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Summary: Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court case synonymous with "separate but equal," created remarkably little stir when the justices announced their near-unanimous decision on May 18, 1896. Yet it is one of the most compelling and dramatic stories of the nineteenth century, whose outcome embraced and protected segregation, and whose reverberations are still felt into the twenty-first. Separate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 342.73 LUXScheve, Kenneth F.
Summary: In today's social climate of acknowledged and growing inequality, why are there not greater efforts to tax the rich? In this wide-ranging and provocative book, Kenneth Scheve and David Stasavage ask when and why countries tax their wealthiest citizens--and their answers may surprise you.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 337 SCHSheinkin, Steve.
Summary: Recounts the scientific discoveries that enabled atom splitting, the military intelligence operations that occurred in rival countries, and the work of brilliant scientists hidden at Los Alamos.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 623.4 SHESheinkin, Steve.
Summary: An introduction to the life of Benedict Arnold that highlights not only the traitorous actions that made him legendary, but also his heroic involvement in the American Revolution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2012
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Summary: In the 1950s and 1960s, the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission compiled secret files on more than 87,000 private citizens in the most extensive state spying program in U.S. history. Its mission: to save segregation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 323.11 BOWGillon, Steven M.
Summary: Presents a companion volume to The History Channel's documentary which recounts the events of ten pivotal days that changed the course of American history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973 GILHamill, Pete
Summary: Upon arriving from Ireland in 1741, Cormac O'Connor is given the gift of immortality, on the condition that he never leave the island of Manhattan. Cormac comes to know all the buried secrets of Manhattan as he watches while an untamed wilderness is shaped by greed, race, immigration, growth, and above all, by hope.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster Audio 2003