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The Cold War, Prohibition, the Gold Rush, the Space Race. Every part of your life - the words you speak, the ideas you share - can be traced to our history, but how well do you really know the stories that made America? We'll take you to the events, the times and the people that shaped our nation. A...
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The Origin of Species
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The Valley of Fear (1915 Illustrated Edition)
100th Anniversary Collection
This Sherlock Holmes novel features a Pinkerton agent who is based on James McParland, the agent who infiltrated the Molly Maguires. William Pinkerton was angered by the inclusion of this confidential information.
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In 1914, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published his fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel, The Valley of Fear. This story featured a Pinkerton agent named Bertie Edwards, who was based on James McParland a...
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This Sherlock Holmes novel features a Pinkerton agent who is based on James McParland, the agent who infiltrated the Molly Maguires. William Pinkerton was angered by the inclusion of this confidential information.
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In 1914, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published his fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel, The Valley of Fear. This story featured a Pinkerton agent named Bertie Edwards, who was based on James McParland and his undercover infiltration of the Molly Maguires.
Doyle had learned about McParland from William Pinkerton personally when they sailed together across the Atlantic.
But William Pinkerton was furious that Doyle used this confidential information without asking permission.
He even threatened to sue Doyle, though he eventually backed down.
Doyle wrote letters of apology, but the friendship between the two men never recovered.
William Pinkerton professed his hatred of all fictional depictions of his agents and called Doyle's stories bunk.
He once told a reporter, "...that sort of rot gives people the wrong idea about the way we work."
The Detective and the Somnambulist
The Murderer and the Fortune Teller (Classic Reprint)
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The Hour of Peril
The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War
The Hour of Peril was recommended as a book that provides more information on the Pinkerton Detective Agency.
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If you'd like to learn more about the Pinkertons, we recommend The Hour of Peril by Daniel Stashower and Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy by Karen Abbott.
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The Hour of Peril was recommended as a book that provides more information on the Pinkerton Detective Agency.
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If you'd like to learn more about the Pinkertons, we recommend The Hour of Peril by Daniel Stashower and Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy by Karen Abbott.
Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy
Four Women Undercover in the Civil War
Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy was also recommended, along with The Hour of Peril, as a book that provides more information on the Pinkerton Detective Agency.
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If you'd like to learn more about the Pinkertons, we recommend The Hour of Peril by Daniel Stashower and Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy by Karen Abbott.
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Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy was also recommended, along with The Hour of Peril, as a book that provides more information on the Pinkerton Detective Agency.
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If you'd like to learn more about the Pinkertons, we recommend The Hour of Peril by Daniel Stashower and Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy by Karen Abbott.
Uncle Sam Wants You
World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen
It is a book about World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen, specifically discussing how America quickly mobilized a military force in response to the war, with an emphasis on the draft and the training of soldiers.
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His book is called Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen.
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It is a book about World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen, specifically discussing how America quickly mobilized a military force in response to the war, with an emphasis on the draft and the training of soldiers.
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His book is called Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen.
And one of your books called Uncle Sam Wants You has that iconic image on its cover.
You know, this is an image that needs no introduction of Uncle Sam pointing out at the viewer with his finger saying, you know, I want you.
His book, Uncle Sam Wants You, World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen is available now from Oxford University Press.
La Boheme
Vocal Score
Jonathan Larson and Billy Aronson discussed adapting the opera for a musical. The original story follows a group of creatives in Paris struggling to find meaning in a world indifferent to their plight, a predicament familiar to Billy and Jonathan.
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Billy groans in understanding and says that he's actually tinkering with a new idea himself, an adaptation of Puccini's opera La Bohme.
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Jonathan Larson and Billy Aronson discussed adapting the opera for a musical. The original story follows a group of creatives in Paris struggling to find meaning in a world indifferent to their plight, a predicament familiar to Billy and Jonathan.
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Billy groans in understanding and says that he's actually tinkering with a new idea himself, an adaptation of Puccini's opera La Bohme.
The original story follows a group of creatives living in Paris, struggling to find meaning in a world that's ambivalent to their plight.
AMERICA AND THE WORLD WAR
Theodore Roosevelt criticized President Woodrow Wilson's administration for failing to build up the military in this book.
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Earlier in the year Roosevelt had published a book titled AMERICA AND THE WORLD WAR
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Theodore Roosevelt criticized President Woodrow Wilson's administration for failing to build up the military in this book.
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Earlier in the year Roosevelt had published a book titled AMERICA AND THE WORLD WAR
Undaunted Courage
Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West
Strongly recommended for those wanting to learn more about Lewis and Clark's expedition.
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If you'd like to learn more about Lewis and Clark's expedition, we recommend Undaunted Courage by Steve Ambrose and Lewis and Clark across the divide by Carolyn Gilman.
