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Congress and the King of Frauds: Corruption and the Credit Mobilier Scandal at the Dawn of the Gilded Age
By: Robert Mitchell
The Credit Mobilier scandal rocked Washington in 1873. It ruined reputations, contributed to a massive Republican defeat in the 1874 congressional elections, and colored the Mark Twain-Charles Dudley ...
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The Partisans: James G. Blaine, Roscoe Conkling, and the Politics of Rivalry and Revenge in the Gilded Age
By: Robert Mitchell
The Partisans recounts the two-decade feud between two of the most significant politicians of the post-Civil War era. It began in 1866, when an exasperated Blaine mocked Conkling’s “grandiloquent ...
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The Passions of Johann Gutenberg
By: Michael Brown
THE PASSIONS OF JOHANN GUTENBERGThe invention that terrified popes and kings.In an age of iron, blood, and whispered faith, one man dares to challenge the silence of the written word—and ignite a re...
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The Last Heretic
By: Steve Goldsmith
What if the Creed—recited by millions across centuries—was born from a lie?AD 325. The Council of Nicaea.Constantine demands unity. Bishops scheme for power. Truth is… negotiable.Archelaus, a sc...
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Delusional Madness
By: Kimberly Taylor
When the doors of the asylum close behind her, escape is no longer the greatest danger.Set in the shadowed halls of a Victorian asylum, Delusional Madness is a dark gothic historical novel exploring p...
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Angel of Aleppo: can faith survive the Armenian Genocide
By: Jon Cocks
Angel of Aleppo is a story of the Armenian Genocide, including the little-known link between the Genocide and the WW1 Anzac experience. It highlights the cruelty of the Ottoman Young Turks towards the...
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Lydia Wickham's Northern Peril: Darcy & Wickham's Rapprochement: A Pride & Prejudice Variation
By: Gill Mather
An unspeakable threat faces Lydia Wickham. The stakes are high, the odds seemingly insurmountable. Not yet eighteen, Lydia is accused of forgery, a hanging offence.All the injustices of the 18th-centu...
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The Viola Factor
By: Sheridan Brown
SUMMARY:VIOLA KNAPP RUFFNER was a woman who left home early to support her family, bravely traveling alone to teaching positions in the pre-Civil War north and south. Her quest to uphold her mother's ...
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