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The Secret War: Spies, Ciphers, and Guerrillas, 1939-1945
Max Hastings - Harper
Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From one of the foremost historians of the period and the acclaimed author of Inferno and Catastrophe: 1914, The Secret War is a sweeping examination of one of the most important yet underexplored aspects of World War II - intelligence - showing how espionage successes... |
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The 60s: The Story of a Decade
Henry Finder - Random House
Format: Print book
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The third installment of a fascinating decade-by-decade series, this anthology collects historic New Yorker pieces from the most tumultuous years of the twentieth century - including pieces by James Baldwin, Pauline Kael, Sylvia Plath, Roger Angell, Muriel Spark, and John Updike... |
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Globish: How the English Language Became the World's Language
Robert McCrum - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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How English conquered the world: a Guns, Germs, and Steel argument based on the power of the word. It seems impossible: a small island in the North Atlantic, colonized by Rome, then pillaged for hundreds of years by marauding neighbors, becomes the dominant world power in the nineteenth... |
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Life After the Military: A Handbook for Transitioning Veterans
Don Philpott - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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Hundreds of thousands of military members are making the transition to civilian life each year. This transition is a move into unfamiliar territory and can be an extremely uncomfortable process. However, there are resources in place that can relieve much of the stress of the challenging... |
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Shadows in the Vineyard: The True Story of the Plot to Poison the World's Greatest Wine
Maximillian Potter - Twelve; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Amazon Best Book of the Month, July 2014Journalist Maximillian Potter uncovers a fascinating plot to destroy the vines of La Romane-Conti, Burgundy's finest and most expensive wine. In January 2010, Aubert de Villaine, the famed proprietor of the Domaine de la Romane-Conti, the tiny,... |
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Capital Dames: The Civil War and the Women of Washington, 1848-1868
Cokie Roberts - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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In this engrossing and informative companion to her New York Times bestsellers Founding Mothers and Ladies of Liberty, Cokie Roberts marks the sesquicentennial of the Civil War by offering a riveting look at Washington, D.C. and the experiences, influence, and contributions of its women... |
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Who Discovered America?: The Untold History of the Peopling of the Americas
Gavin Menzies - William Morrow; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Greatly expanding on his blockbuster 1421, distinguished historian Gavin Menzies uncovers the complete untold history of how mankind came to the Americas—offering new revelations and a radical rethinking of the accepted historical record in Who Discovered America?The iconoclastic... |
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The 40s: The Story of a Decade
The New Yorker Magazine - Random House; First Edition ~1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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Including contributions byW. H. Auden Elizabeth Bishop John Cheever Janet Flanner John Hersey Langston Hughes Shirley Jackson A. J. Liebling William Maxwell Carson McCullers Joseph Mitchell Vladimir Nabokov Ogden Nash John OHara George Orwell V. S. Pritchett Lillian Ross... |
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Constellation of Genius: 1922: Modernism Year One
Kevin Jackson - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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Ezra Pound referred to 1922 as Year One of a new era. It was the year that began with the publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses and ended with the publication of T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, two works that were arguably “the sun and moon” of modernist literature,... |
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The Return of George Washington: 1783-1789
Edward Larson - William Morrow; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Edward J. Larson recovers a crucially importantyet almost always overlookedchapter of George Washingtons life, revealing how Washington saved the United States by coming out of retirement to lead the Constitutional Convention and serve as our first president.After... |
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Bourbon: A History of the American Spirit
Dane Huckelbridge - William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,
Format: Print book
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Popular history with a whiskey-soaked edge: Bourbon is Dane Huckelbridge's artful and imaginative biography of our most well-liked, and at times controversial, spirit, that is also a witty and entertaining chronicle of the United States itself.Few commodities figure as prominently or as intimately... |
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The Reader's Companion to Military History
Robert Cowley - Houghton Mifflin
Format: Book
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An encyclopedia of military history covers the wars of Asia, South America, and Africa, as well as North America and Europe. |
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The Civil War: The Third Year Told by Those Who Lived It:
Brooks D. Simpson - Library of America; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover
