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A.D.
New Orleans After the Deluge
Written by Josh Neufeld
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: August 18, 2009
Price: $24.95
A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge is a masterful portrait of a city under siege. Cartoonist Josh Neufeld depicts seven extraordinary true stories of survival in the days leading up to and following Hurricane Katrina.
Here we meet Denise, a counselor and social worker, and a sixth-generation New Orleanian; “The Doctor,”... Read more >
New Orleans After the Deluge
Written by Josh Neufeld
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: August 18, 2009
Price: $24.95
A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge is a masterful portrait of a city under siege. Cartoonist Josh Neufeld depicts seven extraordinary true stories of survival in the days leading up to and following Hurricane Katrina.
Here we meet Denise, a counselor and social worker, and a sixth-generation New Orleanian; “The Doctor,”... Read more >
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Pigs at the Trough
How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America
Written by Arianna Huffington
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: July 28, 2009
Price: $14.00
“Wonderfully incendiary and right-headed . . .Huffington is mad as hell, and rightly so.” –Esquire
The scathing and insightful New York Times bestseller, now updated to include the current economic crisis
Pigs at the Trough is Arianna Huffington’s eerily prescient exposé of the financial meltdown–and the flagrant greed that triggered it. Once again... Read more >
How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America
Written by Arianna Huffington
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: July 28, 2009
Price: $14.00
“Wonderfully incendiary and right-headed . . .Huffington is mad as hell, and rightly so.” –Esquire
The scathing and insightful New York Times bestseller, now updated to include the current economic crisis
Pigs at the Trough is Arianna Huffington’s eerily prescient exposé of the financial meltdown–and the flagrant greed that triggered it. Once again... Read more >
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Idiot America
How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free
Written by Charles Pierce
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Price: $26.00
The Culture Wars Are Over and the Idiots Have Won
A veteran journalist's acidically funny, righteously angry lament about the glorification of ignorance in the United States.
In the midst of a career-long quest to separate the smart from the pap, Charles Pierce had a defining moment at the Creation Museum in Kentucky... Read more >
How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free
Written by Charles Pierce
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Price: $26.00
The Culture Wars Are Over and the Idiots Have Won
A veteran journalist's acidically funny, righteously angry lament about the glorification of ignorance in the United States.
In the midst of a career-long quest to separate the smart from the pap, Charles Pierce had a defining moment at the Creation Museum in Kentucky... Read more >
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Idiot America
How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free
Written by Charles Pierce
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Price: $26.00
The Culture Wars Are Over and the Idiots Have Won
A veteran journalist's acidically funny, righteously angry lament about the glorification of ignorance in the United States.
In the midst of a career-long quest to separate the smart from the pap, Charles Pierce had a defining moment at the Creation Museum in Kentucky... Read more >
How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free
Written by Charles Pierce
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Price: $26.00
The Culture Wars Are Over and the Idiots Have Won
A veteran journalist's acidically funny, righteously angry lament about the glorification of ignorance in the United States.
