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The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age
Leo Damrosch · Yale University Press
Pages: 488
Format: Paperback
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Named one of the 10 Best Books of 2019 by the New York Times Book Review "Damrosch brings the Club's redoubtable personalities - the brilliant minds, the jousting wits, the tender camaraderie - to vivid life ... " - The New York Times Book Review In 1763, the painter... |
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America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States
Erika Lee · Basic Books
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning historian reframes our continuing debate over immigration with a compelling history of xenophobia in the United States and its devastating impactThe United States is known as a nation of immigrants. But it is also a nation of xenophobia. In America for Americans, Erika... |
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An Impeccable Spy: Richard Sorge, Stalin's Master Agent
Owen Matthews · Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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The thrilling true story of Richard Sorge-the Soviet intelligence operative John le Carré called "the spy to end spies." Richard Sorge moved in a world of shifting alliances and infinite possibility. Born to a German mother and a Russian father, Sorge became a fanatical communist-and... |
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A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution
Jeremy Popkin · Basic Books
Pages: 640
Format: Hardcover
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From an award-winning historian, a magisterial account of the revolution that created the modern worldThe principles of the French Revolution remain the only possible basis for a just society -- even if, after more than two hundred years, they are more contested than ever before. In A New World... |
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