Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune 9780345545565, 2013023933, 0345545567

Empty Mansions 9780345534538, 9780345545565, 2013023933

When Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Bill Dedman noticed in 2009 a grand home for sale, unoccupied for nearly sixty ye

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Kid Carolina: R. J. Reynolds Jr., a Tobacco Fortune, and the Mysterious Death of a Southern Icon 9781599952697, 1599952696

The Reynolds tobacco family was an American dynasty like the Rockefellers, Vanderbilts, and Astors. R.J. "Dick"

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American Legends: The Lewis and Clark Expedition

Includes passages from the journals of Lewis and Clark.Profiles important members of the expedition, including Lewis, Cl

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Pastures of the Empty Page: Fellow Writers on the Life and Legacy of Larry McMurtry 9781477327883

A collection of essays that offers an intimate view of Larry McMurtry, America’s preeminent western novelist, through th

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Clark: The Autobiography of Clark Terry 9780520949782

Compelling from cover to cover, this is the story of one of the most recorded and beloved jazz trumpeters of all time. W

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A Mysterious Country: The Grace and Fragility of American Democracy 9781956763591, 2022949744, 9781956763379

Published on the centenary of Norman Mailer's birth, a timely and urgent call to preserve our democracy From his be

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For Might and Right: Cold War Defense Spending and the Remaking of American Democracy 1625345216, 9781625345219

How did the global Cold War influence American politics at home? For Might and Right traces the story of how Cold War de

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Shake and Bake: The Life and Times of NBA Great Archie Clark 2020011783, 9780803226548, 9781496224811, 9781496224828, 0803226543

Shake and Bake is the story of Archie Clark, one of the top playmaking guards in the 1970s pre-merger NBA. While not one

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An Eye for Eternity: The Life of Manning Clark 9780522862645

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The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg 9780307807090

Now a major motion picture starring Paul Rudd“A delightful book that recounts one of the strangest episodes in the histo

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