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The Manor: Three Centuries at a Slave Plantation on Long Island
Mac Griswold · Farrar, Straus and Giroux; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Mac Griswold’s The Manor is the biography of a uniquely American place that has endured through wars great and small, through fortunes won and lost, through histories bright and sinister—and of the family that has lived there since its founding as a Colonial New England... |
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Wondrous Beauty: The Life and Adventures of Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte
Carol Berkin · Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the award-winning historian and author of Revolutionary Mothers, here is the remarkable life of Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte, renowned as the most beautiful woman of nineteenth-century Baltimore, whose marriage in 1803 to Jérôme Bonaparte, the youngest brother of Napoleon Bonaparte,... |
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Liberty or Death: The French Revolution
Peter McPhee · Yale University Press
Pages: 488 Format: Print book
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The French Revolution has fascinated, perplexed, and inspired for more than two centuries. It was a seismic event that radically transformed France and launched shock waves across the world. In this provocative new history, Peter McPhee draws on a lifetime's study of eighteenth-century... |
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The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World
A J BAIME · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 448 Format: Hardcover
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The dramatic, pulse-pounding story of Harry Truman's first four months in office, when this unlikely president had to take on Germany, Japan, Stalin, and the atomic bomb, with the fate of the world hanging in the balance. Heroes are often defined as ordinary characters who get thrust into... |
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Patrick Henry: Champion of Liberty
Jon Kukla · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 560 Format: Hardcover
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This authoritative biography of Patrick Henry - the underappreciated founding father best known for saying, "Give me liberty, or give me death!" - restores him and his fellow Virginians to their seminal place in the story of American independence.Born in 1736, Patrick Henry was an attorney... |
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The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England
Ian Mortimer · Viking Adult
Format: Hardcover
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The author of The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England takes you through the world of Shakespeare and Queen Elizabeth IFrom the author of The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England, this popular history explores daily life in Queen Elizabeth's England, taking us inside... |
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The Glass Universe
Dava Sobel · Viking
Pages: 324 Format: Print book
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New from #1 New York Times bestselling author Dava Sobel, the "inspiring" (People) , little-known true story of women's landmark contributions to astronomy"A joy to read." - The Wall Street JournalNamed one of the best books of the year by NPR, The Economist, Smithsonian,... |
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In Pursuit of Memory: The Fight Against Alzheimer's
Joseph Jebelli · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 320 Format: Hardcover
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Alzheimer's is the great global epidemic of our time, affecting millions worldwide -- there are more than 5 million people diagnosed in the US alone. And as our population ages, scientists are working against the clock to find a cure.Neuroscientist Joseph Jebelli is among them. His beloved... |
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Rising Sun, Falling Skies: The Disastrous Java Sea Campaign of World War II
Jeffrey Cox · Osprey Pub Co
Pages: 487 Format: Hardcover
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A fresh look at the disastrous Java Sea Campaign of 1941-42 which heralded a wave of Japanese naval victories in the Pacific but which eventually sowed the seeds of their eventual change in fortunes. In the immediate aftermath of Pearl Harbor, the Japanese juggernaut quickly racked up victory... |
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November 22, 1963: Witness to History
Hugh Aynesworth · Brown Books; First Edition/First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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On November 22, 1963, reporter Hugh Aynesworth was not among the cadre of reporters and photographers assigned to cover the Dallas visit of President John Kennedy. Within thirty-six hours, however, Aynesworth had witnessed the assassination of the president, the arrest of the assassin,... |
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