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“richard kigel”

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  • Becoming Abraham Lincoln

    The Coming of Age of Our Greatest President

    by Richard Kigel ...
    Becoming Abraham Lincoln: The Coming of Age of Our Greatest President tells the true story of how this great American hero grew up and became a man. The story begins with Lincoln’s cousin describing the murder of Abe’s grandfather in 1782 by the Wabash Indians in the Kentucky wilderness. It ends as Lincoln turns twenty-five, downcast and debt-ridden after the failure of his first business venture, ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Heav'nly Tidings From the Afric Muse

    The Grace and Genius of Phillis Wheatley

    by Richard Kigel ...
    Foreword by award-winning poet Nikki Giovanni!“Phillis Wheatley is the mother of the African American literary tradition and ‘the sable muse’ of the American Revolution. With this masterful biography, she will be restored to her rightful place as a major figure in the intellectual history of the fledgling American Republic. Every student and scholar of American literature should read this well ... Read more

    $13.67 CAD

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    How Corporate-Funded Academic Research Can Threaten Public Health

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    30+ Years of Peer-Reviewed Studies on the Corporate Ties and Vested Interests that Influence Scientific ResearchFor over 500 years, groups and organizations with political, economic, and personal interests have successfully exercised influence on the pursuit of scientific inquiry and knowledge. History is replete with examples like the Papal authority muddying research into studies of the cosmos, ... Read more

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  • The Promise and the Dream

    The Untold Story of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy

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    "A fascinating, elegiac account" of the bond between two of the Civil Rights Era's most important leaders—from the journalist and author of Strange Fruit ( Chicago Tribune).With vision and political savvy, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy set the United States on a path toward fulfilling its promise of liberty and justice for all. In The Promise and the Dream, Margolick examines their ... Read more

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  • Alexander Hamilton's Revolution

    His Vital Role as Washington's Chief of Staff

    by Phillip Thomas Tucker ...
    Despite his less-than-promising beginnings as the only key Founding Father not born and raised on American soil, Hamilton was one of the best and brightest of his generation. His notoriety has rested almost entirely on his role as Secretary of the Treasury in Washington's administration, yet few realize that Washington and Hamilton's bond was forged during the Revolutionary War. Alexander Hamilton ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Politics Weird-o-Pedia

    The Ultimate Book of Surprising, Strange, and Incredibly Bizarre Facts about Politics

    by Tim Rowland ...
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    Government and politics might seem twisted today, but they’ve always been strange.There’s something about public office that, throughout time, has transcended normalcy. Politics Weird-o-Pedia presents some of the oddest and most interesting political absurdities and tidbits from around the world, from Peter the Great’s tax on beards to a lawmaker’s mistress whom he kept on the congressional ... Read more

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  • The Trials of Thomas Morton

    An Anglican Lawyer, His Puritan Foes, and the Battle for a New England

    by Peter C. Mancall ...
    This "magisterial history" presents a new perspective on Thomas Morton, his colonial philosophy, and his lengthy feud with the Puritans ( Wall Street Journal).Adding new depth to our understanding of early New England society, this riveting account of Thomas Morton explores the tensions that arose from competing colonial visions. A lawyer and fur trader, Thomas Morton dreamed of a society where ... Read more

    $28.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Lightning Sky

    A U.S. Fighter Pilot Captured during WWII and His Father's Quest to Find Him

    by R.C. George ...
    A U.S. fighter pilot captured by the enemy. A father determined to rescue his son. One of the most remarkable and moving true stories of faith and perseverance to come out of World War II.October 6, 1944. Twenty-year-old Army Air Corps Second Lieutenant David “Mac” Warren MacArthur was on a strafing mission over Greece when a round of 88-mm German anti-aircraft flak turned his P-38 Lightning into ... Read more

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  • Churchill Warrior

    How a Military Life Guided Winston's Finest Hours

    by Brian Lavery ...
    A "truly exceptional" account of how Churchill's experiences in the armed forces helped him lead Britain to victory in World War II ( Booklist).No defense minister in modern times has faced the challenges that Winston Churchill did during the Second World War. Fortunately, he had a unique and intimate inside knowledge of all three services, which allowed him to assess their real needs—a crucial ... Read more

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  • American Exceptionalism and American Innocence

    A People's History of Fake News—From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror

    by Roberto Sirvent, Danny Haiphong, Glen Ford ...
    “Fake news existed long before Donald Trump…. What is ironic is that fake news has indeed been the only news disseminated by the rulers of U.S. empire.”—From American Exceptionalism and American InnocenceAccording to Robert Sirvent and Danny Haiphong, Americans have been exposed to fake news throughout our history—news that slavery is a thing of the past, that we don’t live on stolen land, that ... Read more

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  • Lincoln and the Irish

    The Untold Story of How the Irish Helped Abraham Lincoln Save the Union

    by Niall O'Dowd ...
    An unprecedented narrative of the relationship that swung the Civil War.When Pickett charged at Gettysburg, it was the all-Irish Pennsylvania 69th who held fast while the surrounding regiments broke and ran. And it was Abraham Lincoln who, a year earlier at Malvern Hill, picked up a corner of one of the Irish colors, kissed it, and said, “God bless the Irish flag.”Lincoln and the Irish untangles ... Read more

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  • The Amritsar Massacre

    The British Empire's Worst Atrocity

    by Vanessa Holburn ...
    The history and impact of one of the most heinous acts of colonial repression suffered in British India—a massacre that continues to divide opinion today.The shocking massacre of 379 unarmed Indians in the enclosed Jallianwala Bagh park on the command of a British army officer on April 13th, 1919 is considered a brutal example of colonial abuse. Immediately afterwards martial law was established ... Read more

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