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Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America's Efforts to Save the Jews of EuropeFeatured historian in the Ken Burns documentary The U.S. and the Holocaust on PBS - WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD - In this remarkable work of historical reclamation, Holocaust historian Rebecca Erbelding pieces together years of research and newly uncovered archival materials...
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Secret Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines with the Elite Warriors of SogMajor John L. Plaster recalls his remarkable covert activities in SOG from 1969 to 1971 in Vietnam. Code-named the Studies and Operations Group, SOG was a secret operations force in Vietnam, the forerunner of today's Delta Force and Navy SEALs. Exceptionally skilled Green Berets,...
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Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall: From America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of MadnessNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Who was Bobby Fischer? In this "nuanced perspective of the chess genius" (Los Angeles Times), an acclaimed biographer chronicles his meteoric rise and confounding fall, with an afterword containing newly discovered details about Fischer's life. Possessing an IQ of...
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One Day: The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America"One of the 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Last 25 Years"--Slate On New Year's Day 2013, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Gene Weingarten asked three strangers to, literally, pluck a day, month, and year from a hat. That day--chosen completely at random--turned out to...
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New Deal or Raw Deal?: How Fdr's Economic Legacy Has Damaged AmericaA sharply critical new look at Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency reveals government policies that hindered economic recovery from the Great Depression -- and are still hurting America today. In this shocking and groundbreaking new book, econoAuthor: Burton W. FolsomPublisher: Threshold EditionsPublished: 11/17/2009Pages: 336Binding Type:...
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The Saga of the Pony ExpressAmerica in the mid-1800s was a land of burgeoning cities, westward expansion, economic optimism, and political turmoil. Threatened by civil war and Indian uprisings, the government needed better communication with its far-flung citizens in the West. Three visionaries dreamt up a seemingly impossible solution:...
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Inventing Japan: 1853-1964In a single short book as elegant as it is wise, Ian Buruma makes sense of the most fateful span of Japan's history, the period that saw as dramatic a transformation as any country has ever known. In the course of little more than...
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Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone MagazineA New York Times Top 10 Book of the Year (Dwight Garner)A New York Times Top 10 Book of the Year (Janet Maslin)A New York Magazine Top 10 Book of the Year A USA Today Top 10 Book We Loved Reading in 2017An Amazon...
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The Balkans: A Short HistoryThroughout history, the Balkans have been a crossroads, a zone of endless military, cultural, and economic mixing and clashing between Europe and Asia, Christianity and Islam, Catholicism and Orthodoxy. In this highly acclaimed short history, Mark Mazower sheds light on what has been called...
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Temp: The Real Story of What Happened to Your Salary, Benefits, and Job SecurityWinner of the William G. Bowen Prize Named a Triumph of 2018 by New York Times Book CriticsShortlisted for the 800-CEO-READ Business Book Award The untold history of the surprising origins of the gig economy--how deliberate decisions made by consultants and CEOs in the...
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The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of TearsIn the early nineteenth century, the U.S. government shifted its policy from trying to assimilate American Indians to relocating them, and proceeded to forcibly drive seventeen thousand Cherokees from their homelands. This journey of exile became known as the Trail of Tears. Historians Perdue...
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Stalin's Secret Agents: The Subversion of Roosevelt's GovernmentThe first riveting examination of the shocking infiltration of the US government by Stalin's Soviet intelligence networks during WWII. Until now, many sinister events that transpired in the clash of the world's superpowers at the close of World War II and the ensuing Cold...
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Miracles and Massacres: True and Untold Stories of the Making of AmericaGlenn Beck, the New York Times bestselling author of The Great Reset presents history as it's supposed to be told: true and thrilling. History is about so much more than memorizing facts. It is, as more than half of the word suggests, about the...
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Tip and the Gipper: When Politics WorkedThe New York Times bestseller about the historic dealings between Ronald Reagan and Tip O'Neill--"A superb tribute to the neglected art of compromise" (Daily News (New York)). Tip and the Gipper is an "entertaining and insightful" (The Wall Street Journal) history of a time...
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Hong KongIn its last days under British rule, the Crown Colony of Hong Kong is the world's most exciting city, at once fascinating and exasperating, a tangle of contradictions. It is a dazzling amalgam of conspicuous consumption and primitive poverty, the most architecturally incongruous yet...
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Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at SeaAuthor: Richard Henry DanaPublisher: Modern LibraryPublished: 10/09/2001Pages: 544Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.00dISBN: 9780375757945Accelerated Reader:Reading Level: 7.7Point Value: 26Interest Level: Upper GradeQuiz #/Name: 721 / Two Years Before the MastAbout the AuthorGary Kinder is the author of Ship of Gold in...
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The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid WarsThe "enormously entertaining" (The Wall Street Journal) account of a shocking 1897 murder mystery that "artfully re-create[s] the era, the crime, and the newspaper wars it touched off" (The New York Times) AN EDGAR NOMINEE FOR BEST FACT CRIME - "Fascinating . . ....
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Thirty-Eight: The Hurricane That Transformed New EnglandA groundbreaking account of the cataclysmic hurricane of 1938 and its devastating impact on New England's inland forests The hurricane that pummeled the northeastern United States on September 21, 1938, was New England's most damaging weather event ever. To call it "New England's Katrina"...
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For the Soul of France: Culture Wars in the Age of DreyfusIn the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, a defeated and humiliated France split into cultural factions that ranged from those who embraced modernity to those who championed the restoration of throne and altar. This polarization--to which such iconic monuments as the Sacre-Coeur...
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Hollywood Double Agent: The True Tale of Boris Morros, Film Producer Turned Cold War SpyThe Cold War and the Golden Age of Hollywood meet in this story of the remarkable career of Boris Morros, film producer and Russian double agent Boris Morros was a major figure in the 1930s and '40s. The head of music at Paramount Pictures,...
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