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In the Land of Giants: A Journey Through the Dark Ages
Max Adams - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book
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A cultural exploration of the Dark Age landscapes of Britain that poses a significant question: Is the modern world simply the realization of our ancient past? The five centuries between the end of Roman Britain and the death of Alfred the Great have left few voices save a handful of chroniclers,... |
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Brooklyn's Promised Land: The Free Black Community of Weeksville, New York
Judith Wellman - New York University Press
Format: Book
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In 1966 a group of students, Boy Scouts, and local citizens rediscovered all that remained of a then virtually unknown community called Weeksville: four frame houses on Hunterfly Road. The infrastructure and vibrant history of Weeksville, an African American community that had become one of the largest... |
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The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know About Itself
Andrew Pettegree - YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Format: Print book
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Long before the invention of printing, let alone the availability of a daily newspaper, people desired to be informed. In the pre-industrial era news was gathered and shared through conversation and gossip, civic ceremony, celebration, sermons, and proclamations. The age of print brought... |
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All the Kremlin's Men: Inside the Court of Vladimir Putin
Mikhail Zygar - Public Affairs
Format: Print book
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"I read this book in one night, truly a page-turner. It leaves a profoundly scary impression: [Putin's court is the] real House of Cards." - Lev Lurie, writer and historianAll the Kremlin's Men is a gripping narrative of an accidental king and a court out of control.... |
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Kaleidoscope of Poland: A Cultural Encyclopedia
Oscar E Swan - University of Pittsburgh Press
Format: Print book
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Foreword by Adam ZamoyskiKaleidoscope of Poland is a highly readable volume containing short articles on major personalities, places, events, and accomplishments from the thousand-year record of Polish history and culture. Featuring approximately 900 compact text entries and 600 illustrations,... |
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On the Edge: Leadership Lessons from Mount Everest and Other Extreme Environments
Alison Levine - Business Plus
Format: Hardcover
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FOREWORD BY LEGENDARY DUKE BASKETBALL COACH MIKE KRZYZEWSKIOn the Edge is an engaging leadership manual that provides concrete insights garnered from various extreme environments ranging from Mt Everest to the South Pole. By reflecting on the lessons learned from her various expeditions,... |
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FDR and the Jews
Richard Breitman - Belknap Press
Format: Hardcover
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Nearly seventy-five years after World War II, a contentious debate lingers over whether Franklin Delano Roosevelt turned his back on the Jews of Hitler's Europe. Defenders claim that FDR saved millions of potential victims by defeating Nazi Germany. Others revile him as morally indifferent... |
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Midnight's Descendants: A History of South Asia since Partition
John Keay - Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group,
Format: Print book
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Dispersed across India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, Midnight's Descendants - the generations born since the 1947 "midnight hour partition" of British India - are the world's fastest growing population. This vast region and its peoples wield an enormous... |
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Captive Paradise: A History of Hawaii
James L. Haley - St. Martin's Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The most recent state to join the union, Hawaii is the only one to have once been a royal kingdom. After its "discovery" by Captain Cook in the late 18th Century, Hawaii was fought over by European powers determined to take advantage of its position as the crossroads of the Pacific.... |
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Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, from 1453 to the Present
Brendan Simms - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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If there is a fundamental truth of geopolitics, it is this: whoever controls the core of Europe controls the entire continent, and whoever controls all of Europe can dominate the world. Over the past five centuries, a rotating cast of kings and conquerors, presidents and dictators have... |
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A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience
Emerson W. Baker - Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Beginning in January 1692, Salem Village in colonial Massachusetts witnessed the largest and most lethal outbreak of witchcraft in early America. Villagers--mainly young women--suffered from unseen torments that caused them to writhe, shriek, and contort their bodies, complaining of pins... |
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The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall
Mary Elise Sarotte - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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On the night of November 9, 1989, massive crowds surged toward the Berlin Wall, drawn by an announcement that caught the world by surprise: East Germans could now move freely to the West. The Wall - infamous symbol of divided Cold War Europe - seemed to be falling. But the opening of the gates... |
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Weed Land: Inside America's Marijuana Epicenter and How Pot Went Legit
Peter Hecht - University of California Press,
Format: Paperback
