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  • Money, Murder, Sex, and Beer:

    The Texas Trial of Emma Burgemeister

    There was never any doubt that Emma Burgemeister shot and killed beer and real estate magnate Otto Koehler on November 12, 1914. The question remained: Why? The deceased was one of the wealthiest and most respected persons in the Southwest and a pillar of the community. As a result, his murder and trial drew national attention. Soon, the entire affair was one of the most famous murder cases ever ... Leer más

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  • Heads above Water

    The Inside Story of the Edwards Aquifer Recovery Implementation Program

    Series series Kathie and Ed Cox Jr. Books on Conservation Leadership, sponsored by The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, Texas State University
    Since the 1950s, competing interests for use of Edwards Aquifer resources—the primary source of water for more than two million people in south central Texas—were at war. They had tried many times to resolve their differences about how to conserve, allocate, and use the water, but had always failed.Finally, under the patient leadership of Robert Gulley, thirty-nine diverse stakeholders reached a ... Leer más

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    Sex, Surveillance, and the Decades-Long Government Plan to Imprison "Promiscuous" Women

    **The nearly forgotten story of the fight against the American Plan, a government program designed to regulate women’s bodies and sexuality“A consistently surprising page-turner . . . a brilliant study of the way social anxieties have historically congealed in state control over women’s bodies and behavior.” —New York Times Book Review**Nina McCall was one of many women unfairly imprisoned by the ... Leer más

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  • The Guggenheims

    A Family History

    A portrait of a great American dynasty and its legacy in business, technology, the arts, and philanthropyMeyer Guggenheim, a Swiss immigrant, founded a great American business dynasty. At their peak in the early twentieth century, the Guggenheims were reckoned among America's wealthiest, and the richest Jewish family in the world after the Rothschilds. They belonged to Our Crowd, that tight social ... Leer más

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  • White Lies

    The Double Life of Walter F. White and America's Darkest Secret

    de A. J. Baime ...
    A New Yorker Best Book of the Year 2022An “electrifying” biography of Walter White, a little-remembered Black civil rights leader who passed for white in order to investigate racist murders, help put the NAACP on the map, and change the racial identity of America forever (Chicago Review of Books).Walter F. White led two lives: one as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance and the NAACP in the early ... Leer más

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  • The People Speak

    American Voices, Some Famous, Some Little Known

    de Howard Zinn ...
    Collected here is a brief history of America told through stories applauding the enduring spirit of dissent.To celebrate the millionth copy sold of his book, A People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn drew on the words of Americans—some famous, some little known—across the range of American history. These words were read by a remarkable cast at an event held at the 92nd Street Y in New ... Leer más

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  • This America of Ours

    Bernard and Avis DeVoto and the Forgotten Fight to Save the Wild

    de Nate Schweber ...
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  • The Strange Career of William Ellis

    The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire

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  • The Man Who Never Died

    The Life, Times, and Legacy of Joe Hill, American Labor Icon

    In 1914, Joe Hill was convicted of murder in Utah and sentenced to death by firing squad, igniting international controversy. Many believed Hill was innocent, condemned for his association with the Industrial Workers of the World-the radical Wobblies. Now, following four years of intensive investigation, William M. Adler gives us the first full-scale biography of Joe Hill, and presents never ... Leer más

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  • Undaunted

    How Women Changed American Journalism

    An essential history of women in American journalism, showcasing exceptional careers from 1840 to the presentUndaunted is a representative history of the American women who surmounted every impediment put in their way to do journalism’s most valued work. From Margaret Fuller’s improbable success to the highly paid reporters of the mid-nineteenth century to the breakthrough investigative triumphs ... Leer más

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  • Joe Hill

    The IWW & the Making of a Revolutionary Workingclass Counterculture

    Series series The Charles H. Kerr Library
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  • Democratic Justice

    Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment

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    The definitive biography of Felix Frankfurter, Supreme Court justice and champion of twentieth-century American liberal democracy.The conventional wisdom about Felix Frankfurter—Harvard law professor and Supreme Court justice—is that he struggled to fill the seat once held by Oliver Wendell Holmes. Scholars have portrayed Frankfurter as a judicial failure, a liberal lawyer turned conservative ... Leer más

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