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"You faced front, you seldom smiled, since levity was not the mark you wanted put across your face forever." -- Michael Lesy
Michael Lesy is a writer and professor of literary journalism at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. His books, which combine historical photographs with his own writing, include Wisconsin Death Trip (1973), The Meaning of Family Pictures (1980), A Photographic Chronicle of American Life (1982), America at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century (1997) and (with Angelo Rizzuto) The New York Photographs of Angelo Rizzuto (2005).

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Total Books: 26
Angel's World The New York Photographs of Angelo Rizzuto
Bearing Witness
Bearing Witness (Hardcover)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780394509679
ISBN-10: 0394509676
Genre: History
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Dreamland America at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
FORBIDDEN ZONE
Forbidden Zone (Hardcover)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780233982038
ISBN-10: 0233982035
  • Currently 3/5 Stars.
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The Forbidden Zone
The Forbidden Zone (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780330305280
ISBN-10: 033030528X
  • Currently 3/5 Stars.
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Long Time Coming A Photographic Portrait of America 19351943
Murder City
Murder City (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780393330595
ISBN-10: 0393330591
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, History
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Murder City The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties
Murder City the Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780393060300
ISBN-10: 0393060306
Genre: History
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Real life Louisville in the twenties
Real Life Louisville in the Twenties (Other)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780394498133
ISBN-10: 0394498135
Genre: Nonfiction
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Repast Dining Out at the Dawn of the New American Century 19001910
Rescues The Lives of Heroes
Rescues the Lives of Heroes (Hardcover)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780374249472
ISBN-10: 0374249474
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
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Time frames The meaning of family pictures
Time Frames the Meaning of Family Pictures (Paperback)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780394424569
ISBN-10: 0394424565
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Visible Light
Visible Light (Hardcover)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780812911565
ISBN-10: 0812911563
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Wisconsin Death Trip
Wisconsin Death Trip (Paperback)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780385412155
ISBN-10: 0385412150
Genres: Arts & Photography, History
  • Currently 5/5 Stars.
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