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Early in the morning of September 5, 2002, camouflaged and heavily armed Drug Enforcement Administration agents descended on a terraced marijuana garden. The DEA raid on the Wo/Men's Alliance for Medical Marijuana, a sanctuary for severely ill patients who were using marijuana as medicine,... |
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Hundred Days: The Campaign That Ended World War I
Nick Lloyd - Basic Books (AZ)
Format: Hardcover
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In the late summer of 1918, after four long years of senseless, stagnant fighting, the Western Front erupted. The bitter four-month struggle that ensued - known as the Hundred Days Campaign - saw some of the bloodiest and most ferocious combat of the Great War, as the Allies grimly worked... |
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The Latter Days: A Memoir
Judith Freeman - Pantheon
Format: Print book
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An arresting, lyrical memoir about the path the author took - sometimes unwittingly - out of her Mormon upbringing and through a thicket of profound difficulties to become a writer.At twenty-two, Judith Freeman was working in the Mormon church-owned department store in the Utah town where... |
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The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan
Rick Perlstein - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of Nixonland a dazzling portrait of America on the verge of a nervous breakdown in the tumultuous political and economic times of the 1970s. In January of 1973 Richard Nixon announced the end of the Vietnam War and prepared for a triumphant second termuntil televised... |
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The Burning Shore: How Hitler's U-Boats Brought World War II to America
Edward Offley - Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group,
Format: Print book
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On June 15, 1942, as thousands of vacationers lounged in the sun at Virginia Beach, two massive fireballs erupted just offshore from a convoy of oil tankers steaming into Chesapeake Bay. While men, women, and children gaped from the shore, two damaged oil tankers fell out of line and began... |
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The Anglo-Saxon World
Nicholas Higham - Yale University Press
Format: Print book
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The Anglo-Saxon period, stretching from the fifth to the late eleventh century, begins with the Roman retreat from the Western world and ends with the Norman takeover of England. Between these epochal events, many of the contours and patterns of English life that would endure for the next... |
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A Savage War: A Military History of the Civil War
Williamson Murray - Princeton University Press
Format: Print book
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The Civil War represented a momentous change in the character of war. It combined the projection of military might across a continent on a scale never before seen with an unprecedented mass mobilization of peoples. Yet despite the revolutionizing aspects of the Civil War, its leaders faced... |
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When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II
Molly Guptill Manning - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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When America entered World War II in 1941, we faced an enemy that had banned and burned over 100 million books and caused fearful citizens to hide or destroy many more. Outraged librarians launched a campaign to send free books to American troops and gathered 20 million hardcover donations.... |
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Elizabeth: The Forgotten Years
John Guy - Viking
Format: Print book
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A groundbreaking reconsideration of our favorite Tudor queen, Elizabeth is an intimate and surprising biography that shows her at the height of her power by the bestselling, Whitbread Award-winning author of Queen of Scots. Elizabeth was crowned at twenty-five after a tempestuous... |
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A Christmas Far from Home: An Epic Tale of Courage and Survival during the Korean War
Stanley Weintraub - Da Capo Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The day after Thanksgiving, five months into the Korean War, General Douglas MacArthur flew to American positions in the north and grandly announced an end-the-war-by-Christmas offensive, despite recent evidence of intervention by Maos Chinese troops. Marching north in plunging temperatures,... |
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The Civil War: The Final Year Told by Those Who Lived It:
Aaron Charles Sheehan-Dean - The Library of America
Format: Hardcover
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This final installment of the highly acclaimed four-volume series traces events from March 1864 to June 1865. It provides an incomparable portrait of a nation at war with itself, while illuminating the military and political events that brought the Union to final victory, and slavery and secession... |
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The Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War
Arkady Ostrovsky - Viking
Format: Print book
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WINNER OF THE 2016 ORWELL PRIZE FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR "Fast-paced and excellently written ... much needed, dispassionate and eminently readable." - New York Times "Filled with sparkling prose and deep analysis." -The Wall Street Journal... |
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Empire of Cotton: A Global History
Sven Beckert - Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZEPULITZER PRIZE FINALISTThe epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality to the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism.Cotton is so ubiquitous as to be almost invisible, yet understanding its history is key to understanding... |
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Justin Trudeau: The Natural Heir
Huguette Young - Dundurn
Format: Print book
