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Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero
Chris Matthews - Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover
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What was he like? Jack Kennedy said the reason people read biography is to answer that basic question. What was he like, this man whose own wife called him that elusive, unforgettable man? In this New York Times bestselling biography, Chris Matthews answers that question with the verve... |
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Big, Hot, Cheap, and Right: What America Can Learn from the Strange Genius of Texas
Erica Grieder - PublicAffairs; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Texas may well be America’s most controversial state. Evangelicals dominate the halls of power, millions of its people live in poverty, and its death row is the busiest in the country. Skeptical outsiders have found much to be offended by in the state’s politics and attitude.... |
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All the Great Prizes: The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt
John Taliaferro - Simon & Schuster; 1st Edition, 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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If Henry James or Edith Wharton had written a novel describing the accomplished and glamorous life and times of John Hay, it would have been thought implausible—a novelist’s fancy. Nevertheless, John Taliaferro’s brilliant biography captures the extraordinary life of Hay,... |
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The General vs. the President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War
H W Brands - Doubleday
Format: Print book
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From master storyteller and historian H. W. Brands, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, comes the riveting story of how President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur squared off to decide America's future in the aftermath of World War II. At the height... |
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Ronald Reagan: A Life in Photographs
Peter Robinson - Sterling
Format: Hardcover
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This beautifully illustrated book commemorates the life and presidency of Ronald Wilson Reagan-who renewed America's sense of optimism, revived its economy, and won the Cold War without firing a single shot.Peter Robinson, Reagan's special assistant and speechwriter, has written... |
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God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State
Lawrence Wright - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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With humor and the biting insight of a native, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower explores the history, culture, and politics of Texas, while holding the stereotypes up for rigorous scrutiny.God Save Texas is a journey through the most controversial state... |
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With Love, Aunt Eleanor: Stories from My Life with the First Lady of the World
Eleanor R Wotkyns - Scrapbook Press
Format: Print book
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Eleanor Roosevelt's niece celebrates the life and personality of her inimitable, groundbreaking aunt in this definitive collection of anecdotes and photographs. Previously unpublished, firsthand accounts, such as the time Roosevelt served hot dogs to the king and queen of England and how she learned... |
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Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
Manning Marable - Viking Adult; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Years in the making--the definitive biography of the legendary black activist. Of the great figure in twentieth-century American history perhaps none is more complex and controversial than Malcolm X. Constantly rewriting his own story, he became a criminal, a minister, a leader, and an icon,... |
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Lincoln and the Court
Brian McGinty - Harvard University Press; First edition
Format: Hardcover
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In a meticulously researched and engagingly written narrative, Brian McGinty rescues the story of Abraham Lincoln and the Supreme Court from long and undeserved neglect, recounting the compelling history of the Civil War president's relations with the nation's highest tribunal and the role... |
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Who Built That: Awe-Inspiring Stories of American Tinkerpreneurs
Michelle Malkin - Mercury Ink
Format: Hardcover
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Conservative journalist Malkin provides an eclectic journey of American capitalism, from the colonial period to the Industrial Age to the present, spotlighting little-known "tinkerpreneurs" who achieved their dreams of doing well by doing good. Learn how Paul Revere became America's... |
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What's So Great About America
Dinesh D'Souza - Regnery Publishing; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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D'Souza explains what is so great about America, and why that greatness inspires critics and terrorism alike. "What's So Great About America" defends not only the idea of America but also America as it is, with all its follies, ugliness, and flaws. |
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The quartet : orchestrating the second American Revolution, 1783-1789
Joseph J Ellis - Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
Format: Print book
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From Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian Joseph J. Ellis, the unexpected story of why the thirteen colonies, having just fought off the imposition of a distant centralized governing power, would decide to subordinate themselves anew. We all know the famous opening phrase of Lincoln's... |
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Being Nixon: A Man Divided
Evan Thomas - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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"What was it really like to be Richard Nixon? Evan Thomas tackles this fascinating question by peeling back the layers of a man driven by a poignant mix of optimism and fear. The result is both insightful history and an astonishingly compelling psychological portrait." - Walter... |
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Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto
Mark R Levin - Threshold Editions
Format: Print book
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Don't miss syndicated radio host and author Mark Levin's #1 New York Times acclaimed and longtime bestselling manifesto for the conservative movement.When nationally syndicated radio host Mark R. Levin's Liberty and Tyranny appeared in the early months of the Obama presidency,... |
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Founding Feuds: The Rivalries, Clashes, and Conflicts That Forged a Nation
Paul Aron - Sourcebooks
Format: Paperback
