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  • The Newark Frontier

    Community Action in the Great Society

    by Mark Krasovic ...
    Series series Historical Studies of Urban America
    To many, Newark seems a profound symbol of postwar liberalism’s failings: an impoverished, deeply divided city where commitments to integration and widespread economic security went up in flames during the 1967 riots. While it’s true that these failings shaped Newark’s postwar landscape and economy, as Mark Krasovic shows, that is far from the whole story.The Newark Frontier shows how, during the ... Read more

    $34.59 USD

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  • Reveille in Washington

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  • The Georgetown Set

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  • Inside Newark

    Decline, Rebellion, and the Search for Transformation

    by Robert Curvin ...
    Series series Rivergate Regionals Collection
    For decades, leaders in Newark, New Jersey, have claimed their city is about to return to its vibrant past. How accurate is this prediction? Is Newark on the verge of revitalization? Robert Curvin, who was one of New Jersey’s outstanding civil rights leaders, examines the city, chronicling its history, politics, and culture*.* Throughout the pages of Inside Newark, Curvin approaches his story both ... Read more

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  • Fear City

    New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics

    by Kim Phillips-Fein ...
    PULITZER PRIZE FINALISTAn epic, riveting history of New York City on the edge of disaster—and an anatomy of the austerity politics that continue to shape the world todayWhen the news broke in 1975 that New York City was on the brink of fiscal collapse, few believed it was possible. How could the country's largest metropolis fail? How could the capital of the financial world go bankrupt? Yet the ... Read more

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  • The Battle of Lake George

    England's First Triumph in the French and Indian War

    by William R. Griffith ...
    In the early morning of September 8, 1755, a force of French Regulars, Canadians and Indians crouched unseen in a ravine south of Lake George.Under the command of French general Jean-Armand, Baron de Dieskau, the men ambushed the approaching British forces, sparking a bloody conflict for control of the lake and its access to New York's interior. Against all odds, British commander William Johnson ... Read more

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  • A Stripe of Tammany's Tiger

    by Louis Eisenstein, Elliot Rosenberg ...
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  • The Fixers

    Devolution, Development, and Civil Society in Newark, 1960-1990

    by Julia Rabig ...
    Series series Historical Studies of Urban America
    Stories of Newark’s postwar decline are easy to find. But in The Fixers, Julia Rabig supplements these tales of misery with the story of the many imaginative challenges to the city’s decline mounted by Newark’s residents and suburban neighbors. In these pages, we meet the black nationalists whose dynamic organizing elected African American candidates in unprecedented numbers. There are tenants who ... Read more

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  • The Hidden History of Chester County: Lost Tales from the Delaware and Brandywine Valleys

    by Mark E. Dixon ...
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    On an Oxford bound train in 1866 Mary Miles refused to move to the 'blacks-only' section, eighty-nine years before Rosa Parks' famous ride. Eight years later in a West Chester courtroom photographic evidence was used for the first time. Soon after that the hills of Westtown became the testing grounds for the Flexible Flyer, America's original steerable sled. These are among the extraordinary ... Read more

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    The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Governance

    by Neil Kleiman, Stephen Goldsmith ...
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    Proposing an entirely new governance model to unleash innovation throughout local governmentAt a time when trust is dropping precipitously and American government at the national level has fallen into a state of long-term, partisan-based gridlock, local government can still be effective-indeed more effective and even more responsive to the needs of its citizens. Based on decades of direct ... Read more

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  • The Lake Erie Campaign of 1813

    I Shall Fight Them This Day

    by Walter P Rybka ...
    On September 10, 1813, the hot, still air that hung over Lake Erie was broken by the sounds of sharp conflict. Led by Oliver Hazard Perry, the American fleet met the British, and though they sustained heavy losses, Perry and his men achieved one of the most stunning victories in the War of 1812. Author Walter Rybka traces the Lake Erie Campaign from the struggle to build the fleet in Erie, ... Read more

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