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The Movement: How Women's Liberation Transformed America 1963-1973

Clara Bingham - Atria/One Signal Publishers
Format: Hardcover

A comprehensive and engaging oral history of the decade that defined the feminist movement, including interviews with living icons and unsung heroes - from former Newsweek reporter and author of the "powerful and moving" (New York Times) Witness to the Revolution.. For lovers...
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Jimmy Breslin: The Man Who Told the Truth

Richard Esposito - Crime Ink
Format: Hardcover

"Do not. Confuse me. With. The facts. I tell the truth." -- Jimmy Breslin. The first-ever biography of America's greatest crime reporter In a newspaper career spanning decades, Jimmy Breslin covered the stories that he knew mattered most: the human stories beyond the front...
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Patriot

Alexei Navalny - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

The powerful and moving memoir of a fearless political opposition leader who paid the ultimate price for his beliefs. . Alexei Navalny began writing Patriot shortly after his near-fatal poisoning in 2020. It is the full story of his life: his youth, his call to activism, his marriage and family,...
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The Highest Calling: Conversations on the American Presidency

David M. Rubenstein - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The American Story and How to Lead and host of PBS's History with David Rubenstein - David Rubenstein interviews living American presidents and top historians and journalists who reflect on the US presidency, including Joe Biden, Barack...
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The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore

Evan Friss - Viking
Format: Hardcover

"It is a delight to wander through the bookstores of American history in this warm, generous book." - Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author and owner of Books Are Magic. An affectionate and engaging history of the American bookstore and its central place in American...
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The Memory of '76: The Revolution in American History

Michael D. Hattem - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover

The surprising history of how Americans have fought over the meaning and legacy of the Revolution for nearly two and a half centuries Americans agree that their nation's origins lie in the Revolution, but they have never agreed on what the Revolution meant. For nearly two hundred...
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Supremacy at Sea: Task Force 58 and the Central Pacific Victory

Evan Mawdsley - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover

The gripping account of the U.S. Navy's fast carrier force - and how its Central Pacific campaign in 1944 marked the achievement of American naval supremacy Task Force 58 was World War II's most powerful battle fleet. Made up in mid-1944 of sixteen aircraft carriers, over a thousand...
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Ukraine: Remember Also Me: Testimonies from the War

George Butler - Candlewick Studio
Format: Hardcover

A collection of vivid and powerful testimonies from the conflict in Ukraine, collated and illustrated by award-winning artist George Butler.. While reporting on the war in Ukraine, George Butler has created striking and intimate illustrations to introduce us to the people behind the headlines....
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The Bluestockings: A History of the First Women's Movement

Susannah Gibson - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

An illuminating group portrait of the eighteenth-century women who dared to imagine an active life for themselves in both mind and spirit.In England in the 1700s, a woman who was an intellectual, spoke out, or wrote professionally was considered unnatural. After all, as the wisdom of the era dictated,...
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The Message

Ta-Nehisi Coates - One World
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Between the World and Me journeys to three resonant sites of conflict to explore how the stories we tell - and the ones we don't - shape our realities.. "[Coates] is intellectually fearless . . . unshackled by political or racial ideology,...
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