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Confronting the Presidents: No Spin Assessments from Washington to Biden

Bill O'Reilly - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Instant #1 New York Times and USA Today nonfiction bestseller!Every American president, from Washington to Biden: Their lives, policies, foibles, and legacies, assessed with clear-eyed authority and wit.. Authors of the acclaimed Killing books, the #1 bestselling narrative history series...
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The Highest Calling: Conversations on the American Presidency

David M. Rubenstein - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The American Story and How to Lead and host of PBS's History with David Rubenstein - David Rubenstein interviews living American presidents and top historians and journalists who reflect on the US presidency, including Joe Biden, Barack...
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Bring Judgment Day: Reclaiming Lead Belly's Truths from Jim Crow's Lies

Sheila Curran Bernard - Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardcover

Known worldwide as Lead Belly, Huddie Ledbetter (1889-1949) is an American icon whose influence on modern music was tremendous - as was, according to legend, the temper that landed him in two of the South's most brutal prisons, while his immense talent twice won him pardons. But,...
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Gray Matters: A Biography of Brain Surgery

Theodore H. Schwartz - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

"If you are at all curious about the brain or the surgeons who operate on it, Gray Matters is a must read and Dr. Theodore Schwartz is the perfect guide, a master brain surgeon and superbly talented writer. I have not read a better biography of our shared profession, and in Schwartz's...
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Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life

Richard Beck - Crown
Format: Hardcover

A groundbreaking history of how the decades-long war on terror changed virtually every aspect of American life, from the erosion of citizenship down to the cars we bought and TV we watched - by an acclaimed n 1 writer. For twenty years after September 11, the war on terror was simultaneously...
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How the World Made the West

Josephine Quinn - ‎Random House
Format: Hardcover


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A Quiet Company of Dangerous Men: The Forgotten British Special Operations Soldiers of World War II

Shannon Monaghan - Viking
Format: Hardcover

The untold story of four special operations officers who fought together behind enemy lines across multiple theaters of World War II, and then continued to serve, officially and unofficially, for decades after in the hottest parts of the Cold War. There have always been special warriors;...
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Neighborliness: Love Like Jesus. Cross Dividing Lines. Transform Your Community.

David Docusen - Thomas Nelson
Format: Paperback

Do you want to love your neighbor as yourself but don't know where to start? This practical, accessible guide to bridging the dividing lines of politics, race, and economics, both individually and as the church, will help you amplify Jesus in your community and build God's kingdom.When...
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A Plausible Man: The True Story of the Escaped Slave Who Inspired Uncle Tom's Cabin

Susanna Ashton - The New Press
Format: Hardcover

The remarkable story of the man behind the book that helped spark the Civil War, in a stunning historical detective story. In December of 1850, a faculty wife in Brunswick, Maine, named Harriet Beecher Stowe hid a fugitive slave in her house. While John Andrew Jackson stayed for only one night,...
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Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World

Roger Crowley - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover

The story of the sixteenth-century's epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and the Pacific Spices drove the early modern world economy, and for Europeans they represented riches on an unprecedented scale. Cloves and nutmeg...
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