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Out of Order: Stories from the History of the Supreme Court
Sandra Day O'Connor · Random House; F First Edition, 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"I called this book Out of Order because it reflects my goal, which is to share a different side of the Supreme Court. Most people know the Court only as it exists between bangs of the gavel, when the Court comes to order to hear arguments or give opinions.... |
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Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956
Anne Applebaum · Doubleday; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In the long-awaited follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag, acclaimed journalist Anne Applebaum delivers a groundbreaking history of how Communism took over Eastern Europe after World War II and transformed in frightening fashion the individuals who came under its sway.At the end of World... |
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The Fortunes of Africa: A 5000-Year History of Wealth, Greed, and Endeavor
Martin Meredith · Public Affairs
Pages: 784
Format: Print book
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Africa has been coveted for its riches ever since the era of the Pharaohs. In past centuries, it was the lure of gold, ivory, and slaves that drew fortune-seekers, merchant-adventurers, and conquerors from afar. In modern times, the focus of attention is on oil, diamonds, and other valuable... |
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The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power
David E Sanger · Harmony Books
Pages: 498
Format: Print book
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Readers of The New York Times know David Sanger as one of the most trusted correspondents in Washington, one to whom presidents, secretaries of state, and foreign leaders talk with unusual candor. Now, with a historian's sweep and an insider's eye for telling detail, Sanger delivers... |
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The Unexpected Patriot: How an Ordinary American Mother Is Bringing Terrorists to Justice
Shannen Rossmiller · Palgrave Macmillan Trade
Format: Hardcover
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After 9/11, when the nation was still in shock over the unprecedented attack on U.S. soil, Shannen Rossmiller, a country judge and mother of three in rural Montana, was formulating a plan. Soon she was devouring literature on Islamic culture, teaching herself Arabic, and preparing to infiltrate... |
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Daniel Patrick Moynihan: A Portrait in Letters of an American Visionary
Daniel Patrick Moynihan · PublicAffairs; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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When Daniel Patrick Moynihan died in 2003 the Economist described him as “a philosopher-politician-diplomat who two centuries earlier would not have been out of place among the Founding Fathers.” Though Moynihan never wrote an autobiography, he was a gifted author and voluminous... |
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