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Biscuits, the Dole, and Nodding Donkeys

Texas Politics, 1929–1932

By: Norman D. Brown

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Biscuits, the Dole, and Nodding Donkeys

Texas Politics, 1929–1932

By: Norman D. Brown

“A fascinating tour of Texas state politics during the Great Depression” from the historian and author of Hood, Bonnet, and Little Brown Jug (Keith J. Volanto, author of Texas Voices). When the venerable historian Norman D. Brown published Hood, Bonnet, and Little Brown Jug in 1984, he earned national acclaim for revealing the audacious tactics at play in Texas politics during the Roaring Twenties, detailing the effects of the Ku Klux Klan, newly enfranchised women, and Prohibition. Shortly before his death in 2015, Brown completed Biscuits, the Dole, and Nodding Donkeys, which picks up just as the Democratic Party was poised for a bruising fight in the 1930 primary. Charting the governorships of Dan Moody, Ross Sterling, Miriam “Ma” Ferguson in her second term, and James V. Allred, this engrossing sequel takes its title from the notion that Texas politicians should give voters what they want (“When you cease to deliver the biscuits they will not be for you any longer,” said Jim “Pa” Ferguson) while remaining wary of federal assistance (the dole) in a state where the economy is fueled by oil pumpjacks (nodding donkeys). Taking readers to an era when a self-serving group of Texas politicians operated in a system that was closed to anyone outside the state’s white, wealthy echelons, Brown unearths a riveting, little-known history whose impact continues to ripple at the capitol. “Rich in personal detail, and general audiences and aficionados of Texana will enjoy the colorful portraits of James and Miriam Ferguson, Ross Sterling, Tom Love, John Nance Garner, and others.” —History: Reviews of New Books

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University of Texas Press

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1477319476

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9781477319475

The Sword of the Lord

By: Norman Davis

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The Sword of the Lord

By: Norman Davis

British Colonel Patrick Ferguson and an American buckskin army had a date with destiny at Kings Mountain, North Carolina on October 7, 1780. This novel is about the men and women who fought at Kings Mountain and the events that brought them there. The Sword of the Lord is the story of American Patriots Isaac Shelby and John Sevier, who organized and financed the buckskin army that fought against the British at Kings Mountain; the novel is also the story of Patrick Ferguson, who traveled the uplands of Georgia and the Carolinas in 1780 as the King's charismatic recruiter of American hill people to the British standard. Ferguson was accompanied by two mistresses, Virginia Sal and Virginia Paul, who traveled with him and fought beside him. The Battle of Kings Mountain was a critical battle that sealed the fate of the British Army in the south, and paved the way for the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown in October, 1781.

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iUniverse

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0595492266

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9780595492268

Marx's Rebellion Against Lenin

By: Norman Levine

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Marx's Rebellion Against Lenin

By: Norman Levine

Marx's Rebellion Against Lenin, by negating the Leninist-Stalinist theory of dialectical materialism and tracing Marx's political philosophy to the Classical Humanism of Aristotle, overthrows the stultifying entrapment of Stalinist Bolshevism and contributes to the revitalization of Marx's method.

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Springer

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1137309261

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The Lafayette Flying Corps - Volume 1 (WWI Centenary Series)

By: James Norman Hall,Charles Bernhard Nordhoff

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The Lafayette Flying Corps - Volume 1 (WWI Centenary Series)

By: James Norman Hall,Charles Bernhard Nordhoff

It seemed necessary that some record of the accomplishment of the Lafayette Corps be set down, not only for the pleasure of the men who were a part of it, but the others in later days might not forget these volunteers who were among the first Americans to go to the aid of France at a time of great need." This book is part of the World War One Centenary series; creating, collating and reprinting new and old works of poetry, fiction, autobiography and analysis. The series forms a commemorative tribute to mark the passing of one of the world's bloodiest wars, offering new perspectives on this tragic yet fascinating period of human history. Each publication also includes brand new introductory essays and a timeline to help the reader place the work in its historical context.

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864

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Read Books Ltd

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1473359775

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9781473359772

Irish Literature Since 1800

By: Norman Vance

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Irish Literature Since 1800

By: Norman Vance

This book surveys Irish writing in English over the last two centuries, from Maria Edgeworth to Seamus Heaney, to give the literary student and the general reader an up-to-date sense of its variety and vitality and to indicate some of the ways in which it has been described and discussed. It begins with a brief outline of Irish history, of Irish writing in Irish and Latin, and of writing in English before 1800. Later chapters consider Irish romanticism, Victorian Ireland, W.B.Yeats and the Irish Literary Revival, new directions in Irish writing after Joyce and the literature of contemporary Ireland, north and south, from 1960 to the present.

