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How to Become Famous: Lost Einsteins, Forgotten Superstars, and How the Beatles Came to Be

Cass R. Sunstein - Harvard Business Review Press
Format: Hardcover

Fame is like lightning. Taylor Swift, Bob Dylan, Leonardo da Vinci, Jane Austen, Oprah Winfrey - all of them were struck. Why? What if they hadn't been?Consider the most famous music group in history. What would the world be like if the Beatles never existed? This was the question posed...
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I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris

Glynnis MacNicol - Penguin Life
Format: Hardcover

When you're a woman of a certain age, you are only promised that everything will get worse. But what if everything you've been told is a lie?. Come to Paris, August 2021, when the City of Lights was still empty of tourists and a thirst for long-overdue pleasure gripped those who wandered...
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The Women's Revolution: How We Changed Your Life

Muriel Fox - New Village Press
Format: Hardcover

A rare first-person account of the women's movement. A comprehensive, indexed memoir about the Second Wave women's movement by the cofounder of the National Organization for Women (NOW) . Muriel Fox offers rare, firsthand stories of 29 women and one man, including Betty Freidan,...
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Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861

Robert W. Merry - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

Exploring a critical lesson about our nation that is as timely today as ever, Decade of Disunion shows how the country came apart during the enveloping slavery crisis of the 1850s. . The Mexican War brought vast new territories to the United States, which precipitated a growing crisis over...
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The Most Human: Reconciling with My Father, Leonard Nimoy

Adam Nimoy - Chicago Review Press
Format: Hardcover

"Adam Nimoy has written about the challenges growing up with his famous father and about their estrangement later in life. The fact that Leonard and Adam found a way to rebuild their relationship should resonate with anyone who struggles with difficult family dynamics." - George...
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Shadow Men: The Tangled Story of Murder, Media, and Privilege That Scandalized Jazz Age America

James Polchin - Counterpoint LLC
Format: Hardcover

"Polchin knows the era, and brings to his account a wealth of colorful supporting detail . . . With its layers of taboos and public spectacle, the case feels, a century later, as relevant as ever." - Marisa Meltzer, The New York Times Book Review. From Edgar Award finalist James...
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Changing the Course: How Charlie Sifford and Stanley Mosk Integrated the PGA

Peter May - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

The compelling, little-known story of golfer Charlie Sifford and attorney Stanley Mosk who together made history by taking on the PGA and their Caucasians Only by-law.It began with a chance meeting at a Los Angeles country club in 1959. That was the day Charlie Sifford, the first Black...
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Send Me: The True Story of a Mother at War

Marty Skovlund Jr. - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

The extraordinary story of American special operator and trailblazer Shannon Kent, who hunted high value targets on classified missions in the most dangerous locales on earth while trying to balance her life as a wife and mother. Of the 1.3 million active-duty service members in the US military,...
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The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us

Rachelle Bergstein - Atria/One Signal Publishers
Format: Hardcover

An intimate and expansive look at Judy Blume's life, work, and cultural impact, focusing on her most iconic - and controversial - young adult novels, from Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret to Blubber.. Everyone knows Judy Blume. Her books have garnered her fans of all ages for decades...
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