A multicultural portrait of the railroads

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A Multicultural Portrait of the War in Vietnam (Perspectives)Author: David K. Wright. LIBRARY BINDING. A good hardcover ex-library book with usual library markings, clean text pages, and moderate cover wear.

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This award-winning study of ethnic life in Chicago richly details the various peoples and ethnic institutions in America's heartland city.

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I thought of "Portrait of the Rails" by Don Ball, Jr. immediately when reading Jim Wrinn's editorial about favorite railroad books. As a child I spent hours gazing at the photos it contained of steam trains billowing smoke and funny looking streamliners while my dad would tell me stories about the trains of Missing: multicultural.

A Multicultural Portrait of the Railroads (Perspectives) Tuttle, Liza. Published by The Railroads. Liza Tuttle. Published by Marshall Cavendish Green paper-covered boards. The jacket is lightly worn at the edges. The book has been dropped, and the first signature (first pages through page 18) is loose.

(shelved 3 times as multicultural-picture-books) avg rating — 1, ratings — published Multicultural New Adult Fiction Stories that feature people of color as leads within the category of new adult fiction (protagonists who are generally ages 18 - 26).

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