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Hot Time in the Old Town
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Edward P. Kohn
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The Great Heat Wave of 1896 and
the Making of Theodore Roosevelt
One of the worst natural disasters in American history, the 1896 New York heat wave killed almost 1,500 people in ten oppressively hot days. The heat coincided with a pitched presidential contest between William McKinley and the upstart Democrat William Jennings Bryan, who arrived in New York City at the height of the catastrophe.
As historian Edward P. Kohn shows, Bryan's hopes for the presidency began to flag amidst the abhorrent heat just as a bright young police commissioner named Theodore Roosevelt was scrambling to mitigate the dangerously high temperatures by hosing down streets and handing out ice to the poor. A vivid narrative that captures the birth of the progressive era, Hot Time in the Old Town revives the forgotten disaster that almost destroyed a great American city. ...
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Death and Life of the Great American School System
How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
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Diane Ravitch
Award-winning author, public intellectual, and former Assistant Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch critiques a lifetime’s worth of school reforms and reveals the simple—yet
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Battle
How the Fight between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America’s Future
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Arthur C. Brooks
The battle is on between the forces of social democracy and America’s great tradition of free enterprise—and the stakes couldn’t be higher
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Atlantic and Its Enemies
A History of the Cold War
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Norman Stone
A masterful history of the second half of the twentieth century by one of the great historians of our age
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Libertarianism, from A to Z
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Jeffrey A. Miron
The dictionary that teaches you how to think like a libertarian
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At the Edge of the Precipice
Henry Clay and the Compromise that Saved the Union
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Robert V. Remini
A National Book Award-winning historian narrates Henry Clay’s heroic brokering of a bipartisan compromise that saved the nation
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Wolf
The Lives of Jack London
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James L. Haley
Award-winning western historian James L. Haley paints a vivid portrait of Jack London—adventurer, social reformer, and the most popular American writer of his generation
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