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Author
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xv, 223 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Lincoln and the Indians remains the only thorough treatment of a much-neglected aspect of Lincoln's presidency. Placing Indian affairs in the broad context of Civil War politics and the settling of the West, David A. Nichols covers the Sioux War of 1862 in Minnesota, the forced removal of the Navajos from their homeland to the deadly concentration camp at Bosque Redondo, and the massacre of Cheyennes by volunteer troops at Sand Creek. He also examines...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 385 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In January 1954, Joseph McCarthy was one of the most powerful members of the United States Senate. By the end of that year he had been censured by his colleagues, and his power was shattered. Ike and McCarthy is the dramatic story of how President Dwight Eisenhower worked behind the scenes to make this happen. When Eisenhower took office in January 1953, anticommunist fervor was at a fever pitch. The loudest voice was McCarthy's, charging that the...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
xx, 346 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Draws on hundreds of newly declassified documents to present an account of the Suez crisis that reveals the considerable danger it posed as well as the influence of Eisenhower's health problems and the 1956 election campaign.
Publisher
Wampum Belt Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : color, s&d. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"In 1862, after ten years of unfulfilled treaty promises and corruption, Dakota Chief Little Crow led an uprising against the United States which led to the largest mass execution in America's history." -- Container.
