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History and Current Events March 2017
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Big Agenda: President Trump's Plan to Save America
by David Horowitz
Conservative commentator and bestselling author David Horowitz outlines the president elect's possible agenda for changing the United States. Among the likely moves covered by Big Agenda:
• First wave of executive orders — restoring Guantanamo, Keystone XL, nixing amnesty • Surprising judicial appointments — Supreme Court and the federal judiciary • Radical changes to federal rules & regulations — Obamacare, EPA overreach, and a New Deal for black America
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| Mrs. Sherlock Holmes: The True Story of New York City's Greatest Female Detective and... by Brad RiccaOne day in 1917, teenager Ruth Cruger disappeared in New York City, and traces of her whereabouts swiftly evaporated. Frustrated by the police detectives' failure to find Ruth, her father appealed to Grace Humiston, who had made a name for herself with her work for immigrants and the falsely accused, acquiring the nickname "Mrs. Sherlock Holmes." Though the police assumed that Ruth had eloped, Humiston disagreed, doggedly following up on clues the official detectives had overlooked until she solved the case. Fans of Erik Larson's true crime histories (including The Devil in the White City and Thunderstruck) should enjoy this compelling, detailed account, which reads like a suspense novel. |
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| The Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy B. TysonThough several books have covered the 60-year-old case of Emmett Till's lynching in Mississippi, historian Timothy Tyson's new history freshly illuminates the trial of Till's murderers. He analyzes the trial transcript, which had been missing since 1955, interviews the key witness (now 80 years old) to Till's allegedly inappropriate behavior, and provides details from a recent FBI investigation. This riveting account immerses readers in the case and offers the definitive summary of its impact on subsequent history. For an absorbing study of one aspect of the case, try John Edgar Wideman's Writing to Save a Life, which focuses on Emmett's father Louis Till. |
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Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom
by Catherine Clinton
A definitive full-scale biography of the legendary fugitive slave turned "conductor" on the Underground Railroad describes Tubman's youth in the antebellum South, her escape to Philadelphia, her successful efforts to liberate slaves, and her work as a scout, spy, and nurse for the Union Army during the Civil War.
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Anne Frank: The Biography
by Melissa Müller
Updated with new material, this biography of the famous young Jewish girl whose posthumous diary put a face on the Holocaust includes interviews and correspondence with family and friends, newly discovered diary pages and letters written by her father.
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Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man
by Dale Peterson
An in-depth biography of Jane Goodall describes how the seminal scientist and naturalist revolutionized the study of primates through her years of study of the chimpanzees of Gombe, helped establish radical new standards and a new intellectual style in the study of animal behavior, and how her work inevitably led to her career as an activist.
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