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Ascent to Power: How Truman Emerged from Roosevelt's Shadow and Remade the World
David L. Roll - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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The fascinating story behind the most consequential presidential transition in US history, from Franklin Roosevelt to Harry Truman, and the legacy Truman struggled to overcome to lead America into a new, post-war world. In 1944, Franklin Roosevelt selected as his next running mate a hardworking,... |
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Cyberspies: The Secret History of Surveillance, Hacking, and Digital Espionage
Gordon Corera - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book
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The previously untold -- and previously highly classified -- story of the conflux of espionage and technology, with a compelling narrative rich with astonishing revelations taking readers from World War II to the internet age. As the digital era become increasingly pervasive, the intertwining... |
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American Radicals: How Nineteenth-Century Protest Shaped the Nation
Holly Jackson - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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A dynamic, timely history of nineteenth-century activists - free-lovers and socialists, abolitionists and vigilantes - and the social revolution they sparked in the turbulent Civil War era"In the tradition of Howard Zinn's people's histories, American Radicals reveals a forgotten... |
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War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence
Ronan Farrow - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A harrowing exploration of the collapse of American diplomacy and the abdication of global leadership, by the winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in Public Service.US foreign policy is undergoing a dire transformation, forever changing America's place in the world. Institutions of diplomacy... |
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BLITZ: Trump Will Smash the Left and Win
David Horowitz - Humanix Books
Format: Hardcover
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BUCKLE UP - 2020 WILL BE THE POLITICAL RIDE OF YOUR LIFE! IN NOVEMBER TRUMP WILL SMASH THE LEFT AND WIN! "If you're interested in debating deranged liberals with facts, you won't want to miss this latest book." - Donald Trump, Jr. "BLITZ is a MUST-read for those... |
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There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir
Casey Gerald - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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The testament of a boy and a generation who came of age as the world came apart--a generation searching for a new way to live.Casey Gerald's story begins at the end of the world: Dallas, New Year's Eve 1999, when he gathers with the congregation of his grandfather's black evangelical church... |
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The Contest: The 1968 Election and the War for America's Soul
MICHAEL SCHUMACHER - Univ Of Minnesota Press
Format: Hardcover
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A dramatic, deeply informed account of one of the most consequential elections and periods in American history 1968 - rife with riots, assassinations, anti-Vietnam War protests, and realpolitik - was one of the most tumultuous years in the twentieth century, culminating in one of the most... |
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