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Routledge

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1317870492

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9781317870494

Peel's Bibliography of the Canadian Prairies to 1953

By: Ernest Boyce Ingles,Bruce Braden Peel,Norman Merrill Distad

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Peel's Bibliography of the Canadian Prairies to 1953

By: Ernest Boyce Ingles,Bruce Braden Peel,Norman Merrill Distad

The Prairie Provinces cover Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802048250

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9780802048257

Social Psychology

By: Alfred R. Lindesmith,Anselm Strauss,Norman K. Denzin

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Social Psychology

By: Alfred R. Lindesmith,Anselm Strauss,Norman K. Denzin

The eighth edition of this classic introduction to social psychology has been significantly revised to take into account changes in the field, such as new theories on sexuality, identity, deviance and the body.

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489

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SAGE

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0761907467

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9780761907466

If I Should Die

By: Hilary Norman

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If I Should Die

By: Hilary Norman

If I Should Die is a page turner thriller with great characters and literally heart-stopping suspense - I loved it!' Mary Higgins Clark In cities all over the USA people whose lives have just been saved by a medical miracle are dying mysterious and violent deaths. Chicago policeman Joe Duvall realises his sister's life may be at risk, and a desperate race against time begins. 'An exciting and compelling piece of storytelling. Fast moving and full of suspense' Publishing News

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329

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Murder Room

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1471907619

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9781471907616

Alexander III, 1249-1286

First Among Equals

By: Norman H. Reid

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Alexander III, 1249-1286

First Among Equals

By: Norman H. Reid

Winner of the Saltire Society Scottish History Book of the Year 2019 Presiding over an age of relative peace and prosperity, Alexander III represented the zenith of Scottish medieval kingship. The events which followed his early and unexpected death plunged Scotland into turmoil, and into a period of warfare and internal decline which almost brought about the demise of the Scottish state. This study fills a serious gap in the historiography of medieval Scotland. For many decades, even centuries, Scotland's medieval kingship has been regarded as a close likeness of the English monarchy, having been 'modernised' in that image by the twelfth- and thirteenth-century kings, who had close relationships with their southern counterparts. Recent research has cast doubt on that view, and this examination of Alexander III's reign is based on a view of Scottish kingship which depends on much firmer continuity with its earlier, celtic past. It challenges accepted truth, revealing that the nature of state and government, and the relationships between ruler and subject, were quite different from the previous 'received view'. On the cusp of a dynastic catastrophe which led to economic and political disaster, Alexander III's reign captures a snapshot of Scotland at the end of a period of sustained peace and development: a view of the medieval state as it really was.

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Birlinn Ltd

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1788850955

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9781788850957

A Lawless Breed

John Wesley Hardin, Texas Reconstruction, and Violence in the Wild West

By: Chuck Parsons,Norman Wayne Brown

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A Lawless Breed

John Wesley Hardin, Texas Reconstruction, and Violence in the Wild West

By: Chuck Parsons,Norman Wayne Brown

John Wesley Hardin spread terror in much of Texas in the years following the Civil War as the most wanted fugitive. Hardin left an autobiography in which he detailed many of the troubles of his life. In A Lawless Breed, Parsons and Brown have meticulously examined his claims against available records to determine how much of his life story is true, and how much was only a half truth, or a complete lie.

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University of North Texas Press

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1574415050

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9781574415056

Outside In

The Oral History of Guido Calabresi

By: Norman I. Silber

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Outside In

The Oral History of Guido Calabresi

By: Norman I. Silber

My behavior is not a Yankee's behavior. It just is not, no matter what. My family was Italian, and different from most other Italian immigrants. We did not need to melt in. We did not need to assimilate, because of who we were and what we came from. While other people were painting themselves red, white, and blue, we talked Italian, absorbed our family's history, and thought of ourselves as being what we always were. In the deepest sense, I was never taught to be a Yankee, which is a fact that comes out in any number of the things that I do and try to accomplish. Some people have the feeling that what I write and say is too subtle, or perhaps manipulative; or that I behave a bit outlandishly; but those people do not put what I do in the context of Italy, in the context of that very old, very subtle, very complicated society, which I come from"--

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Oxford University Press

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0197635113

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9780197635117

Mill Town

A Social History of Everett, Washington, from Its Earliest Beginnings on the Shores of Puget Sound to the Tragic and Infamous Event Known as the Everett Massacre

