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Guide to Louisiana Confederate Military Units, 1861-1865
Bergeron has produced a book. . . essential to the serious Confederate scholar. - Journal of American HistoryIn Guide to Louisiana Confederate Military Units, Arthur W. Bergeron, …
Prophet of Decline
Oswald Spengler (1880-1936) is best known for The Decline of the West, in which he propounded his pathbreaking philosophy of world history and penetrating diagnosis of the crisis …
The Cemeteries of New Orleans
In The Cemeteries of New Orleans, Peter B. Dedek reveals the origins and evolution of the Crescent City's world-famous necropolises, exploring both their distinctive architecture …
A Confederacy of Dunces (35th Anniversary Edition)
After more than three decades, the peerless wit and indulgent absurdity of A Confederacy of Dunces continues to attract new readers. Though the manuscript was rejected by many …
The Hills Beyond
The third and last book culled from the mountain of manuscript Thomas Wolfe left behind, The Hills Beyond ""contains some of his best, and certainly his most mature, work"" - New …
The Earl of Louisiana
In the summer of 1959, A. J. Liebling, veteran writer for the New Yorker, came to Louisiana to cover a series of bizarre events that began with Governor Earl K. Long's commitment …
Murder in the Métro
On the evening of May 16, 1937, the train doors opened at the Porte Dorée station in the Paris Métro to reveal a dying woman slumped by a window, an eight-inch stiletto buried to …
Frontiersman
The name Daniel Boone conjures up the image of an illiterate patriot who settled Kentucky and killed countless Indians. The scarcity of surviving autobiographical material has …
Zachary Taylor
Considering the course his life took, one might wonder how Zachary Taylor ever came to be elected the twelfth president of the United States. According to K. Jack Bauer, Taylor …
The Man Who Punched Jefferson Davis
Regarded as one of the most vocal, well-traveled, and controversial statesmen of the nineteenth century, antebellum politician Henry Stuart Foote played a central role in a vast …