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The Founding Fathers have been hailed for centuries as shining examples of men who put aside their own agendas to found a nation. But behind the scenes, there were more petty fights and fraught relationships than signatures on the Declaration of Independence. From the violent brawl between... |
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Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House
Cliff Sims - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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The first honest insider's account of the Trump administration. After standing at Donald Trump's side on Election Night, Cliff Sims joined him in the West Wing as Special Assistant to the President and Director of White House Message Strategy.He soon found himself pulled into the President's... |
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First Son: George W. Bush and the Bush Family Dynasty
Bill Minutaglio - Crown; 1st edition
Format: Illustrated]
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In one of the most unprecedented developments in the history of national politics, George W. Bush abruptly emerged to lead all presidential aspirants in the national polls for the 2000 election. Yet voters know very little about the man, beyond his famous name and his place in one of the nation's... |
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The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War
JOANNE FREEMAN - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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The previously untold story of the violence in Congress that helped spark the Civil WarIn The Field of Blood, Joanne B. Freeman recovers the long-lost story of physical violence on the floor of the U.S. Congress. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, she shows that the Capitol... |
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The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington
Brad Meltzer - Thorndike Press Large Print
Format: Library Binding
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Taking place during the most critical period of our nation's birth, The First Conspiracy tells a remarkable and previously untold piece of American history that not only reveals George Washington's character, but also illuminates the origins of America's counterintelligence movement... |
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Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War
Andrew Bacevich - Metropolitan Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The bestselling author of The Limits of Power critically examines the Washington consensus on national security and why it must changeFor the last half century, as administrations have come and gone, the fundamental assumptions about America's military policy have remained unchanged:... |
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The Obama Diaries
Laura Ingraham - Threshold Editions
Format: Hardcover
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(WASHINGTON, D.C.) On May 20, 2010, Laura Ingraham received a package from an anonymous source that will change the history of the United States and the legacy of President Barack Obama. While retrieving her automobile from the underground garage at the Watergate complex (where she had just... |
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Under Fire: Reporting from the Front Lines of the Trump White House
APRIL RYAN - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Veteran White House reporter April Ryan thought she had seen everything in her two decades as a White House correspondent. And then came the Trump administration. In Under Fire, Ryan takes us inside the confusion and chaos of the Trump White House to understand how she and other reporters... |
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Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Amy Chua - Penguin Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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An awe-inspiring often hilarious and unerringly honest story of one mothers exercise in extreme parenting revealing the rewards-and the costs-of raising her children the Chinese way All decent parents want to do whats best for their children What Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother reveals... |
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The Kennedy Detail: JFK's Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence
Gerald Blaine - Gallery Books; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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THE SECRET SERVICE. An elite team of men who share a single mission: to protect the president of the United States. On November 22, 1963, these men failed—and a country would never be the same. Now, for the first time, a member of JFK’s Secret Service detail reveals the inside... |
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Lincoln's Hundred Days: The Emancipation Proclamation and the War for the Union
Louis P. Masur - Belknap Press; Sew edition
Format: Hardcover
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"The time has come now," Abraham Lincoln told his cabinet as he presented the preliminary draft of a "Proclamation of Emancipation." Lincoln's effort to end slavery has been controversial from its inception-when it was denounced by some as an unconstitutional usurpation... |
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Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America
Patrick Phillips - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book
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A gripping tale of racial cleansing in Forsyth County, Georgia, and a harrowing testament to the deep roots of racial violence in America.Forsyth County, Georgia, at the turn of the twentieth century was home to a large African American community that included ministers and teachers, farmers... |
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American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures
TO BE CONFIRMED. - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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From award-winning actress and political activist America Ferrera comes a vibrant and varied collection of first person accounts from prominent figures about the experience of growing up between cultures.America Ferrera has always felt wholly American, and yet, her identity is inextricably... |
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Benjamin Franklin
Edmund S Morgan - Yale University Press
Format: Book
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Benjamin Franklin is perhaps the most remarkable figure in American history: the greatest statesman of his age, he played a pivotal role in the formation of the American republic. He was also a pioneering scientist, a best-selling author, the country's first postmaster general, a printer,... |
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13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi
MItchell Zuckoff - Twelve
Format: Paperback
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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREThe harrowing, true account from the brave men on the ground who fought back during the Battle of Benghazi.13 HOURS presents, for the first time ever, the true account of the events of September 11, 2012, when terrorists attacked the US State Department Special... |
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Time to Get Tough: Make America Great Again!
