The Souls of Black Folk (Transaction Large Print Books)

This extraordinary work first published in 1903 is even more relevant today. Du Bois declared that "the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line" the racial controversy that continues to haunt American society. This prophetic masterpiece began DuBois's lifelong crusade in his search for a solution pleading for mutual respect and understanding as well the use of nonviolent methods to achieve racial equality. The Souls of Black Folk remains one of the most influential writings of our time.

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The Devil in the White City: Murder Magic and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

Two men each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America’s rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham the fair’s brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country’s most important structures including the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in Washington D.C. The murderer was Henry H. Holmes a young doctor who in a malign parody of the White City built his “World’s Fair Hotel” just west of the fairgrounds—a torture palace complete with dissection table gas chamber and 3000-degree crematorium. Burnham overcame tremendous obstacles and tragedies as he organized the talents of Frederick Law Olmsted Charles McKim Louis Sullivan and others to transform swampy Jackson Park into the White City while Holmes used the attraction of the great fair and his own satanic charms to lure scores of young women to their deaths. What makes the story all the more chilling is that Holmes really lived walking the grounds of that dream city by the lake.

The Devil in the White City draws the reader into a time of magic and majesty made all the more appealing by a supporting cast of real-life characters including Buffalo Bill Theodore Dreiser Susan B. Anthony Thomas Edison Archduke Francis Ferdinand and others. In this book the smoke romance and mystery of the Gilded Age come alive as never before.

Erik Larson’s gifts as a storyteller are magnificently displayed in this rich narrative of the master builder the killer and the great fair that obsessed them both.

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Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch

In this magisterial new biography New York Times bestselling author Sally Bedell Smith brings to life one of the world’s most fascinating and enigmatic women: Queen Elizabeth II.

From the moment of her ascension to the throne in 1952 at the age of twenty-five Queen Elizabeth II has been the object of unparalleled scrutiny. But through the fog of glamour and gossip how well do we really know the world’s most famous monarch? Drawing on numerous interviews and never-before-revealed documents acclaimed biographer Sally Bedell Smith pulls back the curtain to show in intimate detail the public and private lives of Queen Elizabeth II who has led her country and Commonwealth through the wars and upheavals of the last sixty years with unparalleled composure intelligence and grace.
 
In Elizabeth the Queen we meet the young girl who suddenly becomes “heiress presumptive” when her uncle abdicates the throne. We meet the thirteen-year-old Lilibet as she falls in love with a young navy cadet named Philip and becomes determined to marry him even though her parents prefer wealthier English aristocrats. We see the teenage Lilibet repairing army trucks during World War II and standing with Winston Churchill on the balcony of Buckingham Palace on V-E Day. We see the young Queen struggling to balance the demands of her job with her role as the mother of two young children. Sally Bedell Smith brings us inside the palace doors and into the Queen’s daily routines—the “red boxes” of documents she reviews each day the weekly meetings she has had with twelve prime ministers her physically demanding tours abroad and the constant scrutiny of the press—as well as her personal relationships: with Prince Philip her husband of sixty-four years and the love of her life; her children and their often-disastrous marriages; her grandchildren and friends.
 
Compulsively readable and scrupulously researched Elizabeth the Queen is a close-up view of a woman we’ve known only from a distance illuminating the lively personality sense of humor and canny intelligence with which she meets the most demanding work and family obligations. It is also a fascinating window into life at the center of the last great monarchy.[]

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Black Beauty: The Autobiography Of A Horse By Anna Sewell

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