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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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The Lotz Family: Survivors of the Battle of Franklin: Robert Z. Carlisle IIThis is the story of Albert Lotz and his family. An immigrant family that lived through the hardships of establishing a new life only to to face the horrors of war on one of the most horrific battlefields of the American Civil War. This...
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The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of JournalismPulitzer Prize-winning author and presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin's dynamic history of Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft and the first decade of the Progressive era, that tumultuous time when the nation was coming unseamed and reform was in the air. Winner of the Carnegie...
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The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the WorldA hypnotically fast-paced, masterful reporting of Harry Truman's first 120 days as president, when he took on Germany, Japan, Stalin, and a secret weapon of unimaginable power--marking the most dramatic rise to greatness in American history.Chosen as FDR's fourth-term vice president for his well-praised...
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Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and TearsThe author of the New York Times bestseller Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively history of the Academy Awards, focusing on the brutal battles, the starry rivalries, and the colorful behind-the-scenes drama.America does not have royalty. It has the Academy Awards....
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Hidden History of Walt Disney WorldAuthor Foxx Nolte gives readers a glimpse behind the curtain of the most magical place on earth. Millions of people a year visit Walt Disney World, but few would consider it to be a place with any real history. But hidden just below the...
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Hidden History of Amelia IslandAuthor Jeff Suwak guides readers on a tour of the often overlooked and all-but-forgotten components of Amelia Island history. Beneath the sands and cobblestones of Amelia Island lies a richness of history disproportionate to the location's relatively small size. The bones of this place...
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The Winds of WarLike no other masterpiece of historical fiction, Herman Wouk's sweeping epic of World War II is the great novel of America's Greatest Generation.Wouk's spellbinding narrative captures the tide of global events, as well as all the drama, romance, heroism, and tragedy of World War...
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The Book of Pride: LGBTQ Heroes Who Changed the WorldTHE BOOK OF PRIDE captures the true story of the gay rights movement from the 1960s to the present, through richly detailed, stunning interviews with the leaders, activists, and ordinary people who witnessed the movement and made it happen. These individuals fought battles both...
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American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten CrisisNational Bestseller - One of the year's most acclaimed works of nonfictionA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: New York Times, Washington Post, New Yorker, Chicago Tribune, Kirkus, New York Post, Fast CompanyFrom legendary historian Adam Hochschild, a "masterly" (New York Times) reassessment of the...
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The Galveston Dispatches: A Swiss Missionary's Account of Nineteenth-Century TexasPersonal stories of life in Galveston in the mid-nineteenth century.In 1855, Friedrich Gloor was just nineteen when he was sent from Basel, Switzerland, halfway around the world to teach at the First German Lutheran Church school in Galveston, Texas. He spent the next eleven...
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U.S. History for Dummies, 5th Edition (+ Chapter Quizzes Online)Explore the good, the bad, and the ugly of the United States history Looking for the essentials of more than 200 years of United States history? Starting at the early civilizations, U.S. History For Dummies covers the growing pains of a new nation. Brush...
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The Secret Team: The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World"Offers uncommonly penetrating insight....A rare glimpse into Covert and Black Operations.--New York Times Bestselling author, Governor Jesse Ventura, from his Foreword. The Secret Team, L. Fletcher Prouty's expose of the CIA's brutal methods of maintaining national security during the Cold War, was first published...
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Thomas Jefferson and the Kentucky ConstitutionA Major Influence in Kentucky LifeFounding Father Thomas Jefferson had a strong but little-known connection with the constitution of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. He had personal and politically motivated influence on the 1792 charter and secretly wrote some controversial state resolutions. Author Denis Fleming...
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