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Written by one of the country's foremost urban historians, "The Great Rent Wars" tells the fascinating but little-known story of the battles between landlords a

The problems with wealthy landowners and the rent they charged the tenant farmers were brought to a climax stage with the killing of the undersheriff of Delawar

The First World War profoundly affected the American political system by transforming constitutional law and providing the predicate for the modern administrati

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • An "extraordinary ... profoundly moving" history (The New York Times Book Review) of the American Civil