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No End Save Victory: How FDR Led the Nation into War
David Kaiser · Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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While Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s first hundred days may be the most celebrated period of his presidency, the months before the attack on Pearl Harbor proved the most critical. Beginning as early as 1939 when Germany first attacked Poland, Roosevelt skillfully navigated a host of challenges—a... |
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Not Fade Away: A Memoir of Senses Lost and Found
Rebecca Alexander · Gotham; First Ed 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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Even a darkening world can be brilliantly lit from within.Born with a rare genetic mutation called Usher Syndrome type III, Rebecca Alexander has been simultaneously losing both her sight and hearing since she was a child, and was told that she would likely be completely blind and deaf... |
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United
Cory Booker · Ballantine Books
Pages: 223
Format: Print book
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"NEW YORK TIMES "BESTSELLER A passionate new voice in American politics, United States Senator Cory Booker makes the case that the virtues of empathy, responsibility, and action must guide our nation toward a brighter future. Raised in northern New Jersey, Cory Booker went to Stanford... |
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Outpost: Life on the Frontlines of American Diplomacy: A Memoir
Christopher R. Hill · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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An “inside the room” memoir from one of our most distinguished ambassadors who—in a career of service to the country—was sent to some of the most dangerous outposts of American diplomacy. From the wars in the Balkans to the brutality of North Korea to the endless... |
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Modernizing America's Electricity Infrastructure
Mason Willrich · The MIT Press
Pages: 305
Format: Hardcover
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A comprehensive, coherent strategy for modernizing America's electricity infrastructure while ensuring affordable, reliable, secure, and environmentally sustainable electricity services.America's aging electricity infrastructure is deteriorating rapidly even as the need for highly... |
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The Stranger: Barack Obama in the White House
Chuck Todd · Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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Chuck Todds gripping, fly-on-the-wall account of Barack Obamas tumultuous struggle to succeed in Washington. Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008 partly because he was a Washington outsider. But if hed come to the White House thinking he could change the political culture, he soon discovered... |
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Stanton: Lincoln's War Secretary
WALTER STAHR · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 720
Format: Hardcover
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Walter Stahr, award-winning author of the New York Times bestseller Seward, tells the story of Abraham Lincoln's indispensable Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton, the man the president entrusted with raising the army that preserved the Union.Of the crucial men close to President Lincoln, Secretary... |
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(((Semitism) ) ) : Being Jewish in America in the Age of Trump
Jonathan Weisman · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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Michael Eric Dyson, author of Tears We Cannot Stop: "With eloquence and poignancy Weisman shows how hatred can slowly and quietly chew away at the moral fabric of society. We now live in an age where more than ever bigotry and oppression no longer need to hide in fear of reproach.... |
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Ministers at War: Winston Churchill and His War Cabinet
Jonathan Schneer · Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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In May 1940, with France on the verge of defeat, Britain alone stood in the path of the Nazi military juggernaut. Survival seemed to hinge on the leadership of Winston Churchill, whom the King reluctantly appointed Prime Minister as Germany invaded France. Churchill's reputation as one of the great... |
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Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit
Chris Matthews · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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A revealing new portrait of Robert F. Kennedy that gets closer to the man than any book before, by bestselling author Chris Matthews, an esteemed Kennedy expert and anchor of MSNBC's Hardball.With his bestselling biography Jack Kennedy, Chris Matthews shared a new look of one of America's... |
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