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1	The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America more books like this by Erik Larson The story of two men's obsessions with the Chicago World's Fair, one its architect, the other a murderer. "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 ... see all copies from £4.91! new only from £9.33! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl more books like this by Timothy Egan Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Timothy Egan follows a half-dozen families and their communities through the dust storms that terrorized America's High Plains during the Depression, going from sod huts to new framed houses to basements with the windows sealed by damp sheets in a futile effort to keep the dust out. see all copies from £7.71! new only from £7.71! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression more books like this by Mildred Armstrong Kalish The story of a time, a place, and a way of life, this is a slice of Americana--set during the Great Depression--that shows readers, through the portrait of one high-spirited young girl, how the right stuff can make even a time of adversity seem like a good time. see all copies from £7.77! new only from £7.77! \| first editions
4	Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul more books like this by Karen Abbott Step into the perfumed parlors of the Everleigh Club, the most famous brothel in American history. Culminating in a dramatic last stand between brothel keepers and crusading reformers, this book presents a vivid snapshot of Americas journey from Victorian-era propriety to 20th-century modernity. see all copies from £6.27! new only from £9.18! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Division street: America more books like this by Studs Terkel The book that first made Studs Terkel's reputation as this country's foremost oral historian is a unique portrait of America at a time of change and hope. see all copies from £5.65! new only from £8.95! \| first editions
6	Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age more books like this by Kevin Boyle An electrifying story of the sensational murder trial that divided a city and ignited the civil rights struggle In 1925, Detroit was a smoky swirl of jazz and speakeasies, assembly lines and fistfights. The advent of automobiles had brought workers from around the globe to compete for manufacturing jobs, and tensions often flared with the KKK in ... see all copies from £5.65! new only from £5.65! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	The Children's Blizzard more books like this by David Laskin Drawing on family interviews and memoirs, as well as hundreds of contemporary accounts, here is a meticulous account of the blizzard of January 12, 1888, which killed some 500 settlers in Nebraska, the Dakotas, and Minnesota--many of them children lost on their way home from school. see all copies from £5.65! new only from £7.19! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939 more books like this by Lizabeth Cohen This book examines how it was possible and what it meant for ordinary factory workers to become effective unionists and national political participants by the mid-1930s. We follow Chicago workers as they make choices about whether to attend ethnic benefit society meetings or to go to the movies, whether to shop in local neighborhood stores or ... see all copies from £5.65! new only from £5.65! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	Uncle John's Bathroom Reader more books like this by Bathroom Reader's Hysterical Society Finally, here's a book written especially to be read in the bathroom. Full of famous quotes, sick jokes, America's greatest rumors, brain teasers, fun facts, trivia, short stories and other gems to make the bathroom stay a pleasant one. see all copies from £5.65! new only from £6.35! \| first editions
10	For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shocked Chicago more books like this by Simon Baatz In the tradition of "The Devil in the White City" comes a riveting recreation of one of the most infamous crimes of the 20th century--the scandalous Leopold-Loeb murder case that shocked Chicago. Photos throughout. see all copies from £14.13! new only from £14.13! \| first editions
11 view cover	The Devil in the White City more books like this by Erik Larson The 1893 Chicago World's Fair is the setting for this true account of two very different men: the celebrated architect Daniel H. Burnham who designed and supervised the construction of the "White City" around which the fair was built, and H.H. Holmes (born Herman Webster Mudgett), a fiendishly clever serial killer posing as a doctor who murdered ... see all copies from £6.20! new only from £14.85! \| first editions
12 view cover	Chicago Then and Now more books like this by Elizabeth McNulty Every important building, avenue, neighborhood, and point of interest is documented in this edition, including Chicago's landmarks from Navy Pier to the Stockyards and from the Southside all the way up the Magnificent Mile. see all copies from £2.19! new only from £7.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s more books like this by Donald Worster In the mid 1930s, North America's Great Plains faced one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in world history. Donald Worster's classic chronicle of the devastating years between 1929 and 1939 tells the story of the Dust Bowl in ecological as well as human terms. Now, twenty-five years after his book helped to define the new field of ... see all copies from £5.65! new only from £12.19! \| first editions
