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Before gaining fame as a celebrated author and winning the Nobel Prize in 1954, Ernest M. Hemingway honed his skills as a dedicated journalist. In the spring of 1923, he served as a special correspondent for the Toronto Star, traveling to the occupied Ruhr Valley to produce a compelling series of 10 articles, now compiled in Dispatches from the Ruhr. In these pieces, Hemingway delves into the intricacies of the French political system and its decisive role in the military occupation of the Ruhr Valley, an aggressive move to collect on unsustainable war reparations. He poignantly captures the ...

Everywhere you look, you'll find viral quotable wisdom attributed to icons ranging from Abraham Lincoln to Mark Twain, from Cicero to Woody Allen. But more often than not, these attributions are false. Garson O'Toole - the Internet's foremost investigator into the dubious origins of our most repeated quotations, aphorisms, and everyday sayings - collects his efforts into a first-ever encyclopedia of corrective popular history.

The Gulf of Mexico presents a compelling, salt-streaked narrative of the Earth's 10th-largest body of water. In this beautifully written volume, John S. Sledge explores the people, ships, and cities that have made the Gulf's human history and culture so rich. Many famous figures who sailed the Gulf's viridian waters are highlighted, including Ponce de Leon, Robert Cavelier de La Salle, Francis Drake, Elizabeth Agassiz, Ernest Hemingway, and Charles Dwight Sigsbee. Sledge also introduces a fascinating array of people connected to maritime life in the Gulf.