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The Strength of the Wolf: The Secret History of America's War on DrugsThe Strength of the Wolf is the first complete history of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (1930-1968). Working undercover around the globe, the FBN's charismatic "case-making" agents penetrated the Mafia and its French connection. In the process, however, they uncovered the national security establishment's...
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America Between the Wars: From 11/9 to 9/11: The Misunderstood Years Between the Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Start of the War on TerrorOn November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall collapsed, taking the Cold War down with it. The next twelve years passed in a haze of self-congratulation, Republican confusion, and angst, and economic prosperity -- until they ended abruptly with a stunning catastrophe on September 11,...
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How the Cold War Began: The Igor Gouzenko Affair and the Hunt for Soviet SpiesOn September 5, 1945, cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko severed ties with the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa, reporting to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police allegations of extensive Soviet espionage in North America, providing stolen documents detailing Soviet intelligence matters to back his claims. This action...
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When the Mississippi Ran Backwards: Empire, Intrigue, Murder, and the New Madrid Earthquakes of 1811-12From Jay Feldmen comes an enlightening work about how the most powerful earthquakes in the history of America united the Indians in one last desperate rebellion, reversed the Mississippi River, revealed a seamy murder in the Jefferson family, and altered the course of the...
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A Disease in the Public Mind: A New Understanding of Why We Fought the Civil WarIn this riveting, character-driven history, one of our most respected historians traces the diseases in the public mind--the distortions of reality--that destroyed George Washington's vision of a united America and inflicted the tragedy that still divide's the nation's soul.Author: Thomas FlemingPublisher: Da Capo PressPublished:...
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The Band That Played on: The Extraordinary Story of the 8 Musicians Who Went Down with the TitanicThe movies, the documentaries, the museum exhibits. They often tell the same story about the "unsinkable" Titanic, her wealthy passengers, the families torn apart, and the unthinkable end. But never before has "that glorious band," the group of eight musicians who played on as...
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Enemies of the People: My Family's Journey to AmericaAcclaimed journalist Kati Marton recounts her family's harrowing history of being targeted by Communist operatives and her own father's imprisonment as Cold War tensions ran high across Eastern Europe. Enemies of the People is a tour de force, an important work of history as...
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How We Got Here: The 70s the Decade That Brought You Modern Life -- For Better or WorseFor many, the 1970s evoke the Brady Bunch and the birth of disco. In this first, thematic popular history of the decade, David Frum argues that it was the 1970s, not the 1960s, that created modern America and altered the American personality forever. A...
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The Dillinger DaysFor thirteen violent months in the 1930s, John Dillinger and his gang swept through the Midwest. The criminals of the Depression robbed almost at will (the Indiana State Police had only 41 members, including clerks and typists). Dillinger's daring escapes-single-handed at Crown Point jail...
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Fire This Time: The Watts Uprising and the 1960sIn August 1965 the predominantly black neighborhood of Watts in Los Angeles erupted in flames and violence following an incident of police brutality. The official death toll was thirty-four; property losses reached hundreds of millions of dollars; but the political results were even more...
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The Strength of the Pack: The Personalities, Politics, and Espionage Intrigues That Shaped the DeaThe Strength of the Pack documents previously unknown aspects of the history of federal drug law enforcement, from the formation of the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs in 1968 through the early years of the Drug Enforcement Administration. Picking up where The Strength...
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America: The Last Best Hope (Volume III): From the Collapse of Communism to the Rise of Radical IslamAmerica began to breathe easy at the close of the Cold War and loosened its grip on the fear of nuclear confrontation for the first time since World War Two. Peace was palpable, but in retrospect the years between 1988 and 2008 were as...
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Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, the Beat Generation, and AmericaA blockbuster of a biography . . . absolutely magnificent.--San Francisco Chronicle Jack Kerouac--King of the Beats, unwitting catalyst for the '60s counterculture, groundbreaking author--was a complex and compelling man: a star athlete with a literary bent; a spontaneous writer vilified by the New...
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The Pirate Coast: Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines, and the Secret Mission of 1805A real-life thriller, now in paperback--the true story of the unheralded American who brought the Barbary Pirates to their knees In an attempt to stop the legendary Barbary Pirates of North Africa from hijacking American ships, William Eaton set out on a secret mission...
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The Case for Germany.: A Study of Modern Germany.This rare 1939 treatise gives the view of National-Socialist Germany that the author, a Scottish scholar, developed during his time inside Hitler's Third Reich. Far from being the sort of hateful diatribe that was the common British judgement in those days, this book gives...
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Iron HorsesA masterly account of the origins of the transcontinental railroad (Douglas Brinkley) by the author of the bestselling The Admirals. After the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in 1869, the rest of the United States was up for grabs, and the race was...
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The Dawn of Innovation: The First American Industrial RevolutionIn the thirty years after the Civil War, the United States blew by Great Britain to become the greatest economic power in world history. That is a well-known period in history, when titans like Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and J.P. Morgan walked the...
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Bloody Spring: Forty Days That Sealed the Confederacy's FateFor forty crucial days they fought a bloody struggle. When it was over, the Civil War's tide had turned. In the spring of 1864, Virginia remained unbroken, its armies having repelled Northern armies for more than two years. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern...
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A Flame of Pure Fire: Jack Dempsey and the Roaring '20sJack Dempsey was perfectly suited to the time in which he fought, the time when the United States first felt the throb of its own overwhelming power. For eight years and two months after World War I, Dempsey, with his fierce good looks and...
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The State Boys RebellionA Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist tells the amazing story of how a group of imprisoned boys won their freedom, found justice, and survived one of the darkest and least-known episodes of American history. In the early twentieth century, United StateAuthor: Michael D'AntonioPublisher: Simon & SchusterPublished:...
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