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Freedom Summer: The Savage Season of 1964 That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a DemocracyA riveting account of one of the most remarkable episodes in American history. In his critically acclaimed history Freedom Summer, award- winning author Bruce Watson presents powerful testimony about a crucial episode in the American civil rights movement. During the sweltering summer of 1964,...
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Okinawa: A Decorated Marine's Account of the Last Battle of World War IIPenguin delivers you to the front lines of The Pacific Theater with the real-life stories behind the HBO miniseries.Former Marine and Pacific War veteran Robert Leckie tells the story of the invasion of Okinawa, the closing battle of World War II. Leckie is a...
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The Battle of New Orleans: Andrew Jackson and America's First Military VictoryThe Battle of New Orleans was the climactic battle of America's "forgotten war" of 1812. Andrew Jackson led his ragtag corps of soldiers against 8,000 disciplined invading British regulars in a battle that delivered the British a humiliating military defeat. The victory solidified America's...
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Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock That Shaped the WorldThe astonishing biography of a mineral that can sustain our world- or destroy it Uranium occurs naturally in the earth's crust-yet holds the power to end all life on the planet. This is its fundamental paradox, and its story is a fascinating window into...
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Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab"The story of the Cherokee removal has been told many times, but never before has a single book given us such a sense of how it happened and what it meant, not only for Indians, but also for the future and soul of America."...
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They Would Never Hurt a Fly: War Criminals on Trial in the Hague"Who were they? Ordinary people like you or me--or monsters?" asks internationally acclaimed author Slavenka Drakulic as she sets out to understand the people behind the horrific crimes committed during the war that tore apart Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Drawing on firsthand observations of...
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Paris: After the Liberation 1944-1949"A rich and intriguing story whcih the authors disentangle with great skill."--Sunday Telegraph From Antony Beevor, the internationally bestselling author of D-Day and The Battle of Arnhem In this brilliant synthesis of social, political, and cultural history, Antony Beevor and Artemis Cooper present a...
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The Visionaries: Bretton Woods, the Marshall Plan, and the Making of the Post-World War II OrderFrom the pre-eminent WWII historian, an ardent chronicle of the unprecedented and far-sighted U.S. postwar decision to aid its enemies as well as its allies via the Marshall Plan, which led to eight decades of peace and prosperity in the West that could be...
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Elegy in BlueMark Helprin, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Oceans and the Stars, Winter's Tale, and A Soldier of the Great War, returns with an unforgettable tale of love, loss, and remembrance set in Brooklyn.Told in an exceptional literary voice, mixing comedy...
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Edmonia: A Novel of a Boundary-Breaking American SculptressAuthor: Brianne BakerPublisher: Dafina BooksPublished: 04/28/2026Pages: 288Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.10dISBN: 9781496754875About the AuthorBrianne Baker is an author and professor who has taught courses in academic and creative writing at Columbia University and New York University. After graduating from NYU...
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Nuremberg: Infamy on Trial"A vivid reconstruction of the actions of the wartime allies and the Nazi elite at Nuremberg. Persico easily carries us into a deeper understanding of the trials."--New York Newsday The Nuremberg trials remain, after nearly half a century, the benchmark for judging international crimes....
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The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson IThe Years of Lyndon Johnson is the political biography of our time. No president--no era of American politics--has been so intensively and sharply examined at a time when so many prime witnesses to hitherto untold or misinterpreted facets of a life, a career, and...
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The Wreck of the Mentor: A True Story of Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of SailFrom the best-selling author of Black Flags, Blue Waters comes the story of the American whaleship Mentor, wrecked in 1832 on a remote reef in the western Pacific. With supplies dwindling, the eleven surviving crewmen face not only the miseries of shipwreck in unfamiliar...
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Palinuro of MexicoWinner of Mexico's Premio Novela Mexico, Spain's Romulo Gallegos Prize for best Spanish-language novel, and France's Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger for best foreign book, Palinuro of Mexico is a masterpiece which ranks with the finest achievements of Gabriel Garcíiacute;a Máaacute;rquez, Carlos Fuentes, and...
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Iconic Moments in Broadcast History: Live Via SatelliteEvery generation recalls the moments that defined history-those rare occasions when the world paused, united by a single broadcast. This book invites readers behind the scenes, offering a firsthand perspective from someone who stood at the heart of the action as these defining moments...
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This Is a True War Story: My Improbable History with VietnamA personal account by a war historian and adoptee who discovers his biological father was a famous Marine combat photographer in Vietnam. Robert K. Brigham has had a substantial career as a historian of the Vietnam War, with a hand in nine books, a...
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Echoes of InfamyIn late-1940s Los Angeles, former spies Evelyn Bishop and Nick Gallagher dig into shady real estate dealings, murder, and the appalling aftereffects of WWII-era Japanese American internment in this intrigue-filled historical mystery for readers of Allison Montclair, Jacqueline Winspear, Ashley Weaver, and Susan Elia...
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The Sun Also RisesA collectible hardcover edition of Hemingway's classic novel of postwar disillusionment--the emblematic novel of the Lost Generation--featuring an introduction by Amor Towles, the multimillion-copy bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow, and Rules of Civility A Penguin Vitae Edition It's the...
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Won't Be Long NowComing of age in 1950s Kansas, a misunderstood young woman must find her way through a society ill-equipped to give her grace in this powerful, exhilarating story about loyalty, family, and hard-won self-acceptance for readers of Jayne Anne Phillips, Patti Callahan Henry, and Donna...
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Art and Activism: Jazz Artists and Writers in the Civil Rights VanguardExplore how jazz legends and literary icons united art and activism, shaping the civil rights movement and transforming American culture during the pivotal period between 1955 and 1965.Art and Activism explores the powerful, symbiotic relationships among artists such as Nina Simone, Abbey Lincoln, and...
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