Biography & Autobiography
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The Diary of Harry Watkins, Nineteenth-Century U.S. American Actor
Recaptures antebellum history by tracing the journey of actor and prodigious journal-keeper Harry Watkins
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Hardcover | 2018 | $84.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "A Player and a Gentleman" to Cart |
| Web | 2018 | Open Access | Available | Read Online |
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open access
The Diary of Harry Watkins, Nineteenth-Century U.S. American Actor
Recaptures antebellum history by tracing the journey of actor and prodigious journal-keeper Harry Watkins
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Hardcover | 2018 | $84.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "A Player and a Gentleman" to Cart |
| Web | 2018 | Open Access | Available | Read Online |
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One woman’s tireless crusade for better understanding and social justice for adopted people
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2016 | $40.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Jean Paton and the Struggle to Reform American Adoption" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2014 | $74.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Jean Paton and the Struggle to Reform American Adoption" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2014 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Jean Paton and the Struggle to Reform American Adoption" |
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One woman’s tireless crusade for better understanding and social justice for adopted people
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2016 | $40.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Jean Paton and the Struggle to Reform American Adoption" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2014 | $74.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Jean Paton and the Struggle to Reform American Adoption" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2014 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Jean Paton and the Struggle to Reform American Adoption" |
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| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2016 | $40.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Jean Paton and the Struggle to Reform American Adoption" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2014 | $74.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Jean Paton and the Struggle to Reform American Adoption" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2014 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Jean Paton and the Struggle to Reform American Adoption" |
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The Rise and Fall of Michigan's Mormon King
The extraordinary life of one of the Mormon church’s early leaders
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2016 | $28.95 | Available | Add Paper for "James Jesse Strang" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2016 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "James Jesse Strang" |
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The Rise and Fall of Michigan's Mormon King
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2016 | $28.95 | Available | Add Paper for "James Jesse Strang" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2016 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "James Jesse Strang" |
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An African Teenager's Story
A preeminent historian’s memoir of the first peasant rebellion in postcolonial Nigeria
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2016 | $28.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Counting the Tiger's Teeth" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2014 | $64.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Counting the Tiger's Teeth" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2014 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Counting the Tiger's Teeth" |
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An African Teenager's Story
A preeminent historian’s memoir of the first peasant rebellion in postcolonial Nigeria
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2016 | $28.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Counting the Tiger's Teeth" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2014 | $64.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Counting the Tiger's Teeth" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2014 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Counting the Tiger's Teeth" |
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An African Teenager's Story
A preeminent historian’s memoir of the first peasant rebellion in postcolonial Nigeria
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2016 | $28.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Counting the Tiger's Teeth" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2014 | $64.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Counting the Tiger's Teeth" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2014 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Counting the Tiger's Teeth" |
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A Life
The definitive biography of Dag Hammarskjöld
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2016 | $29.99 | Available | Add Paper for "Hammarskjöld" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2013 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Hammarskjöld" |
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A Life
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2016 | $29.99 | Available | Add Paper for "Hammarskjöld" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2013 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Hammarskjöld" |
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Between History and Memory
A new translation of Rita Thalmann’s impactful memoir detailing her personal witness of Nazism and the Holocaust
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2015 | $17.95 | Available | Add Paper for "It All Began in Nuremberg" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2015 | $44.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "It All Began in Nuremberg" to Cart |
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Between History and Memory
A new translation of Rita Thalmann’s impactful memoir detailing her personal witness of Nazism and the Holocaust
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2015 | $17.95 | Available | Add Paper for "It All Began in Nuremberg" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2015 | $44.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "It All Began in Nuremberg" to Cart |
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A Memoir
The memoir of Marina von Neumann Whitman
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2013 | $25.95 | Available | Add Paper for "The Martian's Daughter" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2012 | $30.00 | Available | Add Hardcover for "The Martian's Daughter" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2012 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The Martian's Daughter" |
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A Memoir
The memoir of Marina von Neumann Whitman
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2013 | $25.95 | Available | Add Paper for "The Martian's Daughter" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2012 | $30.00 | Available | Add Hardcover for "The Martian's Daughter" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2012 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The Martian's Daughter" |
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A Memoir
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2013 | $25.95 | Available | Add Paper for "The Martian's Daughter" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2012 | $30.00 | Available | Add Hardcover for "The Martian's Daughter" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2012 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The Martian's Daughter" |
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An Honorable Life
A comprehensive narrative account of the life and presidency of Gerald Ford written by one of his closest advisers
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Hardcover | 2013 | $35.00 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Gerald R. Ford" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2013 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Gerald R. Ford" |
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An Honorable Life
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Hardcover | 2013 | $35.00 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Gerald R. Ford" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2013 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Gerald R. Ford" |
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Race, Madness, Activism
Two key performances by Paul Robeson shed light on the Cold War era
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2012 | $29.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Paul Robeson and the Cold War Performance Complex" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2012 | $84.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Paul Robeson and the Cold War Performance Complex" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2012 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Paul Robeson and the Cold War Performance Complex" |