By: Norman H. Clark

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Mill Town

A Social History of Everett, Washington, from Its Earliest Beginnings on the Shores of Puget Sound to the Tragic and Infamous Event Known as the Everett Massacre

By: Norman H. Clark

�The Pacific Northwest�s classic confrontation between militants demanding ambiguous change and an establishment intransigently defending the status quo occurred on Sunday, November 5, 1916. To this day no one knows who shot first, nor even how many died, but thanks to Mill Town, we have at last a charting of the forces, economic and personal, that led to the tragedy.��Murray Morgan

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University of Washington Press

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029580002X

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9780295800028

Anglo-Irish Literature

By: A. Norman Jeffares

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Anglo-Irish Literature

By: A. Norman Jeffares

The works of many Anglo-Irish writers are familiar to us. English literature has often been dominated by Irish writers who wrote in English. In this highly entertaining and informative book, Professor Jeffares surveys the whole range of one of the richest literary traditions from its beginnings in the Middle Ages to the modern period. The earlier writing is discussed chronologically, but the great wealth of writing in the last century is discussed in genres: poetry, fiction and drama. The writers are set in their social and political context. Not only are the works of major writers from Swift to Beckett surveyed, but the work of minor and neglected writers such as Charled Maturin, Lady Morgan and Emily Lawless, is bought to the fore. This is a book to help students to a great understanding of the subject. To this end a chronological table, bibliographies and photographs have been included. It is also a book for all those who have enjoyed reading the poems of Yeats, the plays of Shaw or the novels of Joyce.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1349168556

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9781349168552

Giants in Their Time

Representative Americans from the Jazz Age to the Cold War

By: Norman K. Risjord

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Giants in Their Time

Representative Americans from the Jazz Age to the Cold War

By: Norman K. Risjord

In Giants in their Time, the latest volume in the Representative Americans Series, noted historian Norman K. Risjord uses biographical sketches to create a composite portrait of the United States during this dynamic and trying period. From sketches of Aimee Semple McPherson to Duke Ellington, Robert Oppenheimer to the Nisei Japanese, Risjord makes the past more vivid and concrete, revealing a heritage that present-day readers can feel and experience.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0742527859

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9780742527850

Infinite Suburbia

By: MIT Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism

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Infinite Suburbia

By: MIT Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism

Infinite Suburbia is the culmination of the MIT Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism's yearlong study of the future of suburban development. Extensive research, an exhibition, and a conference at MIT's Media Lab, this groundbreaking collection presents fifty-two essays by seventy-four authors from twenty different fields, including, but not limited to, design, architecture, landscape, planning, history, demographics, social justice, familial trends, policy, energy, mobility, health, environment, economics, and applied and future technologies. This exhaustive compilation is richly illustrated with a wealth of photography, aerial drone shots, drawings, plans, diagrams, charts, maps, and archival materials, making it the definitive statement on suburbia at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

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Chronicle Books

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1616896701

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9781616896706

Mike Tyson

For Whom the Bell Tolls

By: Reg Gutteridge,Norman Giller

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Mike Tyson

For Whom the Bell Tolls

By: Reg Gutteridge,Norman Giller

Written by the late great boxing broadcaster Reg Gutteridge, this is the inside story of Mike Tyson, the most explosive and controversial world heavyweight boxing champion of all time.

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W H Allen

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0352321113

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9780352321114

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Biscuits, the Dole, and Nodding Donkeys

Biscuits, the Dole, and Nodding Donkeys

The Sword of the Lord

The Sword of the Lord

Marx's Rebellion Against Lenin

Marx's Rebellion Against Lenin

The Lafayette Flying Corps - Volume 1 (WWI Centenary Series)

The Lafayette Flying Corps - Volume 1 (WWI Centenary Series)

Irish Literature Since 1800

Irish Literature Since 1800

Peel's Bibliography of the Canadian Prairies to 1953

Peel's Bibliography of the Canadian Prairies to 1953

Social Psychology

Social Psychology

If I Should Die

If I Should Die

Alexander III, 1249-1286

Alexander III, 1249-1286

A Lawless Breed

A Lawless Breed

Outside In

Outside In

Mill Town

Mill Town

Anglo-Irish Literature

Anglo-Irish Literature

Giants in Their Time

Giants in Their Time

Infinite Suburbia

Infinite Suburbia

Mike Tyson

Mike Tyson

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