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The Glory Game: How the 1958 NFL Championship Changed Football Forever
Frank Gifford, Peter Richmond
Harper, 2008
Glory and The Giff
With all his years of outstanding media work, it may have been easy to forget that Frank Gifford was an outstanding running back on some of the best New York Giants teams in the history of the NFL.
Gifford's account of the much-chronicled 1958 championship clash ...
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The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope
Jonathan Alter
Simon & Schuster, 2007
Thank You Jonathan Alter
Thank you, Jonathan Alter for writing such a compelling study of great leadership. Thank you, also for including such influential figures and accomplished women as Lorena Hickok and Frances Perkins. You are not just an historian; you are an herstorian as well.
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The Great Crash of 1929
John Kenneth Galbraith
Mariner Books, 1997
Beautifully written history of Great Crash told with wit.
Gailbraith's book is an insightful and witty history of the Great Crash of 1929. Though written years ago it seems as if it could have been written yestereday and there are many parallels of course with the economic "meltdown" that is going on around us. I can't ...
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The New York Times: The Complete Front Pages: 1851-2008
CC The New York Times
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2008
wonderful book
Hi, julia here
It was breath takeing got the book for christmas. from my husband.
love the size and info. and i love big books anyway. full of info.
it,s a must have!!!!!! love it love it love it... 1/6/2009.N.J. upperdeerfield.
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The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression
Amity Shlaes
Harper Perennial, 2008
Timely New Look at New Deal
Polls of historians credit FDR and the New Deal with ending The Great Depression while polls of economists credit World War II, according to Amity Shlaes, author of The Forgotten Man. This factoid is a reason while those who like to let data speak will generally ...
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Edition 001)
Timothy Egan
Mariner Books, 2006
Leather bound dictionary
This item makes a nice graduation gift - particularly for the high school graduate going on to college. Because it is leather bound, it can be imprinted with the recipients name. Most book stores can advise you where imprinting is available.
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Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
H.W. Brands
Doubleday, 2008
This Settles It- Brands Is Great
Iv'e always been a little doubtful as to whether H.W.Brands is a great popular historian. The guy is a writing machine and his work touches every era of American history. However, Traitor to His Class resolves the issue. Not only is it the best biography of FDR, it is ...
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Champions: A Look Back at the Phillies Triumphant 2008 Season
By the Staff of the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News
Camino Books, Inc., 2008
A champion book for a championship team
Finally Philly doesn't only have a Championship team, but also a spectacular book to commerate a fabulous year of the World Champions, the Philadelphia Phillies. This book, written by the Philadelphia Inquirer captures the raw emotion and the important details of this ...
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The Wordy Shipmates
Sarah Vowell
Riverhead Hardcover, 2008
Not as engaging as previous works...
I think that Sarah Vowell's writing is creative, witting and fascinating. Up until now, I have enjoyed everything written by Sarah Vowell and always look forward to her new books. But I wasn't quite as enthralled with The Wordy Shipmates. Maybe it's me, but I just ...
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The Case for Christ: A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus
Lee Strobel
Zondervan, 1998
Excellent Defense of Christianity
This book does an excellent job of building up a case for Jesus and Christianity. The book is divided into three parts: an examination of the Bible's accuracy, an analysis of the character of Jesus, and an analysis of the resurrection. Each part is divided into several ...
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Charles C. Mann
Vintage, 2006
Fascinating, clearly written
Mann writes clearly, even about technical subjects that sometimes need to be introduced. He explains how we know things, and what the controversies are, and what is still very much unresolved although the reader may have felt otherwise (like why the large mammals ...
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unChristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks about Christianity... and Why It Matters
David Kinnaman, Gabe Lyons
Baker Books, 2007
unChristian - unSettling
unChristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks about Christianity...and Why It Matters
David Kinnaman and Gabe Lyons
ISBN: 978-0-8010-1300-3 ISBN-10: 0-8010-1300-3
unChristian is not your typical Christian book. It did not need to be. Neither should one ...
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The True Story of the Bilderberg Group
Daniel Estulin
Trine Day, 2007
This book will turn you upside down.
Daniel Estulin is a true patriot. His bravery and insight is as genius as it is daring. Bilderberg...Ask yourself why you have never heard this name before on Fox News or Time Magazine???
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The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition--with a new Introduction by the Author
Richard Dawkins
Oxford University Press, USA, 2006
The Right Perspective for Biology and Evolution
This book puts the body of knowledge in evolutionary biology in the right perspective. Because we are macro beings, because we in this society live and deal at organism level, so we tend to believe that everything revolves around this level. What this book does is to ...
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Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression
Mildred Armstrong Kalish
Bantam, 2008
Nostalgic story
Although I didn't grow up in Iowa, I was born during the Depression years and grew up on a quasi farm; and many of the stories told here brought back some very poignant memories for me. Like the author, we were pretty poor in material things but very wealthy in ...
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