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Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam"The best account of the Battle of Antietam" from the award-winning, national bestselling author of Gettysburg and Chancellorsville (The New York Times Book Review).The Civil War battle waged on September 17, 1862, at Antietam Creek, Maryland, was one of the bloodiest in the nation's...
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The Girl on the Velvet Swing: Sex, Murder, and Madness at the Dawn of the Twentieth CenturyFrom New York Times bestselling author Simon Baatz, the first comprehensive account of the murder that shocked the world. In 1901 Evelyn Nesbit, a chorus girl in the musical Florodora, dined alone with the architect Stanford White in his townhouse on 24th Street in...
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Agents of Influence: A British Campaign, a Canadian Spy, and the Secret Plot to Bring America Into World War IIThe astonishing story of the British spies who set out to draw America into World War IIAs World War II raged into its second year, Britain sought a powerful ally to join its cause-but the American public was sharply divided on the subject. Canadian-born...
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Alice + Freda Forever: A Murder in MemphisAlice + Freda Forever is a gut-wrenching story of love, death, and the dangers of intolerance.--Bustle In 1892, America was obsessed with a teenage murderess, but it wasn't her crime that shocked the nation--it was her motivation. Nineteen-year-old Alice Mitchell had planned to pass...
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Shoot for the Moon: The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11Learn why NASA astronaut Mike Collins calls this extraordinary space race story "the best book on Apollo" this inspiring and intimate ode to ingenuity celebrates one of the most daring feats in human history.When the alarm went off forty thousand feet above the moon's...
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Everybody Had an Ocean: Music and Mayhem in 1960s Los Angeles"Excellent social history...an indispensable account of a time of beauty and terror." --Kirkus Reviews, starred review A modern epic of the battles between innocence and cynicism, joy and terror Los Angeles in the 1960s gave the world some of the greatest music in rock...
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Countdown to Pearl Harbor: The Twelve Days to the AttackIn this "riveting" (Los Angeles Times) account of the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Steve Twomey "infuses a well-known story with suspense" (The New York Times Book Review), offering a poignant new perspective on the most infamous...
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The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great DepressionIn The Forgotten Man, Amity Shlaes, one of the nation's most-respected economic commentators, offers a striking reinterpretation of the Great Depression. She traces the mounting agony of the New Dealers and the moving stories of individual citizens who through their brave perseverance helped establish...
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The Blood of Heroes: The 13-Day Struggle for the Alamo--And the Sacrifice That Forged a NationOn February 23, 1836, a large Mexican army led by dictator Santa Anna reached San Antonio and laid siege to about 175 Texas rebels holed up in the Alamo. The Texans refused to surrender for nearly two weeks until almost 2,000 Mexican troops unleashed...
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The Berlin Wall: August 13, 1961 - November 9, 1989"This vivid account of the Wall and all that it meant reminds us that symbolism can be double-edged, as a potent emblem of isolation and repression became, in its destruction, an even more powerful totem of freedom." -- The Atlantic MonthlyNOW WITH AN UPDATED...
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Small Town Talk: Bob Dylan, the Band, Van Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Friends in the Wild Years of WoodstockThink Woodstock and the mind turns to the seminal 1969 festival that crowned a seismic decade of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll. But the town of Woodstock, New York, the original planned venue of the concert, is located over 60 miles from the...
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Hershey: Milton S. Hershey's Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire, and Utopian DreamsExtensively researched and vividly written by Pulitzer Prize--winning journalist Michael D'Antonio, Hershey is the fascinating story of the unique American visionary Milton S. Hershey.The name Hershey evokes many things: chocolate bars, the company town in Pennsylvania, one of America's most recognizable brands. But who...
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Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American DreamFirst published in 1990, Songs of the Doomed is back in print -- by popular demand! In this third and most extraordinary volume of the Gonzo Papers, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson recalls high and hideous moments in his thirty years in the Passing Lane...
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Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln's LegacyHistorian and Constitution expert David O. Stewart recaps the landmark impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson. "The fullest recounting we have of the high politics of that immediate post-Civil War period...Stewart's graceful style and storytelling ability make for a good read." --The Washington Post...
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Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, the Millionaire's Wife, and the Murder of the CenturyThis glittering, "wild romp of a story, boldly and beautifully told" (Neal Thompson, author of The First Kennedys) explores the darkly intertwined fates of infamous socialite Ann Woodward and literary icon Truman Capote, sweeping us to the upper echelons of Manhattan's high society--where falls...
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Three Sheets to the WindHow a motley crew of merchant seamen walked 600 miles to save 7000 gallons of rum By the bestselling author of The Ship That Never WasWhen, in 1796, Calcutta-based Scottish merchants Campbell & Clark dispatched an Indian ship hurriedly renamed the Sydney Cove to...
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Soong DynastyAn inside account of the Soong family, whose wealth and power have dominated China and U.S.-Asia policy in the 20th century.Author: Sterling SeagravePublisher: Harper PerennialPublished: 03/19/1986Pages: 560Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.93lbsSize: 8.04h x 5.34w x 1.41dISBN: 9780060913182
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Nellie Kenyon: Trailblazing Tennessee JournalistNellie Kenyon covered big stories in an era when men dominated the field of journalism. Her career began at the Chattanooga News, where she reported on World War I and woman suffrage. She received the first press pass at the Scopes Monkey Trial, where...
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The Director: My Years Assisting J. Edgar HooverThe first book ever written about FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover by a member of his personal staff--his former assistant, Paul Letersky--offers unprecedented, "clear-eyed and compelling" (Mark Olshaker, coauthor of Mindhunter) insight into an American legend. The 1960s and 1970s were arguably among America's...
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FDR's Funeral TrainThe true story of the wartime train that took one dead president, one living one, and 140 of the most influential men of the U.S. government on an adventure that has been shrouded in mystery-until nowAuthor: Robert KlaraPublisher: St. Martins Press-3PLPublished: 06/21/2011Pages: 272Binding Type:...
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