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Farewell, My Colony: Last Days in the Life of British Hong KongIn the heart of Beijing, a large digital clock marked off the seconds until July 1, 1997, when the red, five-star flag of China would be hoisted over Hong Kong - and the grand but untried idea of "one country, two systems" would be...
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The Siege of Sarajevo: One Family's Story of Separation, Struggle, and Strength"In a world facing the worst refugee crisis in history, this is an important and timely book."-- John Zaritsky, Oscar-winning filmmaker "An epic tale. ... Moving beyond words."-- Roy Gutman, Pulitzer Prize winner and Crimes of War Project chairman "A universal human story ......
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The Last Sheriff in Texas: A True Tale of Violence and the VoteAn Amazon Best History Book of the Month This true crime story transports readers to a tumultuous time in Texas history--when the old ways clashed with the new--as it sheds light on police brutality, gun control, Mexican American civil rights, and much more "[A]...
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LBJ: The MasterMind of the JFK AssassinationLBJ aims to prove that Vice President Johnson played an active role in the assassination of President Kennedy and that he began planning his takeover of the U.S. presidency even before being named the vice presidential nominee in 1960. Lyndon B. Johnson's flawed personality...
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High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton"Coulter is a pundit extraordinaire." - RUSH LIMBAUGH "Ann Coulter is one of the fiery new breed of conservative commentators who don't worry what the Establishment thinks of them." - ROBERT D. NOVAK "A fluent polemicist with a gift for Menckenesque invective...she can harness...
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Ladysmith: The SiegeVictorious Boer mounted troops bottled up a substantial British force in the town of Ladysmith in October 1899. Numerous battles were fought in succeeding months by British relief columns unsuccessfully attempting to raise the siege. While British troops on the outside using outmoded tactics...
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The Electrifying Fall of Rainbow City: Spectacle and Assassination at the 1901 World's FairThe Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, dazzled with its new rainbow-colored electric lights. It showcased an array of wonders, like daredevils attempting to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel, or the "Animal King" putting the smallest woman in the world and also...
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Children of the City: At Work and at PlayThe turn of the twentieth century was a time of explosive growth for American cities, a time of nascent hopes and apparently limitless possibilities. In Children of the City, David Nasaw re-creates this period in our social history from the vantage point of the...
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The Children of Henry VIIIBehind the facade of politics and pageantry at the Tudor court, there was a family drama. Nothing drove Henry VIII, England's wealthiest and most powerful king, more than producing a legitimate male heir and so perpetuating his dynasty. To that end, he married six...
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Lincoln's Last Speech: Wartime Reconstruction and the Crisis of ReunionWhat did Abraham Lincoln envision when he talked about "reconstruction?" Assassinated in 1865, the president did not have a chance to begin the work of reconciling the North and South, nor to oversee Reconstruction as an official postwar strategy. Yet his final speech, given...
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The Human Factor: Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher, and the End of the Cold WarWhy did the Cold War end when it did? Few questions have generated more heated debate over the course of the last three decades. Archie Brown, one of the foremost experts on the subject, shows why the popular view that Western economic and military...
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John Wayne's Wild West: An Illustrated History of Cowboys, Gunfighters, Weapons, and EquipmentJohn Wayne is the most iconic cowboy actor of all time, even now, thirty years after his death. His unique style brilliantly characterized a whole troupe of western characters, from rancher to cowboy to sheriff to scout, and left his fans with numerous popular...
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Destiny Betrayed: Jfk, Cuba, and the Garrison CaseThrilling and informative guide to the life and death of JFK Ideal for fans of In Cold Blood and Oliver Stone's JFK Revised and expanded version of DiEugenio's original book Twenty years ago, before the ages of Obama and Trump, James DiEugenio wrote the...
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The Secret Team: The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World"Offers uncommonly penetrating insight....A rare glimpse into Covert and Black Operations.--New York Times Bestselling author, Governor Jesse Ventura, from his Foreword. The Secret Team, L. Fletcher Prouty's expose of the CIA's brutal methods of maintaining national security during the Cold War, was first published...
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The Nixon Tapes: 1973"A revealing selection . . . [a] heroic service." -- New York Times Book Review "Endlessly fascinating . . . Essential for students of late-twentieth-century history and the American presidency." -- Kirkus Reviews "[A] monumental effort . . . Astonishing." -- Austin American-Statesman Between...
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Empire of Deception: The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the NationIt was a time of unregulated madness. And nowhere was it madder than in Chicago at the dawn of the Roaring Twenties. Enter a slick, smooth-talking, charismatic lawyer named Leo Koretz, who enticed hundreds of people to invest as much as $30 million upward...
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What I Saw: Reports from Berlin 1920-1933The Joseph Roth revival has finally gone mainstream with the thunderous reception for What I Saw, a book that has become a classic with five hardcover printings. Glowingly reviewed, What I Saw introduces a new generation to the genius of this tortured author with...
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Twenty Miles from a Match: Homesteading in Western NevadaTwenty Miles From a Match, originally published in 1978, is the autobiography of an indomitable woman and her family's twenty years of adventures and misadventures in a desert wilderness. In 1908, a venturesome woman named Sarah Olds packed up her brood and went homesteading...
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When America First Met China: An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of SailBrilliantly illuminating one of the least-understood areas of American history, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin now traces our fraught relationship with China back to its roots: the unforgiving nineteenth-century seas that separated a brash, rising naval power from a battered ancient empire. It is...
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The Circus FireThe acclaimed author of Emily, Alone and Henry, Himself brings all his narrative gifts to bear on this gripping account of tragedy and heroism--the great Hartford circus fire of 1944. It was a midsummer afternoon, halfway through a Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus...
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