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Sacred Duty: A Soldier's Tour at Arlington National Cemetery

Tom Cotton · William Morrow
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

From U.S. Senator Tom Cotton, an intimate and inspiring portrait of Arlington National Cemetery's Old Guard, the official ceremonial unit of the U.S. Army and Americas oldest infantry unit, dating to 1784: part history of the Old Guard, part memoir of Senator Cotton's time as a platoon...
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Fight like a Mother: How a Grassroots Movement Took on the Gun Lobby and Why Women Will Change the World

Shannon Watts
Format: Hardcover

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Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Life in War, Law, and Ideas

Stephen Budiansky · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 592
Format: Hardcover

The extraordinary story of the U.S. Supreme Court's most influential justice.Oliver Wendell Holmes twice escaped death as a young Union officer in the Civil War when musket balls missed his heart and spinal cord by a fraction of an inch at the Battles of Ball's Bluff and Antietam. He lived...
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War and Peace: FDR's Final Odyssey: D-Day to Yalta, 1943–1945

Nigel Hamilton · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 592
Format: Hardcover

To mark the 75th Anniversary of D-Day, the stirring climax to Nigel Hamilton's three-part saga of FDR at war - proof that he was WWII's key strategist, even on his deathbed.Nigel Hamilton's celebrated trilogy culminates with a story of triumph and tragedy. Just as FDR was proven right by the D-day...
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The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation

Brenda Wineapple · Random House
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover

"This absorbing and important book recounts the titanic struggle over the implications of the Civil War amid the impeachment of a defiant and temperamentally erratic American president." - Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Soul of America When Abraham Lincoln was assassinated...
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Moneyland: The Inside Story of the Crooks and Kleptocrats Who Rule the World

Oliver Bullough · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

"If you want to know why international crooks and their eminently respectable financial advisors walk tall and only the little people pay taxes, this is the ideal book for you. Every politician and moneyman on the planet should read it, but they won't because it's actually about them."...
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Unfreedom of the Press

Mark R. Levin · Threshold Editions
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

From five-time #1 New York Times bestselling author, FOX News star, and radio host Mark R. Levin comes a groundbreaking and enlightening book that shows how the great tradition of the American free press has degenerated into a standardless profession that has squandered the faith and trust...
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The Moscow Rules: The Secret CIA Tactics That Helped America Win the Cold War

Antonio J. Mendez · PublicAffairs
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

From the spymaster and inspiration for the movie Argo: how a group of brilliant but under-supported CIA operatives developed breakthrough spy tactics that helped turn the tide of the Cold WarAntonio Mendez and his future wife Jonna were CIA operatives working to spy on Moscow in the late...
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Bullets and Opium: Real-Life Stories of China After the Tiananmen Square Massacre

Liao Yiwu · Atria/Signal Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

"A series of harrowing, unforgettable tales...Had [Liao Yiwu] not fled the country in 2011, they may never have emerged. An indispensable historical document." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) From the award-winning poet, dissident, and "one of the most original and remarkable...
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