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The Prize: Who's in Charge of America's Schools?
Dale Russakoff · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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"Mark Zuckerberg, Chris Christie, and Cory Booker were ready to reform our failing schools. They got an education. When Mark Zuckerberg announced in front of a cheering Oprah audience his $100 million pledge to transform the Newark Schools -- and to solve the education crisis in every... |
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The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan
Rick Perlstein · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of Nixonland a dazzling portrait of America on the verge of a nervous breakdown in the tumultuous political and economic times of the 1970s. In January of 1973 Richard Nixon announced the end of the Vietnam War and prepared for a triumphant second term—until... |
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Civil War
James M McPherson · Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services
Pages: 350
Format: Print book
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"Edited by James M. McPherson, PhD a preeminent civil war scholar and historian, George Henry Davis 1886 Professor Emeritus of United States History, Princeton University and Pulitzer Prize winner in History for Battle Cry Freedom, Defining Documents in American History: Civil War (1860-1865)... |
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The Last of the President's Men
Bob Woodward · Simon & Schuster, 2015. ©2015
Pages: 291
Format: Print book
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"An intimate but disturbing portrayal of Nixon in the Oval Office." - The Washington Post Bob Woodward exposes one of the final pieces of the Richard Nixon puzzle in his new book The Last of the President's Men.Woodward reveals the untold story of Alexander Butterfield, the Nixon... |
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Palimpsest: A History of the Written Word
Matthew Battles · W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A profound, eloquent meditation on the history of writing, from Mesopotamia to multimedia.Why does writing exist? What does it mean to those who write? Born from the interplay of natural and cultural history, the seemingly magical act of writing has continually expanded our consciousness.... |
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Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets
Luke Dittrich · Random House
Pages: 440
Format: Print book
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"Oliver Sacks meets Stephen King"* in this propulsive, haunting journey into the life of the most studied human research subject of all time, the amnesic known as Patient H.M., a man who forever altered our understanding of how memory works - and whose treatment raises deeply... |
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The Civil War: A Visual History
DK Publishing · DK; Revised edition
Format: Paperback
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A fascinating and complete guide to the Civil War, this book includes compelling information on the War between the States, Abraham Lincoln, slavery in America, the Confederacy and the Union. Every effort has been made to make Civil War reliable and complete - the book was created with... |
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Paper: Paging Through History
Mark Kurlansky · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 389
Format: Print book
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From the New York Times best-selling author of Cod and Salt, a definitive history of paper and the astonishing ways it has shaped today's world.Paper is one of the simplest and most essential pieces of human technology. For the past two millennia, the ability to produce it in ever more... |
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The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI
Betty Medsger · Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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The never-before-told full story of the history-changing break-in at the FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, by a group of unlikely activists - quiet, ordinary, hardworking Americans - that made clear the shocking truth and confirmed what some had long suspected, that J. Edgar Hoover had created... |
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Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice
Adam Makos · Ballantine Books
Pages: 445
Format: Print book
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For readers of Unbroken comes an unforgettable tale of courage from America's "forgotten war" in Korea, by the New York Times bestselling author of A Higher Call. Devotion tells the inspirational story of the U.S. Navy's most famous aviator duo, Lieutenant Tom Hudner and Ensign... |
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