Donald J. Trump - Regnery Publishing
Format: Paperback
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A New York Times bestseller! For the first time in his own words, President-elect Donald J. Trump explains his plan to make America great again! He wants to "put Americas interests first - and that means doing whats right for our economy, our national security, and our public safety."... |
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Every Day Is Extra
John Kerry - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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John Kerry tells the story of his remarkable American life - from son of a diplomat to decorated Vietnam veteran, five-term United States senator, 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, and Secretary of State for four years - a revealing memoir by a witness to some of the most important... |
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Inside the Red Mansion: On the Trail of China's Most Wanted Man
Oliver August - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Inside the Red Mansion is a suspenseful, slyly entertaining journey into the heart of the new China. Due to a mix-up on a routine reporting assignment, Oliver August stumbles onto the hunt for China’s most wanted man, Lai Changxing, an illiterate tycoon on the run from corruption... |
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Lion in the White House: A Life of Theodore Roosevelt
Aida D. Donald - Basic Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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New York State Assemblyman Assistant Secretary of the Navy New York City Police Commissioner Governor of New York Vice President and at forty-two the youngest President ever-in his own words Theodore Roosevelt rose like a rocket He was also a cowboy a soldier a historian an intrepid explorer... |
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1920: The Year of Six Presidents
David Pietrusza - Audible Studios
Format: Paperback
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The presidential election of 1920 was among historys most dramatic. Six once-and-future presidents--Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, and Teddy and Franklin Roosevelt--jockeyed for the White House. With voters choosing between Wilsons League of Nations and Hardings front-porch isolationism,... |
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Pearl Harbor: FDR Leads the Nation Into War
Steven M. Gillon - Basic Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Franklin D. Roosevelt famously called December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy. History would prove him correct the events of that daywhen the Japanese bombed Pearl Harborended the Great Depression, changed the course of FDRs presidency, and swept America into World War II. In Pearl... |
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Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power
Robert Dallek - Harper; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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With the publication of his magisterial biography of John F Kennedy An Unfinished Life Robert Dallek cemented his reputation as one of the greatest historians of our time Now in this epic joint biography he offers a provocative groundbreaking portrait of a pair of outsize leaders whose... |
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Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship
Jon Meacham - Random House
Format: Book
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The most complete portrait ever drawn of the complex emotional connection between two of history's towering leadersFranklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were the greatest leaders of "the Greatest Generation." In Franklin and Winston, Jon Meacham explores the fascinating... |
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Colonel Roosevelt
Edmund Morris - Random House; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Of all our great presidents, Theodore Roosevelt is the only one whose greatness increased out of office. When he toured Europe in 1910 as plain “Colonel Roosevelt,” he was hailed as the most famous man in the world. Crowned heads vied to put him up in their palaces. “If... |
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A Song Flung Up to Heaven
Maya Angelou - Random House
Format: Print book
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The culmination of a unique achievement in modern American literature: the six volumes of autobiography that began more than thirty years ago with the appearance of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.A Song Flung Up to Heaven opens as Maya Angelou returns from Africa to the United States to work... |
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A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency
Glenn Greenwald - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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The first true character study of a lost president and his disastrous legacyIn this fascinating, timely book, Glenn Greenwald examines the Bush presidency and its long-term effect on the nation, charting the rise and steep fall of the current administration, dissecting the rhetoric, and revealing... |
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The Family Jewels: The CIA, Secrecy, and Presidential Power
John Prados - University of Texas Press
Format: Book
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In December 1974, a front-page story in the New York Times revealed the explosive details of illegal domestic spying by the Central Intelligence Agency. This included political surveillance, eavesdropping, detention, and interrogation. The revelation of illegal activities over many years... |
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Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution