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This unauthorized biography provides a rare look at the real Justin Trudeau, retracing his steps from his early days to the height of power. Having grown up in the shadow of his famous father, a political giant who dominated Canadian politics for almost sixteen years, Justin Trudeau took... |
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The Bloomsbury Cookbook: Recipes for Life, Love and Art
Jans Ondaatje Rolls - Thames & Hudson; 1 edition
Format: Book
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Sheds light on the vivid personalities, ideas, and achievements of the Bloomsbury Group from a unique culinary perspective Throwing aside the stifling patriarchy of late Victorian Britain, the Bloomsbury Group fostered a fresh, creative, and vital way of living that encouraged debate and communications,... |
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Money Mania: Booms, Panics, and Busts from Ancient Rome to the Great Meltdown
Bob Swarup - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Money Mania is a sweeping account of financial speculation and its consequences, from ancient Rome to the Meltdown of 2008. Acclaimed journalist and investor Bob Swarup tracks the history of speculative fevers caused by the appearance of new profitable investment opportunities; the new assets... |
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Syria Burning: A Short History of a Catastrophe
Charles Glass - Verso
Format: Paperback
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What are the origins of the Syrian crisis, and why did no one do anything to stop it?Since the upsurge of the Arab Spring in 2011, the Syrian civil war has claimed in excess of 200,000 lives, with an estimated 8 million Syrians, more than a third of the country's population, forced to flee... |
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Falling Upwards
Holmes, Richard
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**Kirkus Best Books of the Year (2013)**
**Time Magazine 10 Top Nonfiction Books of 2013**
**The New Republic Best Books of 2013**
In this heart-lifting chronicle, Richard Holmes, author of the best-selling The Age of Wonder, follows the pioneer... |
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Presidents in Crisis: Tough Decisions inside the White House from Truman to Obama
Michael K Bohn - Arcade Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Every American president, when faced with a crisis, longs to take bold and decisive action. When American lives or vital interests are at stake, the publicand especially the news media and political opponentsexpect aggressive leadership. But, contrary to the dramatizations of Hollywood,... |
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The Great War for Peace
William Mulligan - Yale University Press
Format: Book
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"The war to end all wars" rings out a bitter mockery of the First World War, often viewed as the seminal catastrophe of the twentieth century, the crucible from which Soviet, Fascist, and Nazi dictatorships emerged. Today's conventional wisdom is that the Great War attuned... |
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A Nice Little Place on the North Side: Wrigley Field at One Hundred
George F. Will - Crown Archetype
Format: Hardcover
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From Barnes & NobleWrigley Field, the stately and time-weathered home of the Chicago Cubs, marks its centennial this year. For almost two thirds of that occupancy, one loyal fan has followed its team with unflagging loyalty. In the process, George Will has become the most famous sports... |
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American Pulp: How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street
Paula Rabinowitz - Princeton University Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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There is real hope for a culture that makes it as easy to buy a book as it does a pack of cigarettes.--a civic leader quoted in a New American Library ad 1951 American Pulp tells the story of the midcentury golden age of pulp paperbacks and how they brought modernism to Main Street,... |
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American Indian Stories of Success: New Visions of Leadership in Indian Country
Gerald E. Gipp Ph.D. - Praeger
Format: Hardcover
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For the first time, American Indian leadership theory is connected with practice. Featuring 24 perspectives, this book provides the most comprehensive look at contemporary American Indian leadership ever published.Provides tribal perspectives offered by 24 American Indian authors ranging... |
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Good Arabs: The Isræli Security Agencies and the Isræli Arabs, 1948-1967
Hillel Cohen - University of California Press
Format: Book
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Based on his reading of top-secret files of the Israeli police and the prime minister's office, Hillel Cohen exposes the full extent of the crucial, and, until now, willfully hidden history of Palestinian collaboration with Israelis—and of the Arab resistance to it. Cohen's... |
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When Britain Burned the White House: The 1814 Invasion of Washington
Peter Snow - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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In August 1814, the United States army was defeated just outside Washington, D.C., by the world’s greatest military power. President James Madison and his wife had just enough time to flee the White House before the British invaders entered. British troops stopped to feast on the meal... |
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The Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975
Göran Hugo Olsson - Haymarket Books
Format: Paperback
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The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 is an extraordinary window into the black freedom struggle in the United States, offering a treasure trove of fresh archival information about the Black Power movement from 1967 to 1975 and vivid portraits of some of its most dynamic participants,... |
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The Bullet and the Ballot Box: The Story of Nepal's Maoist Revolution
Aditya Adhikari - Verso
Format: Hardcover