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This is the third volume of the ground-breaking eyewitness narrative that has been called a quotmasterpiece.quotSpanning the crucial months from January to March , this third volume of The Library of Americarsquos highly acclaimed four volume series presents an incomparable portrait of a nation... |
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Hubris: The Tragedy of War in the Twentieth Century
Alistair Horne - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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Sir Alistair Horne has been a close observer of war and history for more than fifty years and in this wise and masterly work, he revisits six battles of the past century and examines the strategies, leadership, preparation, and geopolitical goals of aggressors and defenders to reveal the one trait... |
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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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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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The library beyond the book
Jeffrey T Schnapp; Matthew Battles - Harvard University Press
Format: Print book
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With textbook readers and digital downloads proliferating, it is easy to imagine a time when printed books will vanish. Such forecasts miss the mark, argue Jeffrey Schnapp and Matthew Battles. Future bookshelves will not be wholly virtual, and libraries will thrive -- although in a variety... |
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Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad
Eric Foner - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Paperback
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The dramatic story of fugitive slaves and the antislavery activists who defied the law to help them reach freedom.More than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our understanding of Americas history. Now, making brilliant use of extraordinary evidence, the Pulitzer Prize-winning... |
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Buffalo Calf Road Woman: The Story Of A Warrior Of The Little Bighorn
Rosemary Agonito - TwoDot
Format: Book
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Winner of the Western Heritage Award for "Outstanding Western Novel" 2005 As the Cheyenne fought that June day in 1876, warrior Comes in Sight faced grave danger. His horse had been shot out from under him, and he was left stranded on the battlefield. |
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The Origins and History of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
Merrie A. Fidler - McFarland; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover
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"This in-depth treatment of the organization and operation of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League draws on primary documents from league owner Arthur Meyerhoff and others for a unique perspective inside the AAGPBL. The study begins with a brief history of women's softball,... |
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Valverde's Gold: In Search of the Last Great Inca Treasure
Mark Honigsbaum - Farrar
Format: Hardcover
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In 1887, two British sailors landed on the coast of Ecuador and set off across the Andes on a secret mission. Their task was to locate an immense hoard of Inca gold which had been lost for hundreds of years. A botanist who had recently returned from Ecuador had provided them with documents... |
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The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas
Anand Giridharadas - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A 2014 New York Times Book Review Notable Book and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year A Boston Globe Best Nonfiction of 2014 Kate Tuttles pickNPR, Staff Pick The Dark Side, Science and Society Eye Opening Reads CategoriesAmazon, Best Books of 2014 Nonfiction Imagine that a terrorist... |
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Citizen Kane: A Filmmaker's Journey
Harlan Lebo - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Print book
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With the 75th anniversary of Citizen Kane in May 2016, Harlan Lebo has written the full story of Orson Welles' masterpiece film. The book will explore:--Welles' meteoric rise to stardom in New York and the real reason behind his arrival in Hollywood--Welles' unprecedented contract... |
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The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives
Sasha Abramsky - Nation Books; First Trade Paper Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times Book Review
- David K. Shipler
[Abramsky] travels the United States meeting the poor, whose wrenching tales he inserts in tight vignettes among data-driven analyses and acute dissections of government programsAbramsky... |
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The Discovery of Middle Earth: Mapping the Lost World of the Celts
Graham Robb - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A treasure hunt that uncovers the secrets of one of the worlds great civilizations, revealing dramatic proof of the extreme sophistication of the Celts, and their creation of the earliest accurate map of the world. Fifty generations ago the cultural empire of the Celts stretched from the Black... |
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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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Navy SEALs: Their Untold Story
William Doyle - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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The most complete history of the U.S. Navy SEALs - from their roots in World War II to their celebrated efforts in the War on Terror - written with the unprecedented cooperation of the Naval Special Warfare community. The book will tie-in with a fall 2014 PBS series.Over the last fifty... |
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The Lost Region: Toward a Revival of Midwestern History
