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The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality

Jerome R Corsi · Threshold Editions/Simon & Schuster
Pages: 364
Format: Hardcover

From the Publisher: In this thoroughly researched and documented book, the #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry explains why the extreme leftism of an Obama presidency would leave the United States weakened, diminished...
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Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune

Bill Dedman · Ballantine Books; Later Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * UPDATED TEXT WITH RESULTS OF THE CLARK ESTATE SETTLEMENT * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Janet Maslin, The New York Times * When Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bill Dedman noticed in 2009 a grand home for sale,...
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Ike: An American Hero

Michael Korda · Harper; Reprint edition
Pages: 800
Format: Hardcover

A big ambitious and enthralling new biography of Dwight D Eisenhower full of fascinating details and anecdotes which places particular emphasis on his brilliant generalship and leadership in World War Two and provides with the advantage of hindsight a far more acute analysis of his character...
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The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism

Ross King · Walker & Company; First Edition edition
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

While the Civil War raged in America, another very different revolution was beginning to take shape across the Atlantic, in the studios of Paris: The artists who would make Impressionism the most popular art form in history were showing their first paintings amidst scorn and derision from...
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Koba the Dread

Martin Amis · Miramax; First Edition edition
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Koba the Dread is the successor to Martin Amis's celebrated memoir, Experience. It is largely political while remaining personal. It addresses itself to the central lacuna of twentieth-century thought: the indulgence of communism by intellectuals of the West. In between the personal...
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Separated @ Birth: A True Love Story of Twin Sisters Reunited

Samantha Futerman · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

Imagine one day opening Facebook and reading a message from a stranger that says, "I think we might be twins ... don't freak out ... "It all began when design student Anaïs Bordier viewed a YouTube video and saw her own face staring back. After some research, Anaïs found...
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The Art of Neil Gaiman

Hayley Campbell · Harper Design
Format: Hardcover

With unprecedented access to Neil Gaiman's personal archives, author Hayley Campbell gives an insider's glimpse into the artistic inspirations and musings of one of the world's most visionary writers.Over the last twenty-five years, Neil Gaiman has mapped out a territory in the popular...
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Sovereign Ladies: Sex, Sacrifice, and Power--The Six Reigning Queens of England

Maureen Waller · St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover

In the bestselling tradition of authors Antonia Fraser and David Starkey, Maureen Waller has written a fascinating narrative history---a brilliant combination of drama and biographical insight---of the six women who have ruled England in their own names.  In the last millennium there...
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A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal

Ben Macintyre · Random House Inc
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Master storyteller Ben Macintyre's most ambitious work to date brings to life the twentieth century's greatest spy story.Kim Philby was the greatest spy in history, a brilliant and charming man who rose to head Britain's counterintelligence against the Soviet Union during the height...
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Eisenhower: The White House Years

Jim Newton · Doubleday; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

"Newton's contribution is as cogent an inventory of Eisenhower's White House years as I've ever read. He blends masterful writing with historic detail and provides the value-added of Ike as the man and the leader." - Chuck Hagel, Distinguished Professor, Georgetown...
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We Were Brothers

Barry Moser · Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2015.
Pages: 186
Format: Print book

Brothers Barry and Tommy Moser were born of the same parents in Chattanooga, Tennessee, slept in the same bedroom, went to the same school, and were both poisoned by their family's deep racism and anti-Semitism. But as they grew older, their perspectives and their paths grew further...
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