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The Saboteur: The Aristocrat Who Became France's Most Daring Anti-Nazi Commando
PAUL KIX · Harper
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of Agent Zigzag comes this breathtaking biography, as fast-paced and emotionally intuitive as the very best spy thrillers, which illuminates an unsung hero of the French Resistance during World War II - Robert de La Rochefoucald, an aristocrat turned anti-Nazi saboteur... |
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Richard Nixon: The Life
John A Farrell · Doubleday
Pages: 752
Format: Print book
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Brilliantly researched, authoritatively crafted by a prize-winning biographer, and lively on the page, this is the Nixon we've been waiting for. Richard Nixon opens with young Navy lieutenant "Nick" Nixon returning from the Pacific and setting his cap at Congress, an idealistic... |
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The Fighters
C. J. Chivers · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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"A classic of war reporting...The author's stories give heart-rending meaning to the lives and deaths of these men and women, even if policymakers generally have not." - The New York Times Pulitzer Prize winner C.J. Chivers' unvarnished account of modern combat, told through the eyes... |
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The Watergate: Inside America's Most Infamous Address
JOSEPH RODOTA · William Morrow
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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In the vein of The Residence and This Town, this absorbing history features a remarkable cast of politicians, journalists, socialites, and spies who made the Watergate the most famous - and some say infamous - private address in Washington.Opened in 1965 and located along the Potomac River... |
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The Make-or-Break Year: Solving the Dropout Crisis One Ninth Grader at a Time
Emily Krone · The New Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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An entirely fresh approach to ending the high school dropout crisis is revealed in this groundbreaking chronicle of unprecedented transformation in a city notorious for its "failing schools" In eighth grade, Eric thought he was going places. But by his second semester of freshman... |
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How Democracies Die
STEVE LEVITSKY · Crown
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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For readers of On Tyranny and Why Nations Fail, a bracing look at the demise of liberal democracies around the world - and a roadmap for rescuing our own. Donald Trump's presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we'd be asking: Is our democracy in danger? Harvard... |
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Armed in America: A History of Gun Rights from Colonial Militias to Concealed Carry
PATRICK J CHARLES · Prometheus Books
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
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This accessible legal history describes the way in which the right to bear arms was interpreted throughout most of American history and shows that today's gun-rights advocates have drastically departed from the long-held interpretation of the Second Amendment. This illuminating study traces... |
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I Like Ike: The Presidential Election of 1952
John Robert Greene · University Press of Kansas
Pages: 254
Format: Hardcover
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When the 1952 presidential election campaign began, many assumed it would be a race between Harry Truman, seeking his second full term, and Robert A. Taft, son of a former president and, to many of his fellow partisans, "Mr. Republican." No one imagined the party standard bearers... |
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The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington
Brad Meltzer · Flatiron Books
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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Taking place during the most critical period of our nation's birth, The First Conspiracy tells a remarkable and previously untold piece of American history that not only reveals George Washington's character, but also illuminates the origins of America's counterintelligence movement that... |
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Our 50-State Border Crisis: How the Mexican Border Fuels the Drug Epidemic Across America
HOWARD G BUFFETT · Hachette Books
Pages: 356
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom one of America's most prominent philanthropists, an eye-opening, myth-busting new perspective on the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border. Howard G. Buffett has seen first-hand the devastating impact of cheap Mexican heroin and other opiate cocktails across America.... |
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Above and Beyond: John F. Kennedy and America's Most Dangerous Cold War Spy Mission
CASEY SHERMAN · PublicAffairs
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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From the authors of the bestselling The Finest Hours, the riveting, deeply human story of President John F. Kennedy and two U-2 pilots, Rudy Anderson and Chuck Maultsby, who risked their lives to save America during the Cuban Missile Crisis. During an infamous thirteen-day stretch of October... |
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Tyrant
STEPHEN GREENBLATT · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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World-renowned Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt explores the playwright's insight into bad (and often mad) rulers.As an aging, tenacious Elizabeth I clung to power, a talented playwright probed the social causes, the psychological roots, and the twisted consequences of tyranny.... |
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Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
Reni Eddo-Lodge · Bloomsbury Circus
Pages: 249
Format: Hardcover
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'This is a book that was begging to be written. This is the kind of book that demands a future where we'll no longer need such a book. Essential' Marlon James, Man Booker Prize-Winner 2015'One of the most important books of 2017' Nikesh Shukla, editor of The Good ImmigrantA... |
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