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The great fire
Par Jim Murphy. 1995
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Prix littéraires (romans)Aventure et exploration, Essais et documents primés, Etats-Unis (histoire)
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An account of the conflagration that levelled much of Chicago in 1871. Chronicles events from the fire's outbreak and rapid…
spread to its extinguishment by rain, as reported by survivors and in documents of the period. Examines the origins, circumstances, and official failures that contributed to the disaster. Grades 5-8. A 1996 Newbery Honor Book. c1995.The armies of the night: history as a novel, the novel as history
Par Norman Mailer. 1968
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Prix littéraires (romans)Essais et documents primés, Journaux personnels et mémoires, Etats-Unis (histoire), Politique et gouvernement, Guerre
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The story of the 1967 march on the Pentagon, skirmishes between armed guards and anti-war demonstrators, and the subsequent arrest…
of hundreds of people. The author describes his own experience as a demonstrator and also gives a historical account of the action. Winner of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction. 1968.An anthropologist on Mars: seven paradoxical tales
Par Oliver W Sacks. 1995
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Prix littéraires (romans)Succès de librairie (documentaires), Santé et médecine, Médecine
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Case histories of people with neurological disorders who reconstruct the world according to their needs. Comfortable with his forty-five years…
of blindness, one man is confused by the sudden restoration of his sight. An autistic zoology professor is at ease with animals but cannot bear human contact. Each tale portrays a patient with a condition such as Tourette's Syndrome, deafness, or amnesia. Bestseller. Winner of the 1997 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. 1995.A stillness at Appomattox
Par Bruce Catton. 1953
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Prix littéraires (romans)Essais et documents primés, Histoire, Etats-Unis (histoire)
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A description of the last year of the Civil War when General Grant rebuilt the Union Army into a fighting…
force and turned defeat into victory. 1954 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for history. Sequel to "Glory road". 1953.