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Presidents at War: How World War II Shaped a Generation of Presidents, from Eisenhower and JFK through Reagan and Bush

Steven M. Gillon - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

Steven M. Gillon, New York Times bestselling author of America's Reluctant Prince, is back with the story of how WWII shaped the characters and politics of seven American presidents.. World War II loomed over the twentieth century, transforming every level of American society and international...
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Talk to Me: Lessons from a Family Forged by History

Rich Benjamin - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover

A piercingly powerful memoir, a grandson's account of the coup that ended his grandfather's presidency of Haiti, the secrecy that shrouded that wound within his family, and his urgent efforts to know his mother despite the past.. "A brilliant, absorbing book...I couldn't...
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Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity

Yoni Appelbaum - Random House
Format: Hardcover

How did America cease to be the land of opportunity?. We take it for granted that good neighborhoods - with good schools and good housing - are only accessible to the wealthy. But in America, this wasn't always the case.. Though for most of world history, your prospects were tied to where...
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Pseudoscience: An Amusing History of Crackpot Ideas and Why We Love Them

Lydia Kang MD - Workman Publishing Company
Format: Hardcover

A rollicking visual and narrative history of popular ideas, phenomena, and widely held beliefs disproven by science. The Bermuda Triangle. Personality tests. Ghost hunting. Crop circles. Mayan Doomsday. What do all these have in common? None can quite live up the rigor of actual facts or science...
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Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants' War

Lyndal Roper - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

In this "extraordinary and brilliant book" (Helen Castor, author of She-Wolves) , a prize-winning historian offers the definitive account of the sixteenth-century uprising that revolutionized Europe. The German Peasants' War was the greatest popular uprising in Western Europe...
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Harriet Tubman: Military Scout and Tenacious Visionary: From Her Roots in Ghana to Her Legacy on the Eastern Shore

Jean Marie Wiesen - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

A fresh portrait of this iconic American - and the first to involve a Tubman family member since Harriet herself was interviewed in 1886.. For all Harriet Tubman's accomplishments and the myriad books written about her, many gaps, errors, and misconceptions of her legendary life persist....
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How the World Eats: A Global Food Philosophy

Julian Baggini - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

A Next Big Idea Club must-read selection From the bestselling author of How the World Thinks, an exploration of how we grow, make, buy and eat our food around the world - and a proposal for a global philosophy of food.. How we live is shaped by how we eat. You can see this in the vastly...
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Mavericks: Life stories and lessons of history's most extraordinary misfits

Jenny Draper - Watkins Publishing
Format: Hardcover

In her first book, popular TikTok historian J Draper uses her characteristic wit and intellect to introduce us to extraordinary figures marginalized by history, and the lessons we can learn from them.. Witty and engaging TikTok historian J.D. Draper digs out unusual stories of individuals...
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Stealing Horses to Great Applause: The Origins of the First World War Reconsidered

Paul W. Schroeder - Verso
Format: Hardcover

Stand-out theoretical and empirical explanation of the origins of the First World War by one of the great historians of international diplomacyStealing Horses to Great Applause presents arguably the finest considerations yet of the origins of the First World War. Breaking with accounts...
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Napoleon the Little

Victor Hugo

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