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9780199756247 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 2, 2017, cover price $34.95
Product Description: Longlisted for the National Book AwardA groundbreaking book—two decades in the works—that tells the story of how a brilliant writer-turned-activist, granddaughter of a mulatto slave, and the first lady of the United States, whose ancestry gave her membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution, forged an enduring friendship that changed each of their lives and helped to alter the course of race and racism in America...read more
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9780679446521 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, February 2, 2016, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Longlisted for the National Book AwardA groundbreaking book—two decades in the works—that tells the story of how a brilliant writer-turned-activist, granddaughter of a mulatto slave, and the first lady of the United States, whose ancestry gave her membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution, forged an enduring friendship that changed each of their lives and helped to alter the course of race and racism in America.
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9780819573407 | Wesleyan Univ Pr, April 3, 2014, cover price $28.95
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9780819575975 | Reprint edition (Wesleyan Univ Pr, January 5, 2016), cover price $18.95
A Sister's Memories: The Life and Work of Grace Abbott from the Writings of Her Sister, Edith Abbott
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9780226209586 | Univ of Chicago Pr, September 14, 2015, cover price $75.00
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9780226209616 | Univ of Chicago Pr, September 14, 2015, cover price $25.00
9780515124675, titled "Slocum and the Live Oak Boys" | Jove Pubns, March 1, 1999, cover price $4.99 | also contains Slocum and the Live Oak Boys | About this edition: John Slocum embarks on a trail of vengeance as her pursues the Live Oak Boys, a gang of outlaws who stole a fortune in emeralds and killed Slocum's best friend, Texas Jack, and his lady, Claudine Devereau
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9780977009527 | Amer Graphic Pr, March 8, 2015, cover price $14.95
A fresh look at the life and times of Victoria Woodhull and Tennie Claflin, two sisters whose radical views on sex, love, politics, and business threatened the white male power structure of the nineteenth century and shocked the world. Here award-winning author Myra MacPherson deconstructs and lays bare the manners and mores of Victorian America, remarkably illuminating the struggle for equality that women are still fighting today.Victoria Woodhull and Tennessee "Tennie" Claflin-the most fascinating and scandalous sisters in American history-were unequaled for their vastly avant-garde crusade for women's fiscal, political, and sexual independence. They escaped a tawdry childhood to become rich and famous, achieving a stunning list of firsts. In 1870 they became the first women to open a brokerage firm, not to be repeated for nearly a century. Amid high gossip that he was Tennie's lover, the richest man in America, fabled tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt, bankrolled the sisters. As beautiful as they were audacious, the sisters drew a crowd of more than two thousand Wall Street bankers on opening day. A half century before women could vote, Victoria used her Wall Street fame to become the first woman to run for president, choosing former slave Frederick Douglass as her running mate. She was also the first woman to address a United States congressional committee. Tennie ran for Congress and shocked the world by becoming the honorary colonel of a black regiment.They were the first female publishers of a radical weekly, and the first to print Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto in America. As free lovers they railed against Victorian hypocrisy and exposed the alleged adultery of Henry Ward Beecher, the most famous preacher in America, igniting the "Trial of the Century" that rivaled the Civil War for media coverage. Eventually banished from the women's movement while imprisoned for allegedly sending "obscenity" through the mail, the sisters sashayed to London and married two of the richest men in England, dining with royalty while pushing for women's rights well into the twentieth century. Vividly telling their story, Myra MacPherson brings these inspiring and outrageous sisters brilliantly to life.
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9780446570237 | Twelve, March 4, 2014, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: A fresh look at the life and times of Victoria Woodhull and Tennie Claflin, two sisters whose radical views on sex, love, politics, and business threatened the white male power structure of the nineteenth century and shocked the world.
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9780446570244 | Reprint edition (Twelve, March 3, 2015), cover price $16.00
Product Description: A story of two twentieth-century American women whose love for each other fueled their work to create an egalitarian world.Developing their rhetorical skills in early-twentieth-century womenâs organizations, Anna Rochester and Grace Hutchins, life partners and heirs to significant wealth, aimed for revolution rather than reform...read more
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9781438446875 | State Univ of New York Pr, June 1, 2013, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: Developing their rhetorical skills in early-twentieth-century women s organizations, Anna Rochester and Grace Hutchins, life partners and heirs to significant wealth, aimed for revolution rather than reform.
