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Jan 27, 2004
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1968: The Year That Rocked The World
Mark Kurlansky
Mark Kurlansky
"They were demanding better food and more dances" doesn't rank up there with Yippies mobbing the Democratic National Convention or Polish...
Mar 29, 2002
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24/7: Living It Up And Doubling Down In The New Las Vegas
Andrés Martinez
Andrés Martinez
Adding to a recent spate of books on the new, corporatized, family-friendly Las Vegas, former Wall Street Journal reporter Andrés...
Apr 19, 2005
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3 Nights In August: Strategy, Heartbreak, And Joy Inside The Mind Of A Manager
Buzz Bissinger
Buzz Bissinger
When Michael Lewis' essential baseball book Moneyball was released two years ago, it described a shift in thinking about the game that was...
Mar 29, 2002
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300
Frank Miller
Frank Miller
Throughout the '80s, comic-book writer and artist Frank Miller (The Dark Knight Returns) played The Replacements to Watchmen and...
Mar 29, 2002
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3001: Final Odyssey
Arthur C. Clarke
Arthur C. Clarke
Arthur C. Clarke's 2001 series is one of the most recognizable science-fiction sagas of all time. It's also one of the most human,...
Feb 10, 2004
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40 Watts From Nowhere: A Journey Into Pirate Radio
Sue Carpenter
Sue Carpenter
Romanticizing the past remains the quickest way to turn into an old fogey, but as anyone who's tried to listen to the radio lately can attest,...
Jul 12, 2006
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Apr 19, 2002
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'57, Chicago
Steve Monroe
Steve Monroe
Steve Monroe's debut novel, '57, Chicago, won't win any sensitivity awards, but it's a fast-moving, iconography-heavy piece of pulp sports...
