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The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age

Leo Damrosch - Yale University Press
Format: Paperback

Named one of the 10 Best Books of 2019 by the New York Times Book Review "Damrosch brings the Club's redoubtable personalities - the brilliant minds, the jousting wits, the tender camaraderie - to vivid life ... " - The New York Times Book Review In 1763, the painter...
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A History of the Bible: The Story of the World's Most Influential Book

John Barton
Format: Hardcover

A literary history of our most influential book of all time, by an Oxford scholar and Anglican priestIn our culture, the Bible is monolithic: It is a collection of books that has been unchanged and unchallenged since the earliest days of the Christian church. The idea of the Bible as "Holy...
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Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers: The Texas Victory That Changed American History

Brian Kilmeade - Penguin Audio
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times best seller, now with a new epilogueIn March 1836, the Mexican army led by General Santa Anna massacred more than 200 Texians who had been trapped in the Alamo. After 13 days of fighting, American legends Jim Bowie and Davey Crockett died there, along with other Americans...
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Disunited Nations: The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World

Peter Zeihan - HARPER BUSINESS
Format: Hardcover

Most countries and companies are not prepared for the world Peter Zeihan says were already living in. For decades, Americas allies have depended on its might for their economic and physical security. But as a new age of American isolationism dawns, the results will surprise everyone. In Disunited...
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Mary Ball Washington: The Untold Story of George Washington's Mother

Craig Shirley - Harper
Format: Hardcover

The Mother of the Father of our Country. Mary Ball Washington was an unlikely candidate to be the mother of history's most famous revolutionary. In fact, George Washington's first fight for independence was from his controlling, singular mother. Stubborn, aristocratic Mary Ball Washington...
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Alexander the Great: His Life and His Mysterious Death

Anthony Everitt - Random House
Format: Hardcover

What can we learn from the stunning rise and mysterious death of the ancient world's greatest conqueror? An acclaimed biographer reconstructs the life of Alexander the Great in this magisterial revisionist portrait. More than two millennia have passed since Alexander the Great built an empire...
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The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses

Dan Carlin - Harper
Format: Hardcover

The creator of the wildly popular award-winning podcast Hardcore History looks at some of the apocalyptic moments from the past as a way to frame the challenges of the future.Do tough times create tougher people? Can humanity handle the power of its weapons without destroying itself? Will...
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Are We There Yet?: The American Automobile Past, Present, and Driverless

Dan Albert - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

Tech giants and automakers have been teaching robots to drive.Robot-controlled cars have already logged millions of miles. These technological marvels promise cleaner air, smoother traffic, and tens of thousands of lives saved. But even if robots turn into responsible drivers, are we ready...
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Sacred Duty: A Soldier's Tour at Arlington National Cemetery

Tom Cotton - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

From U.S. Senator Tom Cotton, an intimate and inspiring portrait of Arlington National Cemetery's Old Guard, the official ceremonial unit of the U.S. Army and Americas oldest infantry unit, dating to 1784: part history of the Old Guard, part memoir of Senator Cotton's time as a platoon...
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Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America

Conor Dougherty - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

A stunning, deeply reported investigation into the housing crisis Spacious and affordable homes used to be the hallmark of American prosperity. Today, however, punishing rents and the increasingly prohibitive cost of ownership have turned housing into the foremost symbol of inequality and an economy...
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The King of Content: Sumner Redstone's Battle for Viacom, CBS, and Everlasting Control of His Media Empire

Keach Hagey - HarperBusiness
Format: Hardcover

"Keach Hagey, media reporter for the Wall Street Journal, reveals the fascinating and shocking life story of Sumner Redstone, and his now-crumbling media empire, from his early rise in Boston to the estate battle that has already begun"--
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The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy

Lewis, Michael - W W NORTON & CO

The morning after Trump was elected president, the people who ran the US Department of Energy waited to brief the administration's transition team on the agency it would soon be running. Nobody appeared. Across all departments the stories were the same: Trump appointees were few and far between;...
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This Is Chance!: The Shaking of an All-American City, a Voice That Held It Together

Jon Mooallem - RANDOM HOUSE
Format: Hardcover

The thrilling, cinematic story of a community shattered by disaster--and the unlikely woman around whom it pulled together.

