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The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age
Leo Damrosch · Yale University Press
Pages: 488 Format: Paperback
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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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999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz
Heather Dune Macadam · Citadel
Pages: 400 Format: Hardcover
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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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Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America
Candacy Taylor · Abrams Press
Pages: 360 Format: Hardcover
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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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How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century
Frank Dikotter · Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages: 304 Format: Hardcover
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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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The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War
Fred Kaplan · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 384 Format: Hardcover
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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 combination of defense... |
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