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Unbreakable: The Woman Who Defied the Nazis in the World's Most Dangerous Horse Race

Askwith, Richard · Pegasus Books
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

The courageous and heartbreaking story of a Czech countess who defied the Nazis in a legendary horse race.Czechoslovakia, October 1937. Europe's youngest democracy is on its knees. Millions are mourning the death of the nation's founding father, the saintly Tomáš Masaryk. Across...
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Summertime: George Gershwin's Life in Music

Crawford, Richard · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover

The life of a beloved American composer reflected through his music, writings, and letters.New York City native and gifted pianist George Gershwin blossomed as an accompanist before his talent as a songwriter opened the way to Broadway, where he fashioned his own brand of American music....
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Bletchley Park and D-Day

David Kenyon · Yale University Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The untold story of Bletchley Park's key role in the success of the Normandy campaign Since the secret of Bletchley Park was revealed in the 1970s, the work of its codebreakers has become one of the most famous stories of the Second World War. But cracking the Nazis' codes was only...
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The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America

O'Mara, Margaret · Penguin Press
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

The true, behind-the-scenes history of the people who built Silicon Valley and shaped Big Tech in America Long before Margaret O'Mara became one of our most consequential historians of the American-led digital revolution, she worked in the White House of Bill Clinton and Al Gore in the earliest...
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Make My Day: Movie Culture in the Age of Reagan

Hoberman, J. · The New Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Acclaimed media critic J. Hoberman's masterful and majestic exploration of the Reagan years as seen through the unforgettable movies of the era The third book in a brilliant and ambitious trilogy, celebrated cultural and film critic J. Hoberman's Make My Day is a major new work...
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The Strenuous Life: Theodore Roosevelt and the Making of the American Athlete

Ryan Swanson · Diversion Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

In full and intricate detail, featuring an amazing cast of characters from the worlds of politics, athletics, entertainment and more, this is the story of how President Theodore Roosevelt helped shepherd in an American sports and fitness revolution.Crippling asthma and grossly myopic eyesight...
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Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music

Michael Lang · Reel Art Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

The official 50th-anniversary book on the festival that epitomizes the '60sThis is the official 50th-anniversary celebration of Woodstock, by the festival's creator and founder, Michael Lang. A large illustrated edition, it includes hundreds of photographs and documents accompanied...
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Woodstock: 50 Years of Peace and Music

Daniel Bukszpan · Imagine
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

Giftable 50th anniversary commemorative with never-before-seen images and original interviews. Hear from performers and attendees in their own voices! Featuring Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, and The Grateful Dead, as well as unsung audience members and folks behind the scenes. This compendium...
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Dragon: Fear and Power

MARTIN ARNOLD · Reaktion Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

From the fire-breathing beasts of North European myth and legend to the Book of Revelation's Great Red Dragon of Hell, from those supernatural agencies of imperial authority in ancient China to the so-called dragon-women who threaten male authority, dragons are a global phenomenon,...
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Yale Needs Women: How the First Group of Girls Rewrote the Rules of an Ivy League Giant

Gardiner Perkins, Anne · Sourcebooks
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

"Perkins makes the story of these early and unwitting feminist pioneers come alive against the backdrop of the contemporaneous civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1970s, and offers observations that remain eerily relevant on U.S. campuses today." -- Edward B. Fiske, bestselling...
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