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Manufacturer: Thorndike Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Robert H. Ferrell
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Publisher: Thorndike Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.918092
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Publication Date: 1999-10
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Reading Level: 265
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Description: No portion of the political career of Harry S. Truman was more fraught with drama than his early relationship with Thomas J. Pendergast. The two men met in 1927. Truman, who was then presiding judge of Jackson County, gave a $4000,000 road contract to a construction company in South Dakota, and Pendergast, the Boss of Kansas City, wasn't very happy about it: he had someone else in mind for the contract. Although their association began in disagreement, their common interest in politics was enough to establish a long-lasting relationship. In 1934, after turning down fourteen other contenders, the influential Pendergast sponsored Truman for the Senate. Although Truman had often cooperated with Pendergast on patronage issues, he had never involved himself in the illegalities that would eventually destroy the Pendergast machine. In fact, Truman had no idea how deeply the Boss had engaged in corruption in his personal affairs, as well as in managing the government of Kansas City. When the Boss was sent to Leavenworth for tax evasion in 1939, Truman was astonished. Despite Truman's honesty, his relationship with Pendergast almost caused his defeat during the Missouri senatorial primary in August 1940. The main challenger for Truman's Senate seat was the ambitious governor of Missouri, Lloyd C. Stark. In an effort to obtain the Senate seat, Stark set out to destroy Truman's sponsor, the Pendergast machine, and also denounced Truman as "the Pendergast senator." Behind the governor was President Franklin D. Roosevelt, whom Stark sucessfully turned against Truman. Roosevelt needed Missouri's electoral votes to win his third term, and he believed that Stark could give them to him.
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Price: $28.95
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Sale: $19.95
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Manufacturer: G. K. Hall & Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Washington Post
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Publisher: G. K. Hall & Company
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Dewey Decimal Number: 324.9730929
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Publication Date: 2001-08
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Reading Level: 397
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Description: When Americans cast their ballots on November 7, no one expected that the outcome would still be in doubt more than a month later. For the first time ever, it seemed, the presidential election had ended in a dead heat, with but a few hundred votes in Florida separating Al Gore and George W. Bush. The stage was set for an extraordinary drama of recounts, challenges, court cases - and hanging, swinging, and dimpled chads. The Washington Post, America's premier newspaper for politics and elections, has been in the forefront of the post-election coverage, and in this book its award-winning staff provides the first full-length account of the closest and strangest election in our history - from the last frantic days of campaigning to the networks' premature election-night projections; from the "butterfly ballot" to the manual recounts; from the first legal challenges to the final adjudication. The Post has offered unsurpassed coverage of the events that transfixed the nation and the world, and now its all-star team of reporters has produced a page-turner to rival the best political thrillers. Deadlock is a wholly original work of history-in-the-making, written by David Von Drehle and Ellen Nakashima, two of the paper's most accomplished political writers, drawing on the reporting of over two dozen top reporters and columnists in Washington, Florida, and Texas. The Post will publish a seven-part front-page series based on the book right before Inauguration Day (January 14-20), and the book will contain additional chapters that will not have appeared in the newspaper. Books will be in stores by mid-February, making it the first post-election book available to readers. Phil Graham, the legendary publisher of The Washington Post in the 1950s and early 1960s, famously called newspapers "the first rough draft of history." His newspaper has now produced not a rough draft, but history itself - rich, detailed, nuanced, and groundbreaking. This is a book that no citizen should do without.
