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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “michael j birkner”
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  • Eisenhower's Gettysburg Farm

    by Michael J. Birkner ...
    Series series Images of America
    The Eisenhower farm was the first and only home that Dwight Eisenhower and his wife, Mamie, called their own. During Eisenhower's military career, he and Mamie lived around the world, but he always hoped to own a piece of property and leave it better than he found it. That wish led to the purchase of the Allen Redding farm in 1950 and the Eisenhowers' thorough renovation of its dwelling. During ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gettysburg College

    by Michael J. Birkner ...
    Series series Campus History
    Gettysburg College is the oldest Lutheran affiliated college in the United States. At its founding in 1832'a time of social ferment and advancing democracy'college leaders emphasized a liberal arts mission. Pennsylvania College, as it was known until 1919, numbers among its graduates many clergy, lawyers, and physicians, as well as politicians, social gospel advocates, scientists, business ... Read more

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  • The Worlds of James Buchanan and Thaddeus Stevens

    Place, Personality, and Politics in the Civil War Era

    by Amy S. Greenberg, Thomas J. Balcerski, Douglas R. Egerton, Matthew Pinsker, William P. MacKinnon, Frank Towers, Joan Cashin, John David Smith, Michael Green, James Oakes, Bruce C. Levine, T. Michael Parrish ...
    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    The Worlds of James Buchanan and Thaddeus Stevens examines the political interests, relationships, and practices of two of the era’s most prominent politicians as well as the political landscapes they inhabited and informed. Both men called Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, their home, and both were bachelors. During the 1850s, James Buchanan tried to keep the Democratic Party alive as the slavery ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Prosperity Far Distant

    The Journal of an American Farmer, 1933–1934

    by Charles M. Wiltse ...
    Fresh from receiving a doctorate from Cornell University in 1933, but unable to find work, Charles M. Wiltse joined his parents on the small farm they had recently purchased in southern Ohio. There, the Wiltses scratched out a living selling eggs, corn, and other farm goods at prices that were barely enough to keep the farm intact.In wry and often affecting prose, Wiltse recorded a year in the ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Governors of New Jersey

    Biographical Essays

    Edited by Michael J. Birkner, Peter Mickulas, Mr. Donald Linky ...
    Series series Rivergate Regionals Collection
    Rogues, aristocrats, and a future U.S. president. These and other governors are portrayed in this revised and updated edition of the classic reference work on the chief executives of New Jersey. Editors Michael J. Birkner, Donald Linky, and Peter Mickulas present new essays on the governors of the last three decades—Brendan T. Byrne, Thomas Kean, James Florio, Christine Todd Whitman, Donald ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Governors of New Jersey

    Biographical Essays

    Edited by Michael J. Birkner, Peter Mickulas, Donald Linky ...
    Series series Rivergate Regionals Collection
    Rogues, aristocrats, and a future U.S. president. These and other governors are portrayed in this revised and updated edition of the classic reference work on the chief executives of New Jersey. Editors Michael J. Birkner, Donald Linky, and Peter Mickulas present new essays on the governors of the last three decades—Brendan T. Byrne, Thomas Kean, James Florio, Christine Todd Whitman, Donald ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

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  • Georgia

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  • Protest at Selma

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  • The Hamilton Scheme

    An Epic Tale of Money and Power in the American Founding

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    "William Hogeland is the best guide I have found to understanding how we today are, for good and evil, children of Alexander.” —J. Bradford DeLong, professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of Slouching Towards UtopiaHow Alexander Hamilton embraced American oligarchy to jumpstart American prosperity.“Forgotten founder” no more, Alexander Hamilton has become a ... Read more

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  • Fraud of the Century

    Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, and the Stolen Election of 1876

    by Roy Jr. Morris ...
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