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Checkpoint Charlie: The Cold War, The Berlin Wall, and the Most Dangerous Place On Earth

Iain MacGregor · Scribner
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A powerful, fascinating, and groundbreaking history of Checkpoint Charlie, the famous military gate on the border of East and West Berlin where the United States confronted the USSR during the Cold War.East Germany committed a billion dollars to the creation of the Berlin Wall in the early...
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The Crowded Hour: Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the Dawn of the American Century

Clay Risen · Scribner
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

The dramatic story of the most famous regiment in American history: the Rough Riders, a motley group of soldiers led by Theodore Roosevelt, whose daring exploits marked the beginning of American imperialism in the 20th century. When America declared war on Spain in 1898, the US Army had just...
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Deep State: Trump, the FBI, and the Rule of Law

James B. Stewart · Penguin Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Instant New York Times Bestseller"Important and stunning. This is must-read material if you want to understand what the Trump administration is still up to right now." --Lawrence O'DonnellThere are questions that the Mueller report couldn't - or wouldn't - answer....
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The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care--and How to Fix It

Makary, Marty · Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Unaccountable comes an eye-opening, timely, urgent critique of America's broken health care system.One in five Americans now has medical debt in collections and rising health care costs today threaten every small business in America. Dr. Makary,...
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Triggered: How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence Us

Trump Jr, Donald · Center Street
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

In Triggered, Donald Trump, Jr. will expose all the tricks that the left uses to smear conservatives and push them out of the public square, from online "shadow banning" to fake accusations of "hate speech." No topic is spared from political correctness. This is the book...
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Canyon Dreams: A Basketball Season on the Navajo Nation

Michael Powell · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

The moving story of a Navajo high school basketball team, its members struggling with the everyday challenges of high school, adolescence, and family, and the great and unique obstacles facing Native Americans living on reservations. Deep in the heart of northern Arizona, in a small and isolated...
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Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home

Richard Bell · 37 Ink
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A gripping and true story about five boys who were kidnapped in the North and smuggled into slavery in the Deep South - and their daring attempt to escape and bring their captors to justice, reminiscent of Twelve Years A Slave and Never Caught. Philadelphia, 1825: five young, free black...
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The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey's Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894–1924

Morris, Benny · Harvard University Press
Pages: 672
Format: Hardcover

A reappraisal of the giant massacres perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire, and then the Turkish Republic, against their Christian minorities.Between 1894 and 1924, three waves of violence swept across Anatolia, targeting the region's Christian minorities, who had previously accounted for 20 percent...
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I Will Never See the World Again: The Memoir of an Imprisoned Writer

Altan, Ahmet · Other Press
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

A resilient Turkish writer's inspiring account of his imprisonment that provides crucial insight into political censorship amidst the global rise of authoritarianism. The destiny I put down in my novel has become mine. I am now under arrest like the hero I created years ago. I await...
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North Korea: What Everyone Needs to Know®

McEachern, Patrick · Oxford University Press
Pages: 248
Format: Paperback

After a year of trading colorful barbs with the American president and significant achievements in North Korea's decades-long nuclear and missile development programs, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un declared mission accomplished in November 2017. Though Kim's pronouncement appears...
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