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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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A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of AfricaIn A Continent for the Taking Howard W. French, a veteran correspondent for The New York Times, gives a compelling firsthand account of some of Africa's most devastating recent history-from the fall of Mobutu Sese Seko, to Charles Taylor's arrival in Monrovia, to the...
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Secret Lives of the Tsars: Three Centuries of Autocracy, Debauchery, Betrayal, Murder, and Madness from Romanov Russia"Michael Farquhar doesn't write about history the way, say, Doris Kearns Goodwin does. He writes about history the way Doris Kearns Goodwin's smart-ass, reprobate kid brother might. I, for one, prefer it."--Gene Weingarten, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and Washington Post columnist Scandal Intrigue Cossacks...
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A Guest of the Reich: The Story of American Heiress Gertrude Legendre's Dramatic Captivity and Escape from Nazi GermanyA Guest of the Reich is the incredible true story of Gertrude "Gertie" Legendre, an American heiress taken prisoner by the Nazis. Born into a wealthy family, Legendre lived a charmed life in Jazz Age America. But when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, she...
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Tonight We Bombed the U.S. Capitol: The Explosive Story of M19, America's First Female Terrorist Group"A deeply-researched and well-written account of" (Peter Bergen, author of United States of Jihad) M19--the first and only domestic terrorist group founded and led by women--as they waged a violent war against racism, sexism, and imperialism in Ronald Reagan's America. 1981: Ronald Reagan declared...
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Of a Fire on the MoonFor many, the moon landing was the defining event of the twentieth century. So it seems only fitting that Norman Mailer--the literary provocateur who altered the landscape of American nonfiction--wrote the most wide-ranging, far-seeing chronicle of the Apollo 11 mission. A classic chronicle of...
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Hotel Scarface: Where Cocaine Cowboys Partied and Plotted to Control MiamiThe wild, true story of the Mutiny, the hotel and club that embodied the decadence of Miami's cocaine cowboys heyday--and an inspiration for the blockbuster film, Scarface... In the seventies, coke hit Miami with the full force of a hurricane, and no place attracted...
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The Kidnap Years: The Astonishing True History of the Forgotten Epidemic That Shook Depression-Era AmericaA chilling true crime book that chronicles the wave of abductions that terrorized the U.S. during the Great Depression, including the most infamous kidnapping case in American history."A thrilling account that puts the 1932 Lindbergh baby kidnapping case, billed as "the crime of the...
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The Crime of the Century: Richard Speck and the Murders That Shocked a NationOne of the finest true crime books ever written.... This book hits you like a locomotive, detailing how Speck's crime shattered our innocence....Go out and buy The Crime of the Century as soon as possible.--Rick Kogan, author, Everybody Pays On July 14th, 1966, Richard...
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Waking Giant: America in the Age of JacksonWaking Giant is a brilliant, definitive history of America's vibrant and tumultuous rise during the Jacksonian era from David S. Reynolds, the Bancroft Prize-winning author of Walt Whitman's America. Casting fresh light on Andrew Jackson, who redefined the presidency, along with John Quincy Adams...
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Mayday 1971: A White House at War, a Revolt in the Streets, and the Untold History of America's Biggest Mass ArrestA vivid account of the largest act of civil disobedience in US history, in Richard Nixon's Washington They surged into Washington by the tens of thousands in the spring of 1971. Fiery radicals, flower children, and militant vets gathered for the most audacious act...
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Tricky Dick: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Richard M. NixonFinally, there is a warts and all biography of the most enduring American politician of the 20th century Richard Milhous Nixon written by an author with unprecedented access and insight about our 37th President', New York Times Bestselling Author Roger Stone. Stone and his...
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Riot and Remembrance: America's Worst Race Riot and Its LegacyWith a new preface, a "profound, chilling, and heartbreaking, contribution to American history" that investigates the causes of the twentieth century's deadliest race riot and how its legacy has scarred and shaped a community (Boston Globe). On May 30, 1921, a misunderstanding between a...
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Letters of a Woman Homesteader"Peopled with the kinds of characters most novelists only dream of" (Christian Science Monitor), this classic account of American frontier living captures the rambunctious spirit of a pioneer who set out in 1909 to prove that a woman could ranch. A series of letters...
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Niksen: The Dutch Art of Doing NothingFirst there was hygge, now there's niksen - a simple Dutch philosophy for anyone looking to slow down, relax and daydream. 'Time is money. Stop being lazy. Do something.' Everyday we're told to get up, take action and be productive: if you work hard,...
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Race to Hawaii: The 1927 Dole Air Derby and the Thrilling First Flights That Opened the PacificRace to Hawaii is the thrilling account of the first flights to Hawaii during the Golden Age of Aviation. The Dole Derby was an unprecedented 1927 air race in which eight planes set off at once across the Pacific, all eager to reach the...
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Ronald Reagan Our 40th PresidentFrom the author of Forest Gump, The Aviators, and The Generals... He was one of America's true greats. As president, he changed the world, developing a successful strategy for defeating Communism, toppling the Soviet Union, and liberating Eastern Europe (while hardly firing a shot)....
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How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken: EssaysWhether he's on Broadway or at the movies, considering a new bestseller or revisiting a literary classic, Daniel Mendelsohn's judgments over the past fifteen years have provoked and dazzled with their deep erudition, disarming emotionality, and tart wit. Now, How Beautiful It Is and...
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Washington: How Slaves, Idealists, and Scoundrels Created the Nation's CapitalWashington, D.C., is home to the most influential power brokers in the world. But how did we come to call D.C.--a place once described as a mere swamp "producing nothing except myriads of toads and frogs (of enormous size)," and which was strategically indefensible,...
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A Safe Haven: Harry S. Truman and the Founding of Israel"[This] revelatory account of Truman's vital contributions to Israel's founding. . .is told. . . with an elegance informed by thorough research." --Wall Street Journal "Even knowing how the story ends, A Safe Haven had me sitting on the edge of my seat." --Cokie...
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