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Douglas MacArthur: American Warrior
Arthur Herman · Random House Pages: 937 Format: Print book |
A new, definitive life of an American icon, the visionary general who led American forces through three wars and foresaw his nation's great geopolitical shift toward the Pacific Rim - from the Pulitzer Prize finalist and bestselling author of Gandhi & Churchill
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A Wretched and Precarious Situation: In Search of the Last Arctic Frontier
David Welky · W. W. Norton & Company Pages: 512 Format: Print book |
A remarkable true story of adventure, betrayal, and survival set in one of the world's most inhospitable places. In 1906, from atop a snow-swept hill in the ice fields northwest of Greenland, hundreds of miles from another human being, Commander Robert E. Peary spotted a line of mysterious... |
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The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall
Mary Elise Sarotte · Basic Books Pages: 291 Format: Hardcover |
On the night of November 9, 1989, massive crowds surged toward the Berlin Wall, drawn by an announcement that caught the world by surprise: East Germans could now move freely to the West. The Wall - infamous symbol of divided Cold War Europe - seemed to be falling. But the opening of the gates... |
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Presidents and Their Generals: An American History of Command in War
Matthew Moten · Belknap Press Format: Hardcover |
Since 1945, as the U.S. has engaged in near-constant "wars of choice" with limited congressional oversight, the executive and armed services have shared primary responsibility for often ill-defined objectives, strategies, and benefits. Matthew Moten shows the significance of negotiations... |
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Murder by Candlelight: The Gruesome Crimes Behind Our Romance with the Macabre
Michael Knox Beran · Pegasus Books Pages: 384 Format: Hardcover |
Arguing that it is "less the quality of the crimes than the attitude of the age which determines the gruesomeness of its murders," Michael Beran brings to life the ghastly ambiance of a vanished epoch, and gives us a terrifying glimpse of the horror beneath the seeming civility... |
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Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World
Steven Johnson · Riverhead Books Pages: 336 Format: Print book |
From the New York Times-bestselling author of How We Got to Now and Where Good Ideas Come From, a look at the world-changing innovations we made while keeping ourselves entertained. This lushly illustrated history of popular entertainment takes a long-zoom... |
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An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873
Benjamin Madley · Yale University Press Pages: 692 Format: Print book |
Between 1846 and 1873, California's Indian population plunged from perhaps 150,000 to 30,000. Benjamin Madley is the first historian to uncover the full extent of the slaughter, the involvement of state and federal officials, the taxpayer dollars that supported the violence, indigenous... |
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Black Square: Adventures in Post-Soviet Ukraine
Sophie Pinkham · W.W. Norton & Company Pages: 320 Format: Print book |
A distinctive writer's fascinating journey into the heart of a troubled region.Ukraine has rebuilt itself over and over again in the last century, plagued by the same conflicts: corruption, poverty, substance abuse, ethnic clashes, and Russian aggression. Sophie Pinkham saw all this... |
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Troubled refuge : struggling for freedom in the Civil War
Chandra Manning · Alfred A. Knopf Pages: 416 Format: Print book |
From the author of What This Cruel War Was Over, a vivid portrait of the Union army's escaped-slave refugee camps and how they shaped the course of emancipation and citizenship in the United States.
Even before shots were fired at Fort Sumter, slaves recognized that their... |
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The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
Jeff Guinn · Simon & Schuster Pages: 544 Format: Print book |
By the New York Times bestselling author of Manson, the comprehensive, authoritative, and tragic story of preacher Jim Jones, who was responsible for the Jonestown Massacre - the largest murder-suicide in American history.
In the 1950s, a young Indianapolis minister... |
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Arab Winter Comes to America: The Truth About the War We're In
Robert Spencer · Regnery Publishing Pages: 288 Format: Hardcover |
Overlooked by our media, purposely obscured by our own government, and unnoticed by the vast majority of Americans, the turmoil of the Islamic world's "Arab Spring" has become an "Arab Winter," bringing new threats of terror to America. New York Times bestselling... |
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The Bill of Rights: The Fight to Secure America's Liberties
Carol Berkin · Simon & Schuster Format: Hardcover |
The real story of how the Bill of Rights came to be: a concise, vivid history of political strategy, big egos, and partisan interest that set the terms of the ongoing contest between the federal government and the states.Revered today for articulating America's founding principles,... |
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The Lost World of the Old Ones: Discoveries in the Ancient Southwest
David Roberts · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition Format: Hardcover |
An award-winning author and veteran mountain climber takes us deep into the Southwest backcountry to uncover secrets of its ancient inhabitants.For more than 5,000 years the Ancestral Puebloans Native Americans who flourished long before the first contact with Europeans occupied the Four... |
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