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Reading The Revolution
"More complex, more dramatic, and more important than ever.
Does not include the storming of airports !"
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Finding the South Pole: Before It Began to Melt
"Title re the "Heroic Age" of Polar exploration."
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Longlisted for the 2014 National Book Award The astonishing story of aunique missionary project--and the America it embodied--from award-winning historian John Demos. Near the start of the nineteenth century, as the newly established United...
"The always elegant and insightful John Demos's history of how a well-meaning town discovered within itself the ugliness and destructiveness that racism always advances. Cornwall, Connecticut fashioned a school to enlighten "heathens" about Christi..."
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The Great Depression
"Excepting the Civil War, no period in American history was"
