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G-Man (Pulitzer Prize Winner): J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American CenturyNow in paperback, the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of J Edgar Hoover deemed "Masterful...an enduring, formidable accomplishment, a monument to the power of biography [that] now becomes the definitive work"by The Washington Post (and everywhere else) "Revelatory...an acknowledgment of the complexities that made Hoover who...
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Finnegans WakeHaving done the longest day in literature with his monumental Ulysses, James Joyce set himself even greater challenges for his next book -- the night."A nocturnal state...That is what I want to convey: what goes on in a dream, during a dream." The work,...
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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom* Selected as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times * Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History * "Extraordinary...a great American biography" (The New Yorker) of the most important African American of the 19th century: Frederick...
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And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American StruggleNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Jon Meacham chronicles the life of Abraham Lincoln, charting how--and why--he confronted secession, threats to democracy, and the tragedy of slavery to expand the possibilities of America. "Meacham has given us the Lincoln for our time."--Henry...
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The Guns of August: The Outbreak of World War I; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War SeriesPULITZER PRIZE WINNER - "A brilliant piece of military history which proves up to the hilt the force of Winston Churchill's statement that the first month of World War I was 'a drama never surpassed.'"--Newsweek Selected by the Modern Library as one of the...
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Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic AdaptationA timeless story rediscovered by each new generation, The Diary of a Young Girl stands without peer. This graphic edition remains faithful to the original, while the stunning illustrations interpret and add layers of visual meaning and immediacy to this classic work of Holocaust...
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Hidden History of Lake ErieAuthor Jennifer Boresz Engelking explores the intriguing history of Lake Erie. What lies below the surface of Lake Erie? Gold coins from long-ago shipwrecks, like the tragic sinking of the G.P. Griffith. The menacing, mysterious Lake Erie Monster. How about a whiskey ship that...
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The Earth Is All That Lasts: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the Last Stand of the Great Sioux Nation"Fast-paced and highly absorbing." --Wall Street JournalA magisterial new history of the fierce final chapter of the "Indian Wars," told through the lives of the two most legendary and consequential American Indian leaders, who led Sioux resistance and triumphed at the Battle of Little...
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Adieu Birkenau: Ginette Kolinka's Story of SurvivalThe graphic memoir of Ginette Kolinka, Holocaust survivor, educator, and "ambassador for the memory" of Auschwitz-Birkenau It is April 1944. Nineteen-year-old Ginette Kolinka arrives at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. Her father and little brother are immediately gassed. Ginette is selected as a worker. She survives....
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In the First Circle: The First Uncensored EditionThe thrilling Cold War masterwork by the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Gulag Archipelago, published in full for the first time."Solzhenitsyn's best novel. . . . A great and important book, whose qualities are finally fully available to English-speaking readers." --Washington PostMoscow, Christmas Eve,...
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India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest DemocracyFrom one of the subcontinent's most important and controversial writers comes this definitive history of post-Partition India, published on the 60th anniversary of IndependenceTold in lucid and beautiful prose, the story of India's wild ride toward and since Independence is a riveting one. Taking...
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The Cold War: A World HistoryA "big, serious, and thoroughly intelligent" (New York Review of Books) history of the Cold War We think of the Cold War as a clash of two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union. But in The Cold War, award-winning historian Odd Arne...
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Run: Book OneRun, Eisner Award Winner for Best Graphic Memoir, is an essential graphic novel, whether for the home or the classroom. First you march, then you run. From the #1 bestselling, award-winning team behind March. This follow-up to the #1 New York Times bestselling graphic...
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The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789When a Parisian crowd stormed the Bastille in July 1789, it triggered an event of global consequence: the overthrow of the monarchy and the birth of a new society. Most historians account for the French Revolution by viewing it in retrospect as the outcome...
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Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975An absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Secret War.Vietnam became the Western world's most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for...
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The Pentagon Papers: The Secret History of the Vietnam War"The WikiLeaks of its day" (Time) is as relevant today in the time of Trump as it was a in the time of Richard Nixon. "The most significant leaks of classified material in American history." -Washington Post Not Fake News! The basis for the...
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Watergate: A New HistoryFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "Do we need still another Watergate book? The answer turns out to be yes--this one." --The Washington Post * "Dazzling." --The New York Times Book Review From the New York Times bestselling...
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Murder in Old Forge, Pennsylvania: The Tragic Death of the Ziemba ChildrenOn July 26, 1981, eight-year-old Cheryl Ziemba and her four-year-old brother, Christopher, disappeared from their backyard in Old Forge, Pennsylvania. Within hours, hundreds of neighbors, police and firefighters were engaged in a frantic search, praying that they were not a town "snakebitten," or cursed...
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Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus"A detailed and dramatic narrative of the rise of the modern right...It's an amazing story, and Perlstein, a man of the left, does it justice" (William Kristol, The New York Times Book Review) Before the Storm begins at the tail end of the 1950s,...
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Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil RightsThe familiar story of civil rights goes like this: once, America's legal system shut Black people out and refused to recognize their rights, their basic human dignity, or even their very lives. When lynch mobs gathered, police and judges often closed their eyes, if...
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