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Manufacturer: Thorndike Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Jay Kopelman::Melinda Roth
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Publisher: Thorndike Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 956.70443092
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Publication Date: 2007-05-16
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Reading Level: 269
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Description: In From Baghdad, With Love: A Marine, the War, and a Dog Named Lava, Jay Kopelman tells a story that is both tender and thought-provoking--candidly portraying the ugly conditions in wartime Iraq, while also describing his (and his fellow Marines') growing attachment to a scruffy stray puppy. Here Jay Kopelman answers a few questions about his aspirations as a writer, and the effect his book has had on readers. Questions for Jay Kopelman Amazon.com: Before you met Lava and had this experience smuggling him out of Iraq, did you ever have ambitions to write a book? Jay Kopelman: Yes, I'd considered writing a book previously and have started--but not finished--a novel. Not surprisingly, it's a military murder mystery. And I'm still hoping to get it published. I've also been offered a deal by my publisher to write another book. So I guess I'm now officially an author. Amazon.com: How has the military responded to it given that you broke a number of rules during your adventure with Lava? Jay Kopelman: I've actually not had any real feedback from the military establishment. In fact, mostly I only get the good-natured ribbing from my contemporaries about how much money I'll make or about who will play me in the movie. When the story first broke a year and a half ago, one of the generals jokingly asked me for an autograph, and I've given the previous commanding general for the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force a signed galley. So, thus far, there’s been nothing "official" to which I've had to respond. We'll see what happens now that the book is released and there's going to be a media blitz surrounding the book. What you have to remember, though, is that I really didn't use military assets to get Lava home. Nor did I ever endanger anyone in the military while doing so. Amazon.com: In the book, you say that you would like it if it can bring hope to people who've lost loved ones in Iraq by showing them how something positive can come out of a brutal situation. Have you heard from people that your book has made them feel better? Jay Kopelman: I've not yet heard from anyone who’s lost a loved one in Iraq or Afghanistan, but I have heard from a counselor who works with the returning Marines at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, who said she finds the story so very positive and helpful. She's planning to come to the book signing there. I also got an e-mail from a Marine who said that while her unit was in Iraq, they adopted a puppy and tried to bring it home, but he was ultimately put down. She says that the Marines "remember how Charlie the dog helped us. Charlie will always be loved. During a time when we were far from home that dog made us smile." So, I suppose Lava's story does help people remember and gives them hope. I’ve also heard from people who appreciate my candor describing the conditions in Iraq.  td> |  td> |
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Price: $28.95
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Sale: $28.95
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Manufacturer: Thorndike Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: James Sullivan
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Publisher: Thorndike Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 391
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Publication Date: 2006-11-22
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Reading Level: 401
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Description: The story of America’s best-loved garment, from the humble pants Levi Strauss sold to California miners in the 1870s to big-city socialites spending big money—$300 and up—for premium jeans today Since their emergence over a century and a half ago, blue jeans have been worn by every segment of American society, and exported around the world as a symbol of our civilization. In Jeans, James Sullivan traces the evolution of jeans from a simple utilitarian garment into what fashion critics have called "the American uniform," the very embodiment of our society’s ethos. Beginning with the adoption of front-buckled trousers as a style of dress in nineteenth-century America (derided as "fornication pants" by Mormon leader Brigham Young), Sullivan tells the story of the riveted blue jeans’ humble origin as "waist overall" work pants. He then follows their mass production by such regional entrepreneurs as San Francisco’s legendary Levi Strauss and their further popularization as youth clothing and Westernwear in the twentieth century with the rise of such national brands as Lee and Wrangler. Sullivan shows how such film stars as John Wayne, James Dean, Marlon Brando, and Marilyn Monroe evangelized jeans for a new generation, and how in recent decades designer fashion and consumer culture have combined to make them ubiquitous: worn by rappers, hipsters, discount shoppers, and politicians, embodying the fashion and cultural ideas of vastly different segments of society. Touching on a broad-ranging host of topics—from the rise and fall of natural indigo dyes to the enduring mythos of the cowboy, from the explosion of youth culture in the Baby Boom era to the globalization of the textile industry and the erosion of American manufacturing—Jeans is a history of American culture as told through its pants.
