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Pub Date 15 Jun 2018
Spanish émigré guitarist Celedonio Romero gave his American debut performance on a June evening in 1958. In the sixty years since, the Romero Family—Celedonio, his wife Angelita, sons Celín, Pepe, and Angel, as well as grandsons Celino and Lito—have become preeminent in the world of Spanish flamenco and classical guitar in the United States.
Walter Aaron...
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Los Romeros
Walter Aaron Clark
Pub Date 15 Jun 2018
Spanish émigré guitarist Celedonio Romero gave his American debut performance on a June evening in 1958. In the sixty years since, the Romero Family—Celedonio, his wife Angelita, sons Celín, Pepe, and Angel, as well as grandsons Celino and Lito—have become preeminent in the world of Spanish flamenco and classical guitar in the United States.
Walter Aaron...
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Pub Date 16 Jul 2018
Geologic forces raised the Ozarks. Myth enshrouds these hills. Human beings shaped them and were shaped by them. The Ozarks reflect the epic tableau of the American people—the native Osage and would-be colonial conquerors, the determined settlers and on-the-make speculators, the endless labors of hardscrabble farmers and capitalism of visionary...
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A History of the Ozarks, Volume 1
Brooks Blevins
Pub Date 16 Jul 2018
Geologic forces raised the Ozarks. Myth enshrouds these hills. Human beings shaped them and were shaped by them. The Ozarks reflect the epic tableau of the American people—the native Osage and would-be colonial conquerors, the determined settlers and on-the-make speculators, the endless labors of hardscrabble farmers and capitalism of visionary...
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Pub Date 30 Apr 2018
Cast as the ultimate hardhats, football players of the 1960s seemed to personify a crewcut traditional manhood that channeled the Puritan work ethic. Yet, despite a social upheaval against such virtues, the National Football League won over all of America—and became a cultural force that recast politics in its own smashmouth image.
Jesse Berrett explores...
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Pigskin Nation
Jesse Berrett
Pub Date 30 Apr 2018
Cast as the ultimate hardhats, football players of the 1960s seemed to personify a crewcut traditional manhood that channeled the Puritan work ethic. Yet, despite a social upheaval against such virtues, the National Football League won over all of America—and became a cultural force that recast politics in its own smashmouth image.
Jesse Berrett explores...
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Pub Date 15 May 2018
Rosenberg's memoir shines a light on the changing bluegrass scene of the early 1960s. Already a fan and aspiring...
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Bluegrass Generation
Neil V Rosenberg
Pub Date 15 May 2018
Rosenberg's memoir shines a light on the changing bluegrass scene of the early 1960s. Already a fan and aspiring...
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Pub Date 15 Mar 2018
“It is not, nor it cannot come to good. But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.” Thus spoke Hamlet, one of the great kvetchers of literature. Every day, gripers challenge our patience and compassion. Yet Pollyannas rile us up with their grotesque contentment and unfathomable rejection of protest.
Avital Ronell considers how literature and...
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Complaint
Avital Ronell
Pub Date 15 Mar 2018
“It is not, nor it cannot come to good. But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.” Thus spoke Hamlet, one of the great kvetchers of literature. Every day, gripers challenge our patience and compassion. Yet Pollyannas rile us up with their grotesque contentment and unfathomable rejection of protest.
Avital Ronell considers how literature and...
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Glory in Their Spirit
How Four Black Women Took On the Army during World War II
by Sandra M Bolzenius
Pub Date 15 Apr 2018
Before Rosa Parks and the March on Washington, four African American women risked their careers and freedom to defy the United States Army over segregation. Women Army Corps (WAC) privates Mary Green, Anna Morrison, Johnnie Murphy, and Alice Young enlisted to serve their country, improve their lives, and claim the privileges of citizenship long denied...
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Glory in Their Spirit
Sandra M Bolzenius
Glory in Their Spirit
How Four Black Women Took On the Army during World War II
by Sandra M Bolzenius
Pub Date 15 Apr 2018
Before Rosa Parks and the March on Washington, four African American women risked their careers and freedom to defy the United States Army over segregation. Women Army Corps (WAC) privates Mary Green, Anna Morrison, Johnnie Murphy, and Alice Young enlisted to serve their country, improve their lives, and claim the privileges of citizenship long denied...
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Mayor Harold Washington
Champion of Race and Reform in Chicago
by Roger Biles
Pub Date 15 Jun 2018
Raised in a political family on Chicago's South Side, Harold Washington made history as the city's first African American mayor. His 1983 electoral triumph, fueled by overwhelming black support, represented victory over the Chicago Machine and business as usual. Yet the racially charged campaign heralded an era of bitter political divisiveness that...
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Mayor Harold Washington
Roger Biles
Mayor Harold Washington
Champion of Race and Reform in Chicago
by Roger Biles
Pub Date 15 Jun 2018
Raised in a political family on Chicago's South Side, Harold Washington made history as the city's first African American mayor. His 1983 electoral triumph, fueled by overwhelming black support, represented victory over the Chicago Machine and business as usual. Yet the racially charged campaign heralded an era of bitter political divisiveness that...
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Pub Date 16 Apr 2018
By the 1980s, critics and the public alike considered James Baldwin irrelevant. Yet Baldwin remained an important, prolific writer until his death in 1987. Indeed, his work throughout the decade pushed him into new areas, in particular an expanded interest in the social and psychological consequences of popular culture and mass media. Joseph Vogel offers...
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James Baldwin and the 1980s
Joseph Vogel