Woody Holton - Hill and Wang; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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Average Americans Were the True Framers of the ConstitutionWoody Holton upends what we think we know of the Constitutions origins by telling the history of the average Americans who challenged the framers of the Constitution and forced on them the revisions that produced the document we now venerate... |
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Sam Houston
James L Haley - University of Oklahoma Press
Format: Book
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In the decades preceding the Civil War, few figures in the United States were as influential or as controversial as Sam Houston. The author explores Houston's momentous career and the complex man behind it. Haley's fifteen years of research and writing have produced possibly the most... |
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Agent Garbo: The Brilliant, Eccentric Secret Agent Who Tricked Hitler and Saved D-Day
Stephan Talty - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Were the D-Day landings saved from failure because of a lone secret agent?Agent Garbo tells the astonishing story of a self-made secret agent who matched wits with the best minds of the Third Reich - and won. Juan Pujol was a nobody, a Barcelona poultry farmer determined to oppose the Nazis.... |
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John Tyler
Gary May - Times Books; First Edition edition
Format: Print book
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The first “accidental president,” whose secret maneuverings brought Texas into the Union and set secession in motionWhen William Henry Harrison died in April 1841, just one month after his inauguration, Vice President John Tyler assumed the presidency. It was a controversial... |
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The House: The History of the House of Representatives
Robert V. Remini - Smithsonian; First edition. edition
Format: Hardcover
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Throughout Americas history the House has played a central role in shaping the nations destiny In this incomparable single-volume history distinguished historian Robert V Remini traces the institution from a struggling nascent body to the venerable powerhouse it has become since Americas... |
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John Quincy Adams: American Visionary
Fred Kaplan - Harpercollins
Format: Hardcover
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Fred Kaplan, the acclaimed, award-winning author of Lincoln, returns with John Quincy Adams, an illuminating biography of one of the most overlooked presidents in American history - a leader of sweeping perspective whose progressive values helped shape the course of the nation.In this fresh... |
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Obama's Legacy: What He Accomplished as President
Michael I Days - Center St
Format: Print book
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As President Obama's time in the White House draws to a close, this celebratory book documents his transformative accomplishments. Evidence indicates President Barack Obama has been tremendously successful and effective by objective measures. On economic indicators alone, he is credited... |
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The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White
Daniel J. Sharfstein - Penguin Press HC, The; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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"The Invisible Line" shines light on one of the most important, but too often hidden, aspects of American history and culture. Sharfstein's narrative of three families negotiating America's punishing racial terrain is a must read for all who are interested in the construction... |
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The Closing of the American Border: Terrorism, Immigration, and Security Since 9/11
Edward Alden - Harper; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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On September 10, 2001, the United States was the most open country in the world. But in the aftermath of the worst terrorist attacks on American soil, the U.S. government began to close its borders in an effort to fight terrorism. The Bush administration's goal was to build new lines... |
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No Day Shall Erase You: The Story of 9/11 as Told at the September 11 Museum
Alice M Greenwald - Skira
Format: Print book
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Published to coincide with the fifteenth anniversary of 9/11, this book emphasizes the highlights of the museum's interpretation of this somber day. This book is the definitive, official companion volume to the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. It provides visitors with a lasting... |
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Pinheads and Patriots: Where You Stand in the Age of Obama
Bill O'Reilly - William Morrow
Format: Paperback
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Television host, razor sharp political pundit, and #1 bestselling author Bill O'Reilly focuses in on where we all stand in the Age of Obama in Pinheads and Patriots. In this brave, hard-hitting, provocative volume, the author of Culture Warrior and A Bold, Fresh Piece of Humanity guides... |
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ASSAD, OR WE BURN THE COUNTRY : how one family's lust for power destroyed syria
SAM DAGHER - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking account of the Syrian Civil War that offers never-before published details about the origins and persistence of the 21st century's worst humanitarian disasterIn spring 2011, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad turned to his friend and army commander, Manaf Tlass, for advice... |
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1861: The Civil War Awakening
