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The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq

Steve Coll - Penguin Audio
Format: Hardcover

From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-long relationship between the United States and Saddam Hussein, and a deeply researched and news-breaking investigation into how human error, cultural miscommunication, and hubris led to one of the costliest...

Normal Women: Nine Hundred Years of Making History

Philippa Gregory - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover

"Lively, timely and gloriously energetic. Each page bursts with life, and every chapter swirls with personalities left out of traditional narratives of Britain's past. Philippa Gregory has produced something rare and wonderful: a genuinely new history of [Britain], with women at its beating...

Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

Antonia Hylton - Legacy Lit
Format: Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller Amazon Editor's Pick for Best Books of January. In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the nation's last segregated asylums, that the New York Times described as "fascinating...

The Grift: The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans from the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump

Clay Cane - Sourcebooks
Format: Hardcover

Part history and part cultural analysis, The Grift chronicles the nuanced history of Black Republicans. Clay Cane lays out how Black Republicanism has been mangled by opportunists who are apologists for racism.After the Civil War, the pillars of Black Republicanism were a balanced critique...

The Witch of New York: The Trials of Polly Bodine and the Cursed Birth of Tabloid Justice

Alex Hortis - Pegasus Crime
Format: Hardcover

Before the sensational cases of Amanda Knox and Casey Anthony - before even Lizzie Borden - there was Polly Bodine, the first American woman put on trial for capital murder in our nation's debut media circus.. On Christmas night, December 25, 1843, in a serene village on Staten Island,...

The Survivors of the Clotilda: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade

Hannah Durkin - Amistad
Format: Hardcover

Joining the ranks of Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and Zora Neale Hurston's rediscovered classic Barracoon, an immersive and revelatory history of the Clotilda, the last slave ship to land on US soil, told through the stories of its survivors - the last documented...

The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

Michael Wolraich - Union Square & Co.
Format: Hardcover

The riveting story of how the murder of femme fatale Vivian Gordon in 1931 brought about the downfall of the mayor of New York City and led to the end of Tammany Hall's dominance. Vivian Gordon went out before midnight in a velvet dress and mink coat. Her body turned up the next morning...

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