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Boston's Massacre
Eric Hinderaker · The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pages: 384
Format: Print book |
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On the night of March 5, 1770, British soldiers fired into a crowd gathered in front of Boston's Custom House, killing five people. Denounced as an act of unprovoked violence and villainy, the event that came to be known as the Boston Massacre is one of the most familiar incidents in American... |
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5 Steps to a 5: 500 AP World History Questions to Know by Test Day, Second Edition
Adam Stevens · McGraw-Hill Education
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback |
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500 Ways to achieve your highest scoreFrom Foundations: 8000 BC to 60 CE to the Present Era: 1914 to Present --there is a lot of subject matter to know if you want to succeed on your AP World History exam. That's why we've selected these 500 AP-style questions and answers that cover... |
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White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
Nancy Isenberg · Viking
Pages: 460
Format: Print book |
The New York Times bestseller
"Formidable and truth-dealing...necessary." -The New York Times
"With the election looming, this eye-opening investigation into our country's entrenched social hierarchy is acutely relevant." -O Magazine
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All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid
Matt Bai · Knopf; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover |
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An NPR Best Book of the YearIn May 1987, Colorado Senator Gary Hart - a dashing, reform-minded Democrat - seemed a lock for the party's presidential nomination and led George H. W. Bush by double digits in the polls. Then, in one tumultuous week, rumors of marital infidelity and a newspaper's... |
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Cleveland in World War I
Dale Thomas · Arcadia Publishing
Pages: 127
Format: Print book |
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Cleveland's contribution to the war front began on May 25, 1917, with the Lakeside Hospital Unit becoming the first American detachment to land in Europe. On the home front, the war accelerated the growth of Cleveland, which became the fifth-largest city in the nation by the end of the decade.... |
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Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and Power
Michael Kranish · Scribner
Pages: 431
Format: Print book |
Authoritative, timely, and provocative, this deeply researched biography of Donald Trump provides a complex portrait of the man who - despite broad skepticism - could be the next president of the United States.
Who is Donald J. Trump? Despite decades of scrutiny, many aspects of his life... |
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The New Book of Snobs
D J Taylor · Constable & Robinson
Pages: 275
Format: Hardcover |
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Inspired by William Makepeace Thackeray, the first great analyst of snobbery, and his trail-blazing The Book of Snobs (1848) , D. J. Taylor brings us a field guide to the modern snob. Short of calling someone a racist or a paedophile, one of the worst charges you can lay at anybody's... |
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The Last Days of Stalin
Joshua Rubenstein · Yale University Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book |
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Joshua Rubenstein's riveting account takes us back to the second half of 1952 when no one could foresee an end to Joseph Stalin's murderous regime. He was poised to challenge the newly elected U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower with armed force, and was also broadening a vicious campaign... |
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Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
Paul A Offit · National Geographic
Pages: 288
Format: Print book |
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What happens when ideas presented as science lead us in the wrong direction? History is filled with brilliant ideas that gave rise to disaster, and this book explores the most fascinating - and significant - missteps: from opium's heyday as the pain reliever of choice to recognition of opioids... |
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5 Steps to a 5: 500 AP European History Questions to Know by Test Day, Second Edition
Sergei Alschen · McGraw-Hill Education
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback |
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500 Ways to achieve your highest scoreFrom the Renaissance and the Rise of Sovereignty to Nationalism, the Cold War and beyond --there is a lot of subject matter to know if you want to succeed on your AP European History exam. That's why we've selected these 500 AP-style questions... |
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Thunder in the Mountains: Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War
Daniel J Sharfstein · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 613
Format: Hardcover |
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The epic clash of two American legends -- their brutal war and a battle of ideas that defined America after Reconstruction. Oliver Otis Howard thought he was a man of destiny. Chosen to lead the Freedmen's Bureau after the Civil War, the Union Army general was entrusted with the era's... |
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The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire
Stephen Kinzer · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 306
Format: Hardcover |
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The bestselling author of Overthrow and The Brothers brings to life the forgotten political debate that set America's interventionist course in the world for the twentieth century and beyond. How should the United States act in the world? Americans cannot decide.... |
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The King is Dead: The Last Will and Testament of Henry VIII
Suzannah Lipscomb · Pegasus Books
Pages: 208
Format: Print book |
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An insightful and elegant examination of Henry VIII's last will and testament that evokes the glittering world of the Tudor king in all its glory, pomp, and paranoia. On 28 January 1547, the sickly and obese King Henry VIII died at Whitehall. Just hours before his passing, his last... |
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