Adam Goodheart - Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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As the United States marks the 150th anniversary of our defining national drama, 1861 presents a gripping and original account of how the Civil War began.1861 is an epic of courage and heroism beyond the battlefields. Early in that fateful year, a second American revolution... |
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The Strong Man: John Mitchell and the Secrets of Watergate
James Rosen - Doubleday; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The Strong Man is the first full-scale biography of John N Mitchell the central figure in the rise and ruin of Richard Nixon and the highest-ranking American official ever convicted on criminal chargesAs US attorney general from to John Mitchell stood at the center of the upheavals of the late... |
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Government Zero: No Borders, No Language, No Culture
Michael Savage - Center Street, 2015.
Format: Print book
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From bestselling author of "Stop the Coming Civil War, "Michael Savage reveals the massive dangers currently leading to the demise of our government. Michael Savage has been warning Americans for decades and now it's here. In GOVERNMENT ZERO: No Borders, No Language, No Culture,... |
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All Indians Do Not Live in Teepees
Catherine C. Robbins - Bison Books
Format: eBook
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Both a tribute to the unique experiences of individual Native Americans and a celebration of the values that draw American Indians together, All Indians Do Not Live in Teepees (or Casinos) explores contemporary Native life.Based on personal experience and grounded in journalism, this story... |
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Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies
Ben Macintyre - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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In Double Cross, New York Times bestselling author Ben Macintyre returns with the untold story of one of the greatest deceptions of World War II, and of the extraordinary spies who achieved it.. On June 6, 1944, 150,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy and suffered an astonishingly... |
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Lisbon: War in the Shadows of the City of Light, 1939-45
Neill Lochery - PublicAffairs; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Lisbon had a pivotal role in the history of World War II, though not a gun was fired there. The only European city in which both the Allies and the Axis power operated openly, it was temporary home to much of Europes exiled royalty, over one million refugees seeking passage to the U.S.,... |
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Grover Cleveland (The American Presidents Series)
Henry F. Graff - Times Books; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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A fresh look at the only president to serve nonconsecutive terms.Though often overlooked, Grover Cleveland was a significant figure in American presidential history. Having run for President three times and gaining the popular vote majority each time -- despite losing the electoral college... |
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Bob Bullock: God Bless Texas
Dave McNeely - University of Texas Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Renowned for his fierce devotion to the people of Texasxas well as his equally fierce rages and unpredictable temperxBob Bullock was the most powerful political figure in Texas at the end of the twentieth century First elected to the Texas House of Representatives in Bullock held several... |
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A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother
Janny Scott - Riverhead Books; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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Watch a video A major publishing event an unprecedented look into the life of the woman who most singularly shaped Barack Obama-his mother Barack Obama has written extensively about his father but little is known about Stanley Ann Dunham the fiercely independent woman who raised him the person... |
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Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town
Nate Blakeslee - PublicAffairs
Format: Paperback
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This true story of race and injustice in a small west Texas town "resembles... a modern day To Kill a Mockingbird--or would, that is, if the novel were a true story and Atticus had won" (New York Times Book Review) In the summer of 1999, in the tiny west Texas... |
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Let Every Nation Know with Audio CD
Robert Dallek - Sourcebooks MediaFusion; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Let Every Nation Know is the first book of its kind-a historical biography in Kennedyaposs own words Combining a remarkable audio CD of Kennedyaposs most famous speeches debates and press conferences with the insights of two of Americaaposs preeminent historians the result is a unique look... |
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Fighting Back: The War on Terrorism from Inside the Bush White House
Bill Sammon - Regnery Publishing; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Best-selling author and award-winning White House correspondent Bill Sammon uses his unparalleled White House access -- including revealing one-on-one interviews with President George W. Bush, conducted on Air Force One and elsewhere -- to show how the pr |
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Into the Hands of the Soldiers: Freedom and Chaos in Egypt and the Middle East
