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Product Description: A surprising work of narrative history and detection that illuminates one of the most daringâand long-forgottenâ heroes of the Civil War. On July 4, 1861, the schooner S.J. Waring set sail from New York on a routine voyage to South America...read more
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9781631491290 | Liveright Pub Corp, August 16, 2016, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: A surprising work of narrative history and detection that illuminates one of the most daringâand long-forgottenâ heroes of the Civil War.
Hardcover:
9780871407849 | Liveright Pub Corp, February 9, 2015, cover price $26.95
Paperback:
9781631491474 | Reprint edition (Liveright Pub Corp, February 1, 2016), cover price $15.95
Product Description: The sparkling wines of California rival the best French Champagnes today, but their place at our tables came about through careful craftsmanship that began more than a century ago. The predecessor of todayâs California bubbly was Eclipse Champagne, the first commercially successful California sparkling wine, produced by Arpad Haraszthy in the mid- to late nineteenth century...read more
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9780806142487, titled "A Toast to Eclipse: Arpad Haraszthy and the Sparkling Wine of Old San Francisco" | Univ of Oklahoma Pr, March 25, 2012, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The sparkling wines of California rival the best French Champagnes today, but their place at our tables came about through careful craftsmanship that began more than a century ago.
Product Description: In April 1861, President Abraham Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus along the military line between Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia. This allowed army officers to arrest and indefinitely detain persons who were interfering with military operations in the area...read more
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9780674061552 | Harvard Univ Pr, October 5, 2011, cover price $32.50 | About this edition: In April 1861, President Abraham Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus along the military line between Washington, D.
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9780674035171 | 1 edition (Harvard Univ Pr, October 15, 2009), cover price $29.50
Product Description: In a meticulously researched and engagingly written narrative, Brian McGinty rescues the story of Abraham Lincoln and the Supreme Court from long and undeserved neglect, recounting the compelling history of the Civil War president's relations with the nation's highest tribunal and the role it played in resolving the agonizing issues raised by the conflict...read more
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9780674026551 | Harvard Univ Pr, February 28, 2008, cover price $27.95
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9780674032422 | Harvard Univ Pr, June 15, 2009, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: In a meticulously researched and engagingly written narrative, Brian McGinty rescues the story of Abraham Lincoln and the Supreme Court from long and undeserved neglect, recounting the compelling history of the Civil War president's relations with the nation's highest tribunal and the role it played in resolving the agonizing issues raised by the conflict.
The Oatman massacre is among the most famous and dramatic captivity stories in the history of the Southwest. In this riveting account, Brian McGinty explores the background, development, and aftermath of the tragedy.Roys Oatman, a dissident Mormon, led his family of nine and a few other families from their homes in Illinois on a journey west, believing a prophecy that they would find the fertile ÂLand of Bashanâ at the confluence of the Gila and Colorado Rivers. On February 18, 1851, a band of southwestern Indians attacked the family on a cliff overlooking the Gila River in present-day Arizona. All but three members of the family were killed. The attackers took thirteen-year-old Olive and eight-year-old Mary Ann captive and left their wounded fourteen-year-old brother Lorenzo for dead.Although Mary Ann did not survive, Olive lived to be rescued and reunited with her brother at Fort Yuma.On Oliveâs return to white society in 1857, Royal B. Stratton published a book that sensationalized the story, and Olive herself went on lecture tours, telling of her experiences and thrilling audiences with her Mohave chin tattoos.Ridding the legendary tale of its anti-Indian bias and questioning the historic notion that the Oatmansâ attackers were Apaches, McGinty explores the extent to which Mary Ann and Olive may have adapted to life among the Mohaves and charts Oliveâs eight years of touring and talking about her ordeal.
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9780806136677 | Univ of Oklahoma Pr, May 30, 2005, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The Oatman massacre is among the most famous and dramatic captivity stories in the history of the Southwest.
Paperback:
9780806137704 | Univ of Oklahoma Pr, February 28, 2006, cover price $19.95
Product Description: Bold, flamboyant, extravagant, devious, visionary, Agoston Haraszthy (1812-1869) is one of the most fascinatingÂand elusiveÂfigures in the history of American agriculture. Apart from his pioneer efforts to establish a world-class wine industry in California, he holds other important distinctions: he was the first Hungarian to permanently settle in the United States, author of only the second Hungarian-language book about the United States, founder of one of the earliest towns in Wisconsin, and owner and operator of the first steamboat to engage in regularly scheduled traffic on the upper Mississippi River...read more
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9780804731454 | Stanford Univ Pr, June 1, 1999, cover price $82.50 | About this edition: Bold, flamboyant, extravagant, devious, visionary, Agoston Haraszthy (1812-1869) is one of the most fascinatingÂand elusiveÂfigures in the history of American agriculture.
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9780804731461 | Stanford Univ Pr, April 1, 1998, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: Bold, flamboyant, extravagant, devious, visionary, Agoston Haraszthy (1812-1869) is one of the most fascinatingÂand elusiveÂfigures in the history of American agriculture.
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