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  • OBSESSED: THE PRESIDENCY AND ILLINOIS SENATORS PERCY, STEVENSON III, SIMON

    From history books, memoirs, news stories and public utterances it is known that untold numbers of serving United States senators dreamed of residing in the Oval Office. Many fewer committed to open pursuit of the office, and even fewer made it. Three Illinois senators from the 1950s to the 1990s- Republican Charles H. Percy, Democrats Adlai E.Stevenson III and Paul Simon-can be counted as ... Read more

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  • Death Underground

    The Centralia and West Frankfort Mine Disasters

    Death Underground: The Centralia and West Frankfort Mine Disasters examines two of the most devastating coal mine disasters in United States history since 1928. In two southern Illinois towns only forty miles apart, explosions killed 111 men at the Centralia No. 5 mine in 1947 and 119 men at the New Orient No. 2 mine in West Frankfort in 1951. Robert E. Hartley and David Kenney explain the causes ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Purpose, Power and Prison: Stories About Former Illinois Governors

    What happened to the 11 men who served as governor of Illinois from 1933 to 2003? That is what this book is about. Each life is traced from highlights and lowlights in office to the day the music stopped and life played out as a former governor. Most of them would have preferred to continue serving as the state’s chief executive. But that wasn’t an option. Each man faced the challenges of a new ... Read more

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  • The Dealmakers of Downstate Illinois

    Paul Powell, Clyde L. Choate, John H. Stelle

    Winner, ISHS Annual Award for a Scholarly Publication, 2017Many people are unaware that from 1945 to 1975, downstate lawmakers dominated the Illinois political arena. In The Dealmakers of Downstate Illinois, Robert E. Hartley details the lives and contributions of three influential southern Illinois politicians, Paul Powell, Clyde Choate, and John Stelle. He describes how these “dealmakers” were ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Master of the Senate (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    The Years of Lyndon Johnson III

    Series Book 3 - The Years of Lyndon Johnson
    **PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • Master of the Senate, Book Three of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, carries Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 to 1960, in the United States Senate.A Los Angeles Times Best Nonfiction Book of the Last 30 Years**At the heart of the book is its unprecedented revelation of how legislative power works in America, how the ... Read more

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  • Before the Storm

    Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus

    “A detailed and dramatic narrative of the rise of the modern right...It's an amazing story, and Perlstein, a man of the left, does it justice” (William Kristol, The New York Times Book Review)Before the Storm begins at the tail end of the 1950s, with America affluent, confident, and convinced that political ideology was a thing of the past.But when John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960, ... Read more

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  • Kill Switch

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  • Waking from the Dream

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  • Give Us the Ballot

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  • Rule and Ruin:The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, From Eisenhower to the Tea Party

    The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, From Eisenhower to the Tea Party

    Series series Studies in Postwar American Political Development
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  • Protest at Selma

    Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Voting Rights Act of 1965

    A thorough and insightful account of the historic 1965 civil rights protest at Selma, Alabama, from the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning biography Bearing the CrossVivid descriptions of violence and courageous acts fill David Garrow's account of the momentous 1965 protest at Selma, Alabama, in which the author illuminates the role of Martin Luther King Jr. in organizing the demonstrations that ... Read more

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