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Irresistible...A brilliantly layered account of the Roberts Court filled with memorable stories...This book is a joy to read from start to finish."-Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of Team of Rivals and The Bully PulpitFrom Citizens United to its momentous rulings regarding Obamacare and gay marriage, the Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts has profoundly affected American life. Yet the court remains a mysterious institution, and the mo...

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The Stonemans is an eye-opening slice of American-a trip through nearly seventy years of country music history following a single family from their native Blue Ridge Mountains to the slums of Washington, D.C., and the glitter Nashville.

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When Ohio became a state in 1803, settlement of what would become Vinton County had hardly begun. Largely forested then and now, Vinton was carved out of the five adjacent counties and in 1850 became the second-to-last county established in Ohio. McArthur, which later became the county seat with a population of 424, was laid out as the village of McArthurstown in 1815, the village celebrates its bicentennial in 2015, having grown to about 1, 7...

The aim of this book is to bridge the disciplines of philosophy and tourism and to provide an analysis and application of philosophical issues of tourism. In doing so this book focuses on three key areas of knowledge, aesthetics and values.

Excerpt from A Selection From the Poems of Giosue Carducci This attempt to represent some of the poems of Giosuè Carducci in English verse has not been made without consideration of the objections urged by many critics against this form of translation and of the advantages of greater facility and literalness possible to a prose version. But while prose may fairly render dramatic and even narrative verse, it seems to me absolutely impossible t...

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Excerpt from One Line of the Ball Tribe T has been said, somewhere, that the pref ace of a book is the most difficult part to compose. If such he the case, this preface will be as brief as the exigencies of the work Will permit. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses s...

A collection of articles on positive thinking and positive living.

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An 80-year survey of the history of country music, including hillbilly, western swing, western cowboy, country rock, bluegrass, and the Nashville sound.

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When Ohio became a state in 1803, settlement of what would become Vinton County had hardly begun. Largely forested then and now, Vinton was carved out of the five adjacent counties and in 1850 became the second-to-last county established in Ohio. McArthur, which later became the county seat with a population of 424, was laid out as the village of McArthurstown in 1815, the village celebrates its bicentennial in 2015, having grown to about 1, 7...

Excerpt from A Florentine Christmas of a Century Ago: The CeppoFlorentine house of the period. The Ceppo stands on a table loaded with presents, and a large family party is gathered round it. You must imagine little girls in hoop petticoats and little boys in bag-wigs and knee breeches, which formal attire by no means prevented them from, dancing and capering with delight in expectation of their Christmas presents. The links by which this elab...