Rip Van Winkle's Republic: Washington Irving in History and Memory
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Two centuries ago, native New Yorker Washington Irving exploded onto the literary scene of Europe with the publication of his breakout collection o...
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A Patriot's Handbook: Songs, Poems, Stories, and Speeches Celebrating the Land We Love
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00Original price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00Current price $42.99$42.99 - $42.99Current price $42.99| /A patriotic anthology similar in format to THE BEST-LOVED POEMS OF JACQUELINE KENNEDY ONASSIS, which will include poems, song lyrics, speeches, and...
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Studies in Classic American Literature
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 - 2 March 1930) was an English writer and poet. His collected works represent, among other things, an ext...
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Great Short Books: A Year of Reading--Briefly
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /This entertaining guide to some of the best short novels of all time, from a bestselling historian, is the "perfect gift for busy bibliophiles" (Bo...
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