In the midst of a career-long quest to separate the smart from the pap, Charles Pierce had a defining moment at the Creation Museum in Kentucky... Read more >
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Why America Slept
The Reasons Behind Our Failure to Prevent 9/11
Written by Gerald Posner
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2009
Price: $7.99
The story of the years leading up to 9/11 is the story of what might have been, and also serves as a call to the defense of America’s future. Since 9/11, one important question has persisted: What was really going on behind the scenes with intelligence services and government leaders during... Read more >
The Reasons Behind Our Failure to Prevent 9/11
Written by Gerald Posner
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2009
Price: $7.99
The story of the years leading up to 9/11 is the story of what might have been, and also serves as a call to the defense of America’s future. Since 9/11, one important question has persisted: What was really going on behind the scenes with intelligence services and government leaders during... Read more >
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Outcasts United
Written by Warren St. John
Read by Lincoln Hoppe
Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: April 21, 2009
Price: $29.95
The extraordinary tale of a refugee youth soccer team and the transformation of a small American town
Clarkston, Georgia, was a typical Southern town until it was designated a refugee settlement center in the 1990s, becoming the first American home for scores of families in flight from the world’s war zones—from Liberia... Read more >
Written by Warren St. John
Read by Lincoln Hoppe
Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: April 21, 2009
Price: $29.95
The extraordinary tale of a refugee youth soccer team and the transformation of a small American town
Clarkston, Georgia, was a typical Southern town until it was designated a refugee settlement center in the 1990s, becoming the first American home for scores of families in flight from the world’s war zones—from Liberia... Read more >
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Outcasts United
Written by Warren St. John
Read by Lincoln Hoppe
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: April 21, 2009
Price: $15.00
The extraordinary tale of a refugee youth soccer team and the transformation of a small American town
Clarkston, Georgia, was a typical Southern town until it was designated a refugee settlement center in the 1990s, becoming the first American home for scores of families in flight from the world’s war zones—from Liberia... Read more >
Written by Warren St. John
Read by Lincoln Hoppe
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: April 21, 2009
Price: $15.00
The extraordinary tale of a refugee youth soccer team and the transformation of a small American town
Clarkston, Georgia, was a typical Southern town until it was designated a refugee settlement center in the 1990s, becoming the first American home for scores of families in flight from the world’s war zones—from Liberia... Read more >
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In the Shadow of No Towers
Written by Art Spiegelman
Format: eBook, 42 pages
On Sale: February 18, 2009
Price: $19.95
For Art Spiegelman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Maus, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 were both highly personal and intensely political. In the Shadow of No Towers, his first new book of comics since the groundbreaking Maus, is a masterful and moving account of the events and aftermath of... Read more >
Written by Art Spiegelman
Format: eBook, 42 pages
On Sale: February 18, 2009
Price: $19.95
For Art Spiegelman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Maus, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 were both highly personal and intensely political. In the Shadow of No Towers, his first new book of comics since the groundbreaking Maus, is a masterful and moving account of the events and aftermath of... Read more >
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The Price of Admission
How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges--and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates
Written by Daniel Golden
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: January 21, 2009
Price: $14.95
Every spring thousands of middle-class and lower-income high-school seniors learn that they have been rejected by America’s most exclusive colleges. What they may never learn is how many candidates like themselves have been passed over in favor of wealthy white students with lesser credentials—children of alumni, big donors, or celebrities.
In this... Read more >
How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges--and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates
Written by Daniel Golden
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: January 21, 2009
Price: $14.95
Every spring thousands of middle-class and lower-income high-school seniors learn that they have been rejected by America’s most exclusive colleges. What they may never learn is how many candidates like themselves have been passed over in favor of wealthy white students with lesser credentials—children of alumni, big donors, or celebrities.
In this... Read more >
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And Justice for All
The United States Commission on Civil Rights and the Continuing Struggle for Freedom in America
Written by Mary Frances Berry
Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
On Sale: January 20, 2009
Price: $30.00
This is the story of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, through its extraordinary fifty years at the heart of the civil rights movement and the struggle for justice in America.
Mary Frances Berry, the commission’s chairperson for more than a decade, author of My Face Is Black Is True (“An essential... Read more >
The United States Commission on Civil Rights and the Continuing Struggle for Freedom in America
Written by Mary Frances Berry
Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
On Sale: January 20, 2009
Price: $30.00
This is the story of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, through its extraordinary fifty years at the heart of the civil rights movement and the struggle for justice in America.
Mary Frances Berry, the commission’s chairperson for more than a decade, author of My Face Is Black Is True (“An essential... Read more >
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And Justice for All
Written by Mary Frances Berry
Format: eBook, 448 pages
On Sale: January 20, 2009
Price: $30.00
This is the story of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, through its extraordinary fifty years at the heart of the civil rights movement and the struggle for justice in America.
