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  • This Was Burlesque

    A rollicking, colorfully illustrated history of burlesque as seen through the eyes of its first lady, Ann Corio. ... Read more

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  • Tramp

    The Life of Charlie Chaplin

    by Joyce Milton ...
    Charlie Chaplin made an amazing seventy-one films by the time he was only thirty-three years old. He was known not only as the world's first international movie star, but as a comedian, a film director, and a man ripe with scandal, accused of plagiarism, communism, pacifism, liberalism, and anti-Americanism. He seduced young women, marrying four different times, each time to a woman younger than ... Read more

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  • The Purple Diaries

    Mary Astor and the Most Sensational Hollywood Scandal of the 1930s

    by Joseph Egan ...
    The "endlessly fascinating" true story of a custody battle that threatened to expose the seedy secrets of Hollywood's Golden Age—illustrated with photos ( Entertainment Weekly).Most famous for playing opposite Humphrey Bogart in The Maltese Falcon, Mary Astor was one of Hollywood's most beloved film stars. But her story wasn't a happy one. Widowed at twenty-four, she quickly entered a rocky ... Read more

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  • Nixon Agonistes

    The Crisis of the Self-Made Man

    by Garry Wills ...
    With a new preface: A "stunning" analysis of the troubled Republican president by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Lincoln at Gettysburg ( The New York Times Book Review).In this acclaimed biography that earned him a spot on Nixon's infamous "enemies list," Garry Wills takes a thoughtful, in-depth, and often "very amusing" look at the thirty-seventh US president, and draws some surprising ... Read more

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  • Killing Rasputin

    The Murder That Ended the Russian Empire

    A look into the life of the so-called "Mad Monk" of Imperial Russia, his murder, and the effects of his death on a dynasty, a people, and a country.Written in three parts, Killing Rasputin begins with a biography that describes how a simple unkempt "holy man" from the wilds of Siberia became a friend of Emperor Nicholas II and his empress, Alexandra, at the most crucial moment in Russian history. ... Read more

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  • Thy Will Be Done

    The Conquest of the Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil

    Series Book 25 - Forbidden Bookshelf
    A "blistering exposé" of the USA's secret history of financial, political, and cultural exploitation of Latin America in the 20th century, with a new introduction ( Publishers Weekly ).What happened when a wealthy industrialist and a visionary evangelist unleashed forces that joined to subjugate an entire continent? Historians Gerard Colby and Charlotte Dennett tell the story of the forty-year ... Read more

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  • Alice

    Memoirs of a Barbary Coast Prostitute

    Edited by Ivy Anderson, Devon Angus ...
    The collected memoirs of a 1913 San Francisco sex worker, their effect on society at the time, and where they fit in today's world.In 1913 the San Francisco Bulletin published a serialized, ghostwritten memoir of a prostitute who went by Alice Smith. "A Voice from the Underworld" detailed Alice's humble Midwestern upbringing and her struggle to find aboveboard work, and candidly related the ... Read more

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  • World of Our Fathers

    The Journey of the East European Jews to America and the Life They Found and Made

    by Irving Howe ...
    The National Book Award–winning, New York Times–bestselling history of Yiddish-speaking immigrants on the Lower East Side and beyond.In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, two million Jewish immigrants poured into America, leaving places like Warsaw or the Russian shtetls to pass through Ellis Island and start over in the New World. This is a "brilliant" account of their stories ( ... Read more

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  • Bad Girls from History

    Wicked or Misunderstood?

    by Dee Gordon ...
    This "lively" study of female lawbreakers across centuries and cultures is "chock full of disquieting stories and truly twisted personalities" ( Booklist).Organized A-to-Z under six categories, this book offers insight into the lives and minds of women in different centuries and different countries, with diverse cultures and backgrounds from the poverty-stricken to royalty, who have defied law and ... Read more

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  • Sparta: Rise of a Warrior Nation

    This cultural history of Ancient Sparta chronicles the rise of its legendary military power and offers revealing insight into the people behind the myths.The Spartans of ancient Greece are typically portrayed as macho heroes: noble, laconic, totally fearless, and impervious to pain. And indeed, they often lived up to this image. But life was not as simple as this image suggests. In truth, ancient ... Read more

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  • The Search for an Abortionist

    The Classic Study of How American Women Coped with Unwanted Pregnancy before Roe v. Wade

    Series Book 2 - Forbidden Bookshelf
    This eye-opening look at the abortion process prior to the Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade decision of 1973 is now more relevant than ever, with a new introduction by the author revisiting history that is still salient half a century laterIn the years before Roe v. Wade, women seeking to end their unwanted pregnancies had limited options—many of them dangerous, even potentially fatal, and ... Read more

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  • Science of Coercion

    Communication Research & Psychological Warfare, 1945–1960

    Series Book 13 - Forbidden Bookshelf
    A provocative and eye-opening study of the essential role the US military and the Central Intelligence Agency played in the advancement of communication studies during the Cold War era, now with a new introduction by Robert W. McChesney and a new preface by the authorSince the mid-twentieth century, the great advances in our knowledge about the most effective methods of mass communication and ... Read more

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