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The Congressman Who Got Away With Murder

Product Description: The most infamous scandal to shake the nation's capital: a New York Congressman's murder of his wife's lover, Washington's district attorney, the son of the man who wrote "The Star Spangled Banner" Representative Dan Sickles shot Philip Barton Key in front of seven witnesses, his plea of not guilty based on a totally new legal defense, temporary insanity...read more

By Nat Brandt

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Hardcover:

9780815602514 | Syracuse Univ Pr, November 1, 1991, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Recounts how a murder trial led to the first successful use of the temporary insanity plea, when Congressman Sickles was acquitted for shooting District Attorney Philip Barton Key after learning of Key's affair with his wife

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9781491723838 | Iuniverse Inc, March 4, 2014, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The most infamous scandal to shake the nation's capital: a New York Congressman's murder of his wife's lover, Washington's district attorney, the son of the man who wrote "The Star Spangled Banner" Representative Dan Sickles shot Philip Barton Key in front of seven witnesses, his plea of not guilty based on a totally new legal defense, temporary insanity.

9780815602774 | Reprint edition (Syracuse Univ Pr, September 1, 1993), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Recounts how a murder trial led to the first successful use of the temporary insanity plea, when Congressman Sickles was acquitted for shooting District Attorney Philip Barton Key after learning of Key's affair with his wife

The Town That Started the Civil War

Product Description: No community better reflected the growing passion against slavery than Oberlin College. In September 1858 the sudden kidnapping of a runaway slave who was living in Oberlin caused the entire community and its college students to rush to his rescue...read more

By Nat Brandt

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9780815602439 | Syracuse Univ Pr, April 1, 1990, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Recounts how the pro-abolitionist people of Oberlin, Ohio rescued a man from slave hunters in 1858 and the subsequent trial of the leaders of the rescuers

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9781475938395 | Iuniverse Inc, October 19, 2012, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: No community better reflected the growing passion against slavery than Oberlin College.

9780440503965 | Delta, August 1, 1991, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: Before the War Between the States, there was the war between the U.

In the Shadow of the Civil War: Passmore Williamson and the Rescue of Jane Johnson

Product Description: Six years before the onset of the Civil War, two courageous figures - one a free white man and one an enslaved black woman - risked personal liberty to ensure each other's freedom in an explosive episode that captured the attention of a nation on the brink of cataclysmic change...read more

By Nat Brandt and Yanna Kroyt Brandt

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9781570036873 | Univ of South Carolina Pr, June 30, 2007, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Six years before the onset of the Civil War, two courageous figures - one a free white man and one an enslaved black woman - risked personal liberty to ensure each other's freedom in an explosive episode that captured the attention of a nation on the brink of cataclysmic change.

Chicago Death Trap: The Iroquois Theatre Fire of 1903

A blow-by-blow account of the deadliest fire in American history retraces the final days of the Iroquois Theatre in Chicago, a supposedly indestructible building that burned killing more than six hundred people.

By Nat Brandt

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9780809324903 | Southern Illinois Univ Pr, February 14, 2003, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A blow-by-blow account of the deadliest fire in American history retraces the final days of the Iroquois Theatre in Chicago, a supposedly indestructible building that burned killing more than six hundred people.

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9780809327218 | Southern Illinois Univ Pr, September 30, 2006, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A blow-by-blow account of the deadliest fire in American history retraces the final days of the Iroquois Theatre in Chicago, a supposedly indestructible building that burned killing more than six hundred people.

When Oberlin Was King of the Gridiron: The Heisman Years

Product Description: A young law graduate of the University of Pennsylvania assumed the unpaid position as coach of Oberlin Collegeâs football squad in October 1892. This âbespectacled, stoop-shoulderedâ young-man, as he was described by one player who saw him on his first day of coaching, was John Heisman...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Nat Brandt

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9780873386845 | Kent State Univ Pr, April 1, 2001, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: A young law graduate of the University of Pennsylvania assumed the unpaid position as coach of Oberlin Collegeâs football squad in October 1892.

