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  • The Byrd Machine in Virginia

    The Rise and Fall of a Conservative Political Organization

    by Michael Lee Pope ...
    The Byrd Machine ran Virginia politics for more than half a century.This political organization rose to power during the era of Jim Crow, wielding power and influence over everything from who got the nod to be governor to how the state maintained racial segregation. Inheriting its tactics from two previous political machines, the Byrd organization operated with a pathological hatred of debt ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wicked Northern Virginia

    by Michael Lee Pope ...
    Behind the bucolic plantation estates of Northern Virginia lies a history of scandal. The region has a rotating cast of greedy supervisors, vain senators, bullying occupiers and party bosses. The Aryan Nations once flooded the streets of Arlington. Infamous floating brothels once sailed the Potomac. Even George Washington's death at his historic estate outside the capital is shrouded in mystery. ... Read more

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  • Hidden History of Alexandria, D.C.

    by Michael Lee Pope ...
    Series series Hidden History
    Go inside the long-forgotten 19th century period when Alexandria left Virginia and incorporated itself into the fledging Distric of Columbia. This groundbreaking history uncovers the time in the 19th century when Alexandria left the commonwealth of Virginia and became incorporated into the emerging District of Columbia. It was an experiment that failed after half a century of neglect and a growing ... Read more

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  • Shotgun Justice

    One Prosecutor's Crusade Against Crime & Corruption in Alexandria & Arlington

    by Michael Lee Pope ...
    When Crandal Mackey was elected commonwealth's attorney in 1903, he set his sights on the illegal bars, bordellos and casinos of Alexandria County. The Virginia county--now Arlington County and parts of Alexandria--was plagued by crime in the streets and corruption at City Hall. Armed with a shotgun and accompanied by an axe-wielding posse, Mackey embarked on a crusade, busting up saloons and ... Read more

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  • Ghosts of Alexandria

    by Michael Lee Pope ...
    Series series Haunted America
    The award-winning journalist and author of Hidden History of Alexandria, D.C. combs through the haunted past of this Virginia colonial town.The ghost of a Revolutionary War spy that fosters a centuries-old grudge against the British, two young lovers parted by fire but reunited in death and Union and Confederate soldiers who still battle at the Hotel Monaco are among the haunts of Alexandria, ... Read more

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  • Kingfish

    The Reign of Huey P. Long

    by Richard D. White Jr. ...
    From the moment he took office as governor in 1928 to the day an assassin’s bullet cut him down in 1935, Huey Long wielded all but dictatorial control over the state of Louisiana. A man of shameless ambition and ruthless vindictiveness, Long orchestrated elections, hired and fired thousands at will, and deployed the state militia as his personal police force. And yet, paradoxically, as governor ... Read more

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  • America's Deadliest Election

    The Cautionary Tale of the Most Violent Election in American History

    by Dana Bash ...
    **A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Snappy and accessible prose...** America’s Deadliest Election is the kind of book that might generate fresh interest in our country’s brief post-Civil War attempt at creating a multiracial democracy.**"**—The Washington PostThe violent election of 1872 that serves as a warning for today's divided politics.From CNN’s Chief Political Correspondent Dana B... ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • The Autobiography of Medgar Evers

    A Hero's Life and Legacy Revealed Through his Writings, Letters, and Speeches

    by Myrlie Evers-Williams, Manning Marable ...
    On the evening of June 12, 1963 -- the day President John F. Kennedy gave his most impassioned speech about the need for interracial tolerance "Medgar Evers, the NAACP's first field secretary in Mississippi, was shot and killed by an assassin's bullet in his driveway. The still-smoking gun -- bearing the fingerprints of Byron De La Beckwith, a staunch white supremacist -- was recovered moments ... Read more

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  • Every Man A King

    The Autobiography Of Huey P. Long

    by Huey P. Long ...
    A memoir from the provocative and controversial Louisiana politician known as The Kingfish.With an Introduction by T. Harry Williams, Pulitzer Prize–winning BiographerHuey Long (1893-1935) was one of the most extraordinary American politicians, simultaneously cursed as a dictator and applauded as a benefactor of the masses. A product of the poor north Louisiana hills, he was elected governor of ... Read more

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  • On the Road to Freedom

    A Guided Tour of the Civil Rights Trail

    by Charles E. Cobb Jr. ...
    This in-depth look at the civil rights movement goes to the places where pioneers of the movement marched, sat-in at lunch counters, gathered in churches; where they spoke, taught, and organized; where they were arrested, where they lost their lives, and where they triumphed.Award-winning journalist Charles E. Cobb Jr., a former organizer and field secretary for SNCC (Student Nonviolent ... Read more

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  • The 1868 St. Bernard Parish Massacre

    Blood in the Cane Fields

    by C. Dier ...
    The slaughter of newly liberated African Americans just days before a Reconstruction Era election is recounted in this true crime history.Louisiana, 1868. With the Civil War over, a victorious Ulysses S. Grant was riding a wave of popularity straight to the White House. But former Confederates across the South feared what Reconstruction might look like under President Grant. Days before the ... Read more

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  • August Belmont: Grand Sachem Of New York

    by Daniel Alef ...
    In 1877, Charles Dana's New York Sun reported: "He taught New Yorkers how to eat, how to drink, how to dress, how to drive four-in-hands, how to furnish their houses, how to live generally according to the rules of the possibly somewhat effete, but unquestionably refined, society of the Old World." The subject was August Belmont, a man who ended up in the United States by accident, not by design, ... Read more

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