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Forty-Three Ways of Looking at HemingwayThe multifaceted, cubist, and comprehensive perspective of Forty-Three Ways of Looking at Hemingway appears on the fortieth anniversary of Meyers's magisterial biography of Hemingway. This approach has never before been used to illustrate the complexity of his character, the range of his interests, and...
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A Task Force Called Faith: The Untold Story of the U.S. Army Soldiers Who Fought for Survival at Chosin Reservoir--And Honor Back HomeThe forgotten heroes of Chosin--how Task Force Faith fought against impossible odds and a legacy of unfair shame. On the 75th anniversary of the legendary Battle of Chosin Reservoir, Steve Vogel tells the little-known story of the Army soldiers who gave all during the...
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Nuremberg's Citizen Prosecutor: Benjamin Ferencz and the Birth of International JusticeThe remarkable life of one of the twentieth century's great warriors for justice, from Nuremberg to the first trial of the International Criminal Court On September 29, 1947, in Courtroom 600, before the Nuremberg Military Tribunal, twenty-seven-year-old Benjamin Ferencz approached the lectern to deliver...
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Defending Dixie's Land: What Every American Should Know About The South and The Civil WarARE YOU INTERESTED IN KNOWING the actual history of your country, or are you content with the propagandized version the winners of wars conjure up to feed school children? When it comes to the story and tradition of the U.S. South, and especially the...
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Smithson's Gamble: The Smithsonian Institution in American Life, 1836-1906Discover the incredible history of the Smithsonian as it grew to meet the needs of a nation Follow the fascinating growth and development of the world's largest museum and research complex during its first 60 years. The English chemist and mineralogist James Smithson never...
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Seattle Samurai: A Cartoonist's Perspective of the Japanese American ExperienceBetween 2012 and 2018, Sam Goto drew over 250 multi-paneled Seattle Tomodachi ("friend of Seattle") comic strips for The North American Post. These comics chronicled the lives and stories of early Japanese settlers and their American-born offspring. Through his work, he captured elements of...
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Goethe: A Life in IdeasA new intellectual biography of Goethe, examining the paradox of his thought Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) was a poet, a novelist, a scientist and an essayist on a dizzying range of topics. In the nineteenth century, he was widely regarded as one of...
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The West: The History of an IdeaA comprehensive intellectual history of the idea of the West How did "the West" come to be used as a collective self-designation signaling political and cultural commonality? When did "Westerners" begin to refer to themselves in this way? Was the idea handed down from...
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To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause (Pulitzer Prize Winner): The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident MovementWINNER OF THE 2025 PULITZER PRIZE Winner of the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize - Shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize A "riveting history" (Wall Street Journal) of the Soviet dissident movement, which hastened the end of the USSR and still provides a model...
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The President's Echo System: How Foreign Policy Is Sold to AmericansA sharp analysis of the propaganda partnerships between US presidents and private organizations that fueled the Cold War and paved the way for the War on Terror. How do US presidents motivate public support for their foreign policy agendas, which so often start out...
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The Sewards of New York: A Biography of a Leading American Political FamilyThe Sewards of New York shines a light on one of the most important and fascinating political families of the nineteenth century. Through recently discovered family correspondence, Thomas P. Slaughter unveils the inner lives of the Seward family, tracing their joys and sorrows as...
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Inheritance: Love, Loss, and the Legacy of the HolocaustAuthor: Charlie ScheidtPublisher: Rutgers University PressPublished: 03/10/2026Pages: 244Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.00dISBN: 9781978846746Review Citation(s): Foreword 01/28/2026PW Booklife Reviews 02/16/2026About the AuthorCharlie Scheidt is the chairman emeritus of Roland Foods. Born in New York City, he is the only child of...
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This Way Out"A moving and entertaining account of youthful resilience." -Edward Zuckerman, Emmy-winning writer for Law & Order, author of Wealth Management: A ThrillerA gutsy coming-of-age novel that may rip your heart out. Set in Philadelphia during the tumultuous 1960s, This Way Out is the story...
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Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America - Updated EditionThis book traces the origins of the "illegal alien" in American law and society, explaining why and how illegal migration became the central problem in U.S. immigration policy-a process that profoundly shaped ideas and practices about citizenship, race, and state authority in the twentieth...
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Beyond the Fence Line: The Eyewitness Account of Ed Hoffman and the Murder of President John F. KennedyForty-five years ago, n November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Deaf witness Ed Hoffman saw the man who fired the fatal shot that killed the Presidentand it was not Lee Harvey Oswald. His eyewitness account destroys the governments version of a...
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Kalamazoo Gals - A Story of Extraordinary Women & Gibson's "Banner" Guitars of WWIIIt's a haunting image. At least it was for author John Thomas. Some seventy women sit in four rows in front of the Gibson Guitar factory in the mid-1940s. Conventional wisdom and company lore had it that Gibson had ceased guitar production during World...
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Her Hat Was in the Ring: How Women Won the Right to Run for Office in the United StatesReveals the untold story of over 6,000 women who ran for office between 1850-1920, expanding our understanding of women's fight for full political citizenship beyond suffrage Her Hat Was in the Ring details the fascinating story of the thousands of women who ran for...
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Fire in the Heart of the City: The Triangle Shirtwaist Tragedy and the Origins of Modern CharityHow New York's elite claimed authority over social welfare in the wake of the Triangle Shirtwaist Tragedy In American history, few tragedies have been as consequential--and as enduringly misunderstood--as the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911. Long remembered as a turning point in the...
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Jewish Firebugs: Arson and Antisemitism from the Civil War to World War IExplores the history of Jews and arson in America Following the Civil War, prominent fire insurance companies in the United States issued instructions to their agents to deny Jews fire insurance policies because of their alleged proclivity to arson. In the years that followed,...
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In Pursuit of Freedom: Fugitive Slaves and Advertised Escape in the Early RepublicIn Pursuit of Freedom is a pioneering study of advertisements for fugitive slaves published in the early American South. Recovering, reconstructing, and reimagining stories that fugitive slaves compelled enslavers to advertise in print when they fled, the book unearths articulations of agency and expressions...
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