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Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
Jon Meacham · Random House, 2015.
Pages: 836
Format: Print book
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * In this brilliant biography, Jon Meacham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, chronicles the life of George Herbert Walker Bush. Drawing on President Bush's personal diaries, on the diaries of his wife, Barbara, and on extraordinary access to the forty-first... |
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Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror
Michael V. Hayden · Penguin Press, 2016.
Pages: 464
Format: Print book
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An unprecedented high-level master narrative of America's intelligence wars, from the only person ever to helm both CIA and NSA, at a time of heinous new threats and wrenching change For General Michael Hayden, playing to the edge means playing so close to the line that you get chalk... |
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Bush
Jean Edward Smith · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 808
Format: Print book
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Distinguished presidential biographer Jean Edward Smith offers a critical yet fair biography of George W. Bush, showing how he ignored his advisors to make key decisions himself - most disastrously in invading Iraq - and how these decisions were often driven by the President's deep religious... |
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Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America
T. J. Stiles · Knopf
Pages: 608
Format: Print book
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From the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner, a brilliant new biography of Gen. George Armstrong Custer that radically changes our view of the man and his turbulent times.In this magisterial biography, T. J. Stiles paints a portrait of Custer both deeply personal and sweeping... |
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The Handy American History Answer Book
David L. Hudson · Visible Ink Pr
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback
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Early civilizations, Native Americans, the English colonies, slavery, the American Revolution, the Declaration of Independence, and the Bill of Rights begin the journey and lay the foundation for the United States of today. The Handy American History Answer Book takes a walk through the economic,... |
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Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II
Richard Reeves · Henry Holt and Company, 2015.
Pages: 342
Format: Print book
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A LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER * A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE * Bestselling author Richard Reeves provides an authoritative account of the internment of more than 120,000 Japanese-Americans and Japanese aliens during World War IILess than three months after Japan bombed... |
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
David Grann · Doubleday
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - AMAZON EDITORS' PICK FOR THE BEST BOOK OF 2017 "Disturbing and riveting...It will sear your soul." - Dave Eggers, New York Times Book ReviewFrom New Yorker staff writer David Grann, #1 New York Times best-selling... |
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White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
Nancy Isenberg · Viking
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestseller A New York Times Notable and Critics' Top Book of 2016Longlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for NonfictionOne of NPR's 10 Best Books Of 2016 Faced Tough Topics Head OnNPR's Book Concierge Guide To 2016's Great ReadsSan Francisco Chronicle's Best... |
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Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower's Final Mission
Bret Baier · William Morrow
Pages: 346
Format: Print book
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"THE BEST BOOK ON EISENHOWER TO APPEAR IN A VERY LONG TIME"*: BRET BAIER'S "RIVETING ACCOUNT"†OF IKE'S FINAL MISSION IS "A LANDMARK ACHIEVEMENT"‡ THAT IS "DESTINED TO TAKE ITS PLACE AS ONE OF THE CLASSICS OF PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY"§January... |
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Kill Chain: The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins
Andrew Cockburn · Henry Holt & Company
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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An essential and page-turning narrative on the history of drone warfare by the acclaimed author of Rumsfeld, exploring how this practice emerged, who made it happen, and the real consequences of targeted killingAssassination by drone is a subject of deep and enduring fascination. Yet few understand... |
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Top Dog: The Story of Marine Hero Lucca
Maria Goodavage · Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling author of Soldier Dogs returns with the incredible, true story of K-9 Marine hero Lucca, and the handlers who fought alongside her through two bloody wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In Top Dog, Maria Goodavage takes readers into the life of Lucca K458, a decorated... |
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"Most Blessed of the Patriarchs": Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination
Annette Gordon-Reed · Liveright Publishing Corp, 2016.
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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A groundbreaking work of history that explicates Thomas Jefferson's vision of himself, the American Revolution, Christianity, slavery, and race. Thomas Jefferson is still presented today as a hopelessly enigmatic figure, despite being written about more than any other Founding Father. Lauded... |
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All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation
Rebecca Traister · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 339
Format: Print book
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"Today, only twenty percent of Americans are wed by age twenty-nine, compared to nearly sixty percent in 1960. The Population Reference Bureau calls it a 'dramatic reversal.' [This book presents a] portrait of contemporary American life and how we got here, through the lens of the single... |
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The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story
Douglas Preston · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 326
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller! A five-hundred-year-old legend. An ancient curse. A stunning medical mystery. And a pioneering journey into the unknown heart of the world's densest jungle.Since the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés, rumors have circulated... |
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