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Race, Madness, Activism
Two key performances by Paul Robeson shed light on the Cold War era
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2012 | $29.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Paul Robeson and the Cold War Performance Complex" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2012 | $84.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Paul Robeson and the Cold War Performance Complex" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2012 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Paul Robeson and the Cold War Performance Complex" |
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Race, Madness, Activism
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2012 | $29.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Paul Robeson and the Cold War Performance Complex" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2012 | $84.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Paul Robeson and the Cold War Performance Complex" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2012 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Paul Robeson and the Cold War Performance Complex" |
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"Mother" of the Moderates
The life and political history of a woman who broke gender barriers in the Republican party—and later threw her support to a Democrat
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2012 | $26.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Elly Peterson" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2011 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Elly Peterson" |
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"Mother" of the Moderates
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| Paper | 2012 | $26.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Elly Peterson" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2011 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Elly Peterson" |
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An American Liberal's Life in Law and Politics
The first published biography of a key figure in 20th-century American liberalism
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2011 | $31.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Citizen Rauh" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2010 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Citizen Rauh" |
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An American Liberal's Life in Law and Politics
The first published biography of a key figure in 20th century American liberalism
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2011 | $31.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Citizen Rauh" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2010 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Citizen Rauh" |
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One Man's Mission to Find Missing Airmen in Two World Wars
The first biography of the man who created the way we look for airmen downed in combat behind enemy lines
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Hardcover | 2010 | $32.50 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Lost Eagles" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2011 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Lost Eagles" |
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One Man's Mission to Find Missing Airmen in Two World Wars
The first biography of the man who created the way we look for airmen downed in combat behind enemy lines
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Hardcover | 2010 | $32.50 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Lost Eagles" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2011 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Lost Eagles" |
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| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2010 | $24.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Martin Luther King" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2010 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Martin Luther King" |
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| Paper | 2010 | $24.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Martin Luther King" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2010 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Martin Luther King" |
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Mary Robinson, Civil Rights and Textile Union Activist
A voice from the margins that refuses to be silenced
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2009 | $24.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Moisture of the Earth" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2009 | $79.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Moisture of the Earth" to Cart |
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Mary Robinson, Civil Rights and Textile Union Activist
A voice from the margins that refuses to be silenced
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2009 | $24.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Moisture of the Earth" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2009 | $79.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Moisture of the Earth" to Cart |
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Memoir of a Civil Rights Lawyer
The gripping story of the life and education of one of America's most innovative and idealistic lawyers
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2008 | $26.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Philadelphia Freedom" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2008 | $94.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Philadelphia Freedom" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2009 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Philadelphia Freedom" | |
| Audio Download | 2008 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Audio Download, "Philadelphia Freedom" |
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Memoir of a Civil Rights Lawyer
The gripping story of the life and education of one of America's most innovative and idealistic lawyers
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2008 | $26.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Philadelphia Freedom" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2008 | $94.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Philadelphia Freedom" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2009 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Philadelphia Freedom" | |
| Audio Download | 2008 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Audio Download, "Philadelphia Freedom" |
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Memoir of a Civil Rights Lawyer
The gripping story of the life and education of one of America's most innovative and idealistic lawyers
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 2008 | $26.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Philadelphia Freedom" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2008 | $94.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Philadelphia Freedom" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2009 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Philadelphia Freedom" | |
| Audio Download | 2008 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Audio Download, "Philadelphia Freedom" |
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Memoir of a Civil Rights Lawyer
The gripping story of the life and education of one of America's most innovative and idealistic lawyers
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper | 2008 | $26.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Philadelphia Freedom" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 2008 | $94.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Philadelphia Freedom" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2009 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Philadelphia Freedom" | |
| Audio Download | 2008 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Audio Download, "Philadelphia Freedom" |
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Creator of General Motors
A new edition of the classic book on the flamboyant genius who helped lead America into the automobile age
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2008 | $18.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Billy Durant" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2012 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Billy Durant" |
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Creator of General Motors
A new edition of the classic book on the flamboyant genius who helped lead America into the automobile age
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2008 | $18.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Billy Durant" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2012 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Billy Durant" |
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The passionate prison autobiography of Angelo Herndon, Communist union organizer of the 1930s
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2006 | $29.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Let Me Live" to Cart |
18. 
