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Transaction Man
Nicholas Lemann
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This program includes a prologue and epilogue read by the author.Over the last generation, the United States has undergone seismic changes. Stable institutions have given way to frictionless transactions, which are celebrated no matter what collateral damage they generate. The concentration... |
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Talking to Strangers
Malcolm Gladwell
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Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers—and why they often go wrong.How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain... |
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The Ghosts of Eden Park
Karen Abbott
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe epic true crime story of the most successful bootlegger in American history and the murder that shocked the nation, from the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy"Gatsby-era noir at its best."—Erik LarsonIn... |
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The Mosquito
Timothy C. Winegard
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**The instant New York Times bestseller***An international bestseller*"Hugely impressive, a major work."—NPRA pioneering and groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction that offers a dramatic new perspective on the history of humankind, showing how through millennia, the mosquito has been... |
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Last Witnesses
Svetlana Alexievich
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From the Nobel Prize-winning writer, an oral history of children's experiences in World War II across Europe and Russia—in the vein of The Unwomanly Face of War and Secondhand Time For more than three decades, Svetlana Alexievich has been the memory and conscience of the twentieth century.... |
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The Volunteer
Jack Fairweather
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"Superbly written and breathtakingly researched, The Volunteer smuggles us into Auschwitz and shows us—as if watching a movie—the story of a Polish agent who infiltrated the infamous camp, organized a rebellion, and then snuck back out. We are squarely confronted with the other human... |
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The Last Pirate of New York
Rich Cohen
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Was he New York City's last pirate . . . or its first gangster? This is the true story of the bloodthirsty underworld legend who conquered Manhattan, dock by dock—for fans of Gangs of New York and Boardwalk Empire."History at its best . . . I highly recommend this remarkable book."—Douglas... |
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Honorable Exit
Thurston Clarke
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A MAIN SELECTION OF THE MILITARY BOOK CLUBA groundbreaking revisionist history of the last days of the Vietnam War that reveals the acts of American heroism that saved more than one hundred thousand South Vietnamese from communist revengeIn 1973 U.S. participation in the Vietnam War ended... |
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