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Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Serhii Plokhy - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A harrowing account of the Cuban missile crisis and how the US and USSR came to the brink of nuclear apocalypse.Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, today's world leaders are abandoning disarmament treaties, building up their nuclear arsenals, and exchanging threats of nuclear... |
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The Assault on American Excellence
Anthony T. Kronman - Free Press
Format: Hardcover
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The former dean of Yale Law School argues that the feverish egalitarianism gripping college campuses today is out of place at institutions whose job is to prepare citizens to live in a vibrant democracy. In his tenure at Yale, Anthony Kronman has watched students march across campus to protest... |
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G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
BEVERLY GAGE - ?Viking
Format: Hardcover
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A major new biography of J Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a groundbreaking portrait of a colossus who dominated half a century of American history and planted the seeds for much of today's conservative political landscape.We remember him as a bulldog--squat... |
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Rage
Bob Woodward - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Woodward, the #1 international bestselling author of Fear: Trump in the White House, has uncovered the precise moment the president was warned that the Covid-19 epidemic would be the biggest national security threat to his presidency. In dramatic detail, Woodward takes readers into the Oval... |
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The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals About America's Top Secrets
Matthew Connelly - Random House Audio
Format: Hardcover
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A captivating study of US state secrecy that combines data science and incisive history to uncover the vast system government officials use to hoard power and evade democratic accountabilityBefore the Second World War, transparent government was a proud tradition in the United States. In all but the most... |
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Killing the Killers: The Secret War Against Terrorists
Bill O'Reilly - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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In Killing The Killers, #1 bestselling authors Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard take readers deep inside the global war on terror, which began twenty years ago on September 11, 2001.As the World Trade Center buildings collapsed, the Pentagon burned, and a small group of passengers fought... |
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The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty
Susan Page - Twelve
Format: Hardcover
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A vivid biography of former First Lady Barbara Bush, one of the most influential and under-appreciated women in American political history. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 15.0px; font: 13.3px Times; color: #000000; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000; background-color: #ffffff}... |
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