In 1964, Anchorage, Alaska, was a modern-day frontier town yearning to be a metropolis--the largest, proudest city in a state that was still brand-new. Then, just...

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The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz- Age America

Karen Abbott - Crown
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The epic true crime story of the most successful bootlegger in American history and the murder that shocked the nation, from the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy"Gatsby-era...
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Hitler: A Biography

Peter Longerich - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover

From one of the most prominent biographers of the Nazi period, a new and provocative portrait of the figure behind the century's worst crimesAcclaimed historian Peter Longerich, author of Goebbels and Heinrich Himmler now turns his attention to Adolf Hitler in this new biography. While...
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Fire and Fortitude: The US Army in the Pacific War, 1941-1943

John C McManus - ‎Dutton Caliber; 1st Edition
Format: Hardcover

An engrossing, epic history of the US Army in the Pacific War, from the acclaimed author of The Dead and Those About to Die"This eloquent and powerful...
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Fight like a Mother: How a Grassroots Movement Took on the Gun Lobby and Why Women Will Change the World

Shannon Watts - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover

Shannon Watts was a stay-at-home mom folding laundry when news broke of the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary. In one moment, she went from outraged to engaged and decided to do something about it. What started as a simple Facebook group to connect with other frustrated parents grew...
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The Ones We've Been Waiting For: How a New Generation of Leaders Will Transform America

Charlotte Alter - Viking
Format: Hardcover

An optimistic look at the future of American leadership by a brilliant young reporterA new generation is stepping up. There are now twenty-six millennials in Congress--a fivefold increase gained in the 2018 midterms alone. They are governing Midwestern cities and college towns, running...
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Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope

Nicholas D. Kristof - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

The Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of the acclaimed, best-selling Half the Sky now issue a plea--deeply personal and told through the lives of real Americans--to address the crisis in working-class America, while focusing on solutions to mend a half century of governmental failure.With...
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Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America

Chris Arnade - Sentinel
Format: Hardcover

Widely acclaimed photographer and writer Chris Arnade shines new light on America's poor, drug-addicted, and forgotten--both urban and rural, blue state and red state--and indicts the elitists who've left them behind.Like Jacob Riis in the 1890s, Walker Evans in the 1930s, or Michael...
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Margaret Thatcher: Herself Alone: The Authorized Biography

Charles Moore - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

Charles Moore's masterful and definitive biography of Britain's first female prime minister reaches its climax with the story of her zenith and her fall.How did Margaret Thatcher change and divide Britain? How did her model of combative female leadership help shape the way we live now?...
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Crusaders: The Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands

Dan Jones - Viking
Format: Hardcover

A major new history of the Crusades with an unprecedented wide scope, told in a tableau of portraits of people on all sides of the wars, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Templars.For more than one thousand years, Christians and Muslims lived side by side,...
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The Vagabonds: The Story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison's Ten-Year Road Trip

Jeff Guinn - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

The fascinating story of two American giants - Henry Ford and Thomas Edison - whose annual summer sojourns introduced the road trip to our culture and made the automobile an essential part of modern life, even as their own relationship altered dramatically. In 1914 Henry Ford and naturalist...
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The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century

Thant Myint-U - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

How did one of the world's "buzzy hotspots" (Fodor's 2013) become one of the top ten places to avoid (Fodor's 2018) ?Less than a decade ago, the world cheered as a dictatorship crumbled and internationally beloved Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi emerged from twenty...
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Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Life in War, Law, and Ideas

Stephen Budiansky - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

The extraordinary story of the U.S. Supreme Court's most influential justice.Oliver Wendell Holmes twice escaped death as a young Union officer in the Civil War when musket balls missed his heart and spinal cord by a fraction of an inch at the Battles of Ball's Bluff and Antietam. He lived...
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The Boston Massacre: A Family History

Serena Zabin - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

A dramatic untold 'people's history' of the storied event that helped trigger the American Revolution The story of the Boston Massacre - when on a late winter evening in 1770, British soldiers shot five local men to death - is familiar to generations. But from the very beginning, many accounts...
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Stonewall: The Definitive Story of the LGBTQ Rights Uprising that Changed America

