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American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National IdentityThe critically acclaimed author of Patriots offers profound insight into Vietnam's place in America's self-image How did the Vietnam War change the way we think of ourselves as a people and a nation? In American Reckoning, Christian G. Appy--author of Patriots, the widely praised...
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Charles Dickens: A LifeAward-winning Claire Tomalin, author of A Life of My Own, sets the standard for sophisticated and popular biography, having written lives of Jane Austen, Samuel Pepys, and Thomas Hardy, among others. Here she tackles the best recognized and loved man of nineteenth-century England, Charles...
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The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1944-1945From the author of To Hell and Back, a fascinating and original exploration of how the Third Reich was willing and able to fight to the bitter end of World War II Countless books have been written about why Nazi Germany lost the Second...
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The FoursomeFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Christina Baker Kline comes a boldly original reimagining of the astonishing true story of two sisters in nineteenth-century North Carolina -- Kline's own distant relatives -- who married world-famous conjoined twins from Siam. When Eng and Chang...
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The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern WorldThomas Edison's greatest invention? His own fame.At the height of his fame Thomas Alva Edison was hailed as "the Napoleon of invention" and blazed in the public imagination as a virtual demigod. Starting with the first public demonstrations of the phonograph in 1878 and...
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Orphans Preferred: The Twisted Truth and Lasting Legend of the Pony Express"WANTED. YOUNG, SKINNY, WIRY FELLOWS. NOT OVER 18. MUST BE EXPERT RIDERS. WILLING TO RISK DEATH DAILY. ORPHANS PREFERRED." --California newspaper help-wanted ad, 1860 The Pony Express is one of the most celebrated and enduring chapters in the history of the United States, a...
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Voices in Our Blood: America's Best on the Civil Rights MovementAn unprecedented portrait of the civil rights movement and the fight against white supremacy, told through voices that resonate with passion and strength--including Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Alice Walker, Richard Wright, and John Lewis"Jon Meacham . . . has done about the...
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The Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824The premier of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Vienna on May 7, 1824, was the most significant artistic event of the year--and the work remains one of the most precedent-shattering and influential compositions in the history of music. Described in vibrant detail by eminent musicologist...
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America's Game: The Epic Story of How Pro Football Captured a NationIt's difficult to imagine today--when the Super Bowl has virtually become a national holiday and the National Football League is the country's dominant sports entity--but pro football was once a ramshackle afterthought on the margins of the American sports landscape. In the span of...
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Soldier from the War Returning: The Greatest Generation's Troubled Homecoming from World War IIOne of our most enduring national myths surrounds the men and women who fought in the so-called "Good War." The Greatest Generation, we're told by Tom Brokaw and others, fought heroically, then returned to America happy, healthy and well-adjusted. They quickly and cheerfully went...
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Guard of HonorWinner of the Pulitzer Prize"Every major war. . . has produced at least one masterpiece. For the Civil War, it's The Red Badge of Courage. For World War 1, A Farewell to Arms. As for World War II, there are numerous candidates. . ....
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The Kennedy Imprisonment: A Meditation on PowerFrom one of America's foremost historians, The Kennedy Imprisonment is the definitive historical and psychological analysis of the Kennedy clan. The winner of a Pulitzer Prize, Garry Wills reveals a family that enjoyed public adulation but provided fluctuating leadership, that experienced both unparalleled fame...
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Soong DynastyAn inside account of the Soong family, whose wealth and power have dominated China and U.S.-Asia policy in the 20th century.Author: Sterling SeagravePublisher: Harper PerennialPublished: 03/19/1986Pages: 560Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.93lbsSize: 8.04h x 5.34w x 1.41dISBN: 9780060913182
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The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800It is an era that redefined history. As the 1790s began, a fragile America teetered on the brink of oblivion, Russia towered as a vast imperial power, and France plunged into revolution. But in contrast to the way conventional histories tell it, none of...
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These Thousand HillsWhen These Thousand Hills was published in 1956, The Saturday Review proclaimed it to be "so compelling that it is hard indeed to set aside until it has been devoured." Conjuring up the ephemeral world of cattle ranchers in the 1880s, this intimate saga...
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Scalp Dance: Indian Warfare on the High Plains 1865-1879Some of the most savage war in world history was waged on the American Plains from 1865 to 1879. As settlers moved west following the Civil War, they found powerful Indian tribes barring the way. When the U.S. Army intervened, a bloody and prolonged...
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The Bookshop: A History of the American BookstoreA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Goodreads Choice Award Winner in History & Biography One of Time's 100 Must-Read Books of 2024 "A spirited defense of this important, odd and odds-defying American retail category." --The New York Times "It is a delight to wander through...
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Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped Into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey HomeThis "superbly researched and engaging" (The Wall Street Journal) true story about five boys who were kidnapped in the North and smuggled into slavery in the Deep South--and their daring attempt to escape and bring their captors to justice belongs "alongside the work of...
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Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American OpportunityHow did America cease to be the land of opportunity?LONGLISTED FOR THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD We take it for granted that good neighborhoods--with good schools and good housing--are only accessible to the wealthy. But in America, this wasn't always the case. Though for...
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Night: A MemoirA memorial edition of Elie Wiesel's seminal memoir of surviving the Nazi death camps, with tributes by President Obama and Samantha PowerWhen Elie Wiesel died in July 2016, the White House issued a memorial statement in which President Barack Obama called him "the conscience...
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