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Hemingway's Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and LostNational Book Critics Circle Award Finalist A brilliantly conceived and illuminating reconsideration of a key period in the life of Ernest Hemingway that will forever change the way he is perceived and understood.Focusing on the years 1934 to 1961--from Hemingway's pinnacle as the reigning...
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The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931A searing and highly original analysis of the First World War and its anguished aftermath--from the prizewinning economist and author of Shutdown, Crashed and The Wages of Destruction Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History Finalist for the Kirkus Prize -...
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Sam Patch, the Famous JumperThe true history of a legendary American folk hero In the 1820s, a fellow named Sam Patch grew up in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, working there (when he wasn't drinking) as a mill hand for one of America's new textile companies. Sam made a name...
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Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock That Shaped the WorldThe astonishing biography of a mineral that can sustain our world- or destroy it Uranium occurs naturally in the earth's crust-yet holds the power to end all life on the planet. This is its fundamental paradox, and its story is a fascinating window into...
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A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human RightsUnafraid to speak her mind and famously tenacious in her convictions, Eleanor Roosevelt was still mourning the death of FDR when she was asked by President Truman to lead a controversial commission, under the auspices of the newly formed United Nations, to forge the...
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A Shopkeeper's Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815-1837A quarter-century after its first publication, A Shopkeeper's Millennium remains a landmark work--brilliant both as a new interpretation of the intimate connections among politics, economy, and religion during the Second Great Awakening, and as a surprising portrait of a rapidly growing frontier city. The...
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Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle CityFrom Pulitzer Prize-winning author Greg Grandin comes the stunning, never before told story of the quixotic attempt to recreate small-town America in the heart of the Amazon In 1927, Henry Ford, the richest man in the world, bought a tract of land twice the...
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Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times"An exemplary biography--exhaustively researched, fair-minded and easy to read. It can nestle on the same shelf as David McCullough's Truman, a high compliment indeed." --The Wall Street JournalThe definitive biography of Herbert Hoover, one of the most remarkable Americans of the twentieth century--a wholly...
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Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since 1938, Ninth Revised EditionSince it first appeared in 1971, Rise to Globalism has sold hundreds of thousands of copies. The ninth edition of this classic survey, now updated through the administration of George W. Bush, offers a concise and informative overview of the evolution of American foreign...
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F. W. Woolworth and the Five and Dime: From Nickels to Dimes to DollarsF.W. Woolworth and the Five and Dime: From Nickels to Dimes to Dollars tells the story of a great American institution, the Five and Ten Cent Store. Utilizing his private collection of Woolworth publications [some dating from 1917], researching numerous books, magazines, newspaper articles,...
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Seward: Lincoln's Indispensable ManThe New York Times bestseller from one of the most acclaimed biographers--the first full life of the leader of Lincoln's "team of rivals" to appear in more than forty years. William Henry Seward was one of the most important Americans of the nineteenth century....
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1774: The Long Year of RevolutionFrom one of our most acclaimed and original colonial historians, a groundbreaking book tracing the critical "long year" of 1774 and the revolutionary change that took place from the Boston Tea Party and the First Continental Congress to the Battles of Lexington and Concord....
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The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive FraternityThe New York Times bestselling history of the private relationships among the last thirteen presidents--the partnerships, private deals, rescue missions, and rivalries of those select men who served as commander in chief. The Presidents Club, established at Dwight Eisenhower's inauguration by Harry Truman and...
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Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991"Read every page of this book; better still, re-read them. The invocation means no hardship, since every true reader must surely be captivated by Rushdie's masterful invention and ease, the flow of wit and insight and passion. How literature of the highest order can...
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Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of CivilizationBestselling author Nicholson Baker, recognized as one of the most dexterous and talented writers in America today, has created a compelling work of nonfiction bound to provoke discussion and controversy--a wide-ranging, astonishingly fresh perspective on the political and social landscape that gave rise to...
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The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert AmesThe Good Spy is Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird's compelling portrait of the remarkable life and death of one of the most important operatives in CIA history - a man who, had he lived, might have helped heal the rift between Arabs and the...
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Even This I Get to Experience"Flat out, one of the best Hollywood memoirs ever written . . . an absolute treasure." --Booklist (starred review) In my ninety-plus years I've lived a multitude of lives. In the course of all these lives, I had a front-row seat at the birth...
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The Journals of Lewis and ClarkIn 1803, when the United States purchased Louisiana from France, the great expanse of this new American territory was a blank--not only on the map but in our knowledge. President Thomas Jefferson keenly understood that the course of the nation's destiny lay westward and...
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The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn: A Lakota HistoryThe author of The Journey of Crazy Horse presents a legendary battle through the eyes of the Lakota The saga of Custer's Last Stand, has become ingrained in the lore of the American West, and the key players Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and George...
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Manimal WoeFanny Howe's Manimal Woe maps the intersection between history and family as few books have. Through poetry, prose, and primary sources, Howe invites us on a journey with the spirit of her father, Civil Rights lawyer and professor Mark DeWolfe Howe, who died suddenly...
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