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The Boodling Boss And The Musical Mayor

Author: Bruce Bliven

A corrupt lawyer and his complaisant ally ran San Francisco as their private preserve until a crusading editor toppled their plots and schemes, and sent one of them to jail

Toys: A Parade From The American Past

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Animals a-coming two by two: Up went the lid and you could stuff them in, Noah and all. Or you could throw them at Brother. A toy is pretty adaptable.

Sacco-Vanzetti: The Unfinished Debate

Author: Dorothy G. Wayman

The “American Woodsman”

Author: Marshall B. Davidson

As the frontier moved westward and wildlife declined, the tireless Audubon drove himself to record its wonders

For King Or Congress

Author: John Lowell Pratt

The Battle That Won An Empire

Author: Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart

By a brilliant maneuver young James Wolfe conquered “impregnable” Quebec—and secured North America for the English-speaking peoples

The Front Porch Campaign

Author: Margaret Leech

While Bryan stumped up and down the land, McKinley let the voters come to his lawn in Canton—and they came

The Pepys Of The Old Dominion

Author: Marshall Fishwick

His secret diaries sparkle with the wit, wisdom, and lusty candor that made William Byrd II of Westover one of Virginia’s most engaging gentlemen

The "Delicious" Land

Author: A. L. Rowse

America acted deeply on the Elizabethan English imagination, working its magic in the minds of poets and men of science