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Pat and Dick: The Nixons, An Intimate Portrait of a Marriage
Will Swift · Threshold Editions
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
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Shortlisted for the 2015 Plutarch Award for Best Biography, "the most humanizing portrait of the Nixons we're likely to have" (Douglas Brinkley) is a sweeping depiction of the turbulent fifty-three-year marriage of Richard and Pat Nixon.When Americans remember the controversial... |
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Vendetta: Bobby Kennedy Versus Jimmy Hoffa
James Neff · Little Brown & Co
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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One of America's greatest investigative reporters brings to life the gripping, no-holds-barred clash of two American titans: Robert Kennedy and his nemesis Jimmy Hoffa.From 1957 to 1964, Robert Kennedy and Jimmy Hoffa channeled nearly all of their considerable powers into destroying... |
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This African-American Life
Hugh B Price · JOHN F BLAIR
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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"People who believe a problem can be solved tend to get busy solving it," William Raspberry wrote in the Washington Post in July 1994. "Hugh B. Price is a believer." This comment on Price's inaugural keynote address as head of the National Urban League proved prescient.... |
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Villains, Scoundrels, and Rogues: Incredible True Tales of Mischief and Mayhem
Paul Martin · Prometheus Books
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
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Everyone loves a good villain! From the back pages of history, vivid, entertaining portraits of little-known scoundrels whose misdeeds range from the simply inept to the truly horrifying.Even if you're an avid history buff, you've probably never heard of this disreputable cast of characters:... |
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One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon
Tim Weiner · Henry Holt & Company
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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A shocking and riveting look at one of the most dramatic and disastrous presidencies in US history, from Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Tim WeinerBased largely on documents declassified only in the last few years, One Man Against the World paints a devastating portrait... |
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Capturing Our Stories: An Oral History of Librarianship in Transition
A Arro Smith · Neal-Schuman
Pages: 202
Format: Print book
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Just as it did for society at large, the second half of the 20th century brought monumental upheaval to librarianship, affecting every aspect of what it means to be a part of the information services profession. But as the librarians who worked during this tumultuous period end their careers,... |
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Genealogy Online, Tenth Edition
Elizabeth Crowe · McGraw-Hill Education; 10 edition
Format: Print book
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The most complete and current guide to successful online genealogy Conduct effective genealogical research using the expert techniques and innovative tools in this fully updated, bestselling resource. Genealogy Online, Tenth Edition reveals new research breakthroughs, such as DNA testing,... |
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The Cake and the Rain: A Memoir
JIMMY WEBB · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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Jimmy Webb's words have been sung to his music by a rich and deep roster of pop artists, including Glen Campbell, Art Garfunkel, Frank Sinatra, Donna Summer and Linda Ronstadt. He's the only artist ever to win Grammy Awards for music, lyrics, and orchestration, and his chart-topping career... |
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Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
Kory Stamper · Pantheon Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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Brimming with intelligence and personality, a vastly entertaining account of how dictionaries are made - a must read for word mavens. While most of us might take dictionaries for granted, the process of writing them is in fact as lively and dynamic as language itself. With sharp wit and irreverence,... |
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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: A Life Beyond Her Wildest Dreams
Darwin Porter · Blood Moon Productions
Format: Book
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God had a talent for creating exceptional women--Helen of Troy and Cleopatra come to mind. So does Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, who lives again in this "warts-and-all" portrait. It's being released on the 20th anniversary of the tragic death, in 1994, of the icon who changed... |
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Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva
Rosemary Sullivan · Harper
Format: Hardcover
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The award-winning author of Villa Air-Bel returns with a painstakingly researched, revelatory biography of Svetlana Stalin, a woman fated to live her life in the shadow of one of history's most monstrous dictators - her father, Josef Stalin.Born in the early years of the Soviet Union,... |
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Guesswork: A Reckoning With Loss
MARTHA COOLEY · CATAPULT
Pages: 208
Format: Print book
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Having lost eight friends in ten years, Cooley retreats to a tiny medieval village in Italy with her husband. There, in a rural paradise where bumblebees nest in the ancient cemetery and stray cats curl up on her bed, she examines a question both easily evaded and unavoidable: mortality.... |
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