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      Pedestrianism

      Matthew Algeo

      Strange as it sounds, during the 1870s and 1880s, America’s most popular spectator sport wasn’t baseball, boxing, or horseracing–it was competitive walking. Inside sold-out arenas, competitors walked around dirt tracks…

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      Pedestrianism: When Watching People Walk Was America’s Favorite Spectator Sport

      Matthew Algeo

      Strange as it sounds, during the 1870s and 1880s, America’s most popular spectator sport wasn’t baseball, boxing, or horseracing–it was competitive walking. Inside sold-out arenas, competitors walked around dirt tracks…

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      Last Team Standing: How the Steelers and the Eagles- The Steagles -Saved Pro Football During World War II

      Matthew Algeo

      Tracing the history of the National Football League during World War II, this book delves into the severe player shortage during the war which led to the merging of the…

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      Harry Truman’s Excellent Adventure: The True Story of a Great American Road Trip

      Matthew Algeo

      From Missouri to New York and back again, this work chronicles the amazing road trip of a former president and his wife and their amusing, failed attempts to keep a…

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      All This Marvelous Potential: Robert Kennedy’s 1968 Tour of Appalachia

      Matthew Algeo

      All This Marvelous Potential retraces Robert F. Kennedy’s 1967-68 tour of eastern Kentucky and provides a new portrait of the politician-a politician of uncommon courage who was unafraid to shine…

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      When Harry Met Pablo

      Matthew Algeo

      Truman and Picasso were contemporaries and were both shaped by and shapers of the great events of the twentieth century-the man who painted Guernica and the man who authorized the…

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      All This Marvelous Potential: Robert Kennedy’s 1968 Tour of Appalachia

      Matthew Algeo

      All This Marvelous Potential retraces Robert F. Kennedy’s 1967-68 tour of eastern Kentucky and provides a new portrait of the politician-a politician of uncommon courage who was unafraid to shine…

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      Presidential Vacations in Florida

      Robert Buccellato

      Abe Lincoln did not split rails in Tampa, and George Washington’s cherry tree might not have been cut in Miami-Dade, but in Key West, the famous Harry S. Truman sign–The…

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      Presidential Vacations in Florida

      Robert Buccellato

      Abe Lincoln did not split rails in Tampa, and George Washington’s cherry tree might not have been cut in Miami-Dade, but in Key West, the famous Harry S. Truman sign–The…

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      The President Is a Sick Man: Wherein the Supposedly Virtuous Grover Cleveland Survives a Secret Surgery at Sea and Vilifies the Courageous Newspaperman Who Dared Expose the Truth

      Matthew Algeo,Alexa Coelho,Simon Quellen Field

      An extraordinary yet almost unknown chapter in American history is revealed in this extensively researched expose. On July 1, 1893, President Grover Cleveland boarded a friend’s yacht and was not…

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