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Hardcore History: History at the Extremes

Dan Carlin · Harper
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A journey back in time that explores what happened - and what could have happened - from creator of the wildly-popular podcast Hardcore History and 2019 winner of the iHeartRadio Best History Podcast Award.Dan Carlin has created a new way to think about the past. His mega-hit podcast, Hardcore...
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Hitler: A Biography

Peter Longerich
Format: Hardcover

From one of the most prominent biographers of the Nazi period, a new and provocative portrait of the figure behind the century's worst crimes

Acclaimed historian Peter Longerich, author of Goebbels and Heinrich Himmler now turns his attention to Adolf Hitler in this new biography....
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Crusaders: The Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands

Dan Jones · Viking
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

A major new history of the Crusades with an unprecedented wide scope, told in a tableau of portraits of people on all sides of the wars, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Templars.For more than one thousand years, Christians and Muslims lived side by side, sometimes at peace...
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Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth

Rachel Maddow · Crown
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Big Oil and Gas Versus Democracy - Winner Take All Rachel Maddow's Blowout offers a dark, serpentine, riveting tour of the unimaginably lucrative and corrupt oil-and-gas industry. With her trademark black humor, Maddow takes us on a switchback journey around the globe - from Oklahoma...
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When They Come for You: How Police and Government Are Trampling Our Liberties - and How to Take Them Back

David Kirby · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

A revealing book about how government, law enforcement, and bureaucratic interests are seizing our property, our children, our savings, and our fundamental American rights -- and how to fight back. Liberty and justice for all is the bedrock of American democracy, but has America betrayed...
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The Most Spectacular Restaurant in the World: The Twin Towers, Windows on the World, and the Rebirth of New York

Tom Roston · Abrams Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The remarkable story of a restaurant on top of the world - built by a legend, destroyed in tragedy - and an era in New York City it helped to frame

In the 1970s, New York City was plagued by crime, filth, and an ineffective government. The city was falling apart, and even the newly...
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Vicksburg: Grant's Campaign That Broke the Confederacy

Donald L. Miller · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 656
Format: Hardcover

The astonishing story of the longest and most decisive military campaign of the Civil War in Vicksburg, Mississippi, which opened the Mississippi River, split the Confederacy, freed tens of thousands of slaves, and made Ulysses S. Grant the most important general of the war.Vicksburg, Mississippi,...
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The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care--and How to Fix It

Marty Makary M.D. · Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Unaccountable comes an eye-opening, timely, urgent critique of America's broken health care system.One in five Americans now has medical debt in collections and rising health care costs today threaten every small business in America. Dr. Makary,...
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The American Story: Conversations with Master Historians

David M. Rubenstein · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

Co-founder of The Carlyle Group and patriotic philanthropist David M. Rubenstein takes readers on a sweeping journey across the grand arc of the American story through revealing conversations with our greatest historians.In these lively dialogues, the biggest names in American history explore...
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Notre-Dame: A Short History of the Meaning of Cathedrals

Ken Follett
Format: Hardcover


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