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|  | Sacagawea's Nickname by Larry McMurtry
These 12 essays by Larry McMurtry, originally published in the New York Review of Books, offer further reflections on the West, old and new. McMurtry's topics include forgotten Western writers, the Lewis and Clark expedition, and the genocidal US policies toward Native Americans in the 19th century and after. AUTHOR: Larry McMurtry
PUBLISHER: New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | Dear Bunny, Dear Volodya by Edmund Wilson, Simon Karlinsky, Vladimir Nabokov
Longtime friends who disagreed about nearly everything, Nabokov and Wilson corresponded faithfully until Wilson's death in 1971. These highly entertaining letters reflect their very different personalities, and include literary gossip, reflections on their own work, and their legendary argument about Pushkin. AUTHOR: Edmund Wilson, Simon Karlinsky, Vladimir Nabokov
PUBLISHER: University of California Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Hardball with Chris Matthews by Christopher Matthews
Description not available.The seasoned journalist and nationally syndicated columnist offers his humorous, on-target perspective on how politics and politicians really work in Washington. Reprint. NYT. AUTHOR: Christopher Matthews
PUBLISHER: Free Press, The
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Harp Song for a Radical
Marguerite Young takes us into the world of the men who led the American multitudes west before the Civil War. All these threads come together in the life and personality of Eugene Debs.
Harp Song For A Radical: The Life And Times Of Eugene Victor Debs
Marguerite Young
Hardcover
1999
Knopf
Marguerite Young takes us into the world of the men who led the American multitudes west before the Civil War - and shows how these pioneers were influenced by the French Revolution's Saint-Simon and Fourier, and then by the German idealists Heinrich Heine, Karl Marx, and Wilhelm Weitling, who visited secular and religious settlements acrross the United States. All these threads come together in the life and personality of Eugene Debs. His childhood was spent in Terre Haute, Indiana, in the pastoral America that faded into a distant golden memory after the Civil War, when the town became a center of transportation for industrial expansion. We see the fierce struggle between the classes as the American promise opens up for the men and women in the factories, in the mills, in the stockyards. We see Debs the worker becoming a political leader, a reformer, the voice of the workingman, and the founder of the American Socialism.
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CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Who Was Harry Houdini? by John O'Brien, Tui Sutherland
Description not available.Enhanced with illustrations, this biography offers middle readers a look at the life-and-times of this celebrated magician, escape artist, pilot, and movie star. Simultaneous. AUTHOR: John O'Brien, Tui Sutherland
PUBLISHER: Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Welch by Janet Lowe
This study of General Electric`s chairman looks at his long tenure with that company, his controversial business decisions--with their huge layoffs and plant closings--his attachment to Sigma Six, and the great respect he is given by fellow business leaders and the media. AUTHOR: Janet Lowe
PUBLISHER: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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