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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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Justice for All: Dick T. Morgan, Frontier Lawyer and Common Man's CongressmanJustice for All chronicles the career of Dick T. Morgan, an Oklahoma founding father whose public service reflects a passion for fairness that was sorely lacking in Gilded Age America. After arriving in the Unassigned Lands (later, central Oklahoma) with the first wave of...
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Aberration in the Heartland of the Real: The Secret Lives of Timothy McVeighPresenting startling new biographical details about Timothy McVeigh and exposing stark contradictions and errors contained in previous depictions of the "All-American Terrorist," this book traces McVeigh's life from childhood to the Army, throughout the plot to bomb the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building and...
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No Life for a LadyWhen Agnes Morley Cleaveland was born on a New Mexico cattle ranch in 1874, the term "Wild West" was a reality, not a cliché. In those days cowboys didn't know they were picturesque, horse rustlers were to be handled as seemed best on the...
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I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer: Letters on Love and Marriage from the World's First Personal Advice ColumnA fascinating collection of questions and answers--about courtship, marriage, love, and sex--from a seventeenth-century periodical The Athenian Mercury--a one-page, two-sided periodical published in 1690s London--included the world's first personal advice column. Acclaimed historian and Pulitzer Prize-finalist Mary Beth Norton's "I Humbly Beg Your Speedy...
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The Mountain Meadows MassacreIn the Fall of 1857, some 120 California-bound emigrants were killed in lonely Mountain Meadows in southern Utah; only eighteen young children were spared. The men on the ground after the bloody deed took an oath that they would never mention the event again,...
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Charles Goodnight: Cowman and PlainsmanAn exciting story of a Texas Ranger, adventurer, and immigration officer who became a symbol of his age while gambling with death in the wild frontier regions of Texas, Arizona, and Old and New Mexico. Charles Goodnight knew the West of Jim Bridger, Kit...
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The Third Reich of Dreams: The Nightmares of a Nation"This is the kind of book that haunts your dreams. Essential reading for anyone who has known what it is like to live within a totalitarian state--or is worried they're about to find out."--Zadie Smith, author of White Teeth The hidden history of a...
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Black Elk SpeaksMore than one million copies sold2017 One Book One Nebraska selection"An American classic."--Western Historical QuarterlyBlack Elk Speaks, the story of the Oglala Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863-1950) and his people during momentous twilight years of the nineteenth century, offers readers much...
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Asa James"A heartfelt debut, beautifully told."-Jennifer Klepper, USA Today bestselling author of The Last Road Trip 1875 Vermont. Asa James hasn't exactly sucked on the silver spoon. No one chooses to grow up on a rural poor farm, but a mixed-race orphan with Asa's scarred...
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Mississippi Heroes: White Champions of Racial Justice, 1954-1974Between 1954-1974 hundreds of courageous Black individuals in Mississippi defied intimidation, police arrests, violence, and death to gain justice and equality in the courts, in education, job opportunities, and the right to vote. A very small minority of White Mississippians supported their efforts by...
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The WashashoreMartha's Vineyard, 1929. Prohibition is in full swing, and Emily, a Midwest transplant, has never met her wealthy Aunt Isabel. That is until, after her mother's death, the courts declare Isabel her guardian. Their first meeting is a disaster. Emily's clumsy curtsy earns her...
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Three Days in Moscow: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of the Soviet Empire"An instant classic, if not the finest book to date on Ronald Reagan." -- Jay WinikPresident Reagan's dramatic battle to win the Cold War is revealed as never before by the #1 bestselling author and award-winning anchor of the #1 rated Special Report with...
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The Struggle for Europe: The Turbulent History of a Divided Continent 1945 to the PresentFrom the ashes of World War II to the conflict over Iraq, William Hitchcock examines the miraculous transformation of Europe from a deeply fractured land to a continent striving for stability, tolerance, democracy, and prosperity. Exploring the role of Cold War politics in Europe...
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Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America ModernFlapper is a dazzling look at the women who heralded a radical change in American culture and launched the first truly modern decade. The New Woman of the 1920s puffed cigarettes, snuck gin, hiked her hemlines, danced the Charleston, and necked in roadsters. More...
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Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at SeaIn 1834, Richard Henry Dana Jr. left the comforts of Boston for the hardships and abuses of the most exploited segment of the American working class. Dana's account of his passage around Cape Horn to California, and back, is a remarkable portrait of the...
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Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND KIRKUS REVIEWS From the acclaimed author of Citizens of London comes the definitive account of the debate over American intervention in World...
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The December 1941: 31 Days That Changed America and Saved the WorldNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn the days before the attack on Pearl Harbor, America was largely focused on the war in Europe, but when planes dropped out of a clear blue sky and bombed the American naval base and aerial targets in Hawaii, everything changed...
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Centennial: The Great Fair of 1876 and the Invention of America's FutureThe spectacular story of the Great Centennial Exhibition of 1876, a world's fair to mark America's hundredth birthday--and a moment of reckoning for a nation barrelling toward the Gilded Age "Those who were there felt that the wheel of history itself had turned before...
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The Summer of Death: The Great Heat Wave of 1936 and the Making of Modern-Day AmericaA riveting historic narrative that tells the iconic story of the great heat wave that ravaged the continent in the last gasps of the Dust Bowl. In 1936, after one of the coldest winters on record, North America experienced a heat wave that remains...
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