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Eric Lichtblau
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Summary: "The shocking story of how America became one of the world's safest postwar havens for Nazis. Until recently, historians believed America gave asylum only to key Nazi scientists after World War II,...
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Call #: 324.13 LIC
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Patricia Baker
(72)
Summary: Chronicles clothing trends of the 1940s and the influence of World War II on styles of dress, availability of many fabrics, and the new ideas of "designers at war."
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Call #: 391 FAS
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Jacqueline Herald
(63)
Summary: Surveys the fads, fashions, trends, and cultural and intellectual preoccupations of the comfortable, high-living 1920s.
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Call #: 391 FAS
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Maria Costantino
(54)
Summary: Chronicles trends in 1930s styles such as lower hemlines and broader shoulders; the introduction of synthetic fabrics; and new views of fitness, health, and personal beauty.
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Call #: 391 FAS
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Yvonne Connikie
(38)
Summary: A pictorial survey chronicling the international fashions of the 1960's.
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Call #: 391 FAS
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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![Sweet land of liberty [downloadable ebook] / the forgotten struggle for civil rights in the North](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/77328@2x.jpg)
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Thomas J Sugrue
(277)
Summary: Sweet Land of Liberty is an epic, revelatory account of the abiding quest for justice in states from Illinois to New York, and of how the intense northern struggle differed from and was inspired by the fight down South.
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![The big roads [downloadable ebook] / the untold story of the engineers, visionaries, and trailblazers who created the American superhighways](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/61753@2x.jpg)
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Earl Swift
(1,689)
Summary: "A history of the planning, construction, and impact of the U.S. interstate highway system"-- Provided by publisher.
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![No room for error [downloadable audiobook] / the covert operations of America's special tactics units from Iran to Afghanistan](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/35314@2x.jpg)
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John T Carney
Summary: When the U.S. Air Force decided to create an elite "special Tactics" team in the late 1970s to work with special-operations forces, John T. Carney was the man they turned to. Since then Carney and...
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![King [eBook] : a life](https://www.johnstonlibrary.com/wp_pac/full/images/noimage.gif)
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Jonathan Eig
Summary: "The first full biography in decades, "King" mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk and accessible storytelling to forge the definitive life for our times"-- Provided by publisher.
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![The warmth of other suns [downloadable ebook] / the epic story of America's great migration](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/52786@2x.jpg)
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Isabel Wilkerson
(93,603)
Summary: In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black...
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![End the Fed [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/60952@2x.jpg)
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Ron Paul
(6,008)
Summary: Over 4,000 students gathered at the University of Michigan to hear Republican Party candidate Ron Paul speak. As he began to address the topics of monetary policy and the coming depression, a chant...
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![On the road to freedom [downloadable ebook] / a guided tour of the civil rights trail](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/76701@2x.jpg)
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Charles E. Cobb Jr
(60)
Summary: An award-winning black journalist takes a pilgrimage through the sites and landmarks of the civil rights movement as he journeys to key locales that served as a backdrop to important events of the...
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Edward E. Baptist
(4,920)
Summary: Historian Edward Baptist reveals how the expansion of slavery in the first eight decades after American independence drove the evolution and modernization of the United States.
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Call #: 306.362 BAP
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Oliver Stone
(2,551)
Summary: A companion to the ten-part documentary series outlines provocative arguments against official American historical records to reveal the origins of conservatism and the obstacles to progressive change.
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Call #: 973.91 STO
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Raymond Arsenault
(479)
Summary: They were black and white, young and old, men and women. In the spring and summer of 1961, they put their lives on the line, riding buses through the American South to challenge segregation in...
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Call #: 323.1 ARS
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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![Enemies [downloadable audiobook] / [the history of the FBI at war]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/65499@2x.jpg)
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Tim Weiner
(3,602)
Summary: Enemies is the first definitive history of the FBI's secret intelligence operations, from an author whose work on the Pentagon and the CIA won him the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. We...
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![Tears in the darkness [downloadable audiobook] / the story of the Bataan Death March and its aftermath](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/45466@2x.jpg)
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Michael Norman
Summary: For the first four months of 1942, U.S., Filipino, and Japanese soldiers fought what was America's first major land battle of World War II, the battle for the tiny Philippine peninsula of Bataan. It...
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Michael Norman
(2,879)
Summary: Following the U.S. surrender to the Japanese on the peninsula of Bataan in 1942, 76,000 American and Filipino POWs began the infamous Death March. This gripping narrative, told in unsparing but...
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Call #: 940.5472 NOR
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Dinesh D'Souza
(719)
Summary: Who is killing America? Is it really Donald Trump and a GOP filled with white supremacists? Dinesh D'Souza makes the provocative case that Democrats are the ones killing America by turning it into a...
