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Our Year of War: Two Brothers, Vietnam, and a Nation Divided
DANIEL BOLGER · Da Capo Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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The gritty and engaging story of two brothers--Chuck and Tom Hagel--who went to war in Vietnam, fought in the same unit, and saved each other's life. One supported the war, the other detested it, but they fought it together.
1968. America was divided. Flag-draped caskets came home... |
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A Rosenberg by Any Other Name: A History of Jewish Name Changing in America
Kirsten Fermaglich · NYU Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking history of the practice of Jewish name changing in the 20th century, showcasing just how much is in a name Our thinking about Jewish name changing tends to focus on clichés: ambitious movie stars who adopted glamorous new names or insensitive Ellis Island officials who changed... |
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Infested: How the Bed Bug Infiltrated Our Bedrooms and Took Over the World
Brooke Borel · University of Chicago Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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Bed bugs. Few words strike such fear in the minds of travelers. In cities around the world, lurking beneath the plush blankets of otherwise pristine-looking hotel beds are tiny bloodthirsty beasts just waiting for weary wanderers to surrender to a vulnerable slumber. Though bed bugs today... |
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Went the Day Well?: Witnessing Waterloo
David Crane · Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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Midnight, Sunday, June 18, 1815. Britain holds its breath. Since Napoleon's escape from Elba in February, Europe has been jolted from eleven months of peace back into the frenzied panic of a war it believed had ended. "The whole complexion of the world is changed again," writes... |
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The Bill of Rights: The Fight to Secure America's Liberties
Carol Berkin · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The real story of how the Bill of Rights came to be: a concise, vivid history of political strategy, big egos, and partisan interest that set the terms of the ongoing contest between the federal government and the states.Revered today for articulating America's founding principles,... |
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The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America
EDWARD L AYERS · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 640
Format: Hardcover
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Amid the devastation of war rise the first stirrings of freedom in this absorbing, ground-level narrative by an acclaimed historian. Virginia's Great Valley, prosperous in peace with a rich soil and an enslaved workforce, invited destruction in war. Voracious Union and Confederate... |
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The Return of George Washington: 1783-1789
Edward Larson · William Morrow; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Edward J. Larson recovers a crucially important—yet almost always overlooked—chapter of George Washingtons life, revealing how Washington saved the United States by coming out of retirement to lead the Constitutional Convention and serve as our first... |
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Eliza Hamilton: The Extraordinary Life and Times of the Wife of Alexander Hamilton
Tilar J. Mazzeo · Gallery Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Irena's Children comes a comprehensive and riveting biography of the extraordinary life and times of Eliza Hamilton, the wife of founding father Alexander Hamilton, and a powerful, unsung hero in America's early days.
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The Korean War: An International History
Wada Haruki · ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD
Pages: 381
Format: Hardcover
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This classic history of the Korean War - from its origins through the armistice - is now available in English for the first time. Wada Haruki, one of the world's leading scholars of the war, has thoroughly revised his definitive study to incorporate new sources and debates. Drawing... |
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Anonymous Soldiers: The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947
Bruce Hoffman · Knopf Publishing Group
Pages: 640
Format: Hardcover
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A landmark history, based on newly available documents, of the battles between Jews, Arabs, and the British that led to the creation of IsraelAnonymous Soldiers brilliantly re-creates the crucial period in the establishment of Israel, chronicling the three decades of growing anticolonial... |
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Empire of Cotton: A Global History
Sven Beckert · Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZEPULITZER PRIZE FINALISTThe epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality to the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism. Cotton is so ubiquitous as to be almost invisible, yet understanding its history is key to understanding... |
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Heaven's Ditch: God, Gold, and Murder on the Erie Canal
Jack Kelly · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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The technological marvel of its age, the Erie Canal grew out of a sudden fit of inspiration. Proponents didn't just dream; they built a 360-mile waterway entirely by hand and largely through wilderness. As excitement crackled down its length, the canal became the scene of the most striking... |
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When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944
Ronald C. Rosbottom · Little, Brown and Company; First edition
Format: Hardcover
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The spellbinding and revealing chronicle of Nazi-occupied Paris On June 14, 1940, German tanks entered a silent and nearly deserted Paris. Eight days later, France accepted a humiliating defeat and foreign occupation. Subsequently, an eerie sense of normalcy settled over the City of Light.... |
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