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We Shall Bury You!: The Hunt for the Spies Who Changed the World
HOWARD BLUM · Harper
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling author of Dark Invasion and The Last Goodnight once again illuminates the lives of little-known individuals who played a significant role in America's history as he chronicles the incredible true story of a critical, recently declassified counterintelligence... |
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The Watergate: Inside America's Most Infamous Address
JOSEPH RODOTA · William Morrow
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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In the vein of The Residence and This Town, this absorbing history features a remarkable cast of politicians, journalists, socialites, and spies who made the Watergate the most famous - and some say infamous - private address in Washington.Opened in 1965 and located along the Potomac River... |
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A Lab of One's Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War
PATRICIA FARA · Oxford University Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Patricia Fara unearths the forgotten suffragists of World War I who bravely changed women's roles in the war and paved the way for today's female scientists.Many extraordinary female scientists, doctors, and engineers tasted independence and responsibility for the first time during... |
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NO TURNING BACK : life, loss, and hope in wartime syria
RANIA ABOUZEID · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 400
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Extending back to the first demonstrations of 2011, No Turning Back dissects the tangle of ideologies and allegiances that make up the Syrian conflict. As protests ignited in Daraa, some citizens were brimming with a sense of possibility. A privileged young man named Suleiman posted videos... |
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The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote
ELAINE F WEISS · Viking
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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The nail-biting climax of one of the greatest political battles in American history: the ratification of the constitutional amendment that granted women the right to vote. "Anyone interested in the history of our country's ongoing fight to put its founding values into practice--as... |
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God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State
Lawrence Wright · Knopf
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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With humor and the biting insight of a native, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower explores the history, culture, and politics of Texas, while holding the stereotypes up for rigorous scrutiny.God Save Texas is a journey through the most controversial state in America.... |
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Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 1800-1906
DAVID CANNADINE · Viking
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping history of nineteenth-century Britain by one of the world's most respected historians.To live in nineteenth-century Britain was to experience an astonishing and unprecedented series of changes. Cities grew vast; there were revolutions in transportation, communication, science,... |
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The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South
Radley Balko · PublicAffairs
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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This is a tale of two tragedies. At the heart of the first is Dr. Steven Hayne, a doctor the State of Mississippi employed as its de facto medical examiner for two decades. Beginning in the late 1980s, he performed anywhere from 1,200 to 1,800 autopsies per year, five times more than is recommended,... |
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The Infernal Library: On Dictators, the Books They Wrote, and Other Catastrophes of Literacy
Daniel Kalder · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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A harrowing tour of "dictator literature" in the twentieth-century, featuring the soul-killing prose and poetry of Hitler, Mao, and many more, which shows how books have sometimes shaped the world for the worse.Since the days of the Roman Empire dictators have written books. But in the twentieth-century... |
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