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Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory

by David W. Blight

Published: 2002-03-01

Paperback: 528 pages

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No historical event has left as deep an imprint on America's collective memory as the Civil War. In the war's aftermath, Americans had to embrace and cast off a traumatic past. David Blight explores the perilous path of remembering and forgetting, and reveals its tragic costs to race relat...

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I.M.: A Memoir

by Isaac Mizrahi

Published: 2019-02-26

Hardcover: 384 pages

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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“In I.M., Isaac Mizrahi puts his life to paper with the same mix of spirit and wryness as the designs he popularized.” ?Vanity FairIsaac Mizrahi is sui generis: designer, cabaret performer, talk-show host, a TV celebrity. Yet ever since he shot to fame ...

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The Strange Career of Jim Crow

by C. Vann Woodward

Published: 2001-11

Paperback: 272 pages

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C. Vann Woodward, who died in 1999 at the age of 91, was America's most eminent Southern historian, the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Mary Chestnut's Civil War and a Bancroft Prize for The Origins of the New South. Now, to honor his long and truly distinguished career, Oxford is pleased t...

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Air Traffic: A Memoir of Ambition and Manhood in America

by Gregory Pardlo

Published: 2018-04-10

Hardcover: 272 pages

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From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: an extraordinary memoir and blistering meditation on fatherhood, race, addiction, and ambition.   Gregory Pardlo's father was a brilliant and charismatic man--a leading labor organizer who presided over a happy suburban family of four. But wh...

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Becoming Richard Pryor

by Scott Saul

Published: 2015-12-08

Paperback: 608 pages

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A major biography—intimate, gripping, revelatory—of an artist who revolutionized American comedy.Richard Pryor may have been the most unlikely star in Hollywood history. Raised in his family’s brothels, he grew up an outsider to privilege. He took to the stage, originally, to escape ...

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Stitched: A Memoir

by Marissa Carney

Published: 2005-03-08

Paperback: 176 pages

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Self-mutilation is an addiction that affects millions of people. Not everyone can understand its power and control, but Marissa does. A cutter for more than seven years, she had to hit rock bottom before she could claw her way back up. In this unique autobiography, Marissa takes you into the mind and...

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Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song

by David Margolick, Hilton Als

Published: 2001-01-23

Paperback: 168 pages

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Recorded by jazz legend Billie Holiday in 1939, "Strange Fruit" is considered to be the first significant song of the civil rights movement and the first direct musical assault upon racial lynchings in the South. Originally sung in New York's Cafe Society, these revolutionary lyrics take o...

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Coyote Warrior: One Man, Three Tribes, and the Trial That Forged a Nation, Second Edition

by Paul VanDevelder

Published: 2010-01-01

Paperback: 360 pages

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From White Shield to Washington DC, new Indian wars are being fought by Ivy League-trained lawyers called "Coyote Warriors"--among them a Mandan/Hidatsa named Raymond Cross. Coyote Warrior tells the epic story of the three tribes that saved Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery from starvat...

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The Sakura Obsession: The Incredible Story of the Plant Hunter Who Saved Japan's Cherry Blossoms

by Naoko Abe

Published: 2019-03-19

Hardcover: 400 pages

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The remarkable 1,200-year history of the Japanese cherry blossom tree--and how it was saved from extinction by an English gardener.Collingwood "Cherry" Ingram first fell in love with the sakura, or cherry tree, when he visited Japan on his honeymoon in 1907. So taken with the plant, he bro...

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All We Ever Wanted: A Novel

by Emily Giffin

Published: 2018-06-26

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In the riveting new novel from the #1 bestselling author of Something Borrowed and First Comes Love, three very different people must choose between their families and their most deeply held values. . . . “An unpredictable page-turner that unfolds in the vo...