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Pistols and Petticoats: 175 Years of Lady Detectives in Fact and Fiction
Erika Janik · Beacon Press
Pages: 248
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A lively exploration of the struggles faced by women in law enforcement and mystery fiction for the past 175 yearsIn 1910, Alice Wells took the oath to join the all-male Los Angeles Police Department. She wore no uniform, carried no weapon, and kept her badge stuffed in her pocketbook.... |
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JFK and LBJ: The Last Two Great Presidents
Godfrey Hodgson · Yale University Press
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As a young White House correspondent during the Kennedy and Johnson years in Washington, D.C., Godfrey Hodgson had a ringside seat covering the last two great presidents of the United States, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, two men who could not have been more different. Kennedy's... |
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Why the right went wrong : conservatism-- from Goldwater to the Tea Party and beyond
E J Dionne · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 532
Format: Print book |
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"Dionne's expertise is evident in this finely crafted and convincing work." - The Los Angeles Times From one of our most engaging political reporters and the author of Why Americans Hate Politics; the story of conservatism from the Goldwater 1960s to the present day Tea Party... |
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The Fires of Spring: A Post Arab Spring Journey Through the Turbulent New Middle East
Shelly Culbertson · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 384
Format: Print book |
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The "Arab Spring" all started when a young Tunisian fruit-seller set himself on fire in protest of a government official confiscating his apples without cause and slapping his face. The aftermath of that one personal protest grew to become the Middle East movement known as the Arab... |
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The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America's First Serial Killer
Skip Hollandsworth · Henry Holt and Co., 2016.
Pages: 336
Format: Print book |
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A sweeping narrative history of a terrifying serial killer--America's first--who stalked Austin, Texas in 1885In the late 1800s, the city of Austin, Texas was on the cusp of emerging from an isolated western outpost into a truly cosmopolitan metropolis. But beginning in December 1884, Austin... |
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Charlie Mike: A True Story of Heroes Who Brought Their Mission Home
Joe Klein · Simon & Schuster, 2015.
Pages: 320
Format: Print book |
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This is the true story of two decorated combat veterans linked by tragedy, who come home from the Middle East and find a new way to save their comrades and heal their country.In Charlie Mike, Joe Klein tells the dramatic story of Eric Greitens and Jake Wood, larger-than-life war heroes... |
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Saladin: The Sultan Who Vanquished the Crusaders and Built an Islamic Empire
John Man · Da Capo, 2016.
Pages: 312
Format: Print book |
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Saladin remains one of the most iconic figures of his age. As the man who united the Arabs and saved Islam from Christian crusaders in the twelfth century, he is the Islamic world's preeminent hero. A ruthless defender of his faith and brilliant leader, he also possessed qualities that... |
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The Cooler King: The True Story of William Ash, the Greatest Escaper of World War II
Patrick Bishop · The Overlook Press
Pages: 305
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The true story of William Ash: Spitfire Pilot, P.O.W. and WWII's Greatest EscaperWhen American fighter pilot William Ash's plane was shot down over France in 1942, he was captured by German forces and placed in a Nazi prison camp. Ash, bolstered by the grit and ingenuity he developed during... |
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New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America
Wendy Warren · Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pages: 345
Format: Print book |
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The most important work on seventeenth-century New England in a generation. In the tradition of Edmund S. Morgan, whose American Slavery, American Freedom revolutionized colonial history, a new generation of historians is fundamentally rewriting America's beginnings. Nowhere is this more... |
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The Court and the World: American Law and the New Global Realities
Stephen G Breyer · Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
Pages: 382
Format: Print book |
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In this original, far-reaching, and timely book, Justice Stephen Breyer examines the work of the Supreme Court of the United States in an increasingly interconnected world, a world in which all sorts of activity, both public and private - from the conduct of national security policy to the conduct... |
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Lady Byron and Her Daughters
Julia Markus · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover |
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A startling reevaluation of Lady Byron's marriage and the untold story of her complex life as single mother and progressive force.The center of public attention after her tumultuous marriage to Lord Byron, Annabella Milbanke transformed herself from a neglected wife into a figure of incredible... |
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And Still I Rise: Black America Since MLK
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. · Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pages: 321
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The companion book to Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s PBS series, And Still I Rise - a timeline and chronicle of the past fifty years of black history in the U.S. in more than 350 photos.Beginning with the assassination of Malcolm X in February 1965, And Still I Rise: From Black Power to the White... |
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Louisa: The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams
Louisa Thomas · Penguin Press
Pages: 512
Format: Print book |
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An intimate portrait of Louisa Catherine Adams, the British-born American wife of John Quincy Adams, who witnessed firsthand the greatest transformations of her time Born in London to an American father and a British mother on the eve of the Revolutionary War, Louisa Catherine Johnson... |
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