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When celebrity biographer and true-crime writer James Pylant delved into the decades-long disappearance of his great-grandfather, he searched for the one relative who may have held the key to the mystery-only to find that she, too, had vanished. Family Tree: A Journey of Identity, Secrets & DNA tells a true tale of betrayal, desertion, bigamy, illegitimacy, slavery, and murder deeply embedded into generations of a Southern family. With in-depth genealogical research and shocking DNA testing results, the author chronicles the scandals and tragedies in his bloodline. His family's culture of secrecy and estrangement unfolds through candid interviews with relatives from both the white and black branches of the Pylant family tree. The journey concludes with meeting long-lost kin in Britain--a family reunion more than 300 years in the making.
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The rise and fall of a Texas Democrat: "A definitive, richly detailed biography [and] an engrossing history that sheds light on our own fractious times." ― Kirkus Reviews (starred review) A former Golden Gloves boxer and WWII bombardier, Jim Wright entered Congress to fight a different kind of battle, making his mark on virtually every major policy issue of the later twentieth century: energy, education, taxes, transportation, environmental protection, civil rights, criminal justice, and foreign relations among them. He played a significant role in peace initiatives in Central America and in the Camp David Accords, and was the first American politician to speak live on Soviet television. A...
July the third 1863 it seems, will forever be associated with an event known by almost everyone as "Pickett's Charge" . . . the day more than 12,000 officers and men in Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia charged forward at the Union defenses at Gettysburg. Almost since that day onward, the label given to that assault has focused on the commander of less than half of the troops who made the attack-Major General George Pickett. Pickett whose Division constituted only three of the nine brigades in the afternoon assault has become the namesake of the entire effort. Now, the story is told of the men from North Carolina, Mississippi, Tennessee and Alabama who made that charge.
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