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| Remembering the Good War: Minnesota's Greatest Generation
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Thomas Saylor.
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| Publisher: Minnesota Hist. Society. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780873516051. Daedalus Item Code: 24127 |
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| Historian Thomas Saylor crisscrossed Minnesota gathering the colorful, heroic, and at times tragic stories of more than a hundred diverse individuals swept up in World War II. Betty Wall Strohfus of ... (Read More)
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| A Renegade History of the United States
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Thaddeus Russell.
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| Publisher: Free Press. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781416571063. Daedalus Item Code: 23222 |
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| In his contentious alternate history of the origins of American freedom, Thaddeus Russell disparages traditional icons of liberty like Adams, Jefferson, Carnegie, Rockefeller, Edison, Roosevelt, and ... (Read More)
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| Roots of Steel: Boom and Bust in an American Mill Town
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Deborah Rudacille.
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| Publisher: Pantheon. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780375423680. Daedalus Item Code: 23529 |
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| The science writer who gave us The Riddle of Gender here returns to her hometown roots to portray the rusting steel industry in America. When Deborah Rudacille was growing up in Dundalk, ... (Read More)
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| Rosie's Mom: Forgotten Women Workers of the First World War
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Carrie Brown.
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| Publisher: Northeastern University Press. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781555535353. Daedalus Item Code: 30160 |
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| The iconic Rosie the Riveter may have plied the airplane assembly lines during World War II—but what about World War I? Who assembled all those wood and fabric biplanes? Who shaped and filled the ... (Read More)
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| School House to White House: The Education of the Presidents
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National Archives Presidential Libraries.
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| Publisher: D. Giles. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781904832430. Daedalus Item Code: 14030 |
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| This companion volume to a traveling exhibit of the National Archives uses memoirs, scrapbooks, official records, and letters to reveal the formative experiences that shaped the lives of 20th-century ... (Read More)
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| Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices
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Noah Feldman.
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| Publisher: Twelve. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780446580571. Daedalus Item Code: 30348 |
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| "After the court-packing fiasco of 1937, Supreme Court vacancies gave FDR his opportunities to install liberals on the tribunal. What happened next propels [Noah] Feldman's narrative, which centers ... (Read More)
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| Seizing Destiny: How America Grew from Sea to Shining Sea
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Richard Kluger.
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| Publisher: Knopf. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780375413414. Daedalus Item Code: 93773 |
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| As Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Kluger has it in this sweeping history, America's surge to dominion was equally admirable and appalling. The nation's pioneer generations were, to be sure, blessed ... (Read More)
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| The Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy and the American Voice
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Greil Marcus.
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| Publisher: Picador. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780374104382. Daedalus Item Code: 90547 |
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| "[Greil] Marcus, perhaps America's most imaginative social critic, here attempts to define America as 'a story told more in art than in politics' by yoking together the works of several disparate ... (Read More)
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| The Significance of the Frontier in American History
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Frederick Jackson Turner.
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| Publisher: Penguin. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780141042572. Daedalus Item Code: 31126 |
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| When historian Frederick Jackson Turner presented his landmark paper, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" to the American Historical Association in 1893, it marked a turning point ... (Read More)
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| A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother
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Janny Scott.
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| Publisher: Riverhead. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781594487972. Daedalus Item Code: 31622 |
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| "The key to understanding the disciplined and often impassive 44th president is his mother, as Janny Scott, a [Pulitzer Prize–winning] reporter for the New York Times, decisively demonstrates ... (Read More)
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| Sisters of Fortune: America's Caton Sisters at Home and Abroad
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Jehanne Wake.
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| Publisher: Touchstone. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781451607611. Daedalus Item Code: 23939 |
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| As gripping as any great historical novel, this is the true story of Marianne, Bess, Louisa, and Emily Caton, the exuberant American sisters who enthralled English Regency society. Descended from ... (Read More)
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