14 view cover	Trapped: The 1909 Cherry Mine Disaster more books like this by Karen Tintori On a chilly Saturday morning in the fall of 1909, four hundred and eighty men plunged into the depths of the Cherry Mine in Illinois as they had numerous times before, But this day would be different. At lunchtime, a small fire erupted in the inner recesses of the mine shaft and soon burned out of control. Despite the miners' heroic efforts to ... see all copies from £3.08! new only from £5.65! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	The 100-Yard War: Inside the 100-Year-Old Michigan-Ohio State Football Rivalry more books like this by Greg Emmanuel "A rough and tumble pop culture look at the history of this storied game." - "National Review Online". "The 100 Yard War" showcases two great football teams who want nothing more than to beat each other, celebrating their storied history and going behind the scenes with the players and the fans to reveal the bitterness, the passion, and the pride ... see all copies from £6.80! new only from £6.80! \| first editions
16 view cover	Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America more books like this by James Green Brimming with fascinating characters, this riveting history explores the infamous 1886 Haymarket bombing that shocked the nation and led to America's first Red Scare. Illustrations throughout. see all copies from £10.45! new only from £10.45! \| signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City more books like this by Carl Smith Arguably the most influential document in the history of urban planning, Daniel Burnham's 1909 "Plan of Chicago," coauthored by Edward Bennett and produced in collaboration with the Commercial Club of Chicago, proposed many of the city's most distinctive features, including its lakefront parks and roadways, the Magnificent Mile, and Navy Pier. ... see all copies from £8.53! new only from £8.53! \| signed copies
18 view cover	Ohio & Its People more books like this by George W Knepper The Bicentennial Edition of Ohio and Its People is a revised and updated volume of this bestselling work and includes a new final chapter examining Ohio through the end of the twentieth century. Author George W. Knepper presents contemporary information on the national and state political arenas, the economy as it affects Ohio, the economic and ... see all copies from £5.65! new only from £14.80! \| signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894 more books like this by Daniel James Brown One of North Americas most destructive fires and the amazing true story of how its survivors escaped to change a nation see all copies from £5.65! new only from £5.65! \| first editions
20 view cover	The St. Valentine's Day Massacre: The Untold Story of the Gangland Bloodbath That Brought Down Al Capone more books like this by William J Helmer, Arthur J Bilek During Prohibition, Chicago's Beer Wars turned the city into a battleground, secured its reputation as gangster capital of the world, and laid the foundation for nationally organised crime. Bootlegger bloodshed was greater there than anywhere else. The machine-gun murders of seven men on the morning of February 14, 1929, by killers dressed as cops ... see all copies from £9.71! new only from £9.71! \| signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	History of Minnesota more books like this by William Watts Folwell Volume 1 covers Minnesota's early development from the days of French exploration and trade with American Indians through territorial times to the eve of statehood in 1857. Volume 2 continues the story from 1858 to 1865, with emphasis on the state's participation in the Civil War and the Sioux Uprising (Dakota Conflict) of 1862. Volume 3 completes ... see all copies from £5.22! new only from £13.77! \| signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	Storm Warning: The Story of a Killer Tornado more books like this by Nancy Mathis Veteran journalist Mathis has produced a compulsively readable account of one of the most terrible tornadoes in history--a mile-wide F5 twister--and the extraordinary people who kept it from becoming the deadliest. see all copies from £5.65! new only from £9.11!
23 view cover	The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, Madness, and the Fair That Changed America more books like this by Erik Larson, Tony Goldwyn (Read by) The 1893 Chicago World's Fair is the setting for this true account of two very different men: the celebrated architect Daniel H. Burnham who designed and supervised the construction of the "White City" around which the fair was built, and H.H. Holmes (born Herman Webster Mudgett), a fiendishly clever serial killer posing as a doctor who murdered ... see all copies from £11.74! new only from £11.74! \| first editions
24 view cover	A Stronger Kinship: One Town's Extraordinary Story of Hope and Faith more books like this by Anna-Lisa Cox In the heartland of 19th century America, amid a roaring sea of racism and hatred, a mixed-race community existed where blacks lived as equal citizens with whites. Schools and churches were completely integrated, blacks and whites married and power and wealth were shared between the races. Starting in the 1860s, the people of Covert, Michigan, ... see all copies from £2.11! new only from £2.11! \| first editions
25 view cover	Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City more books like this by Mary Pattillo In "Black on the Block", Mary Pattillo - a "Newsweek" Woman of the 21st Century - uses the historic rise, alarming fall, and equally dramatic renewal of Chicago's North Kenwood - Oakland neighborhood to explore the politics of race and class in contemporary urban America.There was a time when North Kenwood - Oakland was plagued by gangs, drugs, ... see all copies from £10.16! new only from £15.71!

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