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  • The Cooper's Wife Is Missing: The Trials Of Bridget Cleary

    by Joan Hoff, Marian Yates ...
    On March 15, 1895, twenty-eight year old Bridget Cleary, a cooper's wife, disappeared from her cottage in rural County Tipperary. Immediately, strange and lurid rumors began circulating the neighborhood about what had happened. Some said she ran off with an egg seller; others supposed it was an aristocratic foxhunter who had taken young Bridget away. Swirling amid rumors was the barely whispered, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • American Business and Foreign Policy

    1920–1933

    by Joan Hoff Wilson ...
    With increasing world economic interdependence and a new position as a creditor nation, the American business community became more actively and vocally concerned with foreign policy after World War I than ever before. This book details the response of American businessmen to such foreign policy issues as the tariff, disarmament, allied debts, loans, and the Manchurian crisis.Far from presenting a ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Law, Gender, and Injustice

    A Legal History of U.S. Women

    by Joan Hoff ...
    Series Book 1 - Feminist Crosscurrents
    A groundbreaking analysis of how gendered oppression is written into the American legal systemLaw, Gender, and Injustice: A Legal History of U.S. Woman is a landmark study of how women remain second-class citizens under the current legal system. In this widely acclaimed book, Joan Hoff questions whether the continued pursuit of equality based on a one-size-fits-all vision of traditional individual ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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  • The Battle of Bretton Woods

    John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order

    by Benn Steil ...
    When turmoil strikes world monetary and financial markets, leaders invariably call for 'a new Bretton Woods' to prevent catastrophic economic disorder and defuse political conflict. The name of the remote New Hampshire town where representatives of forty-four nations gathered in July 1944, in the midst of the century's second great war, has become shorthand for enlightened globalization. The ... Read more

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  • The Irish Assassins

    Conspiracy, Revenge, and the Phoenix Park Murders That Stunned Victorian England

    by Julie Kavanagh ...
    A brilliant true crime account of the assassinations that altered the course of Irish history from the "compulsively readable" writer ( The Guardian).One sunlit evening, May 6, 1882, Lord Frederick Cavendish and Thomas Burke, Chief Secretary and Undersecretary for Ireland, were ambushed and stabbed to death while strolling through Phoenix Park in Dublin. The murders were funded by American ... Read more

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  • The Great Depression

    America 1929-1941

    by Robert S. McElvaine ...
    One of the classic studies of the Great Depression, featuring a new introduction by the author with insights into the economic crises of 1929 and today.In the twenty-five years since its publication, critics and scholars have praised historian Robert McElvaine’s sweeping and authoritative history of the Great Depression as one of the best and most readable studies of the era. Combining clear-eyed ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • New Deal or Raw Deal?

    How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged America

    by Burton W. Folsom Jr. ...
    A sharply critical new look at Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency reveals government policies that hindered economic recovery from the Great Depression -- and are still hurting America today.In this shocking and groundbreaking new book, economic historian Burton W. Folsom exposes the idyllic legend of Franklin D. Roosevelt as a myth of epic proportions. With questionable moral character and a ... Read more

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  • J. R. R. Tolkien

    The Making of a Legend

    by Colin Duriez ...
    Long before the successful The Lord of the Rings films, J.R.R. Tolkien's creations, imagination, and characters had captured the attention of millions of readers. But who was the man who dreamt up the intricate languages and perfectly crafted world of Middle-earth.Tolkien had a difficult life, for many years: orphaned and poor, his guardian forbad him to communicate with the woman he had fallen in ... Read more

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  • The Coming of the New Deal

    The Age of Roosevelt, 1933–1935

    by Arthur M. Schlesinger ...
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    Volume two of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's Age of Roosevelt series describes Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first tumultuous years in the White House.Coming into office at the bottom of the Great Depression, FDR told the American people that they have nothing to fear but fear itself. The conventional wisdom having failed, he tried unorthodox remedies to avert economic collapse. His first ... Read more

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  • Hoover

    An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times

    by Kenneth Whyte ...
    **"An exemplary biography—exhaustively researched, fair-minded and easy to read. It can nestle on the same shelf as David McCullough’s Truman, a high compliment indeed." —The Wall Street JournalThe definitive biography of Herbert Hoover, one of the most remarkable Americans of the twentieth century—a wholly original account that will forever change the way Americans understand the man, his ... Read more

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  • Suffer the Little Children

    The Inside Story of Ireland's Industrial Schools

    by Mary Raftery, Eoin O'Sullivan ...
    Up until the late sixties in Ireland, thousands of young children were sent to what were called industrial schools, financed by the Department of Education, and operated by various religious orders of the Catholic Church. Popular belief held that these schools were orphanages or detention centers, when in reality most of the children ended up at the schools because their parents were too poor to ... Read more

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