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The Prime of Life: A History of Modern Adulthood
Steven Mintz · Belknap Press
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Adulthood today is undergoing profound transformations. Men and women wait until their thirties to marry, have children, and establish full-time careers, occupying a prolonged period in which they are no longer adolescents but still lack the traditional emblems of adult identity. People... |
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The Return of George Washington: 1783-1789
Edward Larson · William Morrow; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Edward J. Larson recovers a crucially important—yet almost always overlooked—chapter of George Washingtons life, revealing how Washington saved the United States by coming out of retirement to lead the Constitutional Convention and serve as our first... |
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The Nixon Tapes: 1973
Douglas Brinkley · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.
Pages: 819
Format: Print book |
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The blueprint for Nixon's downfall, based on tapes released from 2010 to 2013, most of which have never been published When The Nixon Tapes: 1971-1972 was published in August of 2014, it jumped immediately onto the New York Times bestseller list and captivated media attention for its many... |
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The Summit: Bretton Woods, 1944: J. M. Keynes and the Reshaping of the Global Economy
Ed Conway · Pegasus; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover |
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A brilliant narrative history of the most colorful and important economic summit in historyheld during the height of World War II. The idea of world leaders gathering in the midst of economic crisis has become all too familiar. But the meeting at Bretton Woods in 1944 was different. It was the only... |
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Operation Chowhound: The Most Risky, Most Glorious US Bomber Mission of WWII
Stephen Dando-Collins · Palgrave Macmillan Trade; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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Beginning with a crazy plan hatched by a suspect prince, and an even crazier reliance on the word of the Nazis, Operation Chowhound was devised. Between May 1 and May 8, 1945, 2,268 military units flown by the USAAF, dropped food to 3.5 million starving Dutch civilians in German-occupied... |
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Flight 93: The Story, the Aftermath, and the Legacy of American Courage on 9/11
Tom Mcmillan , · Lyons Press; First edition
Format: Hardcover |
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United Airlines Flight which took off from Newark Airport the morning of September th is perhaps the most famous flight in modern American history We know of the passenger uprising but therersquos so much more to the story besides its harrowing and oft-told climax Amazingly the definitive... |
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KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps
Nikolaus Wachsmann · Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pages: 880
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In March of 1933, a disused factory surrounded by barbed wire held 223 prisoners in the town of Dachau. By the end of 1945, the SS concentration camp system had become an overwhelming landscape of terror. Twenty-two large camps and over one thousand satellite camps throughout Germany and Europe... |
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Give Me a Fast Ship: The Continental Navy and America's Revolution at Sea
Tim McGrath · NAL; 1St Edition edition
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Five ships against hundreds - the fledgling American Navy versus the greatest naval force the world had ever seen ... America in 1775 was on the verge of revolution - or, more likely, disastrous defeat. After the bloodshed at Lexington and Concord, England's King George sent hundreds... |
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