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Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and Power

Michael Kranish · Scribner
Pages: 431
Format: Print book

Authoritative, timely, and provocative, this deeply researched biography of Donald Trump provides a complex portrait of the man who - despite broad skepticism - could be the next president of the United States.Who is Donald J. Trump? Despite decades of scrutiny, many aspects of his life...
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The Making of Home: The 500-Year Story of How Our Houses Became Our Homes

Judith Flanders · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

The 500-year story of how, and why, our homes have come to be what they are, from the critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Invention of Murder and The Victorian CityThe idea that "home" is a special place, a separate place, a place where we can be our true...
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A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama’s America

Jacqueline Jones · Basic Books
Format: Book

In 1656, a Maryland planter tortured and killed an enslaved man named Antonio, an Angolan who refused to work in the fields. Three hundred years later, Simon P. Owens battled soul-deadening technologies as well as the fiction of “race” that divided him from his co-workers in a Detroit...
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

David Grann · Doubleday
Pages: 338
Format: Hardcover

From New Yorker staff writer David Grann, #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Lost City of Z, a twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage...
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The Mechanism of Catastrophe: The Turkish Pogrom Of September 6 - 7, 1955, And The Destruction Of The Greek Community Of Istanbul

Jr. Speros Vryonis · Greekworks.Com Inc
Pages: 659
Format: Hardcover

By Speros Vryonis, Jr. 659 pages. ISBN 0-9747660-3-8. Apparently a somewhat controversial interpretation. Here is a typical Amazon reader review: "This is a great historical account of a 1955 atrocity against the Greek, Jewish and Armenian communities in Istanbul. It takes into account...
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Battle of the Bulge: Hitler's Ardennes Offensive, 1944-1945

Danny S. Parker · Combined Books
Pages: 316
Format: Hardcover

On December 16, 1944, Hitler launched his last desperate offensive of World War II, a final great gamble designed to smash his American and British attackers.Danny Parker's ground-breaking Battle of the Bulge was a Military Book Club Main selection. This 320 page book features 275 rare...
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