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Industrial Genius: The Working Life of Charles Michael Schwab (Hardcover)
RNI ID: 0822943263

 

Kenneth Warren presents a compelling biography that chronicles the startling success of Charles Schwab's business career, his leadership abilities, and his drive to advance steel-making technology and operations. Through extensive research and use of previously unpublished archival documentation, Warren offers a new perspective on the life of a monumental figure--a true visionary--in the industrial history of America.
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Don’t Call Me Boss: David L. Lawrence, Pittsburgh's Renaissance Mayor (Hardcover)
RNI ID: 0822935651

 

Born in a poor, working-class neighborhood, in the present-day Golden Triange of Pittsburgh, he was from boyhood an astute student of politics and a devoted Democrat. Paying minute attention to every detail at the ward and precinct level, he revived the moribund Democratic party of Pittsburgh and fashioned a machine that upset the long-entrenched Republican organization in 1932.

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August Wilson: Three Plays (Hardcover)
RNI ID: 0822936666

 

This collection features Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, voted Best Play of 1984-85 by the New York Drama Critics' Circle, Fences, winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and Joe Turner's Come and Gone, voted Best Play of 1987-88 by the New York Drama Critics' Circle.
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The Longrifles of Western Pennsylvania: Allegheny and Westmoreland Counties (Hardcover)
RNI ID: 0822937271

 

The American longrifle, also known as the Kentucky rifle, was the finest rifle in the world for over a century. As this beautifully illustrated book shows, the gunmakers of western Pennsylvania were second to none in their skill and artistry. From the first settling of the land west of the Alleghenies, local gunsmiths produced the rifles that enabled the frontier family to survive in the wilderness.
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The Early Architecture of Western Pennsylvania (Hardcover)
RNI ID: 0822937875

 

The new edition of this long unavailable classic features an extensive analytical introduction by the noted architectural historian Dell Upton. Containing 416 black-and-white photographs, 81 measured drawings and an extensive text, this volume presents a splendid array of the early dwellings, barns, and other outbuildings, churches, arsenals, banks, inns, commercial buildings, tollhouses, mills, and even tombstones of western Pennsylvania.
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Killing Time: Leisure and Culture in Southwestern Pennsylvania, 1800-1850 (Hardcover)
RNI ID: 0822939169

 

Winner of the 1996 Phi Alpha Theta Best First Book Award Killing Time examines the cultural history of southwestern Pennsylvania through the lens of leisure activities. Scott Martin details how leisure activities were integral in the formation of class, gender, ethnic, and community identities.
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A Town Without Steel: Envisioning Homestead (Hardcover)
RNI ID: 082294071X

 

In 1986, with little warning, the USX Homestead Works closed. Thousands of workers who depended on steel to survive were left without work. A Town Without Steel looks at the people of Homestead as they reinvent their views of household and work and place in this world.
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Pittsburgh Sports: Stories from the Steel City (Hardcover)
RNI ID: 0822941430

 

Pittsburgh Sports mixes the personal experiences of fans and athletes with team histories to capture the full range of what it means to be a sports fan--in Pittsburgh, or, by extension, anywhere.
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Devastation and Renewal: An Environmental History of Pittsburgh and Its Region (Hardback)
RNI ID: 0822941562

 

Joel Tarr presents a collection of essays examining the tortured environmental history of Pittsburgh, a region blessed with an abundance of natural resources as well as a history of intensive industrial development.
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After the Smoke Clears: Struggling To Get By In Rustbelt America (Hardcover)
RNI ID: 0822941902

 

After the Smoke Clears contains thought-provoking, personal stories of hardship and endurance from five towns in America’s collapsing industrial heartland. It focuses on the complex relationships between work, loss, and identity. Includes 48 plates of black and white photographs.
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