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Everything we had : an oral history of the Vietnam War
by thirty-three American soldiers who fought it ; [edited by] Al Santoli.
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Spontaneous tape-recorded interviews with combat veterans reveal the horror and poignancy of their war in Vietnam and bring home that war's violence, intimacy, and unresolved trauma
1981; 268 p.; isbn:0345322797 More Information |
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Waiting for snow in Havana : confessions of a Cuban boy
Carlos Eire.
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A survivor of the Cuban Revolution recounts his pre-war childhood as the religiously devout son of a judge, and describes the conflict's violent and irrevocable impact on his friends, family, and native home.
2003; 383 p.; isbn:0743219651 More Information |
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Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance
Barack Obama
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Includes the senator's speech from the 2004 Democratic National Convention! In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father-- a figure he knows more as ...
1995; ; isbn:081292343X More Information |
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1776
David McCullough.
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Draws on personal correspondence and period diaries to present a history of the American Revolution that ranges from the siege of Boston, to the American defeat at Brooklyn and retreat across New Jersey, to the American victory at Trenton.
2005; 386 p.; isbn:0743226712 More Information |
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Manhunt : the twelve day chase for Lincoln's killer
James L. Swanson
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"The murder of Abraham Lincoln set off the greatest manhunt in American history - the pursuit and capture of John Wilkes Booth. From April 14 to April 26, 1865, the assassin led Union cavalry and detectives on a wild twelve-day chase through the streets of Washington, D.C., across the swamps of Maryland, and into the forests of Virginia, while the nation, ...
2006; 448 p.; isbn:0060518499 More Information |
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John Adams
David McCullough
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"In this biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot - "the colossus of independence," as Thomas Jefferson called him - who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution; who rose to become the second President of the United ...
2001; ; isbn:0684813637 More Information |
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Manchild in the promised land
Brown, Claude, 1937-
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Benjamin Franklin : an American life
Walter Isaacson.
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Benjamin Franklin is the Founding Father who winks at us. An ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose up the social ladder, from leather-aproned shopkeeper to dining with kings, he seems made of flesh rather than of marble. In bestselling author Walter Isaacson's vivid and witty full-scale biography, we discover why Franklin seems to turn to us from history's ...
2003; 590 p.; isbn:0684807610 More Information |
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The tender bar : a memoir
by J.R. Moehringer
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In a memoir of growing up with a single mother, the author describes how he received valuable life lessons and friendship from an assortment of characters at the neighborhood bar, who provided him with a kind of fatherhood by committee
2005; 370 p.; isbn:1401300642 More Information |
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Running with scissors
written and directed by Ryan Murphy
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Follows the life of Augusten Burroughs after his mother gives him up for adoption to her psychiatrist
2007; 1 videodisc (122 min.) : sd., col. ; isbn:1424825830 More Information |
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Things fall apart
Chinua Achebe ; with an introduction by Kwame Anthony Appiah
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THINGS FALL APART tells two overlapping, intertwining stories, both of which center around Okonkwo, a "strong man" of an Ibo village in Nigeria. The first of these stories traces Okonkwo's fall from grace with the tribal world in which he lives, and in its classical purity of line and economical beauty it provides us with a powerful fable about the ...
1992; 181 p.; isbn:0679446230 More Information |
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The handmaid's tale
Margaret Atwood
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1986; 311 p.; isbn:0395404258 More Information |
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