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Few of America's first families have guided the course of a nation as decisively as the Roosevelts. Patriots and poltroons, inventors and country squires, reformers and machine politicians, saints and sinners--Nathan Miller tells the story of those self-made aristocrats whose personal stamp has reflected and influenced America for three hundred years. They were the mirror of their day and their ancestry attests to that fact: from Dutch peasant farmers...
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To an astonishing extent, the 1920s resemble the turn of the twenty-first century; in many ways that decade was a precursor of modern excesses. Bookended by the easy living of the Jazz Age, when the booze and money flowed seemingly without end, and the crash of '29 that led to breadlines and suffering, the images of the 1920s include jazz, bootleggers, flappers, talkies, the Model T Ford, Babe Ruth, Charles Lindbergh. But it was also the era of the...
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Insider trading, pork-barrel projects, and corrupt politicians may all sound distinctly contemporary, but, as Nathan Miller shows in this boisterous romp through the fetid underbelly of history, larceny and greed crossed the ocean with smallpox, prospered gloriously in the New World, and have become a perennial bedrock of American political life. In colonial New York and Charleston, governors extended an open hand to pirates that was gladly filled...
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After World War II, with the outbreak of the Cold War, numerous Belorussian Nazi collaborators were admitted to the U.S. and received citizenship. The U.S. intelligence agencies gave them sanctuary due to their opposition to communism, in order to make use of their knowledge of Eastern Europe. The U.S. took this action despite strong evidence that these people were guilty of war crimes. Shows that all high ranking Belorussian Nazi collaborators (Radaslaw...