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Fakers: A Top-Secret Tale of Phantoms and Forgeries on the Disinformation Front LineIntrigue, espionage, and deception. The truth behind 8,000 once top-secret files, so explosive their authors never dreamed they would be released. Fakers reveals the rise and fall of the mavericks running Britain's Cold War forgery empire. Their secret mission was audacious: to disrupt and...
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For My LegionariesFor My Legionaries is the passionate autobiography of Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, a Romanian patriot from the early 20th Century who founded the Legion of Michael the Archangel, also known as The Iron Guard. This unprecedented movement saw itself as a crusade in the modern...
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The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold WarThe Plutonium Files is the shocking exposé of the US government's medical experiments on unwitting citizens during the Cold War. Americans recoiled when they learned of the brutal experiments conducted by Nazi doctors. But as the world was learning about those horrors, US scientists...
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Reel Freedom: Black Film Culture in Early Twentieth-Century New York CityReel Freedom intimately captures the relationship between Black film culture and space in New York City. Alyssa Lopez argues that Black film culture, from its origins in the early twentieth century to its firm establishment in the 1930s, was necessarily both entertainment and resistance,...
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The Radical Spanish Empire: How Paperwork Politics Remade the New WorldA groundbreaking history of political struggle in the Spanish New World, where commoners and elites alike challenged the social order through the remarkable power of paperwork. As Spanish conquistadors swept through the New World, the Crown envisioned that a rigidly hierarchical aristocratic order would...
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What God Kept for Himself: Atheism, Sodomy, and Radical Dissent in Renaissance ItalyA revelatory account of sexual nonconformity and radical religious dissent in Renaissance Italy, drawing on never-before-studied Inquisition trials. Between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, a series of highly controversial Inquisition trials took place throughout the Italian peninsula. The defendants were all accused of the...
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The Rest Is Silence: Enlightenment Philosophers Facing DeathA moving, intimate portrait of the Enlightenment philosophers as they faced the end of their lives and their historical moment"Original and beautifully written."--Ruth Scurr, Wall Street JournalWhat would the Enlightenment look like if we viewed it through the eyes of the philosophers as they...
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John Doe Chinaman: A Forgotten History of Chinese Life Under American Racial LawA revelatory history of the laws that conditioned the everyday lives of Chinese people in the American West--and of those who negotiated, circumvented, and resisted discrimination. Legal discrimination against Chinese people in the United States began in 1852, when California passed a tax on...
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For I Have Sinned: The Rise and Fall of Catholic Confession in AmericaThe remarkable story of how confession became a defining rite for American Catholics--and then, beginning in the 1970s, all but disappeared. For generations, American Catholics went faithfully to confession, admitting their sins to a priest and accepting through him God's forgiveness. The sacrament served...
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Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted AmericaA sweeping new history of the changing meaning of work in the United States, from Horatio Alger to Instagram influencers. How Americans think about work changed profoundly over the course of the twentieth century. Thrift and persistence came to seem old-fashioned. Successful workers were...
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Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles RyderSelected by Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the century and called "Evelyn Waugh's finest achievement" by the New York Times, Brideshead Revisited is a stunning exploration of desire, duty, and memory.The wellsprings of desire and the impediments to love...
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A Carpetbagger in Reverse: Arthur W. Mitchell, America's First Black Democratic CongressmanFrom Alabama to Congress--Arthur W. Mitchell's fight for justice rewrote the rules of Black political power.A Carpetbagger in Reverse offers a landmark reassessment of the life, career, and accomplishments of groundbreaking Congressman Arthur W. Mitchell, the first Black Democrat elected to Congress and the...
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The Last Mixtape: Physical Media and Nostalgic CyclesA reflection on the evolution of physical media into metaphor, through the history of music curation. Obsolescence makes the heart grow fonder, at least in the case of the mixtape. Not all technologies are so lucky. Some (say, wax cylinders) fade almost completely from...
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How the Irish Became WhiteThe Irish came to America in the eighteenth century, fleeing a homeland under foreign occupation and a caste system that regarded them as the lowest form of humanity. In the new country - a land of opportunity - they found a very different form...
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My Struggle: Mein Kamphf - Mein Kampt - Mein KampfMein Kampf ("My Struggle") is a political manifesto written by Adolf Hitler. It was his only complete book and became the bible of National Socialism in the German Third Reich. It was published in two volumes, which dated 1925 and 1927. By 1939 it...
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1825 Fur Trade Rendezvous: Chasing General William H. Ashley's ReturnAn incredible journey of perseverance and history to recreate a 2000 mile trek by General William Henry Ashley and his men from the first Fur Trade Rendezvous of 1825 from southwest Wyoming to St. Louis, MO. These three men replicated this incredible feat of...
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Hollywood on the TiberHollywood on the Tiber is a dazzling blend of the epic and intimate featuring a glittering cast of screen gods and goddesses. This vibrant chronicle recounts how Hank Kaufman and Gene Lerner became unsung movers and shakers of a unique and unrepeatable era: the...
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The War They Won: The Story of World War II, as told by Those Who Were ThereAn unprecedented chronicle of the lived experiences of World War IIFrom the opening attack on Pearl Harbor, through the European and Pacific theaters, to the far-flung corners of the world, The War They Won is a journey alongside the brave men and women who...
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Society as I Have Found ItStep back in time to 19th-century New York high society with Ward McAllister's captivating account, "Society As I Have Found It." A prominent figure and self-proclaimed arbiter of taste, McAllister offers an unparalleled glimpse into the exclusive world of socialites and the intricate rules...
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Menhaden: A Biologist's Thirty-Two Year Journey with the Fish and the FisheryA Narrative of the U.S. Menhaden Fisheries: IndustryHistory, Fishing Operations, Product Journey, Fisheries Management, and Government Research Insights from the Beaufort Laboratory offers a well-detailed exploration of the U.S. purse-seine fisheries for menhaden, a cornerstone of American commercial fisheries.Covering the decades since the 1980s,...
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