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Team of Five: The Presidents Club in the Age of Trump

Kate Andersen Brower · Harper
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

After serving the highest office of American government, five men - Jimmy Carter, the late George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama - became members of the world's most exclusive fraternity. In Team of Five, Kate Andersen Brower goes beyond the White House to uncover...
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The Lincoln Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill America's 16th President--and Why It Failed

Brad Meltzer · Flatiron Books
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

The bestselling authors of The First Conspiracy, which covers the secret plot against George Washington, now turn their attention to a little-known, but true story about a failed assassination attempt on President LincolnEveryone knows the story of Abraham Lincoln's assassination in 1865,...
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Pandemic 1918: Eyewitness Accounts from the Greatest Medical Holocaust in Modern History

Catharine Arnold

Before AIDS or coronavirus, there was the Spanish Flu -- Catharine Arnold's gripping narrative, Pandemic 1918, marks the 100th anniversary of an epidemic that altered world history, now in paperback.

In January 1918, as World War I raged on, a new and terrifying

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Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II

Robert Matzen and Luca Dotti · GoodKnight Books
Pages: 404
Format: Paperback

Twenty-five years after her passing, Audrey Hepburn remains the most beloved of all Hollywood stars, known as much for her role as UNICEF ambassador as for films like Roman Holiday and Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Several biographies have chronicled her stardom, but none has covered her intense...
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