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The Bullet and the Ballot Box offers a rich and sweeping account of a decade of revolutionary upheaval. When Nepal’s Maoists launched their armed rebellion in the nineties, they had limited public support and many argued that their ideology was obsolete. Twelve years later they were... |
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The Rush: America's Fevered Quest for Fortune, 1848-1853
Edward Dolnick - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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A riveting portrait of the Gold Rush, by the award-winning author of Down the Great Unknown and The Forger's Spell.In the spring of 1848, rumors began to spread that gold had been discovered in a remote spot in the Sacramento Valley. A year later, newspaper headlines declared "Gold... |
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West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776
Claudio Saunt - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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This panoramic account of 1776 chronicles the other revolutions unfolding that year across North America, far beyond the British colonies. In 1776, Thomas Paine published Common Sense, the Continental Congress declared independence, and Washington crossed the Delaware. We are familiar with... |
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Brazil: The Troubled Rise of a Global Power
Michael Reid - Yale University Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Experts believe that Brazil, the world’s fifth largest country and its seventh largest economy, will be one of the most important global powers by the year 2030. Yet far more attention has been paid to the other rising behemoths Russia, India, and China. Often ignored and underappreciated,... |
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Braxton Bragg: The Most Hated Man of the Confederacy
Earl J Hess - The University of North Carolina Press
Format: Print book
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As a leading Confederate general, Braxton Bragg (1817-1876) earned a reputation for incompetence, for wantonly shooting his own soldiers, and for losing battles. This public image established him not only as a scapegoat for the South's military failures but also as the chief whipping... |
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Congo: The Epic History of a People
David Van Reybrouck - Ecco Press
Format: Hardcover
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Hailed as "a monumental history . . . more exciting than any novel" (NRC Handelsblad) ,David van Reybrouck's rich and gripping epic, in the tradition of Robert Hughes' The Fatal Shore, tells the extraordinary story of one of the world's most devastated countries:... |
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The Wrong Enemy: America in Afghanistan, 2001-2014
Carlotta Gall - Houghton Mifflin
Format: Hardcover
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Carlotta Gall has reported from Afghanistan and Pakistan for almost the entire duration of the American invasion and occupation, beginning shortly after 9/11. She knows just how much this war has cost the Afghan people, and how much damage can be traced to Pakistan and its duplicitous government... |
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After Yorktown: The Final Struggle for American Independence
Don Glickstein - Westholme Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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After the Humiliating Defeat at Yorktown in 1781, George III Vowed to Keep Fighting the Rebels and Their Allies Around the World, Holding a New Nation in the Balance Although most people think the American Revolution ended with the British surrender at Yorktown, Virginia, on October 19, 1781,... |
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Under the Big Black Sun: A Personal History of L.A. Punk
John Doe - Da Capo Press
Format: Print book
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Under the Big Black Sun explores the nascent Los Angeles punk rock movement and its evolution to hardcore punk as it's never been told before. Authors John Doe and Tom DeSavia have woven together an enthralling story of the legendary west coast scene from 1977-1982 by enlisting the voices... |
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Stress Test -- Reflections on Financial Crises
Timothy F Geithner - Crown Publishers
Format: eBook
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From the former Treasury Secretary, the definitive account of the unprecedented effort to save the U.S. economy from collapse in the wake of the worst global financial crisis since the Great Depression. |
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American Apocalypse: A History of Modern Evangelicalism
Matthew Avery Sutton - Belknap Press
Format: Hardcover
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The first comprehensive history of modern American evangelicalism to appear in a generation, American Apocalypse shows how a group of radical Protestants, anticipating the end of the world, paradoxically transformed it. Matthew Avery Sutton draws on extensive archival research to document... |
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The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation
David Brion Davis - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction Shortlisted for the 2014 Cundill Prize in Historical LiteratureFrom the revered historian, the long-awaited conclusion of the magisterial history of slavery and emancipation in Western culture that has been nearly... |
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Through the Heart of Dixie: Sherman's March and American Memory
Anne Sarah Rubin - The University of North Carolina Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Sherman's March, cutting a path through Georgia and the Carolinas, is among the most symbolically potent events of the Civil War. In Through the Heart of Dixie, Anne Sarah Rubin uncovers and unpacks stories and myths about the March from a wide variety of sources, including African... |
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Shock Factor: American Snipers in the War on Terror
