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History and Current Events March 2024
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The last outlaws : the desperate final days of the Dalton Gang
by Tom Clavin
Taking us back to the Wild West on October 5, 1892, this gripping true account of the Dalton Gang—four brothers and their rotating cast of accomplices—follows their attempt to rob two banks in broad daylight in Coffeyville, Kansas, simultaneously, which led to an epic gun battle that left eight men dead. Illustrations.
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Madness : race and insanity in a Jim Crow asylum
by Antonia Hylton
Tracing the legacy of slavery to the treatment of Black people's bodies and minds in our current healthcare system, a Peabody and Emmy award-winning journalist tells the 93-year-old history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the nation's last segregated asylums. Illustrations.
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Pandora's box : how guts, guile, and greed upended TV
by Peter Biskind
"Bestselling author of Easy Riders, Raging Bulls and Down and Dirty Pictures, cultural critic Peter Biskind turns his eye toward the new golden age of television, sparked by the fall of play-it-safe network TV and the rise of boundary-busting cable followed by streaming, that overturned both-based on exclusive, candid, and colorful interviews with executives, writers, showrunners, directors, and actors"
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Starkweather: The Untold Story of the Killing Spree That Changed America
by Harry N. MacLean
In this bleak and atmospheric true crime tale, Edgar Award-winning author and Nebraska native Harry N. MacLean chronicles the 1958 murders committed by Nebraska teenager Charles Starkweather, whose girlfriend (and possible accomplice) Caril Ann Fugate accompanied him during the spree. The pair's story later served as the inspiration for the 1994 film Natural Born Killers. For fans of: In Cold Blood by Truman Capote.
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UFO : the inside story of the US government's search for alien life here--and out there
by Garrett M. Graff
This thrilling story of science, the Cold War, Nazi research, atomic anxieties, secret spy planes and the space race draws on original archival research, declassified documents and interviews to present a narrative history of humanity's hunt for alien life, including the military and CIA's secret, decades-long quest to study UFOs. Illustrations.
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The wingmen : the unlikely, unusual, unbreakable friendship between John Glenn and Ted Williams
by Adam Lazarus
Through unpublished letters, unit diaries, declassified military records, manuscripts and new, eye-opening interviews, this untold story of the 50-year friendship between John Glenn, a space exploration pioneer, and Ted Williams, the greatest hitter in baseball history, recounts exhilarating highs and devastating lows of their contrasting lives. Illustrations.
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