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Eleanor Robson Belmont: A Theatrical Life (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Despite the brevity of her career, Eleanor Robson stands as a prototype for many actresses who followed her--women who sought to control their own careers and... Læs mere
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Sports Highlights: A History of Plays Replayed from Edison to ESPN and Beyond, 2d ed. (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Traces the development and popularity of the sportscast highlight - the dominant news frame in the crowded medium of electronic sports journalism - as the primary means of communicating about sports and athletes.
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Bringing Freud to America: Publishers, Pirates and the Popularization of His Ideas (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In 1900, hardly anyone in America had heard of Sigmund Freud, but by 1920, with his books translated and distributed... Læs mere
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The Bear and the Northland: Legendary Coast Guard Cutters in the Alaskan Ice (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Presents the history of the early US Coast Guard, with special focus on its former whalers-turned-cutters, the Bear and the Northland, and their voyages along the coast of Alaska, Hawaii and Greenland.
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Three Rivers: A Kentucky Folk History (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Kentucky is richly blessed with rivers. This book tells the stories of three of the most beautiful and historic of them: the Rolling Fork, the Nolin, and the Rough.... Læs mere
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Miracle on the Eastern Shore: The 1937 Salisbury Indians and Baseball's Greatest Comeback (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In summer 1937 the Salisbury Indians, a Class D minor league team from rural Maryland, achieved national... Læs mere
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Ted Mack and America's First Black-Owned Brewery: The Rise and Fall of Peoples Beer (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Tells the story of Ted Mack’s purchase of Peoples Brewing Company in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Mack’s ownership of Peoples Brewing is an inspirational story of Black entrepreneurship, innovation and pride at a time when America was at an important racial justice crossroads.
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The Guards Spoke Russian: Memoir of a Ukrainian Jew in a Soviet Gulag (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Aryeh Malkish, a Ukrainian Jew, was an engineering student when the KGB arrested him in 1969 for organising a group of political... Læs mere
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Carried by a Magic Fan: Memoir of an Estonian Refugee Family (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Set against the backdrop of World War II and accented by the birth, demise and rebirth of a nation, this memoir chronicles a Baltic refugee... Læs mere
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Martyrs of the Early American Left: Inez Milholland, Randolph Bourne and John Reed (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Uniquely intertwining the stories of three early twentieth century radical Americans, this book presents the enthralling... Læs mere
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George Washington on Screen (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
While media historians have extensively analysed screen portrayals of the more sensational events of America in the 1750s to the 1790s, less attention has been paid to... Læs mere
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Gus Hornsby's Gamble: The Life of Chicago Football's Founder Turned Fugitive (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
More than a biography of a person navigating nineteenth-century America, this is a story about America - brash, imaginative and seemingly limitless in resources and creativity, but overly self-assured and wildly reckless.
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