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An American Album

One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine
by Lewis H. Lapham (Editor), Ellen Rosenbush (Editor), Arthur Schlesinger (Foreword)

For over 150 years, Harper's Magazine has explored the American experience with a fiercely independent spirit and spectacular writing. That experience is available in this magnificent illustrated volu...       more...

ISBN 9781879957534
$50.00

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Indispensable Enemies

The Politics of Misrule in America
by Walter Karp

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ISBN 9781879957138
$14.95

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Know That What You Eat You Are

The Best Food Writing from Harper's Magazine (The American Retrospective Series)
by Ellen Rosenbush (Editor), Giulia Melucci (Editor), Nick Offerman (Introduction)

This collection of food writing from the archives of Harper’s Magazine demonstrates that Americans have been thinking and caring about what and how they eat for more than a century and a half.
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ISBN 9781879957602
$16.95

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My Life in the Service

The World War II Diary of George McGovern
by George McGovern (Author), Andrew J. Bacevich (Introduction)

Before he was a celebrated politician, Senator George McGovern served as a B-24 bomber pilot in World War II. Based in Italy, he flew thirty-five combat missions over Europe between 1944 and 1945.
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ISBN 9781879957596
$25.95

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New York Revisited

by Henry James

In New York Revisited, first published in Harper's Monthly Magazine in 1906, Henry James describes turn-of-the-century New York in vivid detail. Although written in 1904-1905, when James returned to t...       more...

ISBN 9781879957145
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Politics of War

The Story of Two Wars Which Altered Forever the Political Life of the American Republic
by Walter Karp

Politics of War describes the emergence of the United States as a world power between the years 1890 and 1920-our contrivance of the Spanish-American War and our gratuitous entrance into World War I-a...       more...

ISBN 9781879957558
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Rules of the Game

The Best Sports Writing from Harper's Magazine (The American Retrospective Series)
by Matthew Stevenson (Author), Michael Martin (Editor)

Harper's Magazine has been America's preeminent monthly periodical for more than 150 years. Rules of the Game: The Best Sports Writing from Harper's Magazine takes a look into this storied magazine's ...       more...

ISBN 9781879957589
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The Sixties

Recollections of the decade from Harper's Magazine
by by Katharine Whittemore (Editor), Ellen Rosenbush (Editor), Jim Nelson (Editor)

Introduction by Eugene J. McCarthy. David Halberstam, Sara Davidson, Tom Wicker, George Plimpton, Walker Percy, Priscilla Johnson McMillan, C. Vann Woodward and others on the Sixties....       more...

ISBN 9781879957206
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The Test

Living in the Shadow of Huntington's Disease
by Jean Barema

The Test is a memoir of the five years Barema spent in anguish over the decision to take the test for Huntington's disease. Barema recalls his long, emotionally wrought journey from deciding to take t...       more...

ISBN 9781879957572
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