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Manufacturer: Thorndike Pr
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Wladyslaw Szpilman::Wilm Hosenfeld::Anthea Bell
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Publisher: Thorndike Pr
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Edition: Largeprint
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Dewey Decimal Number: 940.5318092
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Publication Date: 2000-05
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Reading Level: 241
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Description: Written immediately after the end of World War II, this morally complex Holocaust memoir is notable for its exact depiction of the grim details of life in Warsaw under the Nazi occupation. "Things you hardly noticed before took on enormous significance: a comfortable, solid armchair, the soothing look of a white-tiled stove," writes Wladyslaw Szpilman, a pianist for Polish radio when the Germans invaded. His mother's insistence on laying the table with clean linen for their midday meal, even as conditions for Jews worsened daily, makes palpable the Holocaust's abstract horror. Arbitrarily removed from the transport that took his family to certain death, Szpilman does not deny the "animal fear" that led him to seize this chance for escape, nor does he cheapen his emotions by belaboring them. Yet his cool prose contains plenty of biting rage, mostly buried in scathing asides (a Jewish doctor spared consignment to "the most wonderful of all gas chambers," for example). Szpilman found compassion in unlikely people, including a German officer who brought food and warm clothing to his hiding place during the war's last days. Extracts from the officer's wartime diary (added to this new edition), with their expressions of outrage at his fellow soldiers' behavior, remind us to be wary of general condemnation of any group. --Wendy Smith
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Manufacturer: Sun Hill Rose and Briar Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: John Quincy Adams
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Publisher: Sun Hill Rose and Briar Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973
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Publication Date: 2000-01
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Reading Level: 108
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Description: The incompetency of the Articles of Confederation for the management of the affairs of the Union at home and abroad was demonstrated to them by the painful and mortifying experience of every day. Washington, though in retirement, was brooding over the cruel injustice suffered by his associates in arms, the warriors of the Revolution; over the prostration of the public credit and the faith of the nation.
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Price: $14.49
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Sale: $14.49
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Manufacturer: ReadHowYouWant
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
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Publisher: ReadHowYouWant
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Edition: EasyRead Large Bold Edition
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Dewey Decimal Number: 900
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Publication Date: 2006-10-01
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Reading Level: 348
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Description: ReadHowYouWant publishes a wide variety of best selling books in Large and Super Large fonts in partnership with leading publishers. EasyRead books are available in 11pt and 13pt. type. EasyRead Large books are available in 16pt, 16pt Bold, and 18pt Bold type. EasyRead Super Large books are available in 20pt. Bold and 24pt. Bold Type. You choose the format that is right for you. A brilliant piece of work by Robert Louis Stevenson. This historic novel describes the battle fought among three powerful Western countries – United States of America, Britain and Germany – for the control of Samoa Islands. The book provides an in-depth analysis of the late nineteenth-century colonialism. Highly informative! To find more titles in your format, Search in Books using EasyRead and the size of the font that makes reading easier and more enjoyable for you.
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Price: $9.99
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Sale: $9.99
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Manufacturer: ReadHowYouWant
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
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Publisher: ReadHowYouWant
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Edition: EasyRead Edition
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Dewey Decimal Number: 900
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Publication Date: 2006-10-01
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Reading Level: 208
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Description: ReadHowYouWant publishes a wide variety of best selling books in Large and Super Large fonts in partnership with leading publishers. EasyRead books are available in 11pt and 13pt. type. EasyRead Large books are available in 16pt, 16pt Bold, and 18pt Bold type. EasyRead Super Large books are available in 20pt. Bold and 24pt. Bold Type. You choose the format that is right for you. A brilliant piece of work by Robert Louis Stevenson. This historic novel describes the battle fought among three powerful Western countries – United States of America, Britain and Germany – for the control of Samoa Islands. The book provides an in-depth analysis of the late nineteenth-century colonialism. Highly informative! To find more titles in your format, Search in Books using EasyRead and the size of the font that makes reading easier and more enjoyable for you.
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Manufacturer: HarperLargePrint
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Arthur Herman
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Publisher: HarperLargePrint
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Dewey Decimal Number: 940
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Publication Date: 1975-02-01
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Reading Level: 704
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![To Make Ourselves a Home [LARGE PRINT] under Large Print in The Books Store](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51VARP00P5L.jpg) |
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Price: $21.95
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Sale: $19.68
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Manufacturer: Mariner Companies, Inc.
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: John Osborne Wallace Young; et al
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Publisher: Mariner Companies, Inc.
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Dewey Decimal Number: 971
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Publication Date: 2006-01-30
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Reading Level: 164
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Description: These little stories tell about the adventures of a family that went up into the bush country of Northern Ontario back in the early 1900s. This remarkable account of the Young family is a collection of true tales that the modern reader can only marvel at. The author of these stories told them to his friends and children to entertain. When he became bedridden due to heart disease he wrote them down to help pass the time. Shortly after the completion of the last one he died. His son, John Young, carried the manuscript around for 50 years. A visit to the family farm inspired him to edit the stories for publication. Now collected in this volume, and illustrated by a grandson, this unique history of a family's experience is brought for the first time to the general public.
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