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9781438446882 | State Univ of New York Pr, January 2, 2014, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: A story of two twentieth-century American women whose love for each other fueled their work to create an egalitarian world.
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9780812243215 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, May 10, 2011, cover price $45.00
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9780812222791 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, October 28, 2013, cover price $24.95
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9780809094981 | Hill & Wang Pub, November 8, 2011, cover price $35.00
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9780809067572 | Reprint edition (Hill & Wang Pub, November 13, 2012), cover price $17.00
Product Description: In his new book, Two Shining Souls, James Cracraft explores the decades-long encounter of Jane Addams, the famous American social reformer and peace activist, with Leo Tolstoy, the acclaimed Russian writer and sage. He documents Tolstoyâs influence in Progressive-era America and particularly on Addamsâs career, citing previously unknown or neglected sources...read more
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9780739174500 | 1 edition (Lexington Books, June 14, 2012), cover price $80.00 | About this edition: In his new book, Two Shining Souls, James Cracraft explores the decades-long encounter of Jane Addams, the famous American social reformer and peace activist, with Leo Tolstoy, the acclaimed Russian writer and sage.
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9781604190540, titled "The Essence of Jane Addams's Twenty Years at Hull-House" | Axios Pr, April 16, 2012, cover price $12.00
Product Description: A captivating biography of Patricia Locke, of Lakota and Chippewa heritage, who was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, and dedicated her life to bringing Native Americans both academic and spiritual opportunities. Active in government policies and procedure as well as education codes for Indian tribes, she is admired for her work to save tribal languages that were growing extinct throughout the United States...read more
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9781931847858 | Baha''I Pub, May 1, 2011, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: A captivating biography of Patricia Locke, of Lakota and Chippewa heritage, who was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, and dedicated her life to bringing Native Americans both academic and spiritual opportunities.
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9780205598403 | Prentice Hall, February 22, 2011, cover price $31.80
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9781400078561, titled "The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life and Legacy of Frances Perkins- Social Security, Unemployment Insurance, and the Minimum Wage" | Reprint edition (Anchor Books, February 23, 2010), cover price $16.95
Product Description: Although there has been a resurgence of scholarly interest in Jane Addams, much of the recent literature has dwelt more on her extraordinary and pioneering life than on the philosophical contribution of her twelve books and hundreds of published articles...read more
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9780252034763 | 1 edition (Univ of Illinois Pr, November 1, 2009), cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Although there has been a resurgence of scholarly interest in Jane Addams, much of the recent literature has dwelt more on her extraordinary and pioneering life than on the philosophical contribution of her twelve books and hundreds of published articles.
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9780139989490, titled "Intermediate Algebra for College Students and Math Skills for College Students" | Package edition (Prentice Hall, June 1, 1999), cover price $56.10 | also contains Intermediate Algebra for College Students and Math Skills for College Students | About this edition: 4-color hardback text w/complete text-specific instructor and student print/enhanced media supplement package AMATYC/NCTM Standards of content and Pedagogy integrated in current, researched, real-world Applications, Discover For Yourself Boxes and extensively revised Exercise Sets.
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9781569802557 | Barricade Books Inc, September 1, 2003, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: This book includes Sanger's writings on marriage and children, the labor movement, socialism, prison reform, pacifism, eugenics and sex education.
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9781569802465 | Barricade Books Inc, August 1, 2003, cover price $16.95
Product Description: 4-color hardback text w/complete text-specific instructor and student print/enhanced media supplement package AMATYC/NCTM Standards of content and Pedagogy integrated in current, researched, real-world Applications, Discover For Yourself Boxes and extensively revised Exercise Sets...read more
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9780139989490 | Package edition (Prentice Hall, June 1, 1999), cover price $56.10 | also contains The Social Philosophy of Jane Addams | About this edition: 4-color hardback text w/complete text-specific instructor and student print/enhanced media supplement package AMATYC/NCTM Standards of content and Pedagogy integrated in current, researched, real-world Applications, Discover For Yourself Boxes and extensively revised Exercise Sets.
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9780882860930 | Charles H Kerr Pub Co, June 1, 1986, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Book by
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9780882860923 | Charles H Kerr Pub Co, June 1, 1985, cover price $19.95
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