Jon K. Lauck - University Of Iowa Press; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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The American Midwest is an orphan among regions. In comparison to the South, the far West, and New England, its history has been sadly neglected. To spark more attention to their region, midwestern historians will need to explain the Midwest’s crucial roles in the development... |
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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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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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Why We Lost: A General's Inside Account of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars
Daniel P Bolger - Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A high-ranking general's gripping insider account of the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and how it all went wrong.Over a thirty-five-year career, Daniel Bolger rose through the army infantry to become a three-star general, commanding in both theaters of the U.S. campaigns in Iraq... |
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The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition
Manisha Sinha - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Received historical wisdom casts abolitionists as bourgeois, mostly white reformers burdened by racial paternalism and economic conservatism. Manisha Sinha overturns this image, broadening her scope beyond the antebellum period usually associated with abolitionism and recasting it as a radical... |
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Civilization: The West and the Rest
Niall Ferguson - The Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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Western civilizationrsquos rise to global dominance is the single most important historical phenomenon of the past five centuries All over the world more and more people study at Western-style universities work for Western-style companies vote for Western-style governments take Western... |
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American Spring: Lexington, Concord, and the Road to Revolution
Walter R. Borneman - Little Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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A vibrant new look at the American Revolution's first months, from the author of the bestseller The Admirals When we reflect on our nation's history, the American Revolution can feel almost like a foregone conclusion. In reality, the first weeks and months of 1775 were very tenuous,... |
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South Dakota 125 A Pictorial History
Bernie Hunhoff; John Andrews; Roger Holtzmann; Katie Hunhoff; Andrea Maibaum; Rebecca Johnson - Yankton, South Dakota: South Dakota Magazine
Format: Paperback
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Inside this book you will find one picture chosen to illustrate and represent each of South Dakotas first 125 years. Oh, there are other treats as well - short histories for each decade, and long captions for each of the photos - but the bulk of "South Dakota 125" is the photo... |
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Higher Education in America
Derek Bok - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Higher Education in America is a landmark work--a comprehensive and authoritative analysis of the current condition of our colleges and universities from former Harvard president Derek Bok, one of the nations most respected education experts. Sweepingly ambitious in scope, this is a deeply... |
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Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General
Bill O'Reilly - Henry Holt
Format: Print book
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Readers around the world have thrilled to Killing Lincoln, Killing Kennedy, and Killing Jesus--riveting works of nonfiction that journey into the heart of the most famous murders in history. Now from Bill O'Reilly, anchor of The O'Reilly Factor, comes the most epic book of all in this... |
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Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
Timothy Snyder - Tim Duggan Books
Format: Print book
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A brilliant, haunting, and profoundly original portrait of the defining tragedy of our time. In this epic history of extermination and survival, Timothy Snyder presents a new explanation of the great atrocity of the twentieth century, and reveals the risks that we face in the twenty-first.... |
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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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The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945
Rick Atkinson - Henry Holt and Co.; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe magnificent conclusion to Rick Atkinson's acclaimed Liberation Trilogy about the Allied triumph in Europe during World War IIIt is the twentieth century's unrivaled epic: at a staggering price, the United States and its allies liberated Europe and vanquished... |
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Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities
Craig Steven Wilder - Bloomsbury Press; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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A 2006 report commissioned by Brown University revealed that institution’s complex and contested involvement in slavery—setting off a controversy that leapt from the ivory tower to make headlines across the country. But Brown’s troubling past was far from unique. In Ebony... |
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I Was Born a Slave: An Anthology of Classic Slave Narratives: 1849-1866
Yuval Taylor - Lawrence Hill Books
Format: Paperback
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Between 1760 and 1902, more than 200 book-length autobiographies of ex-slaves were published; together they form the basis for all subsequent African American literature. I Was Born a Slave collects the 20 most significant "slave narratives." They describe whippings, torture,... |
