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American Emperor: Aaron Burr's Challenge to Jefferson's America
David O. Stewart.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781439157183.  Daedalus Item Code: 22203
 
In this vivid biography of an enigmatic founding father, David Stewart depicts Aaron Burr, the third vice president, as a daring, perhaps deluded figure who shook the nascent United States. In 1805 ... (Read More)
 
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Anacaona: The Amazing Adventures of Cuba's First All-Girl Dance Band
Alicia Castro, Ingrid Kummels & Manfred Schafer. Steven T. Murray, trans.
Publisher: Atlantic Books.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781843542421.  Daedalus Item Code: 03464
 
Havana, 1932. To help her bankrupted father Matias Castro support his 13 children, eldest daughter Cuchito decides to start an all-girl orchestra to bring in some cash. Dubbed Anacaona, the group ... (Read More)
 
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Arthur Miller
Christopher Bigsby.
Publisher: Phoenix.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780753826157.  Daedalus Item Code: 23095
 
Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Arthur Miller's central decade of work—All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953), and A View from the Bridge ... (Read More)
 
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As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto: Food, Friendship, and the Making of a Masterpiece
Joan Reardon, ed.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780547577487.  Daedalus Item Code: 30370
 
(Winner of the 2011 IACP Award for Literary Food Writing) In 1952, not long after she opened L'École des Trois Gourmandes in France with Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle, Julia Child sent ... (Read More)
 
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The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid
Pat F. Garrett.
Publisher: Skyhorse.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781616088088.  Daedalus Item Code: 20580
 
Born in November 1859 as William H. Bonney, Billy the Kid—as he soon became known—started his criminal career at the age of 12 by stabbing a man in a bar fight. He then moved on to stealing horses, ... (Read More)
 
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An Autobiography of Davy Crockett
Stephen Brennan, ed.
Publisher: Skyhorse.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781616084004.  Daedalus Item Code: 22386
 
The coauthor of The Adventurous Boy's Handbook and The Adventurous Girl's Handbook, and the editor of The Best Pirate Stories Ever Told, Stephen Brennan here presents the rich ... (Read More)
 
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Barbary Pirate: The Life and Crimes of John Ward
Greg Bak.
Publisher: History Press.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780752451619.  Daedalus Item Code: 23147
 
In 1603 John Ward led a mass desertion from the English navy, stole a civilian vessel from Portsmouth, and defected to the Ottoman Empire at Tunis. Allied with the pasha, Ward led Muslim soldiers and ... (Read More)
 
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Benjamin Franklin
Edmund S. Morgan.
Publisher: Yale.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780300095326.  Daedalus Item Code: 22089
 
(Finalist for the 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award; a New York Times Notable Book; and named a Best Book of 2002 by Los Angeles Times Book Review, Washington Post Book ... (Read More)
 
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Betsy Ross and the Making of America
Marla R. Miller.
Publisher: Henry Holt.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780805082975.  Daedalus Item Code: 20167
 
This book is both a richly woven biography of patriot Betsy Ross and a fascinating portrait of everyday life in Revolution-era Philadelphia. A prize-winning historian of the colonial era and a ... (Read More)
 
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Between the Lines: A History of Poetry in Letters, 1962–2002
Joseph Parisi & Stephen Young, eds.
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781566636568.  Daedalus Item Code: 21950
 
"Dear Editor: A History of Poetry in Letters: The First Fifty Years, 1912–1962 was the first in a lively two-part epistolary history of Poetry, the pioneering literary magazine ... (Read More)
 
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Bill Mauldin: A Life Up Front
Todd DePastino.
Publisher: Norton.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780393334883.  Daedalus Item Code: 21111
 
During World War II, the truest glimpse that most Americans got of the "real war" came through the drawings of 22-year-old infantry sergeant Bill Mauldin. Week after week, Mauldin defied army ... (Read More)
 
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Black Gold of the Sun: Searching for Home in Africa and Beyond
Ekow Eshun.
Publisher: Pantheon.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780375424182.  Daedalus Item Code: 83654
 
At the age of 33, Ekow Eshun leaves a London that has never felt like home and travels to Ghana, in order to search for his roots. Along the way he reflects on others who have made the same journey, ... (Read More)
 
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