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“bliss broyard”

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  • One Drop

    My Father's Hidden Life--A Story of Race and Family Secrets

    by Bliss Broyard ...
    In this acclaimed memoir, Bliss Broyard, daughter of the literary critic Anatole Broyard, examines her father's choice to hide his racial identity, and the impact of this revelation on her own life.Two months before he died, renowned literary critic Anatole Broyard called his grown son and daughter to his side to impart a secret he had kept all their lives and most of his own: he was black. Born ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • The Scandalous Hamiltons

    A Gilded Age Grifter, a Founding Father's Disgraced Descendant, and a Trial at the Dawn of Tabloid Journalism

    by Bill Shaffer ...
    **One of the country’s most powerful families embroiled in sex, lies, bigamy, and blackmail . . . and every new, deliciously humiliating morsel splashed across every newspaper in AmericaNow in paperback, the believe-it-or-not historical true crime behind one of the greatest scandals of the Gilded Age, and the story that gave rise to the sensational tabloid journalism still driving so much of the ... Read more

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  • Irma's Passport

    One Woman, Two World Wars, and a Legacy of Courage

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  • Greed in the Gilded Age

    The Brilliant Con of Cassie Chadwick

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    Greed in the Gilded Age is a Gatsby-esque tale of mystery, money, sex, and scandal.‘Millionaire’ had just entered the American lexicon and Cassie Chadwick was front page news, becoming a media sensation before mass media, even eclipsing President Roosevelt’s inauguration. Using these newspaper articles, Hazelgrove tells the story of one of the greatest cons in American history.Combining the ... Read more

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  • The Invention of the White Race

    The Origin of Racial Oppression

    by Theodore W. Allen ...
    **A comprehensive, tour-de-force analysis of the birth of slavery, racism, and white supremacy in the American South—and how it shaped our modern world.“A must-read for all social justice activists, teachers, and scholars.”—Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States**Long heralded as a classic study of the origin of white privilege from the activist who ... Read more

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  • The Politics of Friendship

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    The most influential of contemporary philosophers, Jacques Derrida, explores the idea of friendship—and its political consequences, past and future—through writings by Aristotle, Nietzsche, Cicero, and more.Until relatively recently, Jacques Derrida was seen by many as nothing more than the high priest of Deconstruction, by turns stimulating and fascinating, yet always somewhat disengaged from the ... Read more

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  • Plantagenet Princesses

    The Daughters of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II

    by Douglas Boyd ...
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  • A Peculiar Indifference

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    by Elliott Currie ...
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    by David Kenyon ...
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  • The Last Negroes At Harvard

    The Class of 1963 and the 18 Young Men Who Changed Harvard Forever

    by Kent Garrett, Jeanne Ellsworth ...
    The untold story of Harvard's class of '63, whose Black students fought to craft their own identities on the cusp between integration & affirmative action.In the fall of 1959, Harvard recruited an unprecedented eighteen "Negro" boys as an early form of affirmative action. Four years later they would graduate as African Americans. Some fifty years later, one of these trailblazing Harvard grads, ... Read more

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  • Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune

    How Younger Sons Made Their Way in Jane Austen's England

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