The Republic of Violence

The Republic of ViolenceThe 1830s were the most violent time in American history outside of war. Men battled each other in the streets in ethnic and religious conflicts, gangs of party henchmen rioted at the ballot box, and assault and murder were common enough as to seem unremarkable. The president who presided over the era, Andrew Jackson, was himself a duelist and carried lead in his body from previous gunfights. It all made for such a volatile atmosphere that a young

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Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents' cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera

Printed with an open book and the Library’s symbol of knowledge insignia which symbolizes the power of learning in an open democracy

the book invites us to consider how houses

ultimately

Her brave act on a bus in Montgomery

or bitingly witty: The things our children say always offer an unexpected glimpse into a world that is all their own

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In the cold winter months that followed Franklin Roosevelt’s election in November 1940 to an unprecedented third term in the White House

and the Carnegie libraries

Yet several of them share a spirit of stubborn determination in the pursuit of idiosyncratic meanings of happiness

Illustrated with many of the author's personal photographs