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The Making of Home: The 500-Year Story of How Our Houses Became Our Homes
Judith Flanders - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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The 500-year story of how, and why, our homes have come to be what they are, from the critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Invention of Murder and The Victorian CityThe idea that "home" is a special place, a separate place, a place where we can be our true... |
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Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields
Wendy Lower - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Wendy Lower’s stunning account of the role of German women on the World War II Nazi eastern front powerfully revises history, proving that we have ignored the reality of women’s participation in the Holocaust, including as brutal killers. The long-held picture of German women... |
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Money: The Unauthorized Biography
Felix Martin - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From ancient currency to Adam Smith, from the gold standard to shadow banking and the Great Recession: a sweeping historical epic that traces the development and evolution of one of humankind's greatest inventions.What is money, and how does it work? In this tour de force of political,... |
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The Second Amendment: A Biography
Michael Waldman - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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By the president of the prestigious Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, the life story of the most controversial, volatile, misunderstood provision of the Bill of Rights.At a time of renewed debate over guns in America, what does the Second Amendment mean? This book looks at history... |
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Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission
Hampton Sides - Anchor Books
Format: Paperback
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On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected U.S. troops slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Their mission: March thirty rugged miles to rescue 513 POWs languishing in a hellish camp, among them the last survivors of the infamous Bataan Death March. A recent prison massacre by Japanese... |
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Red Eagles: America's Secret MiGs
Steve Davies - Osprey Publishing; New Rev Up edition
Format: Hardcover
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When two Navy F-14 Tomcats engaged and shot down two Sukhoi Su-22 jet fighters in 1981, they drew on experience and tactics that they had learned from a previous encounter with MiG jet fighters. The difference between the two encounters was that in the first, the enemy fighters were flown... |
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How the Post Office Created America: A History
Winifred Gallagher - Penguin Books
Format: Print book
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The definitive history of the US Postal Service, the least appreciated and analyzed of America's great institutions, and an examination of how this remarkable organization created America. The post office, Winifred Gallagher argues, has been not just a witness to but a foundational influence... |
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Witness: A Hunkpapha Historian's Strong-Heart Song of the Lakotas
Josephine Waggoner - University of Nebraska Press
Format: Hardcover
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During the 1920s and 1930s, Josephine Waggoner (1871–1943), a Lakota woman who had been educated at Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in Virginia, grew increasingly concerned that the history and culture of her people were being lost as elders died without passing along their... |
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Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan
Bill O'Reilly - Henry Holt and Company
Format: Print book
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The powerful and riveting new book in the multimillion-selling Killing series by Bill O'Reilly and Martin DugardAutumn 1944. World War II is nearly over in Europe but is escalating in the Pacific, where American soldiers face an opponent who will go to any length to avoid defeat.... |
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The Feud: The Hatfields and McCoys: The True Story
Dean King - Little, Brown and Company; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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For more than a century, the enduring feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys has been American shorthand for passionate, unyielding, and even violent confrontation. Yet despite numerous articles, books, television shows, and feature films, nobody has ever told the in-depth true story... |
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The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World
Adrienne Mayor - Princeton University Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Amazons--fierce warrior women dwelling on the fringes of the known world--were the mythic archenemies of the ancient Greeks. Heracles and Achilles displayed their valor in duels with Amazon queens, and the Athenians reveled in their victory over a powerful Amazon army. In historical times,... |
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The Italian Americans: A History
Maria Laurino - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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This gorgeous companion book to the PBS series illuminates an important, overlooked part of American history. In this richly researched, beautifully designed and illustrated volume, Maria Laurino strips away stereotypes and nostalgia to tell the complicated, centuries-long story of the true... |