DAVID D KIRKPATRICK - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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A candid narrative of how and why the Arab Spring sparked, then failed, and the truth about America's role in that failure and the subsequent military coup that put Sisi in power--from the Middle East correspondent of the New York Times.In 2011, Egyptians of all sects, ages, and social... |
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Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr
Nancy Isenberg - Viking Adult; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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This definitive biography of the revolutionary era villain overturns every myth and image we have of him The narrative of Americaxs founding is filled with godlike geniusesxFranklin Washington Adams Jeffersonxversus the villainous Aaron Burr Generations have been told Burr was a betrayerxof... |
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Madison and Jefferson
Andrew Burstein - Random House; 1 edition
Format: Book
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A WATERSHED ACCOUNT OF THE MOST IMPORTANT POLITICAL FRIENDSHIP IN AMERICAN HISTORY In Madison and Jefferson, esteemed historians Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg join forces to reveal the crucial partnership of two extraordinary founders, creating a superb dual biography that is a thrilling... |
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God, Guns, Grits, and Gravy
Mike Huckabee - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly bestseller from a presidential candidate for the 2016 election!In God, Guns, Grits and Gravy, Mike Huckabee asks, "Have I been taken to a different planet than the one on which I grew up?" The New York... |
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Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History
Matt Baglio - Viking Adult; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The true, declassified account of CIA operative Tony Mendez's daring rescue of American hostages from Iran that inspired the critically-acclaimed film directed by and starring Ben Affleck, and co-starring John Goodman, Alan Arkin, and Bryan Cranston.On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants... |
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Lies the Government Told You: Myth, Power, and Deception in American History
Andrew P. Napolitano - Thomas Nelson; 5th Print edition
Format: Hardcover
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YOUVE BEEN LIED TO BY THE GOVERNMENT We shrug off this fact as an unfortunate reality. America is the land of the free, after all. Does it really matter whether our politicians bend the truth here and there? When the truth is traded for lies, our freedoms are diminished and dont return.... |
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Rez Life: An Indian's Journey Through Reservation Life
David Treuer - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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Celebrated novelist David Treuer has gained a reputation for writing fiction that expands the horizons of Native American literature. In Rez Life, his first full-length work of nonfiction, Treuer brings a novelist's storytelling skill and an eye for detail to a complex and subtle... |
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Blood Feud: The Clintons vs. The Obamas
Edward Klein - Pinnacle; Reprint edition
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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On the surface, they are allies, two of the most powerful Democratic families on the political landscape, shaping American policy for years to come. Behind the scenes, they are bitter enemies, rivals fueled by great personal animosity. #1 New York Times bestselling author Edward Klein... |
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Historic Native Peoples of Texas
William C. Foster - University of Texas Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Several hundred tribes of Native Americans were living within or hunting and trading across the present-day borders of Texas when Cabeza de Vaca and his shipwrecked companions washed up on a Gulf Coast beach in Over the next two centuries as Spanish and French expeditions explored the state... |
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Texas Ranger Tales: Stories That Need Telling
Mike Cox - Taylor Trade Publishing
Format: Paperback
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Texas Ranger Tales is a collection of legendary Texas Ranger stories, from new takes on the famous tales to fresh stories few, if any, have heard. |
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Middletown, America: One Town's Passage from Trauma to Hope
Gail Sheehy - Random House; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The single event that we know as 9/11 is over, but the shock waves continue to radiate outward, generated by orange alerts, terrorism lockdowns, and the shrinking of personal liberties we once took for granted. The stories in this book, of real people faced with extraordinary trauma and gradually... |
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Richard M. Nixon: The American Presidents Series: The 37th President, 1969-1974
Elizabeth Drew - Times Books; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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The complex man at the center of Americas most self-destructive presidencynbspIn this provocative and revelatory assessment of the only president ever forced out of office the legendary Washington journalist Elizabeth Drew explains how Richard M Nixons troubled inner life offers the key to understanding... |
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The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
