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All That Glittered
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Save for the Civil War, what occurred after a carpenter glimpsed a flash of yellow 150 years ago was the biggest story of the nineteenth century. RICHARD REINHARDT examines what we think we know (and don’t) about the people who made it happen.
Paradise Lost?
Author: Fredric Smoler
Have Americans slid backward since the sunny, prosperous years after World War II, as so many feel? To find out, an English-born historian compares our recent past with earlier times, and in the process learns something about our likely course into the next century.
The Texture Of Time
Author: John Lukacs
In attempting to tell the story of our century by retrieving the subtlest nuances of the past, a historian makes an audacious foray into a new sort of literature
The Rise Of The Skyscraper And The Fall Of Louis Sullivan
Author: Carter Wiseman
He showed the way to the future and then was stranded there, at odds even with his own aesthetic sensibility
Is Lincoln Here?
Author: Harold Holzer
A stereo view discovered in a California flea market may show the President-elect embarked on a momentous journey