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The Last Days Of The Third Reich
Author: Joseph E. Persico
Forty years ago, a tangle of chaotic events led to the death of Hitler, the surrender of the Nazis, and the end of World War II in Europe
The Golden Age Of Advertising
Author: Roland Marchand
The twenties and thirties saw a host of new ways to separate customers from their money. The methods have not been forgotten.
A Century of Cable Cars
Author: William D. Middleton
Magnificently impractical and obsolete almost as soon as they were built, the cable lines briefly dominated urban transportation throughout the country
Baseball’s Greatest Pitcher
Author: Andrew Kull
It was a hundred years ago, and the game has changed a good deal since then. But there are plenty of people who still hold that cranky old Hoss Radbourn was the finest that ever lived.
Ten Books That Shaped The American Character
Author: Jonathan Yardley
Walden is here, of course; but so too is Fanny Farmer’s first cookbook
The Civilized Landscape
Author: Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr.
While a whole generation of artists sought inspiration in the wilderness, George Inness was painting the fields and farms of a man-made countryside
Dirty-faced David & The Twin Goliaths
Author: David Nasaw
One of the country’ more bizzarre labor disputes pitted a crowed of outraged newsboys against two powerful opponents—Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolf Hearst