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America's Secret History : How the Deep State, the Fed, the JFK, MLK, and RFK assassinations, and much more led to Donald Trump's presidency
by Steve Harris
"The Truth Behind the Stories They Don't Want You to Know America's Secret History presents an undistorted picture of the history of the United States beginning from the enactment of the Constitution. Never in one volume have so many unknown facts that disprove America's history books been brought together in a cohesive historical context, all based on verifiable information. Among dozens of revelations, America's Secret History ties together a wealth of historical facts from highly credible sources to create a cohesive narrative of uncharted American history that lead us to the presidency of Donald J. Trump. Consider: Utilizing the House of Representative's little-known 1953 Reece Committee revelations, the Carnegie, Rockefeller, Guggenheim, and Ford foundations have systematically controlled education and the high-level appointees to the US State Department for the last century with the full knowledge and approval of the United States government. Conclusive proof that Abraham Lincoln's assassination was actually an attempted coup d'état, and President Garfield's assassination was the first successful coup. JFK's and the combined assassinations of RFK and MLK-just two months apart-were the third successful coup d'état. All were Deep State initiatives to mold the government into its intended purposes. In 1971, Americans woke up to what the New York Times called "Nixon Shock," which completely eliminated the gold standard from American currency. Removing gold backing from America's money, combined with the soon-to-come rise of globalism, led directly to what the Oxfam charity organization recently announced: 26 people now own the same wealth as the poorest 50 percent of the world (almost four billion people). Not another conspiracy theory book, America's Secret History reveals many more hidden truths and the undisclosed context that drove them, weaving all of them together to explain just how we find ourselves in Donald Trump's America"
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Know your price : valuing black lives and property in America's black cities
by Andre M. Perry
"The deliberate devaluation of Blacks and their communities-stemming from America's centuries-old history of slavery, racism, and other state-sanctioned policies like redlining-have tangible, far-reaching, and negative economic and social impacts. Rejecting policies shaped by flawed perspectives, this book gives fresh insights on these impacts and provides a new value paradigm to limit them. Noted educator, journalist, and scholar Andre Perry takes readers on a guided tour of five Black-majority cities whose assets and strengths are undervalued. Perry begins the tour in his hometown of Wilkinsburg, a small city east of Pittsburgh that, unlike its much larger neighbor, is struggling and failing to attract new jobs and industry. Perry gives an overview of Black-majority cities and spotlights four that he has a deep connection to-Detroit, New Orleans, Birmingham, and Washington, D.C.-providing an intimate look at the assets residents should demand greater value from. The book demonstrates through rigorous research and analysis the worth of Black people's intrinsic strengths, real property, and traditional institutions. All of these assets are means of empowerment, as Perry argues for shifting away from simplified notions of equality and moving toward maximizing equity"
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Hellacious California! : tales of rascality, revelry, dissipation, and depravity, and the birth of the Golden State
by Gary Noy
"In 1855 an ex-miner lamented that nineteenth-century California "can and does furnish the best bad things," including "purer liquors...finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and bowie knives, and prettier courtezans [sic]" than anywhere else in America. Lured by boons of gold and other exploitable resources, California's settler population mushroomed under Mexican and early American control, and this period of rapid transformation gave rise to a freewheeling culture best epitomized by its entertainments. Hellacious California tours the rambunctious and occasionally appalling amusements of the Golden State: gambling, gun duels, knife fights, gracious dining and gluttony, prostitution, fandangos, cigars, con artistry, and the demon drink. Historian Gary Noy unearths myriad primary sources, many of which have never before been published, to spin his true tall tales that are by turns humorous and horrifying. Whether detailing the exploits of an inebriated stallion, gambling parlors as a reinforcement and subversion of racial norms, armed skirmishes over eggs, or the ins and outs of the "Spirit Lover" scam, Noy expertly situates these stories in the context of a live-for-the-moment society characterized by audacity, bigotry, and risk"
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And their children after them : the legacy of Let us now praise famous men: James Agee, Walker Evans, and the rise and fall of cotton in the South
by Dale Maharidge
"In And Their Children After Them, the writer/photographer team Dale Maharidge and Michael S. Williamson return to the land and families captured in James Agee and Walker Evans's inimitable Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, extending the project of conscience and chronicling the traumatic decline of King Cotton. With this continuation of Agee and Evans's project, Maharidge and Williamson not only uncover some surprising historical secrets relating to the families and to Agee himself, but also effectively layto rest Agee's fear that his work, from lack of reverence or resilience, would be but another offense to the humanity of its subjects. Williamson's ninety-part photo essay includes updates alongside Evans's classic originals. Maharidge and Williamson's work in And Their Children After Them was honored with the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction when it was first published in 1990,"
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