Jack Coughlin - St. Martin's Press; First Editon: November 2014 edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Shooter, comes a riveting narrative of how snipers have changed the course of America's war on al Qaida in the Middle East and Africa.Retired Marine sniper Jack Coughlin (Shooter) and John Bruning pull back the curtain of secrecy... |
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Rebellion: The History of England from James I to the Glorious Revolution
Peter Ackroyd - Thomas Dunne Books; 1st US Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Peter Ackroyd has been praised as one of the greatest living chroniclers of Britain and its people. In Rebellion, he continues his dazzling account of the history of England, beginning with the progress south of the Scottish king, James VI, who on the death of Elizabeth I became the first... |
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Our Family Dreams: The Fletchers Adventures in Nineteenth Century America
Daniel Blake Smith - St. Martins Press
Format: Hardcover
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In the early years after the Revolution, Americans were on the move, seeking to establish a new way of life. And, more than the church or the school or the courthouse, it was the family that nurtured the American Dream.In this novel-like narrative, Daniel Blake Smith vividly brings to life... |
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Unequal Gains: American Growth and Inequality since 1700
Peter H Lindert - Princeton University Press
Format: Print book
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"Unequal Gains" offers a radically new understanding of the economic evolution of the United States, providing a complete picture of the uneven progress of America from colonial times to today. While other economic historians base their accounts on American wealth, Peter Lindert... |
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Side by Side: Parallel Histories of Israel-Palestine
SaÌ?miÌ? Ê»Abd al-RazzaÌ?q Ê»AdwaÌ?n - The New Press
Format: Paperback
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In 2000, a group of Israeli and Palestinian teachers gathered to address what to many people seemed an unbridgeable gulf between the two societies. Struck by how different the standard Israeli and Palestinian textbook histories of the same events were from one another, they began to explore... |
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The Vulgar Tongue: Green's History of Slang
Jonathon Green - Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Once the language of thieves and beggars slang is an ever present part of todays culture for people across the strata It allows us to connect to others to express otherwise guarded thoughts and to convey humor in the everyday But how did slang escape its stigma as the language of the streets... |
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Strike!
Jeremy Brecher - PM Press; Exp Rev Up edition
Format: Paperback
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Since its original publication in 1972, no book has done as much as Jeremy Brechers Strike! to bring American labor history to a wide audience. Strike! narrates the dramatic story of repeated, massive, and sometimes violent revolts by ordinary working people in America and tells this exciting... |
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The Assassination Complex: Inside the Government's Secret Drone Warfare Program
Jeremy Scahill - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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Major revelations about the US government's drone program - bestselling author Jeremy Scahill and his colleagues at the investigative website The Intercept expose stunning new details about America's secret assassination policy.When the US government discusses drone strikes publicly,... |
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So You Want to Start a Brewery?: The Lagunitas Story
Tony Magee - Chicago Review Press
Format: Paperback
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In 1993, Tony Magee, who had foundered at every job hed ever had, decided to become the founder of a brewery. So You Want to Start a Brewery? is the thrilling first-person account of his gut-wrenching challenges and heart-warming successes. Based in Petaluma, California, the Lagunitas Brewing... |
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Roosevelt and Stalin: Portrait of a Partnership
Susan Butler - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A hugely important book that solely and fully explores for the first time the complex partnership during World War II between FDR and Stalin, by the editor of My Dear Mr. Stalin: The Complete Correspondence of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph V. Stalin ("History owes a debt to Susan... |
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The Dead and Those About to Die: D-Day: The Big Red One at Omaha Beach
John C. McManus - NAL; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A white-knuckle account of the 1st Infantry Division's harrowing D-Day assault on the eastern sector of Omaha Beach - acclaimed historian John C. McManus has written a gripping history that will stand as the last word on this titanic battle. Nicknamed the Big Red One, 1st Division had fought... |
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Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War
Brian Matthew Jordan - Liveright; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking investigation examining the fate of Union veterans who won the war but couldnt bear the peace. For well over a century, traditional Civil War histories have concluded in 1865, with a bitterly won peace and Union soldiers returning triumphantly home. In a landmark work that... |
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Spiral: Trapped in the Forever War
Mark Danner - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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Trapped in a forever war by 9/11, in Spiral Mark Danner describes a nation that has been altered in fundamental ways. President Bush declared a war of choice and without an exit plan, and President Obama has proven unable to take the country off what he has called its "permanent... |
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The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America
