William K. Klingaman, Author HarperCollins Publishers $24.95 (402p) ISBN 978-0-06-016447-8
Parallels between East and West abound in this robust, readable history of the first century. For example, both Augustus Caesar and Chinese emperor Wang Mang, usurper of the Han throne, saw themselves as saviors of battered, debauched civilizations.
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William K. Klingaman, Author Viking Books $25.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-670-86754-7
On January 1, 1863, Lincoln declared free all slaves found in states rebelling against the Union. This epochal event is popularly regarded as the definitive triumph of abolition and earned Lincoln the title ""The Great Emancipator."" Yet in the...
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William K. Klingaman, Author HarperCollins Publishers $22.5 (393p) ISBN 978-0-06-016081-4
The year 1929 saw both the peak of roaring-'20s prosperity and the stock market collapse that led to the Great Depression, when a third of the U.S. work force was unemployed. With vivid narrative and anecdotal profiles of such diverse characters as...
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William K. Klingaman, Author HarperCollins Publishers $11.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-091702-9
``With vivid narrative and anecdotal profiles of such diverse characters as Herbert Hoover, Al Capone, Joseph P. Kennedy, the Marx Brothers, F. Scott Fitzgerald and J. P. Morgan, Klingaman shows that the same `mob psychology' that `had borne the...
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William K. Klingaman and Nicholas P. Klingaman. St. Martin’s, $27.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-3126-7645-2
On April 5, 1815, Mount Tambora in Indonesia exploded in one of recorded history’s most massive volcanic eruptions. In addition to releasing enough ash and pumice “to cover a square area one hundred miles on each side to a depth of almost twelve...
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William K. Klingaman. St. Martin’s, $29.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-250-13317-5
This expansive survey from historian Klingaman (The First Century: Emperors, Gods, and Everyman) paints an extraordinary portrait of America’s home front during the first year of WWII as it was buffeted by political, social, and economic upheaval....
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