AndreÌs ReseÌndez - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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A landmark history - the sweeping story of the enslavement of tens of thousands of Indians across America, from the time of the conquistadors up to the early 20th century Since the time of Columbus, Indian slavery was illegal in much of the American continent. Yet, as Andrs Resndez illuminates... |
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Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
Pete Buttigieg - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "The best American political autobiography since Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father." -- Charles Kaiser, The Guardian A mayor's inspirational story of a Midwest city that has become nothing less than a blueprint for the future of American renewal.Once... |
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Stop the Coming Civil War: My Savage Truth
Michael Savage - Center St
Format: Hardcover
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In his trademark in-your-face style, bestselling author and top conservative talk-show host, Michael Savage has a lot to say about the state of the country in STOP THE COMING CIVIL WAR. According to Michael Savage, OUR NATION IS IN REAL TROUBLE and the seeds of a second conflagration have... |
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The Plains Indians (Elma Dill Russell Spencer Series in the West and Southwest)
Paul H. Carlson - TAMU Press; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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For the Plains Indians, the period from 1750 to 1890, often referred to as the traditional period, was an evolutionary time. Horses and firearms, trade goods, shifting migration patterns, disease pandemics, and other events associated with extensive European contact led to a peak of Plains... |
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Vital Voices: The Power of Women Leading Change Around the World
Alyse Nelson - Jossey-Bass; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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How women around the world are leading powerful change Women's progress is global progress. Where there is an increase in women's university enrollment rates, women's earnings, and maternal health, and a reduction in violence against women, we see more prosperous communities,... |
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Barbara Jordan: Speaking the Truth with Eloquent Thunder
Max Sherman - University of Texas Press; Har/DVD edition
Format: Hardcover
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Revered by Americans across the political spectrum Barbara Jordan was the most outspoken moral voice of the American political system in the words of former President Bill Clinton who awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom in Throughout her career as a Texas senator US congresswoman... |
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The Chinese in America: A Narrative History
Iris Chang - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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A quintessiantially American story chronicling Chinese American achievement in the face of institutionalized racism by the New York Times bestselling author of The Rape of NankingIn an epic story that spans 150 years and continues to the present day, Iris Chang tells of a people's search... |
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Eleanor and hick : the love affair that shaped a first lady
Susan Quinn - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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A warm, intimate account of the love between Eleanor Roosevelt and reporter Lorena Hickok - a relationship that, over more than three decades, transformed both women's lives and empowered them to play significant roles in one of the most tumultuous periods in American historyIn 1932, as her husband... |
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The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide
Gary J. Bass - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A riveting historymdashthe first full accountmdashof the involvement of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger in the atrocities in Bangladesh that led to war between India and Pakistan shaped the fate of Asia and left in their wake a host of major strategic consequences for the world todayGiving... |
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Washington's Circle: The Creation of the President
David S. Heidler - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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History enthusiasts and admirers of Team of Rivals will rejoice in this magisterial account of the extraordinary Americans who served the nation's first chief executive: Together, they created the presidency for a country disgusted by crowns and the people who would wear them. In 1789,... |
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The Blood of Emmett Till
Timothy B Tyson - Simon & Schuster
Format: Audiobook
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Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction This extraordinary New York Times bestseller reexamines a pivotal event of the civil rights movement - the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till - "and demands that we do the one vital thing we aren't often enough asked to do with... |
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The Land of Flickering Lights: Restoring America in an Age of Broken Politics
Michael Bennet - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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"We had become the land of flickering lights, in which the standard of success was not what we were doing for the next generation of Americans, or to enhance our role in the world, but instead whether we had kept government open for another few minutes." -- Michael Bennet on yet another... |
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Patrolling Chaos: The U.S. Border Patrol in Deep South Texas