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Strongly recommended for those wanting to learn more about Lewis and Clark's expedition.
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If you'd like to learn more about Lewis and Clark's expedition, we recommend Undaunted Courage by Steve Ambrose and Lewis and Clark across the divide by Carolyn Gilman.
Undaunted Courage
Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West
The podcast recommended this book as a resource for those interested in learning more about the Lewis and Clark expedition.
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If you'd like to learn more about Lewis and Clark's expedition, we recommend Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose and Lewis and Clark across the divide by Carolyn Gilman.
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The podcast recommended this book as a resource for those interested in learning more about the Lewis and Clark expedition.
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If you'd like to learn more about Lewis and Clark's expedition, we recommend Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose and Lewis and Clark across the divide by Carolyn Gilman.
Undaunted Courage
Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West
The podcast recommends this book as a resource for learning more about the Lewis and Clark expedition.
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If you'd like to learn more about Lewis and Clark's expedition, we recommend Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose and Lewis and Clark across the divide by Carolyn Gilman.
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The podcast recommends this book as a resource for learning more about the Lewis and Clark expedition.
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If you'd like to learn more about Lewis and Clark's expedition, we recommend Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose and Lewis and Clark across the divide by Carolyn Gilman.
Begin Again
James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
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The Innocents Abroad
Original Illustrations
This was an account of his voyage overseas, a subscription book, sold door-to-door to rural farmers and tradesmen, the types of readers who rarely visited bookstores. In 18 months, it sold more than 80,000 copies, and Twain earned approximately $16,000 in royalties, nearly $400,000 in today's money.
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And in July 1869, Twain published these observations in The Innocents Abroad, an account of his voyage overseas.
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This was an account of his voyage overseas, a subscription book, sold door-to-door to rural farmers and tradesmen, the types of readers who rarely visited bookstores. In 18 months, it sold more than 80,000 copies, and Twain earned approximately $16,000 in royalties, nearly $400,000 in today's money.
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And in July 1869, Twain published these observations in The Innocents Abroad, an account of his voyage overseas.
It was a subscription book, sold door-to-door to rural farmers and tradesmen, the types of readers who rarely visited bookstores.
But in 18 months, it sold more than 80,000 copies, and Twain earned approximately $16,000 in royalties, nearly $400,000 in today's money.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
At this time, Twain had started work on a time travel novel called A Connecticut Yankee and King Arthur's Court, but his progress was achingly slow. By 1889, it was finally published, but reviews were poor, as were sales.
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At this time in 1886, he had started work on a time travel novel called A Connecticut Yankee and King Arthur's Court, but his progress was achingly slow.
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At this time, Twain had started work on a time travel novel called A Connecticut Yankee and King Arthur's Court, but his progress was achingly slow. By 1889, it was finally published, but reviews were poor, as were sales.
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At this time in 1886, he had started work on a time travel novel called A Connecticut Yankee and King Arthur's Court, but his progress was achingly slow.
Years later, in 1889, Twain finally published A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
Reviews were poor, as were sales.
Following the Equator
A Journey Around the World
This was a book about his year long world lecture tour, which was published in 1897. It was inspired by his visits to India, Australia and South Africa that had exposed him to the impact of colonialism on native people.
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Twain threw himself into his writing, and in 1897, he published a book about his year long world lecture tour called Following the Equator.
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This was a book about his year long world lecture tour, which was published in 1897. It was inspired by his visits to India, Australia and South Africa that had exposed him to the impact of colonialism on native people.
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Twain threw himself into his writing, and in 1897, he published a book about his year long world lecture tour called Following the Equator.
His visits to India, Australia and South Africa had exposed him to the impact of colonialism on native people.
Of Mice and Men
This book, along with The Grapes of Wrath, was said to have elevated the stories of migrant workers in California.
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On the next episode, John Steinbeck immerses himself in the lives of migrant workers in California, elevating their stories in books like The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men.
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This book, along with The Grapes of Wrath, was said to have elevated the stories of migrant workers in California.
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On the next episode, John Steinbeck immerses himself in the lives of migrant workers in California, elevating their stories in books like The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men.
The Book of Moods
How I Turned My Worst Emotions Into My Best Life
Entitled Moods, it was a coming-of-age tale about an impetuous young woman who embarks on an ill-fated marriage. She loved the novel more than anything else she would write over the course of her life, and she often skipped meals and stayed up all night to work on it.
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I followed bad advice and took out many things which explained my idea.
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Entitled Moods, it was a coming-of-age tale about an impetuous young woman who embarks on an ill-fated marriage. She loved the novel more than anything else she would write over the course of her life, and she often skipped meals and stayed up all night to work on it.
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I followed bad advice and took out many things which explained my idea.
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