Pub Date 16 Apr 2018
By the 1980s, critics and the public alike considered James Baldwin irrelevant. Yet Baldwin remained an important, prolific writer until his death in 1987. Indeed, his work throughout the decade pushed him into new areas, in particular an expanded interest in the social and psychological consequences of popular culture and mass media. Joseph Vogel offers...
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Creating the Land of Lincoln
The History and Constitutions of Illinois, 1778-1870
by Frank Cicero Jr.
Pub Date 15 Mar 2018
In its early days, Illinois seemed destined to extend the American South. Its population of transplants lived an upland southern culture and in some cases owned slaves. Yet the nineteenth century and three constitutions recast Illinois as a crucible of northern strength and American progress.
Frank Cicero Jr. provides an appealing new history of...
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Creating the Land of Lincoln
Frank Cicero Jr.

Creating the Land of Lincoln
The History and Constitutions of Illinois, 1778-1870
by Frank Cicero Jr.
Pub Date 15 Mar 2018
In its early days, Illinois seemed destined to extend the American South. Its population of transplants lived an upland southern culture and in some cases owned slaves. Yet the nineteenth century and three constitutions recast Illinois as a crucible of northern strength and American progress.
Frank Cicero Jr. provides an appealing new history of...
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Pink-Slipped
What Happened to Women in the Silent Film Industries?
by Jane M Gaines
Pub Date 15 Mar 2018
Women held more positions of power in the silent film era than at any other time in American motion picture history. Marion Leonard broke from acting to cofound a feature film company. Gene Gauntier, the face of Kalem Films, also wrote the first script of Ben-Hur . Helen Holmes choreographed her own breathtaking on-camera stunt work. Yet they and the other...
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Pink-Slipped
Jane M Gaines

Pink-Slipped
What Happened to Women in the Silent Film Industries?
by Jane M Gaines
Pub Date 15 Mar 2018
Women held more positions of power in the silent film era than at any other time in American motion picture history. Marion Leonard broke from acting to cofound a feature film company. Gene Gauntier, the face of Kalem Films, also wrote the first script of Ben-Hur . Helen Holmes choreographed her own breathtaking on-camera stunt work. Yet they and the other...
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Pub Date 03 Jan 2018
Every day, noodle shops around the globe ladle out quick meals that fuel our go-go lives. But Ken Albala has a mission: to get YOU in the kitchen making noodle soup. This primer offers the recipes and techniques for mastering quick-slurper staples and luxurious from-scratch feasts. Albala made a different noodle soup every day for two years. His obsession...
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Noodle Soup
Ken Albala

