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Wright Brothers, Wrong Story!
By William Hazelgrove
ST. CHARLES - A new book has turned aviation upside down with amazing reviews and a full write-up in the Smithsonian with the assertion that Wilbur Wright was the man responsible for inventing the first plane capable of powered flight.
Bestselling author William Hazelgrove's new book, Wright Brothers, Wrong Story, has set the assumed belief that the brothers worked in tandem on its head by delving into the papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright and emerging with a very different story than the standard team story of two men who banded together to produce the world's first airplane. As pointed out in the Daily Mail, the book explores the family life of the brothers as well and the strange proclivities of the insular Wright children who never left home.
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Wright Brothers, Wrong Story!
By William Hazelgrove
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By SIU Press
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By Idrees Ahmad/The Conversation
Like Ernest Hemingway, Marie Colvin invested in her own legend and sometimes strained to live up to it. But there was nothing inauthentic about her capacity for empathy or her commitment to the truth. Though in times of peace she struggled to distinguish herself, in times of crisis she unfailingly outshone her peers.Posted on November 26, 2018
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By Christopher Murray/The Conversation
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Crusade Against Slavery
By SIU Press
Edward Coles was a wealthy heir to a central Virginia plantation, an ardent emancipator, the second governor of Illinois, the loyal personal secretary to President James Madison, and a close antislavery associate of Thomas Jefferson. Yet never before has a full-length book detailed his remarkable life story and his role in the struggle to free all slaves.Posted on November 7, 2018
View From True North
By SIU Press
These feverish lyric poems find a sharp beauty in their grieving, where Rolling Stone covers and hidden erotic photographs turn into talismans of regret and empathy.Posted on November 1, 2018
How America's Tax Laws Encourage Inequality
By Anthony C. Infanti/The Conversation
Instead of reflecting a society constantly striving to better itself, U.S. tax laws are mired in the past as they reinforce the social and economic marginalization of women, racial and ethnic minorities, the poor, members of the LGBTQ community, immigrants and people with disabilities.Posted on October 26, 2018
Nostalgia For A World Where We Can Live
By SIU Press
Poems of resilience and intimacy in uncertain times.Posted on October 24, 2018
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