Albert Marrin, Author . Dutton $22.99 (128p) ISBN 978-0-525-42077-4
Calling it “the worst environmental disaster in American history,” historian Marrin (The Great Adventure
) chronicles the Dust Bowl of the 1930s—its causes, devastation, aftermath and potential to recur. The large format allows for
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Albert Marrin, Author Viking Children's Books $16 (256p) ISBN 978-0-670-84063-2
Although to Americans, this book's most compelling parts may be the U.S. participation in the Vietnam War, our country's dilemma, particularly the switch from French combat and the antiwar movement (which Marrin seems to view a bit negatively), all...
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Albert Marrin, Author Viking Children's Books $15 (0p) ISBN 978-0-670-81546-3
Chairman of the history department at Yeshiva University, Marrin avoids both psychobabble and outrage as he discusses the childhood influences and failures as a young adult (including an aborted painting career) that led to Hitler's destructive,...
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Albert Marrin, Author Viking Children's Books $14.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-670-82102-0
Stalin, Marrin writes, was ``among the two or three worst men who ever lived.'' The numbers bear this outStalin was directly or indirectly responsible for 14 million deaths in the famine of the 1930s, 12 million deaths in the gulag and 20 million...
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Albert Marrin, Author Dutton Books $21.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-525-45942-2
While debunking romantic myths and misconceptions, Marrin (Commander in Chief: Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War) ably proves fact stranger than fiction in his portrait of the legendary buccaneer Sir Henry Morgan (1635-1688). Supported by meticulous
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Albert Marrin, Knopf, $19.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-375-86889-4
Published to coincide with the centennial anniversary of the 1911 fire that erupted in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, this powerful chronicle examines the circumstances surrounding the disaster, which resulted in the deaths of 146 workers, mostly...
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Albert Marrin. Dutton, $19.99 (128p) ISBN 978-0-525-42262-4
With humor, eloquence, and smart analysis, Marrin (Years of Dust) looks into the surprisingly complex relationship between humans and parasites. While discussing the pests responsible for spreading plague, malaria, and typhus (and human efforts to...
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Albert Marrin. Knopf, $19.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-307-98152-3
National Book Award finalist Marrin adds to his acclaimed collection of history books, and while the subject of this latest—fervent abolitionist John Brown and his efforts to end slavery in the United States—is not easy to read about, Marrin's...
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Albert Marrin. Knopf, $17.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-553-50936-6
With masterful command of his subject and a clear, conversational style, Marrin (FDR and the American Crisis) lays bare the suffering inflicted upon Japanese Americans by the U.S. during WWII. Marrin delves into cultural, political, and economic...
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Albert Marrin, Author, Donna L. Brooks, Editor Dutton Books $27.5 (256p) ISBN 978-0-525-45944-6
Through Marrin's (Terror of the Spanish Main) gripping and complex portrait of Sitting Bull (1831-1890), the author demonstrates the Lakota Sioux leader's importance in understanding American life today. As the prologue states: ""Through his...
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Albert Marrin. Knopf, $21.99 (208p) ISBN 978-1-101-93146-2
Marrin (Uprooted) presents a gripping analysis of “history’s worst-ever health disaster,” the so-called Spanish Flu of 1918, which infected 500 million people worldwide (“one-third of the human race at the time”) over an 18-month period. Moving...
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Albert Marrin. Knopf, $19.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-5247-0120-8
Janusz Korczak, a Polish-Jewish pediatrician and writer, established a home for orphans in 1912 and cared for Jewish children throughout both world wars. Much more than a biography, Marrin’s introduction to this heroic figure offers an exhaustive...
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Albert Marrin. Little, Brown/Ottaviano, $24.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-593-12173-3
Marrin (A Light in the Darkness) breaks down the history of wildfires and their place in the cycle of nature in this thorough work. Beginning in the Ice Age and traveling forward in time through the birth of natural forests into contemporary America,
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