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The Hocking Valley Railway, complete with 150 photographs and illustrations, documents a historic transformation in midwestern transportation from slow canalboats to fast passenger trains. Historians and railroad enthusiasts will find much to savor in the story of this ever-changing company and the managers who ran it.

The first full-scale biography of Robert Welch, who founded the John Birch Society and planted some of modern conservatism‿s most insidious seeds.   Though you may not know his name, Robert Welch (1899-1985)‿founder of the John Birch Society‿is easily one of the most significant architects of our current political moment. In A Conspiratorial Life, the first full-scale biography of Welch, Edward H. Miller delves deep into the life of an overloo...

This biography of Robert Welch, the founder of the John Birch Society, documents how his idiosyncratic philosophizing infused right-wing politics in America. Edward H. Miller explores every aspect of Welch, detailing his youthful egotism, his innovations in candy-making, his mix of brilliance and incompetence, and the development of his raging political beliefs. The John Birch Society was long seen as occupying the farthest reaches of the poli...

The first comprehensive history of the Hocking Valley Railway ever published fills a gap in the literature. Miller has written the definitive history of this railroad, " says Richard Francaviglia, author of Hard Places: Reading the Landscape of America's Historic Mining Districts. The Hocking Valley Railway was once Ohio's longest rail line, filled with a seemingly endless string of coal trains. Although coal was the main business, the railroa...

Ted Miller has written over 600 poems, many of which have been published along the eastern seaboard. While attending St. Alban's School, he studied under James Hoch and Curtis Sittenfeld. He cites Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, and Philip Booth as influences. Miller's poetry is confessional, geographic, and natural in orientation. Miller's poetry shows how the outward surroundings of nature relate to every man's quest for meaning, our interi...

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On the morning of November 22, 1963, President Kennedy told Jackie as they started for Dallas, "We're heading into nut country today." That day's events ultimately obscured and revealed just how right he was: Oswald was a lone gunman, but the city that surrounded him was full of people who hated Kennedy and everything he stood for, led by a powerful group of ultraconservatives who would eventually remake the Republican party in their own image...