Martin Duberman - Plume
Format: Paperback

The definitive account of the Stonewall Riots, the first gay rights march, and the LGBTQ activists at the center of the movement. "Martin Duberman is a national treasure." - Masha Gessen, The New YorkerOn June 28, 1969, the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York's Greenwich...
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Slaying Goliath: The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Fight to Save America's Public Schools

Diane Ravitch - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

From one of the foremost authorities on education and the history of education in the United States, "whistleblower extraordinaire" (The Wall Street Journal) , former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education, author of the best-selling Reign of Error ("fearless"...
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Most of 14th Street Is Gone: The Washington, DC Riots of 1968

J. Samuel Walker - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover

"Left behind were hundreds of burned-out buildings, whole blocks that looked as though they had been bombed into oblivion." These words, written by the Washington Post's Leonard Downie Jr., do not describe a war zone but rather the nation's capital reeling in the wake...
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A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution

Jeremy Popkin - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

From an award-winning historian, a magisterial account of the revolution that created the modern worldThe principles of the French Revolution remain the only possible basis for a just society -- even if, after more than two hundred years, they are more contested than ever before. In A...
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Samsung Rising: The Inside Story of the South Korean Giant That Set Out to Beat Apple and Conquer Tech

Geoffrey Cain - Currency
Format: Hardcover

An explosive expose of one of the biggest and most secretive companies in the world, Samsung, as the Korean juggernaut battles Apple and Sony to dominate the world of technology Based on years of reporting on Samsung for The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, and Time, from...
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century

Yuval Noah Harari - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Paperback

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * In Sapiens, he explored our past. In Homo Deus, he looked to our future. Now, one of the most innovative thinkers on the planet turns to the present to make sense of today's most pressing issues."Fascinating . . . a crucial global conversation about...
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War and Peace: FDR's Final Odyssey: D-Day to Yalta, 19431945

Nigel Hamilton - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

To mark the 75th Anniversary of D-Day, the stirring climax to Nigel Hamilton's three-part saga of FDR at war - proof that he was WWII's key strategist, even on his deathbed.Nigel Hamilton's celebrated trilogy culminates with a story of triumph and tragedy. Just as FDR was proven right by the D-day...
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Fibershed: Growing a Movement of Farmers, Fashion Activists, and Makers for a New Textile Economy

Rebecca Burgess - Chelsea Green Publishing
Format: Paperback

A new "farm-to-closet" vision for the clothes we wear--by a leader in the movement for local textile economiesThere is a major disconnect between what we wear and our knowledge of its impact on land, air, water, labor, and human health. Even those who value access to safe, local,...
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The Scientist and the Spy: A True Story of China, the FBI, and Industrial Espionage

Mara Hvistendahl - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

A riveting true story of industrial espionage in which a Chinese-born scientist is pursued by the U.S. government for trying to steal trade secrets, by a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction. In September 2011, sheriff's deputies in Iowa encountered three ethnic Chinese men near...
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Songs of America: Patriotism, Protest, and the Music That Made a Nation

Jon Meacham - Random House
Format: Hardcover

A celebration of America and the music that inspired people and illuminated eras, from the Revolutionary War to the present, by Pulitzer Prize winner Jon Meacham and Grammy winner Tim McGraw. From "The Star Spangled Banner" to "Born in the U.S.A.," Jon Meacham and Tim McGraw...
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999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz

Heather Dune Macadam - Citadel
Format: Hardcover

On March 25, 1942, nearly a thousand young, unmarried Jewish women boarded a train in Poprad, Slovakia. Filled with a sense of adventure and national pride, they left their parents' homes wearing their best clothes and confidently waving good-bye. Believing they were going to work in a factory...
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Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War, Vol. 1 (July 1937 - May 1942)

Richard Frank - Recorded Books
Format: Audiobook

An eye-opening, path-breaking account of the onset of the Asia-Pacific War, by the acclaimed author of Downfall and Guadalcanal. In 1937, the swath of the globe east from India to the Pacific Ocean enclosed half the worlds population, all save a fraction enduring under some form of colonialism....
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Revolutionary: George Washington at War