Pub Date 03 Jan 2018
Every day, noodle shops around the globe ladle out quick meals that fuel our go-go lives. But Ken Albala has a mission: to get YOU in the kitchen making noodle soup. This primer offers the recipes and techniques for mastering quick-slurper staples and luxurious from-scratch feasts. Albala made a different noodle soup every day for two years. His obsession...
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Pub Date 15 Feb 2018
The September 11 attacks produced sea changes in journalism and the lives of the people who practiced it. Foreign reporters felt surrounded by the hate of American colleagues for "the enemy." Americans in combat areas became literal targets of anti “U.S. sentiment. Behind the lines, editors and bureau chiefs scrambled to re-orient priorities while feeling...
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Becoming the Story
Lindsay Palmer

Pub Date 15 Feb 2018
The September 11 attacks produced sea changes in journalism and the lives of the people who practiced it. Foreign reporters felt surrounded by the hate of American colleagues for "the enemy." Americans in combat areas became literal targets of anti “U.S. sentiment. Behind the lines, editors and bureau chiefs scrambled to re-orient priorities while feeling...
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If size counts for anything, Michael Bay towers over his contemporaries. His summer-defining event films involve extraordinary production costs and churn enormous box office returns. His ability to mastermind breathtaking spectacles of action, mayhem, and special effects continually push the movie industry as much as the medium of film toward new frontiers.
...
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Michael Bay
Lutz Koepnick
If size counts for anything, Michael Bay towers over his contemporaries. His summer-defining event films involve extraordinary production costs and churn enormous box office returns. His ability to mastermind breathtaking spectacles of action, mayhem, and special effects continually push the movie industry as much as the medium of film toward new frontiers.
...
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Replays, Rivalries, and Rumbles
The Most Iconic Moments in American Sports
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Pub Date 13 Nov 2017
What were the iconic sports moments of the last century? In Replays, Rivalries, and Rumbles , a team of sports aficionados climb onto their bar stools to address that never-solved but essential question. Triumphs and turning points, rivalries and record-setters ”each chapter tracks down the real story behind the epic moments and legendary careers sports...
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Replays, Rivalries, and Rumbles

Replays, Rivalries, and Rumbles
The Most Iconic Moments in American Sports
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Pub Date 13 Nov 2017
What were the iconic sports moments of the last century? In Replays, Rivalries, and Rumbles , a team of sports aficionados climb onto their bar stools to address that never-solved but essential question. Triumphs and turning points, rivalries and record-setters ”each chapter tracks down the real story behind the epic moments and legendary careers sports...
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Dizzy, Duke, Brother Ray, and Friends
On and Off the Record with Jazz Greats
by Lillian Terry
Pub Date 03 Nov 2017
Lilian Terry has lived music. As a performer, she has shared the stage with Ella Fitzgerald and Nina Simone. She cofounded the European Jazz Federation and pioneered jazz education in Italy. Her work as a director-producer of radio and television programs have spread the music by introducing countless people to its legendary performers. Drawing on...
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Dizzy, Duke, Brother Ray, and Friends
Lillian Terry

Dizzy, Duke, Brother Ray, and Friends
On and Off the Record with Jazz Greats
by Lillian Terry
Pub Date 03 Nov 2017
Lilian Terry has lived music. As a performer, she has shared the stage with Ella Fitzgerald and Nina Simone. She cofounded the European Jazz Federation and pioneered jazz education in Italy. Her work as a director-producer of radio and television programs have spread the music by introducing countless people to its legendary performers. Drawing on...
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Prophetic short stories and apocalyptic novels like The Crystal World made J. G. Ballard a foundational figure in the British New Wave. Rejecting the science fiction of rockets and aliens, he explored an inner space of humanity informed by psychiatry and biology and shaped by Surrealism. Later in his career, Ballard's combustible plots and violent imagery...
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J. G. Ballard
D. Harlan Wilson
Prophetic short stories and apocalyptic novels like The Crystal World made J. G. Ballard a foundational figure in the British New Wave. Rejecting the science fiction of rockets and aliens, he explored an inner space of humanity informed by psychiatry and biology and shaped by Surrealism. Later in his career, Ballard's combustible plots and violent imagery...
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Pub Date 30 Sep 2017
A permanent political class has emerged on a scale unprecedented in our nation’s history. Its self-dealing, nepotism, and corruption contribute to rising inequality. Its reach extends from the governing elite throughout nongovernmental institutions. Aside from constituting an oligarchy of prestige and power, it enables the creation of an aristocracy of...
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American Oligarchy
Ron Formisano