Mary Frances Berry, the commission’s chairperson for more than a decade, author of My Face Is Black Is True (“An essential... Read more >
Written by Mary Frances Berry
Format: eBook, 448 pages
On Sale: January 20, 2009
Price: $30.00
This is the story of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, through its extraordinary fifty years at the heart of the civil rights movement and the struggle for justice in America.
Mary Frances Berry, the commission’s chairperson for more than a decade, author of My Face Is Black Is True (“An essential... Read more >
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Elsewhere, U.S.A.
How We Got from the Company Man, Family Dinners, and the Affluent Society to the Home Office, BlackBerry Moms, and Economic Anxiety
Written by Dalton Conley
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: January 13, 2009
Price: $24.00
Over the past three decades, our daily lives have changed slowly but dramatically. Boundaries between leisure and work, public space and private space, and home and office have blurred and become permeable. How many of us now work from home, our wireless economy allowing and encouraging us to work 24/7? How... Read more >
How We Got from the Company Man, Family Dinners, and the Affluent Society to the Home Office, BlackBerry Moms, and Economic Anxiety
Written by Dalton Conley
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: January 13, 2009
Price: $24.00
Over the past three decades, our daily lives have changed slowly but dramatically. Boundaries between leisure and work, public space and private space, and home and office have blurred and become permeable. How many of us now work from home, our wireless economy allowing and encouraging us to work 24/7? How... Read more >
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Elsewhere, U.S.A.
How We Got from the Company Man, Family Dinners, and the Affluent Society to the Home Office, BlackBerry Moms, and Economic Anxiety
Written by Dalton Conley
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 13, 2009
Price: $24.00
Over the past three decades, our daily lives have changed slowly but dramatically. Boundaries between leisure and work, public space and private space, and home and office have blurred and become permeable. How many of us now work from home, our wireless economy allowing and encouraging us to work 24/7? How... Read more >
How We Got from the Company Man, Family Dinners, and the Affluent Society to the Home Office, BlackBerry Moms, and Economic Anxiety
Written by Dalton Conley
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 13, 2009
Price: $24.00
Over the past three decades, our daily lives have changed slowly but dramatically. Boundaries between leisure and work, public space and private space, and home and office have blurred and become permeable. How many of us now work from home, our wireless economy allowing and encouraging us to work 24/7? How... Read more >
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hardcover.
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Deer Hunting with Jesus
Dispatches from America's Class War
Written by Joe Bageant
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: June 24, 2008
Price: $13.95
A raucous, truth-telling look at the white working poor-and why they hate liberalism.
Deer Hunting with Jesus is web columnist Joe Bageant’s report on what he learned when he moved back to his hometown of Winchester, Virginia, which-like countless American small towns-is fast becoming the bedrock of a permanent underclass. By turns... Read more >
Dispatches from America's Class War
Written by Joe Bageant
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: June 24, 2008
Price: $13.95
A raucous, truth-telling look at the white working poor-and why they hate liberalism.
Deer Hunting with Jesus is web columnist Joe Bageant’s report on what he learned when he moved back to his hometown of Winchester, Virginia, which-like countless American small towns-is fast becoming the bedrock of a permanent underclass. By turns... Read more >
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eBook.
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Deer Hunting with Jesus
Dispatches from America's Class War
Written by Joe Bageant
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 24, 2008
Price: $13.95
After thirty years spent scratching together a middle-class life out of a “dirt-poor” childhood, Joe Bageant moved back to his hometown of Winchester, Virginia, where he realized that his family and neighbors were the very people who carried George W. Bush to victory. That was ironic, because Winchester, like countless American... Read more >
Dispatches from America's Class War
Written by Joe Bageant
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 24, 2008
Price: $13.95
After thirty years spent scratching together a middle-class life out of a “dirt-poor” childhood, Joe Bageant moved back to his hometown of Winchester, Virginia, where he realized that his family and neighbors were the very people who carried George W. Bush to victory. That was ironic, because Winchester, like countless American... Read more >
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Firefight
Inside the Battle to Save the Pentagon on 9/11
Written by Patrick Creed and Rick Newman
Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
On Sale: May 27, 2008
Price: $27.00
Amid all the stories of tragedy and heroism on September 11, there is one tale that has yet to be told–the gripping account of ordinary men and women braving the inferno at the Pentagon to rescue friends and co-workers, save the nation’s military headquarters, and defend their country.
