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Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They DestroyedINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER #1 SUNDAY TIMES (UK) BESTSELLER "The must-read book of the summer" (Megyn Kelly) from New York Times bestseller Maureen Callahan: a "harrowing, incendiary" exposé of the real Kennedy Curse--the family's generations-long legacy of misogyny, murder, and mayhem (Karen Abbott)....
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Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880The pioneering work in the study of the role of Black Americans during Reconstruction by the most influential Black intellectual of his time. This pioneering work was the first full-length study of the role black Americans played in the crucial period after the Civil...
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The Last Great Dream: How Bohemians Became Hippies and Created the Sixties"McNally masterfully combines many disparate lineages of political, social, art, and pop history into one singular, sweeping portrait. The result is a stunning vision of a broad and powerful idealism that gripped the world for more than two decades."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) From the...
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The Most Awful Responsibility: Truman and the Secret Struggle for Control of the Atomic Age"I thought I knew the story but learned much that I didn't know. Outstanding!"-- Richard Rhodes"This is historical research at its best." -- Dan CarlinPresident Truman's choice to drop the atomic bomb is the most debated decision in the 20th Century. But what if...
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The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All for the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War IIWith a new foreword from bestselling author Alex Kershaw, the bestselling classic that tells the astonishing, definitive story of the greatest rescue mission, featuring the previously unknown role of the Tuskegee Airmen in this dangerous assignment. "An amazing, riveting tale of unsung heroes who...
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The Miller's Dance: A Novel of Cornwall, 1812-1813The Miller's Dance, the ninth novel in Winston Graham's classic Poldark saga, now a major TV series from Masterpiece PBS.Cornwall 1812 At Nampara, the Poldark family finds the new year brings involvement in more than one unexpected venture. For Ross and Demelza there is...
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Sharpe's Storm: Richard Sharpe and the Invasion of Southern France, 1813A gripping novel featuring the legendary Richard Sharpe from Bernard Cornwell, the internationally bestselling master of historical fiction widely recognized as "the most prolific and successful historical novelist in the world today" (Wall Street Journal).The year is 1813. France is a battlefield, and winter...
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American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National IdentityThe critically acclaimed author of Patriots offers profound insight into Vietnam's place in America's self-image How did the Vietnam War change the way we think of ourselves as a people and a nation? In American Reckoning, Christian G. Appy--author of Patriots, the widely praised...
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Against All Odds: A True Story of Ultimate Courage and Survival in World War II*The instant New York Times bestseller* The untold story of four of the most decorated soldiers of World War II--all Medal of Honor recipients--from the beaches of French Morocco to Hitler's own mountaintop fortress, by the national bestselling author of The First Wave "Pitch-perfect."--The...
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The American Story: Conversations with Master HistoriansCo-founder of The Carlyle Group and patriotic philanthropist David M. Rubenstein takes readers on a sweeping journey across the grand arc of the American story through revealing conversations with our greatest historians. In these lively dialogues, the biggest names in American history explore the...
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The Dark Side of the Earth: Russia's Short-Lived Victory Over TotalitarianismFrom "one of Russia's smartest and best-sourced" (The New York Times) reporters comes a gripping and urgent exploration of why the Soviet Union's collapse was incomplete and the Cold War was never over--revealing the resurgence of imperialism in Russia and its current implications for...
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Gemini: Stepping Stone to the Moon, the Untold StoryONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF FALL 2025 From the bestselling co-author of Apollo 13 comes the thrilling untold story of the pioneering Gemini program that was instrumental in getting Americans on the moon.Without Gemini, there would be no Apollo. After we...
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The Traitors Circle: The True Story of a Secret Resistance Network in Nazi Germany--And the Spy Who Betrayed Them"An astonishing true story of courage, love, and betrayal, told with the verve of a thriller. Freedland is a master at weaving spellbinding entertainments drawn from forgotten corners of history."--Mick Herron, bestselling author of Slow HorsesFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The...
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Charles Dickens: A LifeAward-winning Claire Tomalin, author of A Life of My Own, sets the standard for sophisticated and popular biography, having written lives of Jane Austen, Samuel Pepys, and Thomas Hardy, among others. Here she tackles the best recognized and loved man of nineteenth-century England, Charles...
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Capturing Kahanamoku: How a Surfing Legend and a Scientific Obsession Redefined Race and Culture"A haunting, quietly devastating excavation of a story we should all know but don't: how a surfing legend became the target of eugenic obsession... Gorgeously written and brilliantly researched, this book is both a warning and a wonder." -- Laurie Gwen Shapiro, author of...
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The Boy Next Door: My Sixty Year Friendship with Bill ClintonThe life of President Bill Clinton as seen through the lens of one who was his next-door neighbor during high school and who has maintained a close and uninterrupted friendship ever since, by maintaining a near-constant correspondence, serving roles in both his gubernatorial and...
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American Grammar: Race, Education, and the Building of a NationA new history of US education through the nineteenth century that rigorously accounts for Black, Native, and white experiences; a story that exposes the idea of American education as "the great equalizer" to not only be a lie, but also a myth that reproduces...
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The Many Lives of James Lovelock: Science, Secrets, Spycraft and Gaia Theory"Utterly fascinating--a beautifully braided account of the life of a maverick, prophetic genius."--Robert MacFarlane Based on in-depth interviews with James Lovelock and unprecedented access to his personal archive, The Many Lives of James Lovelock is a definitive, revelatory biography of a fascinating, sometimes contradictory...
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Taking London: Winston Churchill and the Fight to Save CivilizationFrom Martin Dugard, #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Bill O'Reilly's Killing series--with more than 12 million copies sold--comes a soaring account of England's desperate fight to fend off German invasion. Great Britain, summer 1940. The Battle of France is over. The Battle...
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Counterculture: The Story of America from Bohemia to Hip-HopA political and intellectual history of American counterculture and the historical figures who redefined mainstream understandings of freedom, culture, art, and politics--from The Beat Generation to Basquiat This entertaining, intellectual history fulfills the growing appetite for marginalized narratives. Counterculture brilliantly interrogates the diversity of...
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