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Facts and Fascism"This book names the most powerful forces in Europe which organized the Fascist and Nazi parties and movement, the powerful American forces which own, control and subsidize native Fascism, and the spokesmen, radio orators, writers and other agents of reaction in America." Facts and...
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Doppelganger: The Legend of Lee Harvey OswaldSixth Edition, with proof that Harvey Oswald was CIA, April, 2022.....THE GREATEST MURDER MYSTERY IN UNITED STATES HISTORY - THE ENIGMA OF LEE HARVEY OSWALD - HAS BEEN SOLVED! TWO 'LEE HARVEY OSWALDS' WERE AT THE TEXAS SCHOOL BOOK DEPOSITORY ON NOVEMBER 22, 1963...
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The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War VictoryA thought-provoking and penetrating account of the post-Cold war follies and delusions that culminated in the age of Donald Trump from the bestselling author of The Limits of Power. When the Cold War ended with the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Washington establishment...
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Killing Hitler: The Plots, the Assassins, and the Dictator Who Cheated DeathFor the first time in one enthralling book, here is the incredible true story of the numerous attempts to assassinate Adolf Hitler and change the course of history. Disraeli once declared that "assassination never changed anything," and yet the idea that World War II...
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Boxer Rebellion: The Dramatic Story of China's War on Foreigners That Shook the World in the Summ Er of 1900Chinese peasants chafed against the foreign technologies and ideas that the imperialists introduced. Then a new movement-mystical, materialistic, and virulently anti-Christian-began to spread among them like wildfire. The foreigners laughed at the peasants' martial-arts routines and nicknamed them the Boxers-never imagining that the group,...
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North Toward HomeWith his signature style and grace, Willie Morris, arguably one of this country's finest Southern writers, presents us with an unparalleled memoir of a country in transition and a boy coming of age in a period of tumultuous cultural, social, and political change. In...
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Whitey: The Life of America's Most Notorious Mob BossFrom the bestselling authors of Black Mass comes the definitive biography of Whitey Bulger, the most brutal and sadistic crime boss since Al Capone. Drawing on a trove of sealed files and previously classified material, Whitey digs deep into the mind of James J....
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An Elegant Madness: High Society in Regency EnglandThe Regency period was one of the most turbulent ages in British history, one that spanned the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, that witnessed unprecedented industrial progress, artistic accomplishment, and violent social unrest and--paradoxically--the most sparkling social scene English high society has ever...
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Rigged: America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Covert Electoral InterferenceThe definitive history of the covert struggle between Russia and America to influence elections, why the threat to American democracy is greater than ever, and what we can do about it. This is "the first book to put the story of Russian interference into...
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Monopolies Suck: 7 Ways Big Corporations Rule Your Life and How to Take Back ControlAn urgent and witty manifesto, Monopolies Suck "lucidly explains how monopolies threaten democracy, worsen inequality, and imperil the American Dream--and why it's more important than ever to take action" (David Cicilline). Something's not right. No matter how hard you work, life seems to only...
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The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell's 19841984 isn't just a novel; it's a key to understanding the modern world. George Orwell's final work is a treasure chest of ideas and memes--Big Brother, the Thought Police, Doublethink, Newspeak, two plus two equals five--that gain potency with every year. Its vast influence...
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Movie Nights with the Reagans: A MemoirThe former special advisor and press secretary to President Ronald Reagan shares a "sentimental but often revealing...enjoyable walk down Memory Lane" (Kirkus Reviews)--told through the movies he watched with the Reagans every week at Camp David.Over the course of eight years, Mark Weinberg travelled...
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America's Great Debate: Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the Compromise That Preserved the UnionThe "stimulating, richly informed" (The Wall Street Journal) story behind the Compromise of 1850, which preserved the Union on the eve of the Civil War--"original in concept, stylish in execution...provides everything history readers want....The characters seem as vivid, human, and understandable as those who...
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Chasing Phil: The Adventures of Two Undercover Agents with the World's Most Charming Con ManA thrilling true crime caper, bursting with colorful characters and awash in '70s glamour, that spotlights the FBI's first white-collar undercover sting 1977, the Thunderbird Motel. J.J. Wedick and Jack Brennan--two fresh-faced, maverick FBI agents--were about to embark on one of their agency's first...
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Joe Gould's TeethFrom New Yorker staff writer and Harvard historian Jill Lepore, the dark, spellbinding tale of her restless search for the missing longest book ever written, a century-old manuscript called "The Oral History of Our Time." Joe Gould's Teeth is a Poe-like tale of detection,...
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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, 1908: The Dawn of Flight, the Race to the Pole, the Invention of the Model T, and the Making of a Modern Nation"An entertaining survey" (Publishers Weekly) through the highs and lows of a spectacular, pivotal year in American history--1908.A captivating look at a bygone era through the lens of a single, surprisingly momentous American year one century ago. 1908 was the year Henry Ford launched...
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The Victorian and the Romantic: A Memoir, a Love Story, and a Friendship Across TimeIn this tale of two writers, Nell Stevens interweaves her own life as a twenty-something graduate student with that of the English author, Elizabeth Gaskell. Although they are separated by more than 150 years, Nell finds herself drawn to the Victorian novelist by their...
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15 Stars: Eisenhower, Macarthur, Marshall: Three Generals Who Saved the American Century15 Stars presents the intertwined lives of three great men--Eisenhower, MacArthur, and Marshall--against the sweeping background of six unforgettable decades, from the two world wars to the Cold War. As it reveals the personalities behind the public images, it shows how much of a...
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Studies in Classic American LiteratureLawrence asserted that 'the proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it'. In these highly individual, penetrating essays he has exposed 'the American whole soul' within some of that continent's major works of literature. In seeking...
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