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Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson
S. C. Gwynne - Scribner; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the prize-winning New York Times bestseller Empire of the Summer Moon comes a thrilling account of how Civil War general Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson became a great and tragic American hero.Stonewall Jackson has long been a figure of legend and romance. As much... |
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Who Rules the World? (American Empire Project)
Noam Chomsky - Picador
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Bestseller. With a New Afterword. The worlds leading intellectual offers a probing examination of the nature of U.S. policies post-9/11, and the perils of valuing power above democracy and human rights.. In an incisive, thorough analysis of the current international situation,... |
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The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth
Mark Mazzetti - Penguin Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A Pulitzer Prizewinning reporters riveting account of the transformation of the CIA and Americas special operations forces into man-hunting and killing machines in the worlds dark spaces the new American way of warThe most momentous change in American warfare over the past decade has taken... |
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The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914
Margaret MacMillan - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review * The Economist * The Christian Science Monitor * Bloomberg Businessweek * The Globe and MailFrom the bestselling and award-winning author of Paris 1919 comes a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction,... |
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American Rhapsody: Writers, Musicians, Movie Stars, and One Great Building
Claudia Roth Pierpont - Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2016.
Format: Print book
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Ranging from the shattered gentility of Edith Wharton's heroines to racial confrontation in the songs of Nina Simone, American Rhapsody presents a kaleidoscopic story of the creation of a culture. Here is a series of deeply involving portraits of American artists and innovators who have... |
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Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Real West
David Fisher - Henry Holt & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The must-have companion to Bill O'Reilly's historic series Legends and Lies: The Real West, a fascinating, eye-opening look at the truth behind the western legends we all think we knowHow did Davy Crockett save President Jackson's life only to end up dying at the Alamo? Was the Lone... |
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The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler's Atomic Bomb
Neal Bascomb - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of Hunting Eichmann and The Perfect Mile, an epic adventure and spy story about the greatest act of sabotage in all of World War II. It's 1942 and the Nazis are racing to be the first to build a weapon unlike any known... |
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The Romanovs: 1613-1918
Simon Sebag Montefiore - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book
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The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface for three centuries. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world's greatest empire? And how did they lose it all? This is the intimate story of twenty tsars and tsarinas,... |
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The Enlightenment: And Why It Still Matters
Anthony Pagden - Random House
Format: Print book
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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWSOne of our most renowned and brilliant historians takes a fresh look at the revolutionary intellectual movement that laid the foundation for the modern world. Liberty and equality. Human rights. Freedom of thought and expression.... |
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How We Invented Freedom and Why it Matters
Daniel Hannan - Head of Zeus
Format: Hardcover
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This book tells the story of freedom and explains how it is a uniquely 'British', rather than 'Western', invention. It shows how the inhabitants of a damp island at the western tip of the Eurasian landmass stumbled upon the extraordinary idea that the state was the servant,... |
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Five Tragic Hours: The Battle of Franklin
James L. McDonough - Univ of Tennessee Pr; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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On a November afternoon in 1864, the weary Gen. John Bell Hood surveyed the army waiting to attack the Federals at Franklin, Tennessee. He gave the signal almost at dusk, and the Confederates rushed forward to utter devastation. This book describes the events and causes of the five-hour... |
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First Women: The Grace and Power of America's First Ladies
Kate Andersen Brower - Harper
Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the groundbreaking backstairs look at the White House, The Residence, comes an intimate, news-making look at the true modern power brokers at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue: the First Ladies, from Jackie Kennedy to Michelle... |
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Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind
Biz Stone - Grand Central Pub
Format: Hardcover
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Biz Stone, the co-founder of Twitter, discusses the power of creativity and how to harness it, through stories from his remarkable life and career.THINGS A LITTLE BIRD TOLD MEFrom GQ's "Nerd of the Year" to one of Time's most influential people in the world, Biz Stone... |
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