Pentagon firefighters Alan Wallace... Read more >
Inside the Battle to Save the Pentagon on 9/11
Written by Patrick Creed and Rick Newman
Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
On Sale: May 27, 2008
Price: $27.00
Amid all the stories of tragedy and heroism on September 11, there is one tale that has yet to be told–the gripping account of ordinary men and women braving the inferno at the Pentagon to rescue friends and co-workers, save the nation’s military headquarters, and defend their country.
Pentagon firefighters Alan Wallace... Read more >
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eBook.
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Firefight
Inside the Battle to Save the Pentagon on 9/11
Written by Patrick Creed and Rick Newman
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 27, 2008
Price: $27.00
Amid all the stories of tragedy and heroism on September 11, there is one tale that has yet to be told–the gripping account of ordinary men and women braving the inferno at the Pentagon to rescue friends and co-workers, save the nation’s military headquarters, and defend their country.
Pentagon firefighters Alan Wallace... Read more >
Inside the Battle to Save the Pentagon on 9/11
Written by Patrick Creed and Rick Newman
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 27, 2008
Price: $27.00
Amid all the stories of tragedy and heroism on September 11, there is one tale that has yet to be told–the gripping account of ordinary men and women braving the inferno at the Pentagon to rescue friends and co-workers, save the nation’s military headquarters, and defend their country.
Pentagon firefighters Alan Wallace... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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The Supreme Court Phalanx
The Court's New Right-Wing Bloc
Written by Ronald Dworkin
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: May 13, 2008
Price: $12.95
George W. Bush’s nominations of John Roberts and Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court in 2005 were widely expected to turn it sharply to the right. But no one foresaw the rapidity or the revolutionary zeal with which, as Ronald Dworkin writes, the Court would begin “overruling, most often by stealth... Read more >
The Court's New Right-Wing Bloc
Written by Ronald Dworkin
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: May 13, 2008
Price: $12.95
George W. Bush’s nominations of John Roberts and Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court in 2005 were widely expected to turn it sharply to the right. But no one foresaw the rapidity or the revolutionary zeal with which, as Ronald Dworkin writes, the Court would begin “overruling, most often by stealth... Read more >
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The Age of American Unreason
Written by Susan Jacoby
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 12, 2008
Price: $15.95
Combining historical analysis with contemporary observation, Susan Jacoby dissects a new American cultural phenomenon--one that is at odds with our heritage of Enlightenment reason and with modern, secular knowledge and science. With mordant wit, she surveys an anti-rationalist landscape extending from pop culture to a pseudo-intellectual universe of "junk thought." Disdain... Read more >
Written by Susan Jacoby
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 12, 2008
Price: $15.95
Combining historical analysis with contemporary observation, Susan Jacoby dissects a new American cultural phenomenon--one that is at odds with our heritage of Enlightenment reason and with modern, secular knowledge and science. With mordant wit, she surveys an anti-rationalist landscape extending from pop culture to a pseudo-intellectual universe of "junk thought." Disdain... Read more >
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The Age of American Unreason
Written by Susan Jacoby
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2008
Price: $26.00
Combining historical analysis with contemporary observation, Susan Jacoby dissects a new American cultural phenomenon--one that is at odds with our heritage of Enlightenment reason and with modern, secular knowledge and science. With mordant wit, she surveys an anti-rationalist landscape extending from pop culture to a pseudo-intellectual universe of "junk thought." Disdain... Read more >
Written by Susan Jacoby
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2008
Price: $26.00
Combining historical analysis with contemporary observation, Susan Jacoby dissects a new American cultural phenomenon--one that is at odds with our heritage of Enlightenment reason and with modern, secular knowledge and science. With mordant wit, she surveys an anti-rationalist landscape extending from pop culture to a pseudo-intellectual universe of "junk thought." Disdain... Read more >
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Sellout
The Politics of Racial Betrayal
Written by Randall Kennedy
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $22.00
