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James Madison: A Life Reconsidered

Lynne Cheney · Penguin Books; Reprint edition
Format: Audiobook

A major new biography of the fourth president of the United States by New York Times bestselling author Lynne CheneyThis majestic new biography of James Madison explores the astonishing story of a man of vaunted modesty who audaciously changed the world Among the Founding Fathers Madison...
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God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State

Lawrence Wright · Knopf
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

With humor and the biting insight of a native, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower explores the history, culture, and politics of Texas, while holding the stereotypes up for rigorous scrutiny.God Save Texas is a journey through the most controversial state in America....
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Old School: Life in the Sane Lane

ANONYMOUS. · Holt, Henry & Company, Inc.
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

Old School is in session....You have probably heard the term Old School, but what you might not know is that there is a concentrated effort to tear that school down.It's a values thing. The anti-Old School forces believe the traditional way of looking at life is oppressive. Not inclusive....
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The Wrong Enemy: America in Afghanistan, 2001–2014

Carlotta Gall · Mariner Books; Reprint edition
Format: Book

“An enthralling and largely firsthand account of the war in Afghanistan.”—Financial Times   Few reporters know as much about Afghanistan as Carlotta Gall. She was there in the 1990s after the Russians were driven out. She witnessed the early flourishing of radical...
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Shi jiu da di yi qiang : Tianjin hong quan hei jin

Ziqiong Wu
Pages: 335

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Remembering Inez: The Last Campaign of Inez Milholland, Suffrage Martyr

Robert P. J. Jr. Cooney · American Graphic Press; First edition
Format: Print book

Remembering Inez is a vivid, engaging account of a young woman who filled her short life with activity and meaning School Library Journal. Inez Milholland, a charismatic, thirty-year-old attorney, was a recognized and beloved leader in the New York woman suffrage movement when she suddenly...
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From Silk to Silicon: The Story of Globalization Through Ten Extraordinary Lives

Jeffrey E. Garten · Harper
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

The story of globalization, the most powerful force in history, as told through the life and times of ten people who changed the world by their singular, spectacular accomplishments.This is the first book to look at the history of globalization through the lens of individuals who did something...
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The Presidency in Black and White: My Up-Close View of Three Presidents and Race in America

April Ryan · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

In The Presidency in Black and White, journalist April Ryan gives readers a compelling and personal behind-the-scenes look at race relations in contemporary America from the epicenter of American power and policy making—the White House, her beat since 1997. On behalf of the American Urban...
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Landslide: LBJ and Ronald Reagan at the Dawn of a New America

Jonathan Darman · Random House; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

In politics, the man who takes the highest spot after a landslide is not standing on solid ground.   In this riveting work of narrative nonfiction, Jonathan Darman tells the story of two giants of American politics, Lyndon Johnson and Ronald Reagan, and shows how, from 1963 to 1966, these...
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Hillary's America

Dinesh D'Souza · Regnery Publishing
Pages: 294
Format: Print book

Dinesh D'Souza has a warning: We are on the brink of losing our country forever. After eight years of Obama, four years -- or possibly eight years -- of Hillary Clinton as president of the United States would so utterly transform America as to make it unrecognizable. No more will America...
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What Happened

HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 494
Format: Hardcover

"In the past, for reasons I try to explain, I've often felt I had to be careful in public, like I was up on a wire without a net. Now I'm letting my guard down." - Hillary Rodham Clinton, from the introduction of What HappenedFor the first time, Hillary Rodham Clinton reveals...
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Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David

Lawrence Wright · Knopf; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARA gripping day-by-day account of the 1978 Camp David conference, when President Jimmy Carter persuaded Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian president Anwar Sadat to sign the first peace treaty in the modern Middle...
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