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Contested Continent: The Struggle for North America, c. 1000-1680

The Bill of Obligations: The Ten Habits of Good Citizens

The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783

The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade

Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire

White House by the Sea: A Century of the Kennedys at Hyannis Port

Teddy and Booker T.: How Two American Icons Blazed a Path for Racial Equality

Woke Up This Morning: The Definitive Oral History of The Sopranos

Blazing Eye Sees All: Love Has Won, False Prophets, and the Fever Dream of the American New Age

Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right

The Money Kings: The Epic Story of the Jewish Immigrants Who Transformed Wall Street and Shaped Modern America

The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War

Brave Hearted: The Women of the American West

Our First Civil War: Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution

Paradise Bronx: The Life and Times of New York's Greatest Borough

An Assassin in Utopia: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Sex Cult and a President's Murder

Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America

Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy

God Save Benedict Arnold: The True Story of America's Most Hated Man

Rock Me on the Water: 1974—The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television and Politics

Henry at Work: Thoreau on Making a Living

The Bible Told Them So: How Southern Evangelicals Fought to Preserve White Supremacy

Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall

American Made: What Happens to People When Work Disappears

Downeast: Five Maine Girls and the Unseen Story of Rural America

A Conspiratorial Life: Robert Welch, the John Birch Society, and the Revolution of American Conservatism

How the Mountains Grew: A New Geological History of North America

Stampede: Gold Fever and Disaster in the Klondike

Shots Heard Round the World: America, Britain, and Europe in the Revolutionary War

White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea

Bunyan and Henry; Or, the Beautiful Destiny

Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History

Walt Disney's Donald Duck: Frozen Gold (The Complete Carl Barks Library #02)

Dark Carnivals: Modern Horrors and the Origins of American Empire

Murder in a Mill Town: Sex, Faith, and the Crime That Captivated a Nation

Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right

Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller

When the Stars Begin to Fall: Overcoming Racism and Renewing the Promise of America

Winning Independence: The Decisive Years of the Revolutionary War, 1778-1781

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Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge: Island in the Sky (The Carl Barks Library #24)

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“ Heck, no one knows if the internet will still be around in ten years— Rock-IT! Towne by Mark Streuber This is about the music and the bands who made it. And this is about all those unlikely people who became stars and then fell from the sky and had to scratch out a living to make ends meet at some crap job when their hit machine ran dry and their money ran out. And it’s about the fans who played their music on their first date, and their first prom, and when they cruised the street in their fir Heck, no one knows if the internet will still be around in ten years— Rock-IT! Towne by Mark Streuber This is about the music and the bands who made it. And this is about all those unlikely people who became stars and then fell from the sky and had to scratch out a living to make ends meet at some crap job when their hit machine ran dry and their money ran out. And it’s about the fans who played their music on their first date, and their first prom, and when they cruised the street in their first car. The fans who cried during their first breakup, or first divorce, who jumped for joy during the birth of their child, or first big promotion. This is about the people who want to remember the good times— and the bad, I guess— and relive a happier time when they still had rock ‘n’ roll, and they still had something to believe in. That’s what this website is about. It’s not only about where they are now — or about the money— Rock-IT! Towne by Mark Streuber Rockers were pretty good at unzipping their fly on their own. They didn’t need a snot-nosed journalist to unzip it for them— Rock-IT! Towne by Mark Streuber You keep thinking this band will turn up, and maybe they will. But if you ain’t found ‘em yet, it’s a good bet your band has drowned…. Every band gets swept out to sea at one time or another. Most make it back to shore, but some don’t. I think your band has drowned and you ain’t never gonna see ‘em again— Rock-IT! Towne by Mark Streuber Be careful… The First Cut is the Deepest, as Rod Stewart once sang. But the second cut is pretty deep too— Rock-IT! Towne by Mark Streuber I knew them well enough. I knew they were as dysfunctional as any band I ever worked with. Although, I don’t think they used the word dysfunctional back then. I think they used words like screwed up—Rock-IT! Towne by Mark Streuber Seems she was more agreeable to you being here. For my part, I wanted to put you both in a sack and drop you into Lake Winona— Rock-IT! Towne by Mark Streuber Yeah, well. One man’s truth can be another man’s dagger to the heart— Rock-IT! Towne by Mark Streuber People move on, Jonathan. Rock music moved on. It was never gonna last. You write for a rock magazine. You of all people should know that… Yes, but it didn’t disappear without a trace— Rock-IT! Towne by Mark Streuber Fame, money, prestige, power. It’s what we think we want until we find out how it destroys as easily as it helps. I know that from personal experience— Rock-IT! Towne by Mark Streuber ...more ”
― Mark Streuber

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