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All the Powers of Earth: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. III, 1856-1863
Blumenthal, Sidney · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover
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Volume III of Sidney Blumenthal's "magisterial" and "masterful" biography, The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, brings the prairie lawyer out of his wilderness into the presidency. Lincoln rises from defeat and obscurity to become the Commander-in-Chief who strikes... |
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Alexander the Great: His Life and His Mysterious Death
Everitt, Anthony · Random House
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
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What can we learn from the stunning rise and mysterious death of the ancient world's greatest conqueror? An acclaimed biographer reconstructs the life of Alexander the Great in this magisterial revisionist portrait. More than two millennia have passed since Alexander the Great built... |
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A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves: One Family and Migration in the 21st Century
Deparle, Jason · Viking
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive chronicle of our new age of global migration, told through the multi-generational saga of a Filipino family, by a veteran New York Times reporter and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist.When Jason DeParle moved in with Tita Comodas and her family in the Manila slums thirty years... |
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Prohibition in Cape May County: Wetter than the Atlantic
Raymond Rebmann
Format: Paperback
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With its proximity to Philadelphia, New York and Baltimore, Cape May County was a perfect location for lawbreakers during Prohibition. Rumrunners operating along the Atlantic Seaboard and Delaware Bay teamed up with backwoods bootleggers to make Cape May County a bustling center of the era's... |
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After the Lost Franklin Expedition: Lady Franklin and John Rae
Baxter, Peter
Format: Hardcover
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The fate of the lost Franklin Expedition of 1847 is an enigma that has tantalized generations of historians, archaeologists and adventurers. The expedition was lost without a trace and all 129 men died in what is arguably the worst disaster in Britain's history of polar exploration.In... |
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War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line
David Nott · Picador
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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For more than twenty-five years, David Nott has taken unpaid leave from his job as a general and vascular surgeon with the NHS to volunteer in some of the world's most dangerous war zones. From Sarajevo under siege in 1993, to clandestine hospitals in rebel-held eastern Aleppo, he has carried... |
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Disgraceland: Musicians Getting Away with Murder and Behaving Very Badly
Brennan, Jake · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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From the creator of the popular rock 'n' roll true crime podcast, DISGRACELAND comes an off-kilter, hysterical, at times macabre book of stories from the highly entertaining underbelly of music history.You may know Jerry Lee Lewis married his thirteen-year-old cousin but did you know... |
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George Marshall: Defender of the Republic
Roll, David L. · Dutton Caliber
Pages: 704
Format: Hardcover
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The extraordinary career of George Catlett Marshall - America's most distinguished soldier-statesman since George Washington - whose selfless leadership and moral character influenced the course of two world wars and helped define the American century. Winston Churchill called him World... |
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