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New Titles - Biographies & Memoirs
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The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s
William I Hitchcock · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 672
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A page-turner masterpiece." - Jim LehrerIn a 2017 survey, presidential historians ranked Dwight D. Eisenhower fifth on the list of great presidents, behind the perennial top four: Lincoln, Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Teddy Roosevelt. Historian... |
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Mussolini and Hitler: The Forging of the Fascist Alliance
Christian Goeschel · Yale University Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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A fresh treatment of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, revealing the close ties between Mussolini and Hitler and their regimes? From 1934 until 1944 Mussolini met Hitler numerous times, and the two developed a relationship that deeply affected both countries. While Germany is generally... |
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American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race
Douglas Brinkley · Harper
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover
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As the fiftieth anniversary of the first lunar landing approaches, the award winning historian and perennial New York Times bestselling author takes a fresh look at the space program, President John F. Kennedy's inspiring challenge, and America's race to the moon."We choose... |
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Where Monsters Hide: Sex, Murder, and Madness in the Midwest
M. William Phelps · Kensington
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
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A tragic missing person case spirals into an unrelenting murder mystery. Intrigue, deception, and serial homicide erupt in the latest real-life thriller by New York Times bestselling investigative journalist M. William Phelps. In October 2014, after Chris Regan failed to arrive at his new job,... |
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Funny Man: Mel Brooks
Patrick McGilligan · Harper
Pages: 656
Format: Hardcover
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A deeply textured and compelling biography of comedy giant Mel Brooks, covering his rags-to-riches life and triumphant career in television, films, and theater, from Patrick McGilligan, the acclaimed author of Young Orson: The Years of Luck and Genius on the Path to Citizen Kane and Alfred... |
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Rocky Graziano: Fists, Fame, and Fortune
Jeffrey Sussman · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 226
Format: Hardcover
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Rocky Graziano, juvenile delinquent, middleweight boxing champion, and comedic actor, was the last great fighter from the golden age of boxing, the era of Joe Louis, Jake LaMotta, and Sugar Ray Robinson. In Rocky Graziano: Fists, Fame, and Fortune, Jeffrey Sussman tells the rags-to-riches... |
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First: Sandra Day O'Connor
Evan Thomas · Random House
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
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The intimate, inspiring, and authoritative biography of Sandra Day O'Connor, America's first female Supreme Court justice, drawing on exclusive interviews and first-time access to Justice O'Connor's archives - by the New York Times bestselling author Evan Thomas."She's... |
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The Women's Suffrage Movement
Sally Roesch Wagner · Penguin Classics
Pages: 560
Format: Paperback
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An intersectional anthology of works by the known and unknown women that shaped and established the suffrage movement, in time for the 2020 centennial of women's right to vote, with a foreword by Gloria SteinemComprised of historical texts spanning two centuries, The Women's Suffrage... |
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Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States
Samantha Allen · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A transgender reporter's narrative tour through the surprisingly vibrant queer communities sprouting up in red states, offering a vision of a stronger, more humane America.Ten years ago, Samantha Allen was a suit-and-tie-wearing Mormon missionary. Now she's a senior Daily Beast... |
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I.M.: A Memoir
Isaac Mizrahi · Flatiron Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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Isaac Mizrahi is sui generis. Designer. Cabaret singer. Talk show host. He's a pop culture icon unlike any fashion designer of recent memory, just as likely to be recognized walking down Main Street USA as Madison Avenue NYC. Yet ever since he shot to fame in the 1980s, the private... |
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