The king of confidence : a tale of utopian dreamers, frontier schemers, true believers, false prophets, and the murder of an American monarch 9780316463584, 9780316453912, 0316453919, 0316463582

Utopian Movements and Ideas of the Great Depression : Dreamers, Believers, and Madmen 9780739181331, 9780739181324

In the 1930s, the United States was beset with an economic crisis so serious that it threatened the future of the nation

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Dreamers and Schemers: A Political History of Australia 1319602475

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Blood in the Soil: A True Tale of Racism, Sex, and Murder in the South 9781634507516

Blood in the Soil is the first book about the investigation into the shooting of Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt

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The mapmaker's wife: a true tale of love, murder, and survival in the Amazon 9780786741847, 0786741848

A Sunday in 1769 -- Not quite round -- A daughter of Peru -- The mapmakers -- Voyage to Quito -- Measuring the baseline

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A Tale of False Fortunes 9780824861292

A Tale of False Fortunes is a masterful translation of Enchi Fumiko's (1905-1986) modern classic, Namamiko monogata

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The world that never was: a true story of dreamers, schemers, anarchists and secret agents [1st U.S. ed] 9780307379030, 0307379035

A distant horizon -- Communards -- From prince to anarchist -- Around the world in 280 days -- To the people -- Forward!

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The Tale of Gyges and the King of Lydia 9781463222093

Kirby Smith explores varying 5th and 4th century BC accounts of the life and demise of Gyges, best known from Herodotous

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The Man Who Believed He Was King of France: A True Medieval Tale 9780226145273

Replete with shady merchants, scoundrels, hungry mercenaries, scheming nobles, and maneuvering cardinals, The Man Who Be

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Murder at the Mission: A Frontier Killing, Its Legacy of Lies, and the Taking of the American West 0525561668, 9780525561668

"Elucidating, captivating...Murder at the Mission is narrative history at its very best.” —Hampton Sides, New York

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The Murder of King James I 9780300217827

A year after the death of James I in 1625, a sensational pamphlet accused the Duke of Buckingham of murdering the king.

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