Books from Hill and Wang
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Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street
By William PoundstoneTuohy, John William (2002). “New York Stories” at www.americanmafia. com/Feature_Articles_184.html. van der Sluis, Pieter Jelle, and Nolke Posthuma (2003). “A Reality Check on Hedge Fund Returns” (working paper). papers.ssrn.com/sol3/ ...
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Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value (and How to Take Advantage of It)
By William PoundstoneInput to Output 49 49 Mob types: See Tuohy 2001. Goffstein took over the Riviera after his boss, Gus Greenbaum, was murdered by the Chicago mob (apparently). Murphy biography: See Wikipedia entry, “Charles B. G. Murphy,” en.wikipedia ...
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The Minutemen and Their World
By Robert A. Gross“Since you ask me, I will,” Joseph replied. Soon he was visiting often, and when Lucy was sixteen, he asked for her hand. Jonathan Barnes flatly refused. For most of the eighteenth century, marriage was a hardheaded business proposition ...
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All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s
By Robert O. SelfAll in the Family, an erudite, passionate, and persuasive explanation of our current political situation and how we arrived in it, will allow us to think anew about the last fifty years of American politics.
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Pillars of the Republic: Common Schools and American Society, 1780-1860
By Carl KaestlePillars of the Republic is a pioneering study of common-school development in the years before the Civil War.
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Another America: The Story of Liberia and the Former Slaves Who Ruled It
By James CimentJames Ciment's Another America is the first full account of this dramatic experiment. With empathy and a sharp eye for human foibles, Ciment reveals that the Americo-Liberians struggled to live up to their high ideals.
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Reimagining American Theatre
By Robert Brustein(All the King's Men) Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men, like the novels of Thomas Wolfe, is a work that made a powerful impression on members of my generation when we were young. Unlike Wolfe's adolescent whimperings, however, ...
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Bringing It All Back Home: An Oral History of New York City's Vietnam Veterans
By Philip F. NapoliPete Bowles, “Man Acquitted of Killing Cop Got Away with Murder; Iudge,” Newsday, April 26, 1990. . Trial testimony transcript in possession of the author. Laura Palmer, “Killing Tied to Vet's Flashback,” Houston Chronicle, July 16, ...
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Gaming the Vote: Why Elections Aren't Fair (and What We Can Do About It)
By William PoundstoneThe monument was the peculiar design of architect William Robert Ware (1832–1915). Ware had another idea that is important to our story: an electoral system that is now called instant-runoff voting. Ware was (like Charles Dodgson) a ...
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A Tangled Web: The Making of Foreign Policy in the Nixon Presidency
By William P. BundyAs chance would have it, Radford had met Jack Anderson in India, and later got back in touch with him in Washington. The fact that both were Mormons strengthened the tie. When the sleuths discovered that Radford had lunched with ...
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Children of Fire: A History of African Americans
By Thomas C. HoltThomas Lucien Vincent Blair, Retreat to the Ghetto: The End of a Dream? (New York: Hill and Wang, 1977), 149–53. See hereA year later, while Karenga was touting: Ibid.; Also see Street, The Culture War in the Civil Rights Movement; ...
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Clash of Extremes: The Economic Origins of the Civil War
By Marc EgnalClash of Extremes takes on the reigning orthodoxy that the American Civil War was waged over high moral principles. Marc Egnal contends that economics, more than any other factor, moved the country to war in 1861.
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Blessed Among Nations: How the World Made America
By Eric RauchwayWhen a colonial people grow angry at outside control of their affairs, they quite often chafe specifically at economic control, and they normally begin to explain how capitalism itself oppresses them. And criticism of industrial ...
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The United States Constitution: A Graphic Adaptation
By Jonathan HennesseyBUT STATES WERE MADE TO PROVIDE COUNSEL ONLY IN CAPITAL CASES UNTIL GIDEON V. WAINWRIGHT ( 1963 ) . IF YOU CANNOT AFFORD AN ATTORNEY , ONE WILL BE PROVIDED FOR YOU . POLICE POLICE ALREADY BEHIND BARS , A FLORIDA MAN , TOO POOR TO HIRE A ...
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Rudeness and Civility: Manners in Nineteenth-Century Urban America
By John F. KassonJacques Pierre Brissot de Warville, New Travels in the United States of America, 1788 (first published in 1791), trans. Mara Soceanu Vamos and Durand Echeverria; ed. Durand Echeverria (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, Belknap Press, ...
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Slavery's Constitution: From Revolution to Ratification
By David WaldstreicherTaking on decades of received wisdom, David Waldstreicher has written the first book to recognize slavery's place at the heart of the U.S. Constitution.
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The Shadows of Youth: The Remarkable Journey of the Civil Rights Generation
By Andrew B. Lewis58 It quickly became clear to Bevel and Nash that Hamer possessed hidden strengths, and SNCC invited her to join them. She was a deeply religious person whose faith manifested itself in empathy for those like herself who lived at the ...
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American Insurgents, American Patriots: The Revolution of the People
By T. H. BreenThis is the compelling story of our national political origins that most Americans do not know. It is a story of rumor, charity, vengeance, and restraint.
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The Short Stories of Langston Hughes
By Langston HughesThe Short Stories of Langston Hughes This collection of forty-seven stories written between 1919 and 1963--the most comprehensive available--showcases Langston Hughes's literary blossoming and the development of his personal and artistic ...
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Cuban Star: How One Negro-League Owner Changed the Face of Baseball
By Jr., Adrian BurgosMcCovey linked the stories of Thomas, Pompez, and Jackie Robinson in his 1986 Hall of Fame induction speech, thanking them each for their roles in helping him realize his big-league dream. “There are some other people I can't help but ...