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Book Cover for: The Learning Tree, Gordon Parks

The Learning Tree

Gordon Parks
E. J. McCarthyE. J. McCarthy

RT @Criterion: With THE LEARNING TREE, Gordon Parks not only became the first Black American director to make a Hollywood studio film, he a…

Hardcover, 1987

$20.40$10.20 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Learning Tree, Gordon Parks

Learning Tree

Gordon Parks
E. J. McCarthyE. J. McCarthy

RT @Criterion: With THE LEARNING TREE, Gordon Parks not only became the first Black American director to make a Hollywood studio film, he a…

Paperback, Mass Market, 1987

$8.99$4.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Happiness: Essential Mindfulness Practices, Thich Nhat Hanh

Happiness: Essential Mindfulness Practices

Thich Nhat Hanh
E. J. McCarthyE. J. McCarthy

Thich Nhat Hanh on Life, War, and Happiness https://t.co/cIFxmhOIUu

Paperback, 2009

$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald
E. J. McCarthyE. J. McCarthy

"My grandfather Scott had died in 1940. During the Depression his books had essentially fallen out of print. A Fitzgerald revival began in the 1940s, when special armed services editions of The Great Gatsby were distributed to U.S. troops in World War II." https://t.co/y3HU57ioqF

Paperback, 2004

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Ulysses: Second Edition, James Joyce

Ulysses: Second Edition

James Joyce
E. J. McCarthyE. J. McCarthy

How Random House publisher Bennett Cerf got James Joyce's Ulysses into the United States https://t.co/O42HXABnOm via @IrishCentral

Paperback, 2022

$12.95$6.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga, Hunter S. Thompson

Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga

Hunter S. Thompson
E. J. McCarthyE. J. McCarthy

Sonny Barger, figurehead of Hells Angels, dies at 83. He served as the main character in Hunter Thompson's 1966 expose “Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs.” https://t.co/bywn2mryIA

Paperback, 1996

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Book Cover for: The War of Words: How America's GI Journalists Battled Censorship and Propaganda to Help Win World War II, Molly Guptill Manning

The War of Words: How America's GI Journalists Battled Censorship and Propaganda to Help Win World War II

Molly Guptill Manning
E. J. McCarthyE. J. McCarthy

Starred review! PW praises @MGManning1's THE WAR OF WORDS: "An eye-opening account....Manning's vital study draws liberally and poignantly on soldiers’ own words. It’s an essential contribution to the history of WWII." Coming in September from Blackstone. https://t.co/MeVpJjA2Rh

Hardcover, 2023

$25.99$12.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Catch-22, Joseph Heller

Catch-22

Joseph Heller
E. J. McCarthyE. J. McCarthy

RT @jeromenicolas76: 7) In Joseph Heller's 1952 novel Catch 22, there's a character who is just called "the Texan" who felt that "people of…

Paperback, 2011

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Book Cover for: Great Gatsby *, F. Scott Fitzgerald

Great Gatsby *

F. Scott Fitzgerald
E. J. McCarthyE. J. McCarthy

"My grandfather Scott had died in 1940. During the Depression his books had essentially fallen out of print. A Fitzgerald revival began in the 1940s, when special armed services editions of The Great Gatsby were distributed to U.S. troops in World War II." https://t.co/y3HU57ioqF

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Book Cover for: The Panzer Killers: The Untold Story of a Fighting General and His Spearhead Tank Division's Charge Into the Third Reich, Daniel P. Bolger

The Panzer Killers: The Untold Story of a Fighting General and His Spearhead Tank Division's Charge Into the Third Reich

Daniel P. Bolger
E. J. McCarthyE. J. McCarthy

Daniel Bolger interview on The Panzer Killers: "There were those that eschewed publicity and wanted nothing more than to stop the Nazi scourge. Enter General Maurice Rose, the son of a Rabbi, he led the 3rd Armored Division from the front, in a jeep." https://t.co/FhQL3SIA9o

Paperback, 2022

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