Robert Lee Maril - Texas Tech University Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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"[A] fine ethnographic study of a rigid, militaristic, masculinist bureaucracy, the Border Patrol. . . . Using vivid prose, Maril weaves the complex history of south Texas, with its race and class injustices, into the text and makes deft critiques of the ways the bureaucracy and its chaotic... |
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Frank: A Life in Politics from the Great Society to Same-Sex Marriage
Barney Frank - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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How did a disheveled, intellectually combative gay Jew with a thick accent become one of the most effective (and funniest) politicians of our time?Growing up in Bayonne, New Jersey, the fourteen-year-old Barney Frank made two vital discoveries about himself: he was attracted to government,... |
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The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington
Brad Meltzer - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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Taking place during the most critical period of our nation's birth, The First Conspiracy tells a remarkable and previously untold piece of American history that not only reveals George Washington's character, but also illuminates the origins of America's counterintelligence movement... |
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The Comanche Empire
Pekka Hamalainen - Yale University Press; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a Native American empire rose to dominate the fiercely contested lands of the American Southwest, the southern Great Plains, and northern Mexico. This powerful empire, built by the Comanche Indians, eclipsed its various European rivals in military... |
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Spoken from the Heart
Laura Bush - Scribner; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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In this brave, beautiful, and deeply personal memoir, Laura Bush, one of our most beloved and private first ladies, tells her own extraordinary story.Born in the boom-and-bust oil town of Midland, Texas, Laura Welch grew up as an only child in a family that lost three babies to miscarriage... |
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My Life in Progressive Politics: Against the Grain
Joseph D Tydings - Texas A&M University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Gun control, voting rights, family planning, and environmental protection--these are all hot-button issues today, but they were also the same difficult and intractable issues that Senator Joseph D. Tydings of Maryland faced during his tenure in the Senate in the 1960s. In this timely memoir,... |
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Texas Ranger Tales II
Mike Cox - Republic of Texas Press
Format: Paperback
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Mike Cox knows as much about the Texas Rangers as anybody on the planet. And in this, his second book on the Rangers, he spins more great tales of these larger-than-life heroes and their sometimes almost unvelievable adventures. These are all new stories, some only told among the Rangers... |
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Clinton in Exile: A President Out of the White House
Carol Felsenthal - William Morrow; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Just before noon on January the most powerful and arguably most ambitious man in the world relinquished the public stage reluctantly at the young age of fifty-four Having endured infamous scandals and impeachment President Bill Clinton left office with record approval ratingsand embarked... |
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Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution
Richard Beeman - Random House; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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"While some have boasted it as a work from Heaven, others have given it a less righteous origin. I have many reasons to believe that it is the work of plain, honest men."-Robert Morris, delegate from Pennsylvania to the Constitutional ConventionFrom distinguished historian Richard... |
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The Spoils of War: Greed, Power, and the Conflicts That Made Our Greatest Presidents
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita - PublicAffairs
Format: Print book
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It's striking how many of the presidents Americans venerate - Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and John F. Kennedy, to name a few - oversaw some of the republic's bloodiest years. Perhaps it's because they looked out for important political causes.... |
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History of the United States During the Administrations of James Madison
Henry Adams - Library of America
Format: Hardcover
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This monumental work, the second of two Library of America volumes, culminated Henry Adams's lifelong fascination with the American past. Writing at the height of his powers, Adams understood the true subject as the consolidation of the American nation and character, and his treatment... |
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Zoya's Story: An Afghan Woman's Struggle for Freedom
John Follain
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Zoya's Story is a young woman's searing account of her clandestine war of resistance against the Taliban and religious fanaticism at the risk of her own life. An epic tale of fear and suffering, courage and hope, Zoya's Story is a powerful testament to the ongoing battle to cla |
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