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(0)Karl E Meyer
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Includes newspaper columns by Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, James Madison, Willian Lloyd Garrison, Margaret Fuller, James Russell Lowell, Frederick Douglass, Frederick Law Olmstead, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Lafcadio Hearn, Joel Chandler Harris, Ambrose Bierce, Ring Lardner, H.L. Mencken, Will Rogers, Ben Hecht, Heywood Broun, E.B. White, Damon Runyon, Walter Winchell, Dorothy Thompson, Westbrook Pegler, Ernie Pyle, Walter Lippmann, James Reston,...
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Thanks to Salem sea captains, Gilded Age millionaires, curators on horseback and missionaries gone native, North American museums now possess the greatest collections of Chinese art outside of East Asia itself. How did it happen? The China Collectors is the first full account of a century-long treasure hunt in China from the Opium Wars and the Boxer Rebellion to Mao Zedong's 1949 ascent.
"Thanks to Salem sea captains, Gilded Age millionaires, curators...
7) Teotihuacán
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An investigation of the ruins of the ancient Mexican city and cultural center and the people who created and mysteriously abandoned it, with over 140 illustrations, more than a third in full color.