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Call #: 324.2736 D'SO
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Veronica Chambers
(434)
Summary: Who was at the forefront of women's right to vote? We know a few famous names, like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, but what about so many others from diverse backgrounds -- black,...
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Call #: J 324.623 CHA
Location: Junior Nonfiction
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![Say it loud [eBook] / great speeches on civil rights and African American identity](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/76468@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Collects the text and audio recordings of famous African American political speeches, by individuals ranging from Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. to Condoleezza Rice and Barack Obama.
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Kathy Lee Peiss
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Summary: Examines the unprecedented American effort to acquire foreign publications and information in World War II Europe. An unlikely band of librarians, scholars, soldiers, and spies went to Europe to...
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Call #: 940.5486 PEI
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Doris Kearns Goodwin
(21,868)
Summary: A dynamic history of the muckracking press and the first decade of the Progressive era as told through the intense friendship of Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft--a close relationship that...
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Call #: 973.911 GOO
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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![The bully pulpit [CD book] : Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the golden age of journalism](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/103265@2x.jpg)
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Doris Kearns Goodwin (read by Edward Herrmann)
(21,868)
Summary: Goodwin describes the broken friendship between Teddy Roosevelt and his chosen successor, William Howard Taft. With the help of the 'muckraking' press Roosevelt had wielded the Bully Pulpit to...
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Call #: CD BOOK 973.911 GOO
Location: Adult CD Books Nonfiction
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![Slavery by another name [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/104236@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Challenges one of America's most cherished assumptions, the belief that slavery in the U.S. ended with Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, by telling the harrowing story of how, in the...
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DVD
Call #: DVD 305.896 SLA
Location: DVDs Nonfiction
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Andrew Maraniss
(405)
Summary: The true story of the birth of Olympic basketball at the 1936 Summer Games in Hitler's Germany.
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Call #: 796.48 MAR YA
Location: YA Nonfiction
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![Games of deception [eBook] : the true story of the first U.S. Olympic basketball team at the 1936 Olympics in Hitler's Germany](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/218259@2x.jpg)
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Andrew Maraniss
Summary: The true story of the birth of Olympic basketball at the 1936 Summer Games in Hitler's Germany.
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Jane Smiley
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Summary: One night in the late 1930s, in a bar on the Illinois-Iowa border, John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of physics at Iowa State University, after a frustrating day performing tedious mathematical...
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Call #: B ATANASOFF 2010 IOWA
Location: Iowa Collection
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Daniel Okrent
(7,949)
Summary: Okrent explores the origins, implementation, and failure of that great American delusion known as Prohibition. "Last Call" explains how Prohibition happened, what life under it was like, and what it did to the country.
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Call #: 363.41 OKR
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Amy Stewart
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Kopp Sisters Series - #1
(30,839)
Summary: "From the New York Times best-selling author of The Drunken Botanist comes an enthralling novel based on the forgotten true story of one of the nation's first female deputy sheriffs. Constance Kopp...
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Call #: F STEWART
Location: Adult Fiction
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![Girl waits with gun [CD book] : a novel](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/161977@2x.jpg)
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Amy Stewart
Series:
Kopp Sisters Series - #1
(30,733)
Summary: "From the New York Times best-selling author of The Drunken Botanist comes an enthralling novel based on the forgotten true story of one of the nation's first female deputy sheriffs. Constance Kopp...
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Call #: CD BOOK F STEWART
Location: Adult CD Books Fiction
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![A strange stirring [downloadable ebook] / the Feminine mystique and American women at the dawn of the 1960s](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/58473@2x.jpg)
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Stephanie Coontz
(657)
Summary: Challenging both conservative and liberal myths about Betty Friedan's bestselling book,The Feminine Mystique, historian Stephanie Coontz re-examines the dawn of the 1960s (when the sexual revolution...
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John O Brennan
(1,076)
Summary: Brennan pulls back the curtain on the inner workings of the Central Intelligence Agency, describing the selfless, patriotic, and invisible work of the women and men involved in national security. He...
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Call #: 327.12 BRE
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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![The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/52728@2x.jpg)
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Rebecca Skloot
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Summary: Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer, yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medicine....
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David Treuer
(5,217)
Summary: The received idea of Native American history -- as promulgated by books like Dee Brown's 1970 mega-bestselling "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" -- has been that American Indian history essentially...
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Call #: 970.00497 TRE
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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![Public enemies [downloadable ebook] / America's greatest crime wave and the birth of the FBI, 1933-34](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/60824@2x.jpg)
