Tim Gebhart lives in Sioux Falls, SD, where he practices law in order to provide shelter for his family, his dogs, and his books. He is a member of the National Book Critics Circle and his blog de guerre is A Progressive on the Prairie.
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Historian delves into folklore of Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane, examining the facts and fictions of their status as Old West heroes.
Cameroon-born author explores fatalism in post-colonial Africa and the conflict between traditional and modern attitudes.
Reporter explores the history of a group that tried to bring LSD to the masses through a major drug dealing operation.
Were "apocalyptic dread and conspiratorial fever," not disco and platform shoes, the hallmark of the 1970s?
Concise biography demonstrates how Seth Bullock was much more to history than being sheriff of Deadwood.
Rather than join a debate about the validity of religion, two scientists examine the purpose behind it.
Novel predicated on using the draft to avoid a Vietnam combat zone lacks vitality.
Individuals who survived both the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and of Nagasaki help frame history of the events and their aftermath.
A in-depth yet readable look at the influence of this short-lived prime time network television series.
Bleak internal monologue awaits English readers of most recently translated work of this year's Nobel Literature laureate.
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