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  • THE WHISKEY REBELLION AND THE REBIRTH OF RYE
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    THE WHISKEY REBELLION AND THE REBIRTH OF RYE
    MARK MEYER / MEREDITH MEYER GRELLI
    "A mix of elevating spirits and fractious politics" this history of the whiskey industry in the rust belt "goes down nice and smooth." —John Allison, Pittsburgh Quarterly   A short history of rye whiskey's founding, floundering, and current flourishing in Pittsburgh. The book takes the reader on a fun tour of the Whiskey Rebellion, the role of Pittsburgh robber barons in develo...

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  • IN THE WATERSHED
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    IN THE WATERSHED
    RYAN SCHNURR
    "An engaging narrative . . . braiding together [Schnurr's] personal observations with history, science, and folklore." —Scott Russell Sanders, author, Earth Works: Selected Essays and A Conservationist Manifesto   For several years, Ryan Schnurr watched media coverage of Lake Erie algae blooms with a growing sense of unease. An Indiana native, he wanted to learn more about role...

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  • THE HISTORY OF THE STANDARD OIL COMPANY
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    THE HISTORY OF THE STANDARD OIL COMPANY
    IDA TARBELL
    The classic of muckraking journalism that exposed the inner workings of a Gilded Age business empire—with a new introduction by Elizabeth Catte. Cleveland oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller formed the Standard Oil Company of Ohio in 1870. Over the next four decades, he turned the business into a behemoth, systematically driving his competitors out of business or buying them outrigh...

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  • RETHINKING FANDOM
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    RETHINKING FANDOM
    CRAIG CALCATERRA
    "Modern fandom is rubbish, and Calcaterra explains why, but in so doing, also shows us the way out of our desensitized, corporate, laundry-hugging ways." —Keith Law, The Athletic   Sports fandom isn't what it used to be. Owners and executives increasingly count on the blind loyalty of their fans and too often act against the team's best interest. Sports fans are left deliberati...

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  • DREADFUL SORRY
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    DREADFUL SORRY
    JENNIFER NIESSLEIN
    Candid essays on personal and cultural American nostalgia, focusing on the author's working-class, Rust Belt family history. What does it mean to be nostalgic for the American past? The feeling has been co-opted by the far right ("Make America Great Again," after all, is a plea for the past), and associated with violent periods of our country's history when white supremacy was ...

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  • HOW TO BE NORMAL
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    HOW TO BE NORMAL
    PHIL CHRISTMAN
    " Erudite riffs on race, religion, masculinity and [more]. . . . A crisp set of essays that bring big social and cultural debates to a human level." —Kirkus Reviews   Phil Christman is one of the best cultural critics working today. Or, as a reviewer of his previous book, Midwest Futures, put it, "one of the most underappreciated writers of [his] generation." You may also know ...

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  • THE HISTORY OF DEMOCRACY HAS YET TO BE WRITTEN
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    THE HISTORY OF DEMOCRACY HAS YET TO BE WRITTEN
    THOMAS GEOGHEGAN
    "This book made me laugh out loud and also gave me glimpses of an entire horizon of possibility I hadn't seen before."—Chris Hayes, host of MSNBC's All In with Chris Hayes End the filibuster. Abolish the Senate. Make everyone vote. Only if we do this (and then some), says Thomas Geoghegan, might we heal our fractured democracy. In 2008, Geoghegan―then an established labor lawye...

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  • PURE AMERICA
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    PURE AMERICA
    ELIZABETH CATTE
    "A well-told, richly contextualized investigation of an appalling episode in American history" ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Between 1927 and 1979, more than 8,000 people were involuntarily sterilized in five hospitals across the state of Virginia. From this plain and terrible fact springs Elizabeth Catte's Pure America, a sweeping, unsparing history of eugenics in Virgini...

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  • CONSPIRACY TO RIOT
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    CONSPIRACY TO RIOT
    LEE WEINER
    This memoir by one of the famed Chicago Seven "chronicles the moments from [his] life that forged him as someone willing to jump atop cars with a bullhorn" ( South Side Weekly).   In March 1969, eight young men were indicted by the federal government for conspiracy to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. First dubbed the "Conspiracy 8" and later the "Chicag...

