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The Magnificent Medills: America's Royal Family of Journalism During a Century of Turbulent Splendor

Megan McKinney · Harper; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
A knock-out dynastic history about the world of journalism. In The Magnificent Medills we learn how a single family forever changed Chicago and America. Its impossible to understand todays modern media world without reading this brilliant book. Highly recommended! Douglas Brinkley, author...
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The Fractured Republic: Renewing America's Social Contract in the Age of Individualism

Yuval Levin · Basic Books
Pages: 262
Format: Print book
"How America can overcome nostalgia, revive civil society, and thrive in the twenty-first century"--Publisher.
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A Very Expensive Poison: The Assassination of Alexander Litvinenko and Putin's War with the West

Luke Harding · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pages: 480
Format: Print book
A real-life political assassination story--complete with KGB, CIA, MI5, and Russian mobsters--that reverberates from the streets of London to the deadly halls of today's Kremlin. A Vintage Original. On November 1, 2006, journalist and Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned...
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Plutarch's Lives Volume 1

Plutarch · Modern Library; Modern Library Paperback edition
Format: Paperback
Plutarch's Lives, written at the beginning of the second century A.D., is a brilliant social history of the ancient world by one of the greatest biographers and moralists of all time. In what is by far his most famous and influential work, Plutarch reveals the character and personality...
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My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel

Ari Shavit · Spiegel & Grau; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND THE ECONOMISTWinner of the Natan Book Award, the National Jewish Book Award, and the Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardAn authoritative and deeply personal narrative history of the State of Israel,...
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