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Confronting the Presidents: No Spin Assessments from Washington to Biden
Bill O'Reilly - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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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
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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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Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World
Roger Crowley - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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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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Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany
Katja Hoyer - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER * From the ashes of the Second World War to the fall of the Berlin Wall, "an expansive and generous history" of East Germany (New Republic) In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany ceased to be. For over forty years,... |
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I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris
Glynnis MacNicol - Penguin Life
Format: Hardcover
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When you're a woman of a certain age, you are only promised that everything will get worse. But what if everything you've been told is a lie?. Come to Paris, August 2021, when the City of Lights was still empty of tourists and a thirst for long-overdue pleasure gripped those who wandered... |
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The Struggle for Taiwan: A History of America, China, and the Island Caught Between
Sulmaan Wasif Khan - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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A concise, definitive history of the precarious relationship among the US, China, and Taiwan. As tensions over Taiwan escalate, the United States and China stand on the brink of a catastrophic war. Resolving the impasse demands we understand how it began. In 1943, the Allies declared that... |
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Perennial Ceremony: Lessons and Gifts from a Dakota Garden
Teresa Peterson - Univ Of Minnesota Press
Format: Hardcover
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Travel through a garden's seasons toward healing, reclamation, and wholeness - for us, and for our beloved relative, the Earth In this rich collection of prose, poetry, and recipes, Teresa Peterson shares how she found refuge from the struggle to reconcile her Christianity and Dakota... |
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The Damascus Events: The 1860 Massacre and the Making of the Modern Middle East
Eugene Rogan - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning scholar's account of an ancient city's descent into unprecedented communal violence - an event that would mark the end of the old Ottoman order and the beginning of the modern Middle East. On July 9, 1860, a violent mob swept through the Christian quarters of Damascus.... |
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On James Baldwin (The Mandel Lectures in the Humanities at Brandeis University)
Colm Toibin - Brandeis University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Colm Tóibín's personal account of encountering James Baldwin's work, published in Baldwin's centenary year. Acclaimed Irish novelist Colm Tóibín first read James Baldwin just after turning eighteen. He had completed his first year at an Irish university and was struggling... |
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