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Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life
Richard Beck · Crown
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking history of how the decades-long war on terror changed virtually every aspect of American life, from the erosion of citizenship down to the cars we bought and TV we watched - by an acclaimed n 1 writer. For twenty years after September 11, the war on terror was simultaneously... |
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The Stadium: An American History of Politics, Protest, and Play
Frank Andre Guridy · Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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The "deep and impactful" story of the American stadium (Howard Bryant, author of Full Dissidence) - from the first wooden ballparks to today's glass and steel mega-arenas - revealing how it has made, and remade, American life.. Stadiums are monuments to recreation, sports,... |
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Catherine, the Princess of Wales: A Biography of the Future Queen
Robert Jobson · Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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Through the author's extensive connections within the royal household, this dynamic new biography tells the full story of how Catherine, the Princess of Wales, became the woman she is today.. Kate Middleton's life's story seems like a modern-day fairy-tale. An attractive, clever,... |
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Nat Turner, Black Prophet: A Visionary History
Anthony E. Kaye · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A bold reinterpretation of the causes and legacy of Nat Turner's rebellion -- and the new definitive account. . In August 1831, a group of enslaved people in Southampton County, Virginia, rose up to fight for their freedom. They attacked the plantations on which their enslavers lived... |
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The Eastern Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918
Nick Lloyd · W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The first major history in fifty years of the often overlooked Eastern Front of the First World War, where a more fluid conflict resulted in the destruction of great empires and the rise of the Soviet Union.Writing in the 1920s, Winston Churchill argued that the First World War on the Eastern... |
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An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work
Charlotte Shane · Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Hardcover
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Through the lens of her years spent as a sex worker, Charlotte Shane offers a provocative and tender reckoning of what it means to be a heterosexual woman and a feminist in a misogynistic society.
In her early twenties, Charlotte Shane quit her women's studies graduate program to devote... |
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