Ethan Michaeli - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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"An extraordinary history ... Deeply researched, elegantly written ... a towering achievement that will not be soon forgotten." - Brent Staples, New York Times Book Review Giving voice to the voiceless, the Chicago Defender condemned Jim Crow, catalyzed the Great... |
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The Novel: A Biography
Michael Schmidt - Belknap Press
Format: Hardcover
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The 700-year history of the novel in English defies straightforward telling. Geographically and culturally boundless, with contributions from Great Britain, Ireland, America, Canada, Australia, India, the Caribbean, and Southern Africa; influenced by great novelists working in other languages;... |
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China 1945: Mao's Revolution and America's Fateful Choice
Richard Bernstein - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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At the beginning of 1945, relations between America and the Chinese Communists couldn't have been closer. Chinese leaders talked of America helping to lift China out of poverty; Mao Zedong himself held friendly meetings with U.S. emissaries. By year's end, Chinese Communist soldiers... |
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Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
Svetlana Alexievich - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The magnum opus and latest work from Svetlana Alexievich, the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature - a symphonic oral history about the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new RussiaNAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR... |
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White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
Nancy Isenberg - Tantor Audio
Format: Audiobook
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The wretched and landless poor have existed from the time of the earliest British colonial settlement. They were alternately known as "waste people", "offals", "rubbish", "lazy lubbers", and "crackers". By the 1850s the downtrodden included... |
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Coyote America
Dan Flores - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times best-selling account of how coyotes--long the target of an extermination policy--spread to every corner of the United States Finalist for thePEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award "A masterly synthesis of scientific research and personal observation."-Wall... |
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History and Presence
Robert A Orsi - The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Format: Print book
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Beginning with metaphysical debates in the sixteenth century over the nature of Christ's presence in the host, the distinguished historian and scholar of religion Robert Orsi imagines an alternative to the future of religion that early moderns proclaimed was inevitable.The question... |
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Rising Sun, Falling Skies: The Disastrous Java Sea Campaign of World War II
Jeffrey Cox - Osprey Pub Co
Format: Hardcover
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A fresh look at the disastrous Java Sea Campaign of 1941-42 which heralded a wave of Japanese naval victories in the Pacific but which eventually sowed the seeds of their eventual change in fortunes. In the immediate aftermath of Pearl Harbor, the Japanese juggernaut quickly racked up victory... |
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Sometimes an Art: Nine Essays on History
Bernard Bailyn - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From one of the most respected historians in America, twice the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a new collection of essays that reflects a lifetime of erudition and accomplishments in history.The past has always been elusive: How can we understand people whose worlds were utterly different... |
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A life beyond the boundaries
Benedict R O'G Anderson - Verso
Format: Print book
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An intellectual memoir by the author of the acclaimed "Imagined Communities" Born in China, Benedict Anderson spent his childhood in California and Ireland, was educated in England and finally found a home at Cornell University, where he immersed himself in the growing field of Southeast... |
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Christmas in Germany: A Cultural History
Joe Perry - University of North Carolina Press
Format: Book
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For poets, priests, and politicians--and especially ordinary Germans--in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the image of the loving nuclear family gathered around the Christmas tree symbolized the unity of the nation at large. German Christmas was supposedly organic, a product of the winter... |
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My Father and Atticus Finch: A Lawyer's Fight for Justice in 1930s Alabama
Joseph Madison Beck - W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book
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The story of Foster Beck, the author's late father, whose defense of a black man accused of rape in 1930s Alabama foreshadowed the trial at the heart of To Kill a Mockingbird.As a child, Joseph Beck heard the stories -- when other lawyers came up with excuses, his father courageously defended... |
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My Mysterious Son: A Life-Changing Passage Between Schizophrenia and Shamanism
Dick Russell - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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What a father will do to fight the mental illness that has destroyed his son.What does a father do when hope is gone that his only son can ever lead anything close to a “normal” life? That’s the question that haunted Dick Russell in the fall of 2011, when his son, Franklin,... |
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The Tupac Amaru Rebellion
Charles F. Walker - Belknap Press
Format: Hardcover