In the wake of his controversial national best-seller, Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, Randall Kennedy grapples brilliantly and judiciously with another stigma of our racial discourse: "selling out," or racial betrayal, which is a subject of much anxiety and acrimony in Black America. He atomizes the vicissitudes of... Read more >
The Politics of Racial Betrayal
Written by Randall Kennedy
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $22.00
In the wake of his controversial national best-seller, Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, Randall Kennedy grapples brilliantly and judiciously with another stigma of our racial discourse: "selling out," or racial betrayal, which is a subject of much anxiety and acrimony in Black America. He atomizes the vicissitudes of... Read more >
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Sellout
The Politics of Racial Betrayal
Written by Randall Kennedy
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $13.95
In the wake of his controversial national best-seller, Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, Randall Kennedy grapples brilliantly and judiciously with another stigma of our racial discourse: "selling out," or racial betrayal, which is a subject of much anxiety and acrimony in Black America. He atomizes the vicissitudes of... Read more >
The Politics of Racial Betrayal
Written by Randall Kennedy
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $13.95
In the wake of his controversial national best-seller, Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, Randall Kennedy grapples brilliantly and judiciously with another stigma of our racial discourse: "selling out," or racial betrayal, which is a subject of much anxiety and acrimony in Black America. He atomizes the vicissitudes of... Read more >
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The Tyranny of Tolerance
A Sitting Judge Breaks the Code of Silence to Expose the Liberal Judicial Assault
Written by Robert H. Dierker, Jr.
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: December 31, 2007
Price: $14.95
For the first time, a sitting judge blows the whistle on America’s out-of-control courts.
A judge for more than twenty years, Robert Dierker has enjoyed a distinguished legal career. But now that career may be on the line. Why? Because he is breaking the code of silence that has long kept judges... Read more >
A Sitting Judge Breaks the Code of Silence to Expose the Liberal Judicial Assault
Written by Robert H. Dierker, Jr.
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: December 31, 2007
Price: $14.95
For the first time, a sitting judge blows the whistle on America’s out-of-control courts.
A judge for more than twenty years, Robert Dierker has enjoyed a distinguished legal career. But now that career may be on the line. Why? Because he is breaking the code of silence that has long kept judges... Read more >
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Can She Be Stopped?
Hillary Clinton Will Be the Next President of the United States Unless . . .
Written by John Podhoretz
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95
Our Worst Nightmare—and How to Avoid It
It’s the ultimate nightmare scenario for conservatives: to awaken on the morning of November 5, 2008, to the news that the last swing state has been colored bright blue and Hillary Rodham Clinton is the President-elect of the United States.
Could it really happen?
Frighteningly, yes... Read more >
Hillary Clinton Will Be the Next President of the United States Unless . . .
Written by John Podhoretz
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95
Our Worst Nightmare—and How to Avoid It
It’s the ultimate nightmare scenario for conservatives: to awaken on the morning of November 5, 2008, to the news that the last swing state has been colored bright blue and Hillary Rodham Clinton is the President-elect of the United States.
Could it really happen?
Frighteningly, yes... Read more >
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The Devil's Playground
A Century of Pleasure and Profit in Times Square
Written by James Traub
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95
As Times Square turns 100, New York Times Magazine contributing writer James Traub tells the story of how this mercurial district became one of the most famous and exciting places in the world. The Devil’s Playground is classic and colorful American history, from the first years of the twentieth century through... Read more >
A Century of Pleasure and Profit in Times Square
Written by James Traub
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95
As Times Square turns 100, New York Times Magazine contributing writer James Traub tells the story of how this mercurial district became one of the most famous and exciting places in the world. The Devil’s Playground is classic and colorful American history, from the first years of the twentieth century through... Read more >
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