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Children of Paradise: The Struggle for the Soul of Iran
Laura Secor · Riverhead Books, 2016.
Pages: 528
Format: Print book
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The drama that shaped today's Iran, from the Revolution to the present day. In 1979, seemingly overnight - moving at a clip some thirty years faster than the rest of the world - Iran became the first revolutionary theocracy in modern times. Since then, the country has been largely a black... |
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The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America
EDWARD L AYERS · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 640
Format: Hardcover
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Amid the devastation of war rise the first stirrings of freedom in this absorbing, ground-level narrative by an acclaimed historian.Virginia's Great Valley, prosperous in peace with a rich soil and an enslaved workforce, invited destruction in war. Voracious Union and Confederate armies... |
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Ancient America: Fifty Archaeological Sites to See for Yourself
Kenneth L Feder · Rowman & Littlefield
Pages: 280
Format: Print book
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Presenting "the real deal" of American antiquity - as opposed to the hyped fare of many cable TV shows - Kenneth Feder invites readers to explore the stunning technological, architectural, engineering, and artistic achievements of America's first peoples. Part travel guide, part... |
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The FBI's Obscene File : J. Edgar Hoover and the Bureau's crusade against smut
Douglas M Charles · University Press of Kansas
Pages: 171
Format: Book
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What do pop artist Andy Warhol, sex researcher Alfred Kinsey, and cinematic comedians Abbott & Costello have in common? They all found a prominent place in the FBI's "Obscene File. " In this startling new study Douglas Charles reveals how, for more than seventy years, FBI officials... |
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The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: America and China, 1776 to the Present
John Pomfret · Henry Holt and Company
Pages: 704
Format: Print book
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A remarkable history of the two-centuries-old relationship between the United States and China, from the Revolutionary War to the present dayFrom the clipper ships that ventured to Canton hauling cargos of American ginseng to swap Chinese tea, to the US warships facing off against China's... |
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The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931
Adam Tooze · Viking; 2nd Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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A searing and highly original analysis of the First World War and its anguished aftermath In the depths of the Great War, with millions dead and no imaginable end to the conflict, societies around the world began to buckle. The heart of the financial system shifted from London to New York.... |
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Defining Documents in American History: The 1950s
Salem Press · Salem Press
Pages: 500
Format: Print book
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This important resource provides students and researchers new insights into the 1950s in the U.S., through an in-depth analysis of forty important primary source documents and their lasting effect on American history. An historical timeline and bibliograp |
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Moses: A Human Life
Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg · Yale University Press
Pages: 240
Format: Print book
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An unprecedented portrait of Moses's inner world and perplexing character, by a distinguished biblical scholar No figure looms larger in Jewish culture than Moses, and few have stories more enigmatic. Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg, acclaimed for her many books on Jewish thought, turns her attention... |
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To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949
Ian Kershaw · Viking
Pages: 592
Format: Print book
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"Chilling... To Hell and Back should be required reading in every chancellery, every editorial cockpit and every place where peevish Euroskeptics do their thinking ... . Kershaw documents each and every 'ism' of his analysis with extraordinary detail and passionate humanism."... |
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Hell and Good Company: The Spanish Civil War and the World it Made
Richard Rhodes · Simon & Schuster; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb - the remarkable story of the Spanish Civil War through the eyes of the reporters, writers, artists, doctors, and nurses who witnessed it.The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) inspired and haunted an extraordinary... |
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His Final Battle: The Last Months of Franklin Roosevelt
Joseph Lelyveld · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 416
Format: Print book
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From the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author, an intimate and hugely insightful account of Roosevelt's final months of life, when, despite a dire medical prognosis, he was determined to be re-elected, deal with Stalin, and bring the war to a successful conclusion. Franklin D. Roosevelt... |
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