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Through most of the 20th century, Atlantic City was controlled by a powerful partnership of local politicians and racketeers. Funded by payoffs from gambling rooms, bars, and brothels, this corrupt alliance reached full bloom during the reign of Enoch "Nucky"...

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This evocative memoir of a little girl's upbringing in an immigrant Chinese family in Singapore in the 1940s illuminates life during the Japanese occupation and the powerful relationship between a father and daughter Asian American Press A highly engrossing ....

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In Mill City: A Visual History of the Minneapolis Mill District, explorers, excursionists, early settlers, entrepreneurs, and employees tell the story of St. Anthony Falls in their own words. Their vivid accounts are paired with historic photographs and artworks that...

During the first half of the twentieth century, Atlantic City was the nation's most popular middle-class resort—the home of the famed Boardwalk, the Miss America Pageant, and the board game Monopoly. By the late 1960s, it had become a symbol...

When a self-proclaimed "lazy scholar" embarks on a trip through his life's influences—as diverse as girl-group doo-wop, Yeats, and Van Gogh—readers are in for an illuminating ride. This collection of essays from cultural critic Di Piero veers from his early...

Faith and the City is personal narrative of being a directionless college grad trying to make it in the big city. The story itself chronicles the author s struggle to reenter the land of the living and figure out how...

Located in Northern Kentucky, Newport is a small, historic river town bustling with business in a respectful and developing community. While it is now known for its charm, Newport once had a dark and sinister past known as its...