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Wild Thing: The Short, Spellbinding Life of Jimi Hendrix
Philip Norman · Liveright; Illustrated edition
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times Book Review * "The Best Books to Give This Year"Publishers Weekly * Best Books of the Year (Nonfiction) A shattering new biography of rock music's most outrageous -- and tragic -- genius. Over fifty years after his death, Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970) is celebrated... |
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Books Promiscuously Read: Reading as a Way of Life
Heather Cass White · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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Heather Cass White's Books Promiscuously Read is about the pleasures of reading and its power in shaping our internal lives. It advocates for a life of constant, disorderly, time-consuming reading, and encourages readers to trust in the value of the exhilaration and fascination such... |
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The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter
Kai Bird · Crown
Format: Hardcover
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Four decades after Ronald Reagan's landslide win in 1980, Jimmy Carter's one-term presidency is often labeled a failure; indeed, many Americans view Carter as the only ex-president to have used the White House as a stepping-stone to greater achievements. But in retrospect the Carter... |
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An American Marriage: The Untold Story of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd
Michael Burlingame · Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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Abraham Lincoln was apparently one of those men who regarded "connubial bliss" as an untenable fantasy. During the Civil War, he pardoned a Union soldier who had deserted the army to return home to wed his sweetheart. As the president signed a document sparing the soldier's... |
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Paper Trails: The US Post and the Making of the American West
Cameron Blevins · Oxford University Press
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A groundbreaking history of how the US Post made the nineteenth-century American West.There were five times as many post offices in the United States in 1899 than there are McDonald's restaurants today. During an era of supposedly limited federal government, the United States operated... |
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Wonderworks: The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature
Angus Fletcher · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Literature is a technology like any other. And the writers we revere - from Homer, Shakespeare, Austen, and others - each made a unique technical breakthrough that can be viewed as both a narrative and neuroscientific advancement. Literature's great invention was to address problems... |
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