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  • The Fortunes of the Mendelssohns

    History of a German Family

    by Thomas Lackmann, Barbara Thiem, Jane K. Brown ...
    This richly illustrated family history describes for the first time the world of the Mendelssohns over five generations from the eighteenth century to 1938. Author Thomas Lackmann knowledgeably tells the fate of this large German family caught between tradition and innovation, power and morality, talent and luck. The story begins with the beggar student Mausche, a 14-year-old Talmud scholar-in ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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  • From New York to San Francisco

    Travel Sketches from the Year 1869

    by Ernst Mendelssohn-Bartholdy ...
    Translated by Barbara Thiem ...
    Series series Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
    A "fresh, wonderful, captivating" journey across 19th-century America through the letters of composer Felix Mendelssohn's nephew (alfemminile.blogspot.com).Welcome to an America you've never seen. Where anyone can drop by the White House and visit the President between 10 a.m. and noon; where cowcatchers are bloodied daily on train tracks between New York and Boston; where spent bullets are ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    From Alexander von Humboldt to Charles and Anne Lindbergh, these are stories of people of great vision and daring whose achievements continue to inspire us today, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough.The bestselling author of Truman and John Adams, David McCullough has written profiles of exceptional men and women past and present who have not only shaped the course of history or ... Read more

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  • The Men Who United the States

    America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible

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    “Simon Winchester never disappoints, and The Men Who United the States is a lively and surprising account of how this sprawling piece of geography became a nation. This is America from the ground up. Inspiring and engaging.” —Tom BrokawSimon Winchester, acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Atlantic and The Professor and the Madman, delivers his first book about America: a fascinating ... Read more

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  • When the Astors Owned New York

    Blue Bloods and Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age

    by Justin Kaplan ...
    In this marvelous anecdotal history, Justin Kaplan––Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Mark Twain––vividly brings to life a glittering, bygone age.Endowed with the largest private fortunes of their day, cousins John Jacob Astor IV and William Waldorf Astor vied for primacy in New York society, producing the grandest hotels ever seen in a marriage of ostentation and efficiency that transformed ... Read more

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  • David McCullough Library E-book Box Set

    1776, Brave Companions, The Great Bridge, John Adams, The Johnstown Flood, Mornings on Horseback, Path Between the Seas, Truman, The Course of Human Events

    by David McCullough ...
    Perfect for David McCullough fans and history lovers alike, this ebook boxed set features all of his bestselling titles, from 1776 to Mornings on Horseback.This ebook box set includes all of David McCullough’s bestselling titles:1776 is the riveting story of George Washington, the men who marched with him, and their British foes in the momentous year of American independence.Brave ... Read more

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  • The Air-Conditioned Nightmare

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    "Henry Miller is the nearest thing to Céline America has produced.... He aims not at the ears, brains, or consciences, but at the viscera and solar plexus."—The New Leader.In 1939, after ten years as an expatriate, Henry Miller returned to the United States with a keen desire to see what his native land was really like—to get to the roots of the American nature and experience. He set out on a ... Read more

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  • Edith Kermit Roosevelt

    Portrait of a First Lady

    by Sylvia Jukes Morris ...
    Edith Kermit Carow grew up in New York City in the same circles as did Theodore Roosevelt. But only after TR's first wife died at age twenty-two did the childhood friends forge one of the most successful romantic and political partnerships in American history. Sylvia Jukes Morris's access to previously unpublished letters and diaries brings to full life her portrait of the Roosevelts and their ... Read more

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  • The Year of the Century, 1876

    by Dee Brown ...
    An in-depth exploration of a momentous year in American history from the #1 New York Times –bestselling author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee .In 1876, America was eager to celebrate its centenary but questioned what might lie ahead. The American Republic had grown to four times its original population, and was in the midst of enormous changes. Industrialization was booming, a... ... Read more

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    The former CBS foreign correspondent provides an invaluable look back at his life—and the events that forged the twentieth century.A renowned journalist and author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, William L. Shirer chronicles his own life story—in a personal history that parallels the greater historical events for which he served as a witness. In the first of a three-volume series, Shirer ... Read more

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    The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America

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  • The Five of Hearts

    An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends, 1880-1918

    by Patricia O'Toole ...
    The Five of Hearts, who first gathered in Washington in the Gilded Age, included Henry Adams, historian and scion of America's first political dynasty; his wife, Clover, gifted photographer and tragic victim of depression; John Hay, ambassador and secretary of state; his wife, Clara, a Midwestern heiress; and Clarence King, pioneering geologist, entrepreneur, and man of mystery. They knew every ... Read more

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