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Atatürk in the Nazi ImaginationEarly in his career, Adolf Hitler took inspiration from Benito Mussolini, his senior colleague in fascism--this fact is widely known. But an equally important role model for Hitler and the Nazis has been almost entirely neglected: Mustafa Kemal Atat rk, the founder of modern...
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America's Pastor: Billy Graham and the Shaping of a NationDuring a career spanning sixty years, the Reverend Billy Graham's resonant voice and chiseled profile entered the living rooms of millions of Americans with a message that called for personal transformation through God's grace. How did a lanky farm kid from North Carolina become...
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AdrenalineInducing highs of excitement, anger, and terror, adrenaline fuels the extremes of human experience. A rush empowers superhuman feats in emergencies. Risk-taking junkies seek to replicate this feeling in dangerous recreations. And a surge may literally scare us to death. Adrenaline brings us up...
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Race Horse Men: How Slavery and Freedom Were Made at the RacetrackRace Horse Men recaptures the vivid sights, sensations, and illusions of nineteenth-century thoroughbred racing, America's first mass spectator sport. Inviting readers into the pageantry of the racetrack, Katherine C. Mooney conveys the sport's inherent drama while also revealing the significant intersections between horse racing...
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We Are an African People: Independent Education, Black Power, and the Radical ImaginationDuring the height of the Black Power movement of the late 1960s and 1970s, dozens of Pan African nationalist private schools, from preschools to post-secondary ventures, appeared in urban settings across the United States. The small, independent enterprises were often accused of teaching hate...
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Surviving Wounded Knee: The Lakotas and the Politics of MemoryOn December 29, 1890, the U.S. Seventh Cavalry killed more than two hundred Lakota Ghost Dancers- including men, women, and children-at Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota. After the work of death ceased at Wounded Knee, the work of memory commenced. For the US Army...
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Out in the Rural: A Mississippi Health Center and Its War on PovertyOut in the Rural is the unlikely story of the Tufts-Delta Health Center, which in 1966 opened in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, to become the first rural community health center in the United States. Its goal was simple: to provide health care and outreach to...
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The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of EmpireAt the end of the First World War, the Paris Peace Conference saw a battle over the future of empire. The victorious allied powers wanted to annex the Ottoman territories and German colonies they had occupied; Woodrow Wilson and a groundswell of anti-imperialist activism...
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Part of Our Lives: A People's History of the American Public LibraryDespite dire predictions in the late twentieth century that public libraries would not survive the turn of the millennium, their numbers have only increased. Two of three Americans frequent a public library at least once a year, and nearly that many are registered borrowers....
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The Last Masterpiece: A Novel of World War II ItalyIn a race across Nazi-occupied Italy, two women--a German photographer and an American stenographer--hunt for priceless masterpieces looted from the Florentine art collections.In the summer of 1943, Eva Brunner is taking photographs of Nazi-looted art hidden in the salt mines of the Austrian hinterland....
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Campaign of the Century: Kennedy, Nixon, and the Election of 1960Based on massive new research, a compelling and surprising account of the twentieth century's closest election. The 1960 presidential election between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon is one of the most frequently described political events of the twentieth century, yet the accounts to...
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My People: Five Decades of Writing about Black LivesCharlayne Hunter-Gault is an eminent Dean of American journalism, a vital voice whose work chronicled the civil rights movement and so much of what has transpired since then. My People is the definitive collection of her reportage and commentary. Spanning datelines in the American...
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Dangerous Rhythms: Jazz and the UnderworldFrom T. J. English, the New York Times bestselling author of Havana Nocturne, comes the epic, scintillating narrative of the interconnected worlds of jazz and organized crime in 20th century America.[A] brilliant and courageous book. --Dr. Cornel WestDangerous Rhythms tells the symbiotic story of...
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Need to Know: World War II and the Rise of American IntelligenceHistorian and former CIA officer Nicholas Reynolds, the New York Times bestselling author of Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy, uncovers the definitive history of American intelligence during World War II, illuminating its key role in securing victory. Need to Know is the most thorough and...
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American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten CrisisFrom legendary historian Adam Hochschild, a groundbreaking reassessment of the overlooked but startlingly resonant period between World War I and the Roaring Twenties, when the foundations of American democracy were threated by war, pandemic, and violence fueled by battles over race, immigration, and the...
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The History of the Inquisition. by Philip a Limborch, ... Translated Into English by Samuel Chandler. in Two Volumes. ... to Which Is Prefixed, a LargThe 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions...
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Mussolini's Daughter: The Most Dangerous Woman in EuropeThe New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Resistance Quartet returns with the incredible story of Mussolini's daughter, Edda, one of the most influential women in 1930s Italy and a powerful proponent of the fascist movement.Edda Mussolini was the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini's...
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The War Magician: Based on an Extraordinary True StoryBased on an extraordinary true story and soon to be a major film produced by and starring Benedict Cumberbatch, The War Magician is the remarkable tale of the man who used the powers of illusion to fight the Nazis--and created the most remarkable feat...
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Hitler's Aristocrats: The Secret Power Players in Britain and America Who Supported the Nazis, 1923-1941Susan Ronald, acclaimed author of Hitler's Art Thief takes readers into the shadowy world of the aristocrats and business leaders on both sides of the Atlantic who secretly aided Hitler and Nazi Germany.Hitler said, "I am convinced that propaganda is an essential means to...
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Uniting America: How FDR and Henry Stimson Brought Democrats and Republicans Together to Win World War IIThe untold story of the most crucial bipartisan alliance in United States history.As Adolf Hitler's Nazi armies threatened Europe, Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt urged a divided America to mobilize to defend democracy and freedom. Many Republicans accused FDR of leading the nation needlessly...
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