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Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict
Oren Kessler - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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"Kessler's history is key to understanding the current situation between Israelis and Palestinians." - BOOKLIST , Starred Review. "[Kessler] has done an exceptional job and opened new vistas on troubles past and present." - Wall Street JournalA gripping, profoundly... |
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An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
Doris Kearns Goodwin - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America's most beloved historians, artfully weaves together biography, memoir, and history. She takes you along on the emotional journey she and her husband, Richard (Dick) Goodwin embarked upon... |
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Illiberal America: A History
Steven Hahn - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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If your reaction to the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol was to think, 'That's not us,' think again: in Illiberal America, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian uncovers a powerful illiberalism as deep seated in the American past as the founding ideals.A storm of illiberalism,... |
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Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom
Grace Blakeley - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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A Next Big Idea Book Club Must-Read for March 2024 In the vein of The Shock Doctrine and Evil Geniuses, this timely manifesto from an acclaimed journalist illustrates how corporate and political power brokers have used planned capitalism to advance their own interests at the expense of the rest... |
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Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes
Chantha Nguon - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover
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A haunting and beautiful memoir from a Cambodian refugee who lost her country and her family during Pol Pot's genocide in the 1970s but who finds hope by reclaiming the recipes she tasted in her mother's kitchen. . RECIPE: HOW TO CHANGE CLOTH INTO DIAMOND. Take a well-fed nine-year-old... |
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The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War
Jim Sciutto - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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The essential new book by CNN anchor and chief national security analyst Jim Sciutto, identifying a new, more uncertain global order with reporting on the frontlines of power from existing wars to looming ones across the globe. The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 dawned what Francis Fukuyama... |
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In True Face: A Woman's Life in the CIA, Unmasked
Jonna Mendez - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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The bestselling coauthor of The Moscow Rules and Argo tells her riveting, courageous story of being a female spy at the height of the Cold War. Jonna Hiestand Mendez began her CIA career as a "contract wife" performing secretarial duties for the CIA as a convenience to her husband,... |
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