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  • Direct Action & Sabotage

    Three Classic IWW Pamphlets from the 1910s

    by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Walker C. Smith, William E. Trautmann ...
    Series series The Charles H. Kerr Library
    The pamphlets reprinted here were first published in the 1910s amid great controversy. Even then, the tactics of direct action and sabotage were often associated with the cartoonists’ image of the disheveled, wild-eyed anarchist armed with stiletto, handgun, or bomb—the clandestine activity of a militant minority or the desperate acts of the unorganized.The activist authors of the texts in this ... Read more

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  • The Everett Massacre

    A history of the class struggle in the lumber industry

    by Walker C. Smith ...
    In 'The Everett Massacre,' Walker C. Smith meticulously chronicles the events surrounding the violent confrontation between labor organizers and authorities in Everett, Washington, in 1916. This gripping historical account marries a journalistic approach with vivid narrative techniques, immersing the reader in a tumultuous period of labor unrest characterized by class struggle and political ... Read more

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  • Last Call

    The Rise and Fall of Prohibition

    by Daniel Okrent ...
    A brilliant, authoritative, and fascinating history of America’s most puzzling era, the years 1920 to 1933, when the U.S. Constitution was amended to restrict one of America’s favorite pastimes: drinking alcoholic beverages.From its start, America has been awash in drink. The sailing vessel that brought John Winthrop to the shores of the New World in 1630 carried more beer than water. By the 1820s ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • Prohibition

    Thirteen Years That Changed America

    by Edward Behr ...
    From the bestselling author of The Last Emperor comes this rip-roaring history of the government’s attempt to end America’s love affair with liquor—which failed miserably. On January 16, 1920, America went dry. For the next thirteen years, the Eighteenth Amendment prohibited the making, selling, or transportation of “intoxicating liquors,” heralding a new era of crime and corruption on all levels ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • City of Scoundrels

    The 12 Days of Disaster That Gave Birth to Modern Chicago

    by Gary Krist ...
    The masterfully told story of twelve volatile days in the life of Chicago, when an aviation disaster, a race riot, a crippling transit strike, and a sensational child murder transfixed and roiled a city already on the brink of collapse.When 1919 began, the city of Chicago seemed on the verge of transformation. Modernizers had an audacious, expensive plan to turn the city from a brawling, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Strange and Obscure Stories of New York City

    Little-Known Tales About Gotham's People and Places

    by Tim Rowland ...
    The 1948 crime film The Naked City (later a television show) ended with this iconic line There are eight million stories in the naked city.” Things have not changed either before or since: every era and neighborhood is full of true tales and legends about which even residents are likely to be unaware. Strange And Obscure Stories Of New York City takes the reader on a breathtaking tour of the five ... Read more

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  • Only Yesterday

    by Frederick Lewis Allen ...
    "This book is an attempt to tell, and in some measure to interpret, the story of what in the future may be considered a distinct era in American history: the eleven years between the end of the war with Germany (November 11, 1918) and the stock-market panic which culminated on November 13, 1929, hastening and dramatizing the destruction of what had been known as Coolidge (and Hoover) Prosperity." ... Read more

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  • Island of Vice

    Theodore Roosevelt's Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York

    by Richard Zacks ...
    A ROLLICKING NARRATIVE HISTORY OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT'S EMBATTLED TENURE AS POLICE COMMISSIONER OF CORRUPT, PLEASURE-LOVING NEW YORK CITY IN THE 1880s, AND HIS DOOMED MISSION TO WIPE OUT VICEIn the 1890s, New York City was America’s financial, manufacturing, and entertainment capital, and also its preferred destination for sin, teeming with 40,000 prostitutes, glittering casinos, and all-night ... Read more

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  • When the Cheering Stopped

    The Last Years of Woodrow Wilson

    by Gene Smith ...
    The poignant true story of an American president struck by tragedy at the height of his glory.This New York Times bestseller vividly chronicles the stunning decline in Woodrow Wilson's fortunes after World War I and draws back the curtain on one of the strangest episodes in the history of the American presidency.Author Gene Smith brilliantly captures the drama and excitement of Wilson's efforts at ... Read more

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  • Chicago's Great Fire

    The Destruction and Resurrection of an Iconic American City

    by Carl Smith ...
    A definitive chronicle of the 1871 Chicago Fire as remembered by those who experienced it—from the author of Chicago and the American Literary Imagination.Over three days in October, 1871, much of Chicago, Illinois, was destroyed by one of the most legendary urban fires in history. Incorporated as a city in 1837, Chicago had grown at a breathtaking pace in the intervening decades—and much of the ... Read more

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  • Low Life

    Lures and Snares of Old New York

    by Lucy Sante ...
    The classic social history of corruption and vice in nineteenth-century NYC: "A cacophonous poem of democracy and greed, like the streets of New York themselves" (John Vernon, Los Angeles Times Book Review).Lucy Sante's Low Life is a portrait of America's greatest city, the riotous and anarchic breeding ground of modernity. This is not the familiar saga of mansions, avenues, and robber barons, but ... Read more

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  • American Lightning

    Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century

    by Howard Blum ...
    It was an explosion that reverberated across the country—and into the very heart of early-twentieth-century America. On the morning of October 1, 1910, the walls of the Los Angeles Times Building buckled as a thunderous detonation sent men, machinery, and mortar rocketing into the night air. When at last the wreckage had been sifted and the hospital triage units consulted, twenty-one people were ... Read more

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