Con Brio: Four Russians Called the Budapest String Quartet

By Nat Brandt

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Hardcover:

9780195081077 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 1, 1993, cover price $30.00

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9780595010110 | To Excel Inc, July 1, 2000, cover price $19.95

Massacre in Shansi

Product Description: The eighteen missionaries who traveled to Shansi were dedicated, pious, hard-working clerics. Ernest At water; the young minister Francis Ward Davis and his wife Lydia; Charles Wesley Price and his family; and Susan Rowena Bird; to name a few, were all spurred by their strong beliefs, but they were also quite ignorant of other countries and cultures...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Nat Brandt

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9780815602828 | Syracuse Univ Pr, June 1, 1994, cover price $39.95

9780815602835 | Syracuse Univ Pr, June 1, 1994, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: With his latest book, prize-winning, popular historian Nat Brandt turns his eye to a little-known group of Midwest missionaries who gave their lives for their religious beliefs.

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9781583483473 | Iuniverse Inc, June 1, 1999, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The eighteen missionaries who traveled to Shansi were dedicated, pious, hard-working clerics.

The Man Who Tried to Burn New York

Product Description: In a desperate attempt to bring the North to the bargaining table and end what was to the South a losing war, Confederate spies in Canada launch a plot to burn New York City on the day after Thanksgiving in 1864. A group of rebel officers, escapees from Union prison camps who had fled to neutral Canada for safety, reach the city by train and, in disguise, take rooms in various hotels in downtown New York...read more

By Nat Brandt

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9780815602071 | Syracuse Univ Pr, September 1, 1986, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: This thoroughly researched work traces the life of Robert Cobb Kennedy, a Confederate soldier turned spy, and his involvement in the Northwest Conspiracy, a Confederate plot to burn major hotels in New York City

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9781583483466 | Iuniverse Inc, June 1, 1999, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: In a desperate attempt to bring the North to the bargaining table and end what was to the South a losing war, Confederate spies in Canada launch a plot to burn New York City on the day after Thanksgiving in 1864.

9780425119181 | Reprint edition (Berkley Pub Group, December 1, 1989), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: This thoroughly researched work traces the life of Robert Cobb Kennedy, a Confederate soldier turned spy, and his involvement in the Northwest Conspiracy, a Confederate plot to burn major hotels in New York City

9780815602279 | Reprint edition (Syracuse Univ Pr, February 1, 1988), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: This thoroughly researched work traces the life of Robert Cobb Kennedy, a Confederate soldier turned spy, and his involvement in the Northwest Conspiracy, a Confederate plot to burn major hotels in New York City

Mr. Tubbs' Civil War

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By Nat Brandt and Charles Tubbs

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9780815603917 | Syracuse Univ Pr, November 1, 1996, cover price $34.95

Harlem at War: The Black Experience in Wwii

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By Nat Brandt

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9780815603245 | Syracuse Univ Pr, February 1, 1996, cover price $19.95

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9780815604624 | Syracuse Univ Pr, February 1, 1996, cover price $19.95

A Death in Bulloch Parish

When journalism professor Mitch Stevens attempts to finish a book started by his recently deceased mentor, Tom Cantwell, the veteran newsman discovers that Cantwell's death may have been no accident.

By Nat Brandt and Yanna Brandt

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9780881502657 | Foul Play Pr, December 1, 1993, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: When journalism professor Mitch Stevens attempts to finish a book started by his recently deceased mentor, Tom Cantwell, the veteran newsman discovers that Cantwell's death may have been no accident

Land Kills

Looking at land in rural Vermont for a vacation home, Mitch Stevens, a journalism professor, discovers the body of a murdered real estate agent

By Nat Brandt and Yanna Brandt

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9780881502091 | Foul Play Pr, September 1, 1991, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Looking at land in rural Vermont for a vacation home, Mitch Stevens, a journalism professor, discovers the body of a murdered real estate agent

How Free Are We?: What the Constitution Says We Can and Cannot Do

Answers questions about the American Constitution and its affect on everyday life, including voting, religious worship, freedom of expression, criminal justice, education, and work

By Nat Brandt, John Sexton and United States Constitution (corporate author)

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9780871314741 | M Evans & Co, May 1, 1986, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Answers questions about the American Constitution and its affect on everyday life, including voting, religious worship, freedom of expression, criminal justice, education, and work

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