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The Exile: The Stunning Inside Story of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda in Flight
Adrian Levy · Bloomsbury USA Pages: 640 Format: Hardcover
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Startling and scandalous, this is an intimate insider's story of Osama bin Laden's retinue in the ten years after 9/11, a family in flight and at war.From September 11, 2001 to May 2, 2011, Osama Bin Laden evaded intelligence services and special forces units, drones and hunter... |
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Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom
Thomas E Ricks · Penguin Press Pages: 352 Format: Hardcover
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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Thomas E. Ricks, a dual biography of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, whose farsighted vision and inspired action preserved democracy from the threats of authoritarianism, from the left and right alikeBoth George Orwell and Winston Churchill... |
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American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith
Harry R Rubenstein · Smithsonian Books Pages: 192 Format: Hardcover
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American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith is the companion volume to an exhibition at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History that celebrates the bold and radical experiment to test a wholly new form of government. Democracy is still a work in progress, but it is at the core... |
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Human Scale Revisited: A New Look at the Classic Case for a Decentralist Future
Kirkpatrick Sale · Chelsea Green Publishing Pages: 408 Format: Paperback
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Big government, big business, big everything: Kirkpatrick Sale took giantism to task in his 1980 classic, Human Scale, and today takes a new look at how the crises that imperil modern America are the inevitable result of bigness grown out of control -- and what can be done about it. The result... |
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Churchill and the Bomb in War and Cold War
Kevin Ruane · Bloomsbury Academic Pages: 402 Format: Print book
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Covering the development of the atomic bomb during the Second World War, the origins and early course of the Cold War, and the advent of the hydrogen bomb in the early 1950s, Churchill and the Bomb in War and Cold War explores a still neglected aspect of Winston Churchill's career - his relationship... |
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The Only Language They Understand: Forcing Compromise in Israel and Palestine
Nathan Thrall · Metropolitan Books Pages: 336 Format: Hardcover
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In a myth-busting analysis of the world's most intractable conflict, a star of Middle East reporting, "one of the most important writers" in the field (The New York Times) , argues that only one weapon has yielded progress: force.Scattered over the territory between the Jordan... |
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October: The Story of the Russian Revolution
China Mie?ville · Verso Pages: 384 Format: Hardcover
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Acclaimed fantasy author China Miéville plunges us into the year the world was turned upside downThe renowned fantasy and science fiction writer China Miéville has long been inspired by the ideals of the Russian Revolution and here, on the centenary of the revolution, he provides his own distinctive... |
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Lincoln's Pathfinder: John C. Fremont and the Violent Election of 1856
John Bicknell · Chicago Review Press Pages: 320 Format: Hardcover
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The 1856 presidential race was the most violent peacetime election in American history. War between proslavery and antislavery settlers raged in Kansas; a congressman shot an Irish immigrant at a Washington hotel; and another congressman beat a US senator senseless on the floor of the Senate.... |
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