Robert L. O'Connell - Random House
Format: Hardcover

From an acclaimed military historian, a bold reappraisal of young George Washington, an ambitious if reckless soldier destined to become the legendary general who took on the British and, through his leadership, came to define the American character How did George Washington become an American...
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Heaven on Earth: How Copernicus, Brahe, Kepler, and Galileo Discovered the Modern World

L. S. Fauber - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

A vivid narrative that connects the lives of four great astronomers as they discovered, refined, and popularized the first major scientific discovery of the modern era: that the Earth moves around the Sun.Today we take for granted that a telescope allows us to see galaxies millions of light...
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Talk Radio's America: How an Industry Took Over a Political Party That Took Over the United States

Brian Rosenwald - Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover

The cocreator of the Washington Post's "Made by History" blog reveals how the rise of conservative talk radio gave us a Republican Party incapable of governing and paved the way for Donald Trump.America's long road to the Trump presidency began on August 1, 1988, when,...
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Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth

Rachel Maddow - Crown
Format: Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Big Oil and Gas Versus Democracy - Winner Take All In 2010, the words "earthquake swarm" entered the lexicon in Oklahoma. That same year, a trove of Michael Jackson memorabilia - including his iconic crystal-encrusted white glove - was sold...
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Shadowlands: Fear and Freedom at the Oregon Standoff

Anthony McCann - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover

An "epic exploration" of the 2016 right-wing Oregon Occupation-"an excellent microcosm by which we might better understand our difficult national history and distressing political moment" (Maggie Nelson) .In 2016, a group of armed, divinely inspired right-wing protestors...
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Normandy '44: D-Day and the Retaking of Europe

James Holland - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover

D-Day, June 6, 1944, and the 76 days of bitter fighting in Normandy that followed the Allied landing, have become the defining episode of World War II in the West -- the object of books, films, television series, and documentaries. The story is a familiar one -- and yet, approaching the 75th...
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The Last Negroes at Harvard: The Class of 1963 and the 18 Young Men Who Changed Harvard Forever

Kent Garrett - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

The untold story of the Harvard class of '63, whose Black students fought to create their own identities on the cusp between integration and affirmative action.In the fall of 1959, Harvard recruited an unprecedented eighteen "Negro" boys as an early form of affirmative action....
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Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America

Candacy Taylor - Abrams Press
Format: Hardcover

The first book to explore the historical role and residual impact of the Green Book, a travel guide for black motorists Published from 1936 to 1966, the Green Book was hailed as the "black travel guide to America." At that time, it was very dangerous and di cult for African-Americans...
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Faster: How a Jewish Driver, an American Heiress, and a Legendary Car Beat Hitler's Best

Neal Bascomb - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

For fans of The Boys in the Boat and In the Garden of Beasts, a pulse-pounding tale of triumph by an improbable team of upstarts over Hitler's fearsome Silver Arrows during the golden age of auto racing. They were the unlikeliest of heroes. Rene Dreyfus, a former top driver...
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Genius & Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947

Norman Lebrecht - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

A unique chronicle of the years 1847-1947, the century when the Jewish people changed the world - and it changed them.In a hundred-year period, a handful of men and women changed the way we see the world. Many of them are well known - Marx, Freud, Proust, Einstein, Kafka. Others have vanished...
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When They Come for You: How Police and Government Are Trampling Our Liberties - and How to Take Them Back

David Kirby - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

A revealing book about how government, law enforcement, and bureaucratic interests are seizing our property, our children, our savings, and our fundamental American rights -- and how to fight back. Liberty and justice for all is the bedrock of American democracy, but has America betrayed...
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The Great Connecting: The Emergence of Global Broadband and How That Changes Everything

Jim Cashel - Radius Book Group
Format: Hardcover

What happens when affordable broadband finally reaches the half of the planet that has little or no Internet access? Google, Facebook, SpaceX, and many others have major initiatives underway to connect the rest of the planet over the next few years. For the first time, even the poorest...
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Theodore Roosevelt for the Defense: The Courtroom Battle to Save His Legacy

Dan Abrams - Hanover Square Press
Format: Hardcover

Coming soon! Theodore Roosevelt for the Defense: The Courtroom Battle to Save His Legacy by Dan Abrams and David Fisher will be available May 21, 2019.
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The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation

