Barnum: An American Life

P. T. Barnum was the greatest showman the world has ever seen: the cocreator of the Barnum & Bailey Circus and the m

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English Year 2019

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The United States has always proved an inviting home for boosters, sharp dealers, and outright swindlers. Worship of ent

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Soldier, statesman, logistical genius: Lucius D. Clay was one of that generation of giants who dedicated their lives to

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A landmark work from one of the preeminent historians of our time: the first published biography of Andrew W. Mellon, th

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Archibald MacLeish was the winner of the 1993 Ambassador Book Award for biography.

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Hubo una época en la que las ferias de "monstruos" recorrían América a diario. La gente acudía en masa a prese

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Traces the evolution of American popular culture over the past two centuries. In a lengthy chronology of landmark events

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"If we continue, we grow old, and this is how it could be for us," writes Renée Rose Shield in her candid and

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