American Presidents in Quotes: Inspiration, Wit and Verbal Gaffes from the Leaders of the USA
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Humorous and inspirational quotes from America's 43 Presidents ""The nine most terrifying words in...
Invented by Law: Alexander Graham Bell and the Patent That Changed America
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Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the telephone in 1876 stands as one of the great touchstones of...
Jacques Pierre Brissot in America and France, 1788-1793: In Search of Better Worlds
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This book examines a decisive five-year period in the life of Jacques Pierre Brissot, one of the...
Science, Technology, and Utopias: Women Artists and Cold War America
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The rise of proxy wars, the Space Race, and cybernetics during the Cold War marked science and...
Rational Action: The Sciences of Policy in Britain and America, 1940-1960
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During World War II, the Allied military forces faced severe problems integrating equipment,...
How to Walk a Puma: & Other Things I Learned While Stumbling Through South America
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"Plans are usually only good for one thing - laughing at in hindsight. So, armed with rudimentary...
Damned Nation: Hell in America from the Revolution to Reconstruction
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Among the pressing concerns of Americans in the first century of nationhood were day-to-day...
Kitty Genovese: The Murder, the Bystanders, the Crime That Changed America
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In 1964 a woman was stabbed to death in front of her home in New York, a murder The New York Times...