Brenda Wineapple - Random House
Format: Hardcover

"This absorbing and important book recounts the titanic struggle over the implications of the Civil War amid the impeachment of a defiant and temperamentally erratic American president." - Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Soul of America When Abraham Lincoln...
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This Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving

David J. Silverman - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Ahead of the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving, a new look at the Plymouth colony's founding events, told for the first time with Wampanoag people at the heart of the story.In March 1621, when Plymouth's survival was hanging in the balance, the Wampanoag sachem (or chief) , Ousamequin...
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Moneyland: The Inside Story of the Crooks and Kleptocrats Who Rule the World

Oliver Bullough - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

"If you want to know why international crooks and their eminently respectable financial advisors walk tall and only the little people pay taxes, this is the ideal book for you. Every politician and moneyman on the planet should read it, but they won't because it's actually about them."...
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The League of Wives: The Untold Story of the Women Who Took on the U.S. Government to Bring Their Husbands Home

Heath Hardage Lee - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

"With astonishing verve, The League of Wives persisted to speak truth to power to bring their POW/MIA husbands home from Vietnam. And with astonishing verve, Heath Hardage Lee has chronicled their little-known story -- a profile of courage that spotlights 1960s-era military...
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The Most Spectacular Restaurant in the World: The Twin Towers, Windows on the World, and the Rebirth of New York

Tom Roston - Abrams Press
Format: Hardcover

The remarkable story of a restaurant on top of the world - built by a legend, destroyed in tragedy - and an era in New York City it helped to frame In the 1970s, New York City was plagued by crime, filth, and an ineffective government. The city was falling apart, and even the newly constructed...
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Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale

Adam Minter - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover

From the author of Junkyard Planet, a journey into the surprising afterlives of our former possessions.Downsizing. Decluttering. A parent's death. Sooner or later, all of us are faced with things we no longer need or want. But when we drop our old clothes and other items off at a local...
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Barnum: An American Life

Robert Wilson - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

"Robert Wilson's Barnum, the first full-dress biography in twenty years, eschews clichs for a more nuanced story ... It is a life for our times, and the biography Barnum deserves." - The Wall Street JournalP. T. Barnum was the greatest showman the world has ever...
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The Human Network: How Your Social Position Determines Your Power, Beliefs, and Behaviors

Matthew O. Jackson - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover

Here is a fresh, intriguing, and, above all, authoritative book about how our sometimes hidden positions in various social structures - our human networks - shape how we think and behave, and inform our very outlook on life.Inequality, social immobility, and political polarization are only...
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Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

Adam Higginbotham - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

Journalist Adam Higginbotham's definitive, years-in-the-making account of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster - and a powerful investigation into how propaganda, secrecy, and myth have obscured the true story of one of the twentieth century's greatest disasters.Early in the morning...
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A Fool's Errand: Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture during the Age of Bush, Obama, and Trump

Lonnie G. Bunch III - Smithsonian Books
Format: Hardcover

Founding Director Lonnie Bunch's deeply personal tale of the triumphs and challenges of bringing the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture to life. His story is by turns inspiring, funny, frustrating, quixotic, bittersweet, and above all, a compelling read.In...
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The Great Partnership: Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and the Fate of the Confederacy

Christian B. Keller
Format: Hardcover

The story of the unique relationship between Lee and Jackson, two leaders who chiseled a strategic path forward against the odds and almost triumphed. Why were Generals Lee and Jackson so successful in their partner- ship in trying to win the war for the South? What was it about their styles,...
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Ride the Devil's Herd: Wyatt Earp's Epic Battle Against the West's Biggest Outlaw Gang

Boessenecker, John - Hanover Square Press
Format: Hardcover

The little-known story of how a young Wyatt Earp, aided by his brothers, defeated the Cowboys, the Old West's biggest outlaw gang.Wyatt Earp is regarded as the most famous lawman of the Old West, best known for his role in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. But the story...
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Vicksburg: Grant's Campaign That Broke the Confederacy

Donald L. Miller - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

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.Vicksburg, Mississippi,...
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Americas Revolutionary Mind: A Moral History of the American Revolution and the Declaration That Defined It