A Biography of G. Mennen Williams
1st Edition
The first complete biography of G. Mennen "Soapy" Williams, former governor of Michigan
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2006 | $22.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Soapy" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2009 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Soapy" |
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A Biography of G. Mennen Williams
The first complete biography of G. Mennen "Soapy" Williams, former governor of Michigan
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2006 | $22.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Soapy" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2009 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Soapy" |
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Black, Douglas, Frankfurter, and Jackson in Chambers
An illuminating look at how the egos and ambitions of four celebrated Supreme Court justices affected their thinking on issues that still resonate today
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Hardcover | 2006 | $49.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "The Great Justices, 1941-54" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2009 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The Great Justices, 1941-54" |
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Black, Douglas, Frankfurter, and Jackson in Chambers
An illuminating look at how the egos and ambitions of four celebrated Supreme Court justices affected their thinking on issues that still resonate today
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 2006 | $49.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "The Great Justices, 1941-54" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2009 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The Great Justices, 1941-54" |
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An African Memoir
The long-awaited memoir from the most prolific historian of Africa
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2005 | $28.95 | Available | Add Paper for "A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2010 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt" |
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An African Memoir
The long-awaited memoir from the most prolific historian of Africa
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2005 | $28.95 | Available | Add Paper for "A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2010 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt" |
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The Life and Work of Carey McWilliams
American Prophet is the long-overdue biography on the brilliant life and career of a great American thinker and writer—Carey McWilliams
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Hardcover | 2005 | $49.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "American Prophet" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2010 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "American Prophet" |
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The Life and Work of Carey McWilliams
American Prophet is the long-overdue biography on the brilliant life and career of a great American thinker and writer--Carey McWilliams
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 2005 | $49.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "American Prophet" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2010 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "American Prophet" |
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A new translation of the principal account of the Norman conquest of Muslim Sicily
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Hardcover | 2005 | $99.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "The Deeds of Count Roger of Calabria and Sicily and of His Brother Duke Robert Guisc" to Cart |
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The Sinister Life and Celebrated Death of Edward H. Rulloff
The tragic saga of a nineteenth-century fugitive, ne'er-do-well, and would-be savant that touches on themes as compelling today as they were in Victorian times
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Hardcover | 2003 | $39.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Rogue Scholar" to Cart |
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Uses historical cartoons to shape a new view of Henry Ford
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2001 | $23.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Drawing Conclusions on Henry Ford" to Cart |
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Tappan's Detroit Observatory
Brings to life the fascinating story of this physical legacy of the University of Michigan's first president, Henry Philip Tappan
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 1998 | $24.95 | Available | Add Paper for "A Creation of His Own" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 1999 | $58.00 | Available | Add Hardcover for "A Creation of His Own" to Cart |
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Tappan's Detroit Observatory
Brings to life the fascinating story of this physical legacy of the University of Michigan's first president, Henry Philip Tappan
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 1998 | $24.95 | Available | Add Paper for "A Creation of His Own" to Cart |
| Hardcover | 1999 | $58.00 | Available | Add Hardcover for "A Creation of His Own" to Cart |
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