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In a 1996 American Cowboy article titled "The Debonair Killer", David P. Grady noted: "Marion Hedgepeth looked like a dude, but 'dangerous' and 'deadly' fit him better". ". The dark-complexioned, wavy-haired six footer, who roamed from town to town as a hired gun, Grady wrote, maintained the fastidious, gentlemanly appearance of a dandy, sporting a bowler hat and diamond stic
Albert Nelson Marquis (January 10, 1855 – December 21, 1943) was a Chicago publisher best known for creating the Who's Who book series, starting with Who's Who in America, which was first published in 1899. [1] [2] Marquis was born in Decatur, Ohio, and raised by his maternal grandparents in nearby Hamersville.
In the United States the majority governs in the name of the people, as is the case in all the countries in which the people is supreme. Democracy in America, Book 2, Ch I, 1st and 2nd paragraph. Such an ambiguous understanding of democracy in a study of great impact on political thought could not help leaving traces.
The States and the Nation series is a book series published in celebration of the United States Bicentennial by W. W. Norton & Company regarding the states of the United States of America. The first volume was published in 1975 and volumes continued to appear until 1984.
Our Enemy, the State is the best-known book by libertarian author Albert Jay Nock, serving as a fundamental influence for the modern libertarian and American conservatism movements. Initially presented as a series of lectures at Bard College , it was published in 1935 and attempts to analyze the origins of American freedom and question the ...
The Other America: Poverty in the United States is Michael Harrington's best known and likely most influential book. He was an American democratic socialist, writer, political activist, political theorist, professor of political science, radio commentator, and founding member of the Democratic Socialists of America .
After America: Get Ready for Armageddon is a non-fiction book authored by socio-political commentator Mark Steyn, being published in 2011 by Regnery.In the work, he asserts that the United States has placed itself onto a trajectory towards decline and eventual collapse due to different trends in its history, a path that he states has been set out previously by other nations of the Western world.
The Disunited States of America is an alternate history novel by Harry Turtledove. [1] It is a part of the Crosstime Traffic series, and takes place in an alternate world where the U.S. was never able to agree on a constitution and continued to govern under the Articles of Confederation. By the early 1800s, the nation dissolved with each state ...