C. Bradley Thompson - Encounter Books
Format: Hardcover

Americas Revolutionary Mind is the first major reinterpretation of the American Revolution since the publication of Bernard Bailyns The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution and Gordon S. Woods The Creation of the American Republic. The purpose of this book is twofold: first, to elucidate...
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Lincoln's Spies: Their Secret War to Save a Nation

Douglas Waller - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A major addition to the history of the Civil War, Lincoln's Spies is a riveting account of the secret battles waged by Union agents to save a nation. Filled with espionage, sabotage, and intrigue, it is also a striking portrait of a shrewd president who valued what his operatives...
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The Plaza: The Secret Life of America's Most Famous Hotel

Julie Satow - Twelve
Format: Hardcover

Journalist Julie Satow's thrilling, unforgettable history of how one illustrious hotel has defined our understanding of money and glamour, from the Gilded Age to the Go-Go Eighties to today's Billionaire Row. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px...
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Seduction: A History from the Enlightenment to the Present

Clement Knox - PEGASUS BOOKS
Format: Hardcover

These contradictory viewpoints reveal the Western world's prickly relationship with seduction, a topic that has been frightening and fascinating us as far back as we can imagine. How have the cultural mores of heterosexual courtship shifted over the course of history, and how have they...
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How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century

Frank Dikotter - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover

From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of Mao's Great Famine, a sweeping and timely study of twentieth-century dictators and the development of the modern cult of personality. No dictator can rule through fear and violence alone. Naked power can be grabbed and held temporarily,...
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Caligula: The Mad Emperor of Rome

Stephen Dando-Collins - Brilliance Audio
Format: Hardcover

Explore all of the murder, madness and mayhem in Ancient Rome during the reign of the mad emperor, Caligula. In this book about Romes most infamous emperor, expert author, Stephen Dando-Collins chronicles all the palace intrigues and murders that led to Caligula becoming emperor, and details...
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Living in the Long Emergency: Global Crisis, the Failure of the Futurists, and the Early Adapters Who Are Showing Us the Way Forward

James Howard Kunstler - BENBELLA BOOKS
Format: Hardcover

In his 2005 book, The Long Emergency, James Howard Kunstler described the global predicaments that would pitch the USA into political and economic turmoil in the 21st centurythe end of affordable oil, climate irregularities, and flagging economic growth, to name a few. Now, he returns with...
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Unfreedom of the Press

Mark R. Levin - Threshold Editions
Format: Paperback

Six-time New York Times bestselling author, FOX News star, and radio host Mark R. Levin "trounces the news media" (The Washington Times) in this timely and groundbreaking book demonstrating how the great tradition of American free press has degenerated into a standardless...
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The Scholems: A Story of the German-Jewish Bourgeoisie from Emancipation to Destruction

Jay Howard Geller - Cornell University Press
Format: Hardcover

The evocative and riveting stories of four brothers -- Gershom the Zionist, Werner the Communist, Reinhold the nationalist, and Erich the liberal -- weave together in The Scholems, a biography of an eminent middle-class Jewish Berlin family and a social history of the Jews in Germany in the decades...
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I Was Hungry: Cultivating Common Ground to End an American Crisis

Jeremy K. Everett - Brazos Press
Format: Paperback

Hunger is one of the most significant issues in America. One in eight Americans struggles with hunger, and more than thirteen million children live in food insecure homes. As Christians we are called to address the suffering of the hungry and poor: "For I was hungry, and you gave me food...
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Checkpoint Charlie: The Cold War, The Berlin Wall, and the Most Dangerous Place On Earth

Iain MacGregor - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

A powerful, fascinating, and groundbreaking history of Checkpoint Charlie, the famous military gate on the border of East and West Berlin where the United States confronted the USSR during the Cold War.East Germany committed a billion dollars to the creation of the Berlin Wall in the early...
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Alone at Dawn: Medal of Honor Recipient John Chapman and the Untold Story of the World's Deadliest Special Operations Force

