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American Fire:Love, Arson, And Life In A Vanishing Land
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A breathtaking feat of reportage, American Fire combines procedural with love story, redefining...
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The Ballad of John Latouche: An American Lyricist's Life and Work
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Born into a poor Virginian family, John Treville Latouche (1914-56), in his short life, made a...
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
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"A masterpiece...[Douglass] was not only self-educated, with a love of language which should still...
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The First Chinese American: The Remarkable Life of Wong Chin Foo
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Chinese in America endured abuse and discrimination in the late nineteenth century, but they had a...
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Hallelujah Junction: Composing an American Life
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'Sometimes I liken the creative act to that of being a good gardener. The musical material itself,...
African American Children in American Political Life: The Literature and Politics of the Impossible
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This book explores the ways that figures of Black children and writing for them articulate complex...
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The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life
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The deeply reported story of identical twin brothers who escape El Salvador’s violence to build...
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The Routledge Guidebook to Jane Jacobs' the Death and Life of Great American Cities
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Jane Jacobs' The Death and Life of Great American Cities was published in 1961 and is now generally...
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The Death and Life of American Labor: Toward a New Workers' Movement
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Union membership in the United States has fallen beneath 11%, the lowest rate since before the New...