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  • Spring Lake Heights

    A Brief History

    Series series Brief History
    From very humble beginnings, this small but charming borough has evolved into one of the New Jersey Shore's most vibrant business and residential communities. While Spring Lake Heights now enjoys numerous modern facilities, the town still contains many visible links to its unique past. This book explores these links and offers readers insight into various personalities, socio-economic factors, and ... Leer más

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  • Last Man Down

    A Firefighter's Story of Survival and Escape from the World Trade Center

    A first responder’s harrowing account of 9/11—the inspirational true story of an American hero who gave nearly everything for others during one of New York City’s darkest hours.On September 11, 2001, FDNY Battalion Chief Richard “Pitch” Picciotto answered the call heard around the world. In minutes, he was at Ground Zero of the worst terrorist attack on American soil, as the Twin Towers of the ... Leer más

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  • Trying Leviathan

    The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature

    In Moby-Dick, Ishmael declares, "Be it known that, waiving all argument, I take the good old fashioned ground that a whale is a fish, and call upon holy Jonah to back me." Few readers today know just how much argument Ishmael is waiving aside. In fact, Melville's antihero here takes sides in one of the great controversies of the early nineteenth century--one that ultimately had to be resolved in ... Leer más

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  • Wicked Capitol Hill

    An Unruly History of Behaving Badly

    "Chronicles some of Capitol Hill's most legendary scandals, ranging from duels to murder to sex" ( Roll Call).Local historian and Walking Shtick tour guide Robert S. Pohl brings us Wicked Capitol Hill. Pohl includes such historic crimes as the affair between the congressman and the Capitol Hill cobbler's daughter that ended in murder at the hands of the press. Tales range from the backrooms of ... Leer más

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  • This I Believe

    Philadelphia

    An essay collection highlighting guiding principles, containing 30 works from the contemporary Philadelphia radio series, and 30 from the 1950s original.This I Believe is an international project engaging people in writing, sharing, and discussing the core values that guide their daily lives. And it all started in Philadelphia more than seven decades ago with a local radio series that became an ... Leer más

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  • Roots of Steel

    Boom and Bust in an American Mill Town

    When Deborah Rudacille was a child growing up in the working-class town of Dundalk, Maryland, a worker at the local Sparrows Point steel mill made more than enough to comfortably support a family. But in the decades since, the decline of American manufacturing has put tens of thousands out of work and left the people of Dundalk pondering the broken promise of the American dream.In Roots of Steel, ... Leer más

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  • Men's Lives

    An eloquent portrayal of a disappearing way of life of the Long Island fishermen whose voices--humorous, bitter and bewildered--are as clear as the threatened beauty of their once quiet shore. ... Leer más

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  • Wall Streeters

    The Creators and Corruptors of American Finance

    de Edward Morris ...
    "[A] retelling of the careers and the personalities . . . who formed today's world of high finance." — St. Louis Post-DispatchThe 2008 financial collapse, the expansion of corporate and private wealth, the influence of money in politics—many of Wall Street's contemporary trends can be traced back to the work of fourteen critical figures who wrote, and occasionally broke, the rules of American ... Leer más

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  • Angels of Mercy

    White Women and the History of New York's Colored Orphan Asylum

    This history of the nation's first orphanage for African American children, founded in New York City nearly two centuries ago.This book uncovers the history of the Colored Orphan Asylum, founded in 1836. Through three wars, two major financial panics, a devastating fire during the 1863 Draft Riots, several epidemics, waves of racial prejudice, and severely strained budgets, it cared for orphaned, ... Leer más

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  • An Albany Saga

    de Bill Swire ...
    Mr. Swire’s An Albany Saga is a collection of essays reflecting American life, especially Albany, New York from 1930-1990. An Albany Saga is a memoir written in six sections: Beginnings, Decisions, Snowed In, Connecting Pieces of the Albany Puzzle, Building a Business, and A Little Bit About a Lot of Things ... Leer más

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  • New Paltz Revisited

    Series series Images of America
    New Paltz was established in 1678 by a small group of Huguenot refugees and their families. These pioneers settled into the fertile Wallkill River Valley with the majestic Hudson River to the east and the Shawangunk Mountains defining the western border. These families endured what today would be insurmountable odds, yet for generations they survived and constantly improved their quality of life. ... Leer más

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  • A History of Long Island, Vol. 3

    de Peter Ross ...
    With these books an effort has been made to present the history of the whole of Long Island in such a way as to combine all the salient facts of the long and interesting story in a manner that might be acceptable to the general reader and at the same time include much of that purely antiquarian lore which is to many the most delightful feature of local history. Long Island has played a most ... Leer más

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