Pub Date 30 Sep 2017
A permanent political class has emerged on a scale unprecedented in our nation’s history. Its self-dealing, nepotism, and corruption contribute to rising inequality. Its reach extends from the governing elite throughout nongovernmental institutions. Aside from constituting an oligarchy of prestige and power, it enables the creation of an aristocracy of...
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Women of the Storm
Civic Activism after Hurricane Katrina
by Emmanuel David
Pub Date 15 Nov 2017
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita made landfall less than four weeks apart in 2005. Months later, much of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast remained in tatters. As the region faded from national headlines, its residents faced a dire future. Emmanuel David chronicles how one activist group confronted the crisis. Founded by a few elite white women in New Orleans...
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Women of the Storm
Emmanuel David

Women of the Storm
Civic Activism after Hurricane Katrina
by Emmanuel David
Pub Date 15 Nov 2017
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita made landfall less than four weeks apart in 2005. Months later, much of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast remained in tatters. As the region faded from national headlines, its residents faced a dire future. Emmanuel David chronicles how one activist group confronted the crisis. Founded by a few elite white women in New Orleans...
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George Szell's Reign
Behind the Scenes with the Cleveland Orchestra
by Marcia Hansen Kraus
Pub Date 15 Oct 2017
George Szell was the Cleveland Orchestra's towering presence for over a quarter of a century. From the boardroom to the stage, Szell's powerful personality affected every aspect of a musical institution he reshaped in his own perfectionist image. Marcia Hansen Kraus's participation in Cleveland's classical musical scene allowed her an intimate view of Szell...
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George Szell's Reign
Marcia Hansen Kraus

George Szell's Reign
Behind the Scenes with the Cleveland Orchestra
by Marcia Hansen Kraus
Pub Date 15 Oct 2017
George Szell was the Cleveland Orchestra's towering presence for over a quarter of a century. From the boardroom to the stage, Szell's powerful personality affected every aspect of a musical institution he reshaped in his own perfectionist image. Marcia Hansen Kraus's participation in Cleveland's classical musical scene allowed her an intimate view of Szell...
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Marching Dykes, Liberated Sluts, and Concerned Mothers
Women Transforming Public Space
by Elizabeth Currans
Pub Date 27 Sep 2017
From the Women in Black vigils and Dyke marches to the Million Mom March, women have seized a dynamic role in early twenty-first century protest. The varied demonstrations--whether about gender, sexuality, war, or other issues--share significant characteristics as space-claiming performances in and of themselves beyond their place in any broader movement...
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Marching Dykes, Liberated Sluts, and Concerned Mothers
Elizabeth Currans

Marching Dykes, Liberated Sluts, and Concerned Mothers
Women Transforming Public Space
by Elizabeth Currans
Pub Date 27 Sep 2017
From the Women in Black vigils and Dyke marches to the Million Mom March, women have seized a dynamic role in early twenty-first century protest. The varied demonstrations--whether about gender, sexuality, war, or other issues--share significant characteristics as space-claiming performances in and of themselves beyond their place in any broader movement...
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Hillbilly Hellraisers
Federal Power and Populist Defiance in the Ozarks
by J. Blake Perkins
Pub Date 30 Sep 2017
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Hillbilly Hellraisers
J. Blake Perkins

Hillbilly Hellraisers
Federal Power and Populist Defiance in the Ozarks
by J. Blake Perkins
Pub Date 30 Sep 2017
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Shame varies as an individual experience and its manifestations across time and cultures. Groups establish identity and enforce social behaviors through shame and shaming, while attempts at shaming often provoke a social or political backlash. Yet historians often neglect shame’s power to complicate individual, international, cultural, and political...
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Shame
Peter N. Stearns
Shame varies as an individual experience and its manifestations across time and cultures. Groups establish identity and enforce social behaviors through shame and shaming, while attempts at shaming often provoke a social or political backlash. Yet historians often neglect shame’s power to complicate individual, international, cultural, and political...
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