Dan Schilling - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

The astonishing true account of John Chapman, Medal of Honor recipient and Special Ops Combat Controller, and his heroic one-man stand during the Afghan War, as he sacrificed his life to save the lives of 23 comrades-in-arms.In the predawn hours of March 4, 2002, just below the 10,000-foot...
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The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War

Fred Kaplan - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

From the author the classic The Wizards of Armageddon and Pulitzer Prize finalist comes the definitive history of American policy on nuclear war - and Presidents' actions in nuclear crises - from Truman to Trump.Fred Kaplan, hailed by The New York Times as "a rare...
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The Moscow Rules: The Secret CIA Tactics That Helped America Win the Cold War

Antonio J. Mendez - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover

From the spymaster and inspiration for the movie Argo: how a group of brilliant but under-supported CIA operatives developed breakthrough spy tactics that helped turn the tide of the Cold WarAntonio Mendez and his future wife Jonna were CIA operatives working to spy on Moscow in the late...
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Zoo Nebraska: The Dismantling of an American Dream

Carson Vaughan - Little A
Format: Hardcover

A moving true story of American struggle.Royal, Nebraska, population eighty-one - where the church, high school, and post office each stand abandoned, monuments to a Great Plains town that never flourished. But for nearly twenty years, they had a zoo, seven acres that rose from local peculiarity...
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The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care--and How to Fix It

Marty Makary M.D. - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Unaccountable comes an eye-opening, timely, urgent critique of America's broken health care system.One in five Americans now has medical debt in collections and rising health care costs today threaten every small business in America....
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Bubble in the Sun: The Florida Boom of the 1920s and How It Brought on the Great Depression

Christopher Knowlton - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

Christopher Knowlton, author of Cattle Kingdom and former Fortune writer, takes an in-depth look at the spectacular Florida land boom of the 1920s and shows how it led directly to the Great Depression.The 1920s in Florida was a time of incredible excess, immense wealth, and precipitous...
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Bullets and Opium: Real-Life Stories of China After the Tiananmen Square Massacre

Liao Yiwu - Atria/Signal Press
Format: Hardcover

"A series of harrowing, unforgettable tales...Had [Liao Yiwu] not fled the country in 2011, they may never have emerged. An indispensable historical document." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) From the award-winning poet, dissident, and "one of the most original...
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The American Story: Conversations with Master Historians

David M. Rubenstein - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Audiobook

In revealing conversations with our greatest historians, co-founder of the Carlyle Group and patriotic philanthropist David M. Rubenstein takes listeners on a sweeping journey across the grand arc of the American story.These lively dialogues present some of the biggest names in American...
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Norco '80: The True Story of the Most Spectacular Bank Robbery in American History

Peter Houlahan - Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover

Norco '80 is a gripping true crime account of one of the most violent bank heists in US history. Norco '80 tells the story of how five heavily armed young men -- led by an apocalyptic born-again Christian -- attempted a bank robbery that turned into one of the most violent...
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Island of the Lost: An Extraordinary Story of Survival at the Edge of the World

Joan Druett
Format: Paperback(Reprint)

"Riveting." - The New York Times Book Review Hundreds of miles from civilization, two ships wreck on opposite ends of the same deserted island in this true story of human nature at its best - and at its worst. It is 1864, and Captain Thomas Musgrave's schooner,...
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The Shortest History of Germany: From Julius Caesar to Angela MerkelA Retelling for Our Times

James Hawes - The Experiment
Format: Paperback

An internationally bestselling, fresh, and entertaining take on the 2,000-year history of Germany - a country at the heart of the West's survival As the West grapples with the rise of populism, some cite Germany as one of the last global powers capable of restoring Europe's fading glory...
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Notre-Dame: A Short History of the Meaning of Cathedrals

Ken Follett - Viking
Format: Hardcover

"The wonderful cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, one of the greatest achievements of European civilization, was on fire. The sight dazed and disturbed us profoundly. I was on the edge of tears. Something priceless was dying in front of our eyes. The feeling was bewildering, as if the earth...
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Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court

Mollie Hemingway - Regnery Publishing
Format: Hardcover

In this definitive deep dive into the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, two women with extraordinary behind-the-scenes access - The Federalist senior editor Mollie Hemingway and Judicial Crisis Network senior counsel Carrie Severino - reveal what really happened...
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