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Island People: The Caribbean and the World
Joshua Jelly-Schapiro · Knopf
Pages: 451
Format: Hardcover
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A masterwork of travel literature and of history: voyaging from Cuba to Jamaica, Puerto Rico to Trinidad, Haiti to Barbados, and islands in between, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of each society, its culture and politics, connecting this region's common heritage... |
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Once Upon a Playground: A Celebration of Classic American Playgrounds, 1920-1975
Brenda Biondo · University Press of New England
Pages: 154
Format: Book
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Before today's safety-minded structures of wood and plastic, America's playgrounds were full of tottering seesaws, dizzying merry-go-rounds, and towering metal slides.Documenting the evolution of American playgrounds between 1920 and 1975, Once Upon a Playground is a visual tribute to these... |
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Russian Roulette: How British Spies Thwarted Lenin's Plot for Global Revolution
Giles Milton · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 378
Format: Hardcover
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In 1917, a band of communist revolutionaries stormed the Winter Palace of Tsar Nicholas II--a dramatic and explosive act marking that Vladimir Lenin's communist revolution was now underway. But Lenin would not be satisfied with overthrowing the Tsar. His goal was a global revolt that... |
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The Assassination Complex: Inside the Government's Secret Drone Warfare Program
Jeremy Scahill · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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Major revelations about the US government's drone program - bestselling author Jeremy Scahill and his colleagues at the investigative website The Intercept expose stunning new details about America's secret assassination policy.When the US government discusses drone strikes publicly, it offers... |
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First Dads: Parenting and Politics from George Washington to Barack Obama
Joshua C Kendall · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 391
Format: Print book
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Every president has had some experience as a parent. Of the 43 men who have served in the nation's highest office, 38 have fathered biological children and the other five adopted children. Each president's parenting style reveals much about his beliefs as well as his psychological make-up.... |
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Congo: The Epic History of a People
David Van Reybrouck · Ecco Press
Pages: 639
Format: Hardcover
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Hailed as "a monumental history . . . more exciting than any novel" (NRC Handelsblad) ,David van Reybrouck's rich and gripping epic, in the tradition of Robert Hughes' The Fatal Shore, tells the extraordinary story of one of the world's most devastated countries:... |
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All Eyes are Upon Us: Race and Politics from Boston to Brooklyn
Jason Sokol · Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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The Northeastern United Stateshome to abolitionism and a refuge for blacks fleeing the Jim Crow Southhas had a long and celebrated history of racial equality and political liberalism. After World War II, the region appeared poised to continue this legacy, electing black politicians and rallying... |
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The China Boom: Why China Will Not Rule the World
Ho-fung Hung · Columbia University Press
Pages: 264
Format: eBook
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Many thought China's rise would fundamentally remake the global order. Yet, much like other developing nations, the Chinese state now finds itself entrenched in a status quo characterized by free trade and American domination. Through a cutting-edge historical, sociological, and political... |
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The Presidents' War: Six American Presidents And The Civil War That Divided Them
Chris DeRose · Lyons Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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For the first time, readers will experience America’s gravest crisis through the eyes of the five former presidents who lived it. Author and historian Chris DeRose chronicles history’s most epic Presidential Royal Rumble, which culminated in a multi-front effort against Lincoln’s... |
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The Quakers: A Very Short Introduction
Pink Dandelion · Oxford University Press
Pages: 142
Format: Paperback
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Here is the perfect introductory guide to the history and ideas of the Quakers, one of the world's most fascinating and enigmatic religious groups. Emerging in England in the 1650s as a radical sect challenging the status quo, the Quakers are now best known for their anti-slavery activities,... |
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The Year of Indecision, 1946: A Tour Through the Crucible of Harry Truman's America
Kenneth Weisbrode · Viking, 2016.
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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A vivid account of America at the pivot point of the postwar era, Harry Truman's first full year in office In 1946, America had just exited the biggest war in modern history and was about to enter another of a kind no one had fought before. We think of this moment as the brilliant... |
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