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Son of Birmingham
$30.00 Read moreToday’s Birmingham–led by Mayor Randall Woodfin–is a phoenix rising from the ashes of systemic racism and white flight.
This first Southern city to pluck the feathers off Jim Crow, where peaceful p- Author: Woodfin, Randall
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 9.7989E+12
- Language: English
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The Daley Show: Inside the Transformative Reign of Chicago’s Richard M. Daley
$34.95 Read more“You have to have passion. You have to have honesty in office. You have to love the people.” Those words summed up the outlook, if not always the actions, of Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley. Elected to… [more below]
- Author: Claypool, Forrest
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0252046196
- Language: English
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Flipped: How Georgia Turned Purple and Broke the Monopoly on Republican Power
$29.00 Read moreThe untold story of the unlikely heroes, the cutthroat politics, and the cultural forces that turned a Deep South state purple–by a top reporter at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Flipped is the def- Author: Bluestein, Greg
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0593489152
- Language: English
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The National Parks: America’s Best Idea
$65.00 Add to cartThe companion volume to the twelve-hour PBS series from the acclaimed filmmaker behind The Civil War, Baseball, and The War.
America’s national parks spring from an idea as radical as the Declaration … [more below]- Author: Duncan, Dayton
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 08 2009
- ISBN10: 0307268969
- Language: English
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The Urbanist: Dan Doctoroff and the Rise of New York
$65.00 Read moreAn unprecedented look at the central role one man played in the transformation of New York City
Daniel L. Doctoroff served as New York City’s Deputy Mayor for Economic Development and Rebuilding betwee
- Author: Bloomberg, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 490
- Publish Date: April 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1580936326
- Language: English
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Cycling in Chicago
$24.99 Read moreIn the late 19th and early 20th century, Chicago was the center of bicycle manufacturing in the United States. As an early industrial and transportation center, two-thirds of all bicycles manufactured… [more below]
- Series: Images of America
- Author: McAuliffe, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 30 2017
- ISBN10: 1467126020
- Language: English
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Oddball Iowa: A Guide to Some Really Strange Places
$16.99 Read moreThis zany travel guide presents a more peculiar state than the Iowa Tourism Office might like out-of-towners to imagine. Leaving out the traditional scenic trips to the Mississippi River bluffs and th… [more below]
- Series: Oddball
- Author: Pohlen, Jerome
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1556525648
- Language: English
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Chicago’s 1893 World’s Fair
$23.99 Read moreStep into the future of the past in Chicago’s 1893 World’s Fair
What came to be known as the World’s Columbian Exposition was planned to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s 149
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Di Cola, Joseph M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 08 2012
- ISBN10: 0738594415
- Language: English
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The Poisoned City: Flint’s Water and the American Urban Tragedy
$19.99 Read moreWinner of The Hillman Prize for Book Journalism – 2019
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When the people of Flint, Michigan, turned on their faucets in April 2014, the water pouring out was poisoned with lead and other toxins.- Author: Clark, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 23 2019
- ISBN10: 1250181615
- Language: English
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Abandoned Upstate New York
$23.99 Read moreAccompanied by the faint hum of crickets and the sounds of wind whistling through shattered glass, photographer Nicholas Long ventures into complete darkness in order to shed light on how remarkable l… [more below]
- Series: America Through Time
- Author: Long, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 27 2020
- ISBN10: 1634992229
- Language: English
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Mayor Corning: Albany Icon, Albany Enigma
$36.95 Read morePaul Grondahl is a reporter at the Albany Times Union and the author of four books, including the acclaimed political biography, I Rose like a Rocket: The Political Education of Theodore Roosevelt. Hi… [more below]
- Author: Grondahl, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 626
- Publish Date: September 07 2007
- ISBN10: 0791472949
- Language: English
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Montana Place Names
$26.95 Add to cartMontana Place Names from Alzada to Zortmanexplores the origins of more than 1,200 place names. Written by Montana Historical Society staff and drawing on the expertise of historians from around the st… [more below]
- Series: Montana Historical Society Guide
- Author: Montana Historical Society Press
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 347
- Publish Date: July 01 2009
- ISBN10: 097591961X
- Language: English
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Route 66 St. Louis Style
$24.99 Read moreFor Route 66 to become the most famous highway in history, it had to pass through the “Gateway to the West.” St. Louis is the largest city between Chicago and Los Angeles, and “St. Louee” comes first … [more below]
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Sonderman, Joseph R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1467160571
- Language: English
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Herocrats: A Guide for Government Workers Leading Change
$17.95 Read moreWhether you’re working a local government job, serving on the city council, or wrapping up your poli-sci major, this public policy book celebrates the Herocrat in every bureaucrat, inspiring governmen
- Author: Bell, Allison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1634896416
- Language: English
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Inventing Idaho: The Gem State’s Eccentric Shape
$26.95 Add to cartAs Idaho’s State Historian, the question Keith Petersen heard most was, “How did Idaho get such a strange shape?” That curiosity is fitting, because those peculiar borders have held enormous influence
- Author: Petersen, Keith C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: September 23 2022
- ISBN10: 0874224187
- Language: English
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Backroads & Byways of Georgia: Drives, Day Trips & Weekend Excursions
$22.95 Add to cartGeorgia’s varying but always lovely landscapes have long made its roads some of the most well-travelled and much-loved in the country. This second edition offers 15 revised and updated drives that pro
- Author: Jenkins, David B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1682686841
- Language: English
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The Complete Guide to Indiana State Parks
$27.00 Read moreWhether you are looking for a weekend hike in the woods, a family outing, or great locations to study the local flora and fauna, Indiana state parks provide something for everyone. Visiting all 25 sta
- Author: Strange, Nathan D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 14 2018
- ISBN10: 0253025192
- Language: English
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Chaos Comes Calling: The Battle Against the Far-Right Takeover of Small-Town America
$30.00 Add to cartA harrowing tale of how polarization threatened to break apart two American communities and how one found a way back while the other splintered.
Donald Trump’s November 2016 electoral victory was the- Author: Abramsky, Sasha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1645030431
- Language: English
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Grand Illusion: The Untold Story of Rudy Giuliani and 9/11
$14.99 Add to cartRudy Giuliani emerged from the smoke of 9/11 as the unquestioned hero of the day: America’s Mayor, the father figure we could all rely on to be tough, to be wise, to do the right thing. In that uncert
- Author: Barrett, Wayne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 03 2007
- ISBN10: 0060536616
- Language: English
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Vigilante Nation: How State-Sponsored Terror Threatens Our Democracy
$29.99 Add to cartFor readers of How Democracies Die, two legal scholars expose the MAGA Republican strategy to roll back civil, political, and privacy rights and subvert American democracy–and prescribe a plan for be… [more below]
- Author: Michaels, Jon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1668023237
- Language: English
