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The Vagabonds: The Story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison's Ten-Year Road Trip

Jeff Guinn · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
The fascinating story of two American giants - Henry Ford and Thomas Edison - whose annual summer sojourns introduced the road trip to our culture and made the automobile an essential part of modern life, even as their own relationship altered dramatically. In 1914 Henry Ford and naturalist...
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Shadowlands: Fear and Freedom at the Oregon Standoff

Anthony McCann · Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
An "epic exploration" of the 2016 right-wing Oregon Occupation-"an excellent microcosm by which we might better understand our difficult national history and distressing political moment" (Maggie Nelson) .In 2016, a group of armed, divinely inspired right-wing protestors...
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Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II

Svetlana Alexievich · Random House
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
From the Nobel Prize-winning author comes an oral history of children's experiences in WWII across Europe and Russia, in the celebrated tradition of her masterpiece, The Unwomanly Face of War.Bringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive style, Last Witnesses is Svetlana Alexievich's...
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The Method to the Madness: Donald Trump's Ascent as Told by Those Who Were Hired, Fired, Inspired--and Inaugurated

Allen Salkin · All Points Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
A Rosetta Stone for understanding Donald Trump's style, mindset, and every action, made up of over one hundred interviews with his closest associates over the last 15 years.To his critics, Donald Trump is an impulsive, undisciplined crackpot who accidentally lucked into the presidency....
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