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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - For about ten years, the United States contained several hundred cities it would not admit were there.They were built out of packing crates, tar paper, and flattened tin cans, on flood plains and rail sidings and municipal dumps, by people who had run out of every other option. What almost nobody remembers is what happened next. They elected mayors. They wrote building codes and enforced them. They ran courts, held funerals, and built churches - one of them out of orange crates, dedicated in January 1932 and covered by the New York Times. In St. Louis, three hundred children walked from a mile of shacks on the Mississippi to public schools every morning. In Seattle, six men governed nine acres through a committee apportioned two white, two Black, two Filipino, in a decade when no legal body in the city would have permitted it. When that settlement was burned out twice by the health department, the residents rebuilt in salvaged concrete and sheet tin, because concrete and tin do not burn.The word itself was invented by a Democratic Party press agent in 1930, as an insult aimed at a president. The people it was meant to describe took it, painted it on a sign, and used it as an address.This is a history of those settlements: how they were built, how they governed themselves, who actually lived in them, and how the country eventually removed them with bulldozers, kerosene, and federal money. It is also an account of why so little of this was written down - and of the handful of people who wrote it down anyway.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. For about ten years, the United States contained several hundred cities it would not admit were there.They were built out of packing crates, tar paper, and flattened tin cans, on flood plains and rail sidings and municipal dumps, by people who had run out of every other option. What almost nobody remembers is what happened next. They elected mayors. They wrote building codes and enforced them. They ran courts, held funerals, and built churches - one of them out of orange crates, dedicated in January 1932 and covered by the New York Times. In St. Louis, three hundred children walked from a mile of shacks on the Mississippi to public schools every morning. In Seattle, six men governed nine acres through a committee apportioned two white, two Black, two Filipino, in a decade when no legal body in the city would have permitted it. When that settlement was burned out twice by the health department, the residents rebuilt in salvaged concrete and sheet tin, because concrete and tin do not burn.The word itself was invented by a Democratic Party press agent in 1930, as an insult aimed at a president. The people it was meant to describe took it, painted it on a sign, and used it as an address.This is a history of those settlements: how they were built, how they governed themselves, who actually lived in them, and how the country eventually removed them with bulldozers, kerosene, and federal money. It is also an account of why so little of this was written down - and of the handful of people who wrote it down anyway. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. During one of the most tense and fascinating times in world history, two superpowers-the United States and the Soviet Union-stood on opposite sides of an invisible battle. This book takes young readers on a journey through that extraordinary period known as the Cold War, when fear, competition, and courage shaped how millions of people lived. From the race to space and the threat of nuclear war to the fall of the Berlin Wall, kids will discover how ordinary people-students, scientists, athletes, and even children-experienced a world divided by ideas and politics. They'll meet heroes who worked for peace, spies who hid in the shadows, and leaders who learned that cooperation could be stronger than conflict. Told in a clear, engaging, and conversational style, this book helps readers understand how the Cold War changed science, technology, culture, and daily life across the globe. It shows that history isn't just about battles and borders-it's about people learning, growing, and finding hope even in uncertain times. Packed with real stories, surprising facts, and lessons that still matter today, this is an unforgettable journey through a world that learned the hard way that understanding matters more than winning. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In an age when invention could transform the world, one man's brilliance was buried beneath poverty, betrayal, and the passage of time. This is the extraordinary true story of Antonio Meucci-the self-taught Italian immigrant whose "telettrofono" carried the human voice across a wire decades before the name Alexander Graham Bell was ever known. From a cramped workshop on Staten Island, Meucci worked tirelessly to turn compassion into technology. His goal wasn't fame or fortune-it was love. When illness confined his wife to her bedroom, he built a way for her voice to reach him through walls, through distance, through silence. Out of that devotion came the foundation for modern communication. Yet when opportunity arose, fate turned against him. His prototypes were lost, his notes pawned, his idea stolen, and history written without him. Blending vivid storytelling with historical insight, this book traces Meucci's journey from hope to heartbreak-and the quiet redemption that arrived long after his death. It reveals not only the origins of one of humanity's greatest inventions but also the moral question that still echoes today: who truly owns an idea? In the end, Meucci's voice travels farther than any empire of wealth or patents-reaching across centuries, carried by the invention that once betrayed him. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

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