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History and Current Events September 2026 |
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| The Biggest Lie: The Prehistory of American Fascism, 1818-1915 by Joseph KellyHistorian Joseph Kelly's well-researched revisionist account explores the origins of American fascism in the Antebellum South, detailing how the 1818 Missouri Compromise helped advance the ideology. Further reading: The Secret War Against Hate: American Resistance to Antisemitism and White Supremacy by Steven J. Ross. |
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| Liberation Summer: The Moment That Changed the Women's Movement and the Future of... by Micki McElyaIn her evocative and well-researched latest, historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist Micki McElya details how the 1968 Miss America pageant, which was protested by civil rights and women's liberation activists (including the newly established Miss Black America organization), became a pivotal moment in American politics. Further reading: Looking for Miss America: A Pageant's 100-Year Quest to Define Womanhood by Margot Mifflin. |
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Hannah Arendt: A Life of the Mind
by Thomas Meyer
The definitive, long-awaited, and revelatory intellectual biography of Hannah Arendt, one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century. Drawing on newly discovered archival materials and previously overlooked documents--from both Germany, where Hannah Arendt was born to a Jewish family in 1906, and the United States, where she was a citizen from 1950--Thomas Meyer tells the story of an intellectual icon whose character and ideas continue to captivate and challenge us to this day.
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The Everest Mystery: Sandy Irvine, George Mallory, and the Truth Still Buried on Everest
by Julie Summers
There is no mystery more compelling in the history of mountaineering than the disappearance of George Mallory and Sandy Irvine close to the summit of Mount Everest on June 8, 1924. Over 100 years after they were last seen 'going strong for the top, ' the question of exactly what happened to them on that fateful day has not been answered. George Mallory's frozen remains were discovered in 1999. But in September 2024, a climber found an old boot lying out in the open on the Central Rongbuk Glacier on Mount Everest, several miles from where Mallory lay. The boot contained a foot, and a sock bearing a nametape spelled out in red: A.C. IRVINE. Did Mallory and Irvine reach the summit--becoming the first to do so--or did they perish while ascending? What happened to the camera that Irvine may have carried, which would have documented their climb?
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The Savage Landscape: How We Made the Wilderness
by Cal Flyn
A lyrical exploration of the world's wildest, most forbiddingly remote places--and the humans who have always been there. From the blacksand beaches of Iceland, to river crossings deep in the Amazon jungle, to the barren beauty of Antarctica.
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Mary Riley Styles Public Library
120 N. Virginia Ave, Falls Church, Virginia 22046 703-248-5030 (TTY 711) mrspl.org
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