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  • SO YOU WANT TO PUBLISH A BOOK?
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    SO YOU WANT TO PUBLISH A BOOK?
    ANNE TRUBEK
    The founder of Belt Publishing demystifies the publishing process, offering some insider how-to advice for aspiring authors. This slim but insightful guide offers concrete, witty advice and information to authors, prospective authors, and those curious about the publishing industry's inner workings. The chapters are chock full of important advice and information, including: ·  ...

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  • THE LAST CHILDREN OF MILL CREEK
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    THE LAST CHILDREN OF MILL CREEK
    VIVIAN GIBSON
    A bestselling memoir of a vibrant childhood spent in a thriving St. Louis African American community before "urban renewal" changed everything. Vivian Gibson grew up in Mill Creek Valley, a segregated working-class neighborhood in St. Louis that was razed in 1959 to build a highway, an act of racism disguised under urban renewal as "progress." A moving memoir of family life at ...

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  • MIDWEST FUTURES
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    MIDWEST FUTURES
    PHIL CHRISTMAN
    "A combination of history, memoir, reportage, and lit-crit that taught me a lot about a region I've reported on. . . . Check it out." ―James Fallows, The Atlantic   A Commonweal Notable Book of 2020 Finalist, Midwest Independent Book Award Winner, Independent Publisher Awards Bronze Medal   What does the future hold for the Midwest? A vast stretch of fertile farmland bordering ...

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  • EL DORADO FREDDY'S
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    EL DORADO FREDDY'S
    DANNY CAINE / TARA WRAY
    A charming and accessible collection of poems dedicated to one of the most American of inventions—fast food. "I went back for seconds." —Dallas Crow, Rain Taxi Review of Books   El Dorado Freddy's may be the first book of fast-food poetry. In poems like "Olive Garden," "Culver's," "Popeye's Louisiana Kitchen," "Cracker Barrel," "Applebee's (after James Wright)," Danny Caine—own...

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  • UNDER PURPLE SKIES
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    UNDER PURPLE SKIES
    "The ultimate (literary) tour guide to the neighborhoods and wild places, history and politics, culture and cuisine, music and myths of the Twin Cities" (Benjamin Percy, author of The Wilding). In recent years, Minneapolis has become one of America's literary powerhouses. With over fifty poems and essays, Under Purple Skies: The Minneapolis Anthology collects some of the most e...

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  • THE MILWAUKEE ANTHOLOGY
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    THE MILWAUKEE ANTHOLOGY
    A collection of essays, art, stories, and poetry that offer a nuanced portrait of Milwaukee in all its hope and hurt, weirdness and wonder. The Milwaukee Anthology presents a rich mosaic of one of America's toughest zip codes. With a diverse range of perspectives, authors and artists share honest first-hand stories about Riverwest, Sherman Park, Hmong New Year's shows, 7 Mile F...

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  • RADICAL SUBURBS
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    RADICAL SUBURBS
    AMANDA KOLSON HURLEY
    "A revelation . . . will open your eyes to the wide diversity and rich history of our ongoing suburban experiment." —Richard Florida, author of The Rise of the Creative Class   America's suburbs are not the homogenous places we sometimes take them for. Today's suburbs are racially, ethnically, and economically diverse, with as many Democratic as Republican voters, a growing pop...

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  • THE BATTLE OF LINCOLN PARK
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    THE BATTLE OF LINCOLN PARK
    DANIEL KAY HERTZ
    "A brief, cogent analysis of gentrification in Chicago . . . An incisive and useful narrative on the puzzle of urban development" ( Kirkus). In the years after World War II, a movement began to bring the middle class back to the Lincoln Park neighborhood on Chicago's North Side. In place of the old, poorly maintained apartments and dense streetscapes, "rehabbers" imagined a new...

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  • HOW TO LIVE IN DETROIT WITHOUT BEING A JACKASS
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    HOW TO LIVE IN DETROIT WITHOUT BEING A JACKASS
    AARON FOLEY
    The definitive inside r's guide to living in one of America's most talked-about and least understood cities. With a wry sense of humor, Detroit native Aaron Foley walks you through the most difficult questions about the Motor City, offering seven simple rules for making it there. Perfect for coastal transplants, wary suburbanites, unwitting gentrifiers, or start-up disruptors, ...

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