Investigating the President: Congressional Checks on Presidential Power
Douglas L. Kriner and Eric Schickler
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Although congressional investigations have provided some of the most dramatic moments in American...
Rebel Modernists: Architecture in Vienna Since Otto Wagner: 2017
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Set within the fascinating cultural and political world of Vienna from the fin-de-siecle to the...
California Mexicana: Missions to Murals, 1820--1930
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Following the U.S.-Mexican War (1846-1848), lands that had for centuries belonged to New Spain, and...
Twelve-Cent Archie
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For over seventy-five years, Archie and the gang at Riverdale High have been America's most iconic...
Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas
Rebecca Solnit and Rebecca Snedeker
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Like the bestselling Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas, this book is a brilliant reinvention of...
Vanishing Streets: Journeys in London
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Vanishing Streets reveals an American writer's twenty-year love affair with London. Beguiling and...
A Powerful Mind: The Self-Education of George Washington
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His formal schooling abruptly cut off at age eleven, George Washington saw his boyhood dream of...
The Last Great Strike: Little Steel, the CIO, and the Struggle for Labor Rights in New Deal America
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In May 1937, seventy thousand workers walked off their jobs at four large steel companies known...
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Upon its completion, The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971-2013) was hailed as a major...
Some Remarks
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'Sometimes when you're reading Neal Stephenson, he doesn't just seem like one of the best novelists...