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Lincoln's Spies: Their Secret War to Save a Nation
Douglas Waller · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 624
Format: Hardcover
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A major addition to the history of the Civil War, Lincoln's Spies is a riveting account of the secret battles waged by Union agents to save a nation. Filled with espionage, sabotage, and intrigue, it is also a striking portrait of a shrewd president who valued what his operatives... |
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We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood
Dani McClain · Bold Type Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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A warm, wise, and urgent guide to parenting in uncertain times, from a longtime reporter on race, reproductive health, and politics
In We Live for the We, first-time mother Dani McClain sets out to understand how to raise her daughter in what she, as a black woman, knows to be an unjust--even... |
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Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11
Mitchell Zuckoff · Harper
Pages: 624
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling author of 13 Hours and Lost in Shangri-La delivers his most compelling and vital work yet - a spellbinding, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting narrative, years in the making, that weaves together myriad stories to create the definitive portrait of 9/11. In... |
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Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow
Lucy Worsley · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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The story of the queen who defied convention and defined an era Perhaps one of the best known of the English monarchs, Queen Victoria forever shaped a chapter of English history, bequeathing her name to the Victorian age. In Queen Victoria, Lucy Worsley introduces this... |
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Brothers Down: Pearl Harbor and the Fate of the Many Brothers Aboard the USS Arizona
Walter R. Borneman · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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A deeply personal and never-before-told account of one of America's darkest days, from the bestselling author of The Admirals and MacArthur at War.
The surprise attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 remains one of the most traumatic events in American history. America's... |
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The Problem of Democracy: The Presidents Adams Confront the Cult of Personality
Nancy Isenberg · Viking
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover
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How the father and son presidents foresaw the rise of the cult of personality and fought those who sought to abuse the weaknesses inherent in our democracy.
Until now, no one has properly dissected the intertwined lives of the second and sixth (father and son) presidents. John... |
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How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
JASON STANLEY · Random House
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Nations don't have to be fascist to suffer from fascist politics.
A Yale philosopher identifies the ten pillars of fascist politics, and charts their horrifying rise and deep history in the United States and around the world, to conclude that fascism is alive in America today.
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Agrippina: The Most Extraordinary Woman of the Roman World
Emma Southon · Pegasus Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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Sister of Caligula. Wife of Claudius. Mother of Nero. The story of Agrippina, at the center of imperial power for three generations, is the story of the Julio-Claudia dynasty -- and of Rome itself, at its bloody, extravagant, chaotic, ruthless, and political zenith.In her own time, she was recognized... |
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Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment
Francis Fukuyama · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling author of The Origins of Political Order offers a provocative examination of modern identity politics: its origins, its effects, and what it means for domestic and international affairs of state In 2014, Francis Fukuyama wrote that American... |
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Escalante's Dream: On the Trail of the Spanish Discovery of the Southwest
David Roberts · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover
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Famed adventure writer David Roberts retraces the route of the legendary Domínguez-Escalante expedition.In July 1776 a pair of Franciscan friars, Francisco Atanasio Domínguez and Silvestre Vélez de Escalante, were charged by the governor of New Mexico with discovering a route across... |
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This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West
Christopher Ketcham · Viking
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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A hard-hitting look at the battle now raging over the fate of the public lands in the American West--and a plea for the protection of these last wild places
The public lands of the western United States comprise some 450 million acres of grassland, steppe land, canyons, forests,... |
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Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration
Emily Bazelon · Random House
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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A renowned journalist and legal commentator exposes the unchecked power of the prosecutor as a driving force in America's mass incarceration crisis - and charts a way out.
The American criminal justice system is supposed to be a contest between two equal adversaries, the prosecution... |
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The Politics of Love: A Spiritual Response to Hate
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON · HarperOne
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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In this stirring call to arms, the activist, spiritual leader, and New York Times bestselling author of the classic A Return to Love confronts the cancerous politics of fear and divisiveness threatening the United States today, urging all spiritually aware Americans to return to - and act out of - our deepest... |
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Every Man a Hero: A Memoir of D-Day, the First Wave at Omaha Beach, and a World at War
Ray Lambert · William Morrow
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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AN EXTRAORDINARY AND UNFORGETTABLE NEW FIRSTHAND ACCOUNT OF D-DAY Seventy-five years ago, he hit Omaha Beach with the first wave. Now Ray Lambert, ninety-eight years old, delivers one of the most remarkable memoirs of our time, a tour-de-force of remembrance evoking his role as a decorated... |
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The British in India: A Social History of the Raj
David Gilmour · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 624
Format: Hardcover
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An immersive portrait of the lives of the British in India, from the seventeenth century to Independence Who of the British went to India, and why? We know about Kipling and Forster, Orwell and Scott, but what of the youthful forestry official, the enterprising boxwallah, the fervid... |
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