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‘New Votuhs’

Americans have a history of discouraging parts of the populace from voting. Jesse Jackson registered them.

The Best Congress Money Can Buy

by Philip M. Stern

Why Americans Don't Vote

by Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward

Whose Votes Count?: Affirmative Action and Minority Voting Rights

by Abigail M. Thernstrom

Character: America's Search for Leadership

by Gail Sheehy


From the Grassy Knoll

Libra

by Don DeLillo


The Streak of Streaks

“Joe DiMaggio’s fifty-six-game hitting streak is both the greatest factual achievement in the history of baseball and a principal icon of American mythology. What shall we do with such a central item of our cultural history?”

Streak: Joe DiMaggio and the Summer of '41

by Michael Seidel


Church Going

Jonathan Edwards

by Perry Miller

Fathers of the Victorians

by Ford K. Brown

Free Love and Heavenly Sinners: The Story of the Great Henry Ward Beecher Scandal

by Robert Shaplen

Redemptorama

by Carol Flake


The Ideal Woman

Jane Austen: Her Life

by Park Honan


Oedipus at Berggasse 19

Freud: A Life for Our Time

by Peter Gay

A Godless Jew: Freud, Atheism, and the Making of Psychoanalysis

by Peter Gay


The Promised Land

Confessions of a Good Arab

by Yoram Kaniuk, translated by Dalya Bilu

Black Box

by Amos Oz, translated, in collaboration with the author and Nicholas De Lange

Twilight

by Elie Wiesel, translated by Marion Wiesel


The Honorary Negro

Letters of Carl Van Vechten

selected and edited by Bruce Kellner

The Tattooed Countess: A Romantic Novel with a Happy Ending

by Carl Van Vechten

Parties

by Carl Van Vechten

Infants of the Spring

by Wallace Thurman


The Desert Anarchist

The Best of Edward Abbey

edited by Edward Abbey

One Life at a Time, Please

by Edward Abbey

Desert Solitaire

by Edward Abbey

The Monkey Wrench Gang

by Edward Abbey

Down the River

by Edward Abbey

Beyond the Wall

by Edward Abbey

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Hungary: The New Twist

Hungary and the Soviet Bloc

by Charles Gati

Show Trials: Stalinist Purges in Eastern Europe, 1948–1954

by George H. Hodos

János Kádár: Selected Speeches and Interviews

with an introductory biography by L. Gyurkó

1956: Counter-Revolution in Hungary: Words and Weapons

by János Berecz, translated by István Butykay, translation revised by Charles Coutts

Cry Hungary! Uprising 1956

by Reg Gadney, introduction by George Mikes

The Velvet Prison: Artists Under State Socialism

by Miklós Haraszti, translated by Katalin Landesmann and Stephen Landesmann, with the help of Steve Wasserman, foreword by George Konrád

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The Residue of Genius

1791: Mozart's Last Year

by H.C. Robbins Landon

Mozart: Studies of the Autograph Scores

by Alan Tyson


AIDS Without End

Report of the Presidential Commission on the Human Immunodeficiency Virus Epidemic

by James D. Watkins chairman. submitted to the President of the United States, June 24, 1988

And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic

by Randy Shilts


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