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The Paradox of Tar Heel Politics: The Personalities, Elections, and Events That Shaped Modern North Carolina $18.58 How can a state be represented by Jesse Helms and John Edwards at the same time? Journalist Rob Christensen answers that question and navigates a century of political history in North Carolina, one of the most vibrant and competitive southern states, where neither conservatives nor liberals, Democrats nor Republicans, have been able to rest easy. It is this climate of competition and challenge, Ch… |
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Tabloid Valley: Supermarket News and American Culture $6.03 The truth behind supermarket tabloids “At last, the story behind the journalistic movement that gave us Bat Boy and Elvis Lives!, and changed American politics forever. Your wait in the supermarket line will never be the same.”–Mark Lane, author of Sandspurs: Notes from a Coastal Columnist “Anyone who wants to understand American popular culture of the last fifty years w… |
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Welch (WV) (Images of America) $14.69 After the Civil War, Capt. Isaiah Welch, a Doddridge County, West Virginia, native, took a job as a surveyor with Maj. Jed Hotchkiss of Staunton, Virginia. Hotchkiss had served as Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson’s mapmaker and charted Jackson’s famous Valley Campaign, and Welch had been an officer of the 13th Battalion, Virginia Light Artillery. The war left Virginia’s agrarian economy in ruins, a… |
