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Vicksburg: Grant's Campaign That Broke the Confederacy
Donald L. Miller · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 656
Format: Hardcover
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The astonishing story of the longest and most decisive military campaign of the Civil War in Vicksburg, Mississippi, which opened the Mississippi River, split the Confederacy, freed tens of thousands of slaves, and made Ulysses S. Grant the most important general of the war.
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A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith
Timothy Egan · Viking
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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"What a wondrous work! This beautifully written and totally clear-eyed account of his pilgrimage will have you wondering whether we should all embark on such a journey, either of the body, the soul or, as in Egan's case, both." --Cokie Roberts
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Big Wonderful Thing: A History of Texas
Stephen Harrigan · University of Texas Press
Pages: 944
Format: Hardcover
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"Harrigan, surveying thousands of years of history that lead to the banh mi restaurants of Houston and the juke joints of Austin, remembering the forgotten as well as the famous, delivers an exhilarating blend of the base and the ignoble, a very human story indeed. [ Big Wonderful... |
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Smithsonian American Women: Remarkable Objects and Stories of Strength, Ingenuity, and Vision from the National Collection
Smithsonian Institution · Smithsonian Books
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
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An inspiring and surprising celebration of U.S. women's history told through Smithsonian artifacts illustrating women's participation in science, art, music, sports, fashion, business, religion, entertainment, military, politics, activism, and more.
This book offers a unique, panoramic... |
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The United States of Trump: How the President Really Sees America
Bill O'Reilly · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A rare, insider's look at the life of Donald Trump from Bill O'Reilly, the bestselling author of the Killing series, based on exclusive interview material and deep research Readers around the world have been enthralled by journalist and New York Times bestselling... |
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The Bourbon King: The Life and Crimes of George Remus, Prohibition's Evil Genius
Bob Batchelor · Diversion Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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"The fantastic story of George Remus makes the rest of the 'Roaring Twenties' look like the 'Boring Twenties' in comparison. It's all here: murder, mayhem - and high-priced hootch." - David Pietrusza, author of 1920: The Year of the Six Presidents
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One Day: The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America
Gene Weingarten · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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On New Year's Day 2013, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Gene Weingarten asked three strangers to, literally, pluck a day, month, and year from a hat. That day - chosen completely at random - turned out to be Sunday, December 28, 1986, by any conventional measure a most ordinary day. Weingarten... |
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Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America
W. Caleb McDaniel · Oxford University Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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The unforgettable saga of one enslaved woman's fight for justice--and reparations
Born into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed in 1848. In 1853, a Kentucky deputy sheriff named Zebulon Ward colluded with Wood's employer, abducted her, and sold her back... |
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Movie Nights with the Reagans: A Memoir
Mark Weinberg · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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Former special advisor and press secretary to President Ronald Reagan shares an intimate, behind-the-scenes look inside the Reagan presidency - told through the movies they watched together every week at Camp David.
What did President Ronald Reagan think of Rocky IV? How did the Matthew... |
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Edison
Edmund Morris · Random House
Pages: 800
Format: Hardcover
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From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edmund Morris comes a revelatory new biography of Thomas Alva Edison, the most prolific genius in American history.
Although Thomas Alva Edison was the most famous American of his time, and remains an international name today, he is mostly remembered... |
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Women of the Blue and Gray: True Stories of Mothers, Medics, Soldiers, and Spies of the Civil War
Marianne Monson · Shadow Mountain
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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Hidden amongst the photographs, uniforms, revolvers, and war medals of the Civil War are the remarkable stories of some of the most unlikely heroes--women.
North, South, black, white, Native American, immigrant--the women in these micro-drama biographies are wives, mothers, sisters,... |
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Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America's Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe
Rebecca Erbelding · Doubleday
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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America has long been criticized for refusing to give harbor to the Jews of Europe as Hitler and the Nazis closed in. Now a U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum scholar tells the extraordinary story of the War Refugee Board, President Franklin D. Roosevelt's little-known effort late in the war to save... |
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The Counterrevolution: How Our Government Went to War Against Its Own Citizens
Bernard E Harcourt · Basic Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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A distinguished political theorist sounds the alarm about the counterinsurgency strategies used to govern AmericansMilitarized police officers with tanks and drones. Pervasive government surveillance and profiling. Social media that distract and track us. All of these, contends Bernard... |
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King and Emperor: A New Life of Charlemagne
Janet L. Nelson · University of California Press
Pages: 704
Format: Hardcover
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"King and Emperor takes on the compelling suspense of good detective work as well as good history." - The Wall Street Journal
Charles I, often known as Charlemagne, is one of the most extraordinary figures ever to rule an empire. Driven by unremitting physical... |
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