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The largest rebellion in the history of Spain's American empire--a conflict greater in territory and costlier in lives than the contemporaneous American Revolution--began as a local revolt against colonial authorities in 1780. As an official collector of tribute for the imperial crown,... |
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Thirteen Soldiers: A Personal History of Americans at War
John McCain - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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John McCain's evocative history of Americans at war, told through the personal accounts of thirteen remarkable soldiers who fought in major military conflicts, from the Revolutionary War of 1776 to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.As a veteran himself, a member of the Senate Armed Services... |
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The Lynching: The Epic Courtroom Battle That Brought Down the Klan
Laurence Leamer - William Morrow
Format: Print book
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The New York Times bestselling author of The Kennedy Women chronicles the powerful and spellbinding true story of a brutal race-based killing in 1981 and subsequent trials that undid one of the most pernicious organizations in American history - the Ku Klux Klan.On a Friday night in March... |
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Cuba's Baseball Defectors: The Inside Story
Peter C Bjarkman - Rowman & Littlefield
Format: Print book
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The stellar play and fascinating backstories of exiled Cuban sluggers and hurlers in Major League Baseball (MLB) has become one of the biggest headlines in America's national pastime. On-field exploits by colorful Dodgers outfielder Yasiel Puig, American League rookie-of-the-year... |
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Nas' Illmatic
Matthew Gasteier - Bloomsbury Academic
Format: Paperback
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Nas was playing a role on Illmatic, even if it was himself. By constructing this persona, Nas not only laid out his own career for the next decade plus, but the careers of dozens of other rappers who were able to use their considerable skills to develop similar personas. His brazen ambition... |
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Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People
Elizabeth A. Fenn - Farrar Straus & Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for HistoryEncounters at the Heart of the World concerns the Mandan Indians, iconic Plains people whose teeming, busy towns on the upper Missouri River were for centuries at the center of the North American universe. We know of them mostly because Lewis... |
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The Dark Art: My Undercover Life in Global Narco-terrorism
Edward Follis - Gotham
Format: Hardcover
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A highly decorated veteran DEA agent recounts his incredible undercover career and reveals the shocking links between narcotics trafficking and terrorismWhat exactly is undercover? From a law-enforcement perspective, undercover is the art of skillfully eliciting incriminating statements.... |
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Eye of the Sixties: Richard Bellamy and the Transformation of Modern Art
Judith E Stein - Farrar
Format: Print book
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A man with a preternatural ability to find emerging artists, Richard Bellamy was one of the first advocates of pop art, minimalism, and conceptual art. The founder and director of the fabled Green Gallery on Fifty-Seventh Street, the witty, poetry-loving art lover became a legend of the avant-garde,... |
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Simple Thai Food: Classic Recipes from the Thai Home Kitchen
Leela Punyaratabandhu - Ten Speed Press
Format: Hardcover
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Thai takeout meets authentic, regional flavors in this collection of 100 recipes for easy, economical, and accessible Thai classics--from the rising star behind the blogShe Simmers.Who can say no to a delicious plate of Pad Thai with Shrimp a fresh, tangy Green Papaya Salad golden Fried... |
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The Hotel on Place Vendome: Life, Death, and Betrayal at the Hotel Ritz in Paris
Tilar J. Mazzeo - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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Set against the backdrop of the Nazi occupation of World War II, The Htel on Place Vendme is the captivating history of Paris's world-famous Htel Ritz - a breathtaking tale of glamour, opulence, and celebrity; dangerous liaisons, espionage, and resistance - from Tilar J. Mazzeo, the New York... |
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Bicentennial: Poems
Dan Chiasson - Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.
Format: Print book
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From the acclaimed poet - a refreshing, singular collection of poems about boys and boyhood, historical cycles and personal history, memory and meaning. Bicentennial summons the world of Chiasson's seventies childhood in Vermont: early VCRs, snow, erections, pizza, snowmobiles,... |
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The struggle for Pakistan : a Muslim homeland and global politics
Ayesha Jalal - The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Format: book_printbook : EnglishView all editions and formats
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In a probing biography of her native land, Ayesha Jalal provides a unique insider's assessment of how the nuclear-armed Muslim nation of Pakistan evolved into a country besieged by military domination and militant religious extremism, and explains why its dilemmas weigh so heavily on prospects... |
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Give Me Liberty: Speakers and Speeches that Have Shaped America
Christopher L. Webber - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book
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Sure to become a classic of American oratorical history, ?Give Me Liberty reveals the enduring power of America's quest for a freer and more just society, and the context of the speeches and speakers -- from Daniel Webster and Patrick Henry to Martin Luther King and Ronald Reagan -- that... |
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