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Kearny's March: The Epic Creation of the American West, 1846-1847A thrilling re-creation of a crucial campaign in the Mexican-American War and a pivotal moment in America's history. In June 1846, General Stephen Watts Kearny rode out of Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, with a thousand cavalrymen of the First United States Dragoons. When his fantastic...
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Of Mice and Men and the Moon Is Down: Two PlaysTwo devastating short novels adapted for the stage by Steinbeck himselfA Penguin Classic This Penguin Classics edition celebrates Steinbeck's dramatic adaptations of his most powerful short novels, Of Mice and Men and The Moon Is Down, featuring a foreword by award-winning actor James Earl...
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Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s AmericaAuthor of the forthcoming What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories (Summer 2017) In this captivating blend of culinary history and popular culture, the award-winning author of Perfection Salad shows us what happened when the food industry elbowed...
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Collected Short Stories: Volume 4This final classic collection reveals Somerset Maugham's unique talent for exposing and exploring the bitter realities of human relationships in tales of love, infidelity, passion and prejudice. The stories range from "The Lotus Eater" where a man envisions a life of bliss in the...
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We Should Have Seen It Coming: From Reagan to Trump--A Front-Row Seat to a Political RevolutionThe executive Washington editor of The Wall Street Journal chronicles the astonishing rise, climax, and decline of one of the great political movements in American history--the forty-year reign of the conservative movement, from the election of Ronald Reagan to the Republican Party's takeover by...
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Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich and the Rise of the New Republican PartyA New York Times Notable Book A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice The story of how Newt Gingrich and his allies tainted American politics, launching an enduring era of brutal partisan warfare When Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, President Obama...
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Barnum: An American Life"Robert Wilson's Barnum, the first full-dress biography in twenty years, eschews clich s for a more nuanced story...It is a life for our times, and the biography Barnum deserves." --The Wall Street Journal P.T. Barnum is the greatest showman the world has ever seen....
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The Spy Who Was Left Behind: Russia, the United States, and the True Story of the Betrayal and Assassination of a CIA AgentThe shocking true story of international intrigue --"a highly detailed, engrossing work" (Kirkus Reviews)--involving the 1993 murder of CIA officer Freddie Woodruff by KGB agents and the extensive cover-up that followed in Washington and in Moscow. "In a post-truth era, we need a lot...
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After Lincoln: How the North Won the Civil War and Lost the PeaceA brilliant evocation of the post-Civil War era by the acclaimed author of Patriots and Union 1812. After Lincoln tells the story of the Reconstruction, which set back black Americans and isolated the South for a century.With Lincoln's assassination, his "team of rivals," in...
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Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln PresidentWinner of the Lincoln PrizeLincoln at Cooper Union explores Lincoln's most influential and widely reported pre-presidential address -- an extraordinary appeal by the western politician to the eastern elite that propelled him toward the Republican nomination for president. Delivered in New York in February...
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The Defining Moment: Fdr's Hundred Days and the Triumph of HopeThis is the story of a political miracle--the perfect match of man and moment. Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office in March of 1933 as America touched bottom. Banks were closing everywhere. Millions of people lost everything. The Great Depression had caused a national breakdown....
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The MessiahWhen a mortician appears on television to declare that death is infinitely preferable to life, he sparks a religious movement that quickly leaves Christianity and most of Islam in the dust. Gore Vidal's deft and daring blend of satire and prophecy, first published in...
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Honor Killing: Race, Rape, and Clarence Darrow's Spectacular Last CaseIn the fall of 1931, Thalia Massie, the bored, aristocratic wife of a young naval officer stationed in Honolulu, accused six nonwhite islanders of gang rape. The ensuing trial let loose a storm of racial and sexual hysteria, but the case against the suspects...
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Tocqueville's Discovery of AmericaAlexis de Tocqueville is more quoted than read; commentators across the political spectrum invoke him as an oracle who defined America and its democracy for all times. But in fact his masterpiece, Democracy in America, was the product of a young man's open-minded experience...
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A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order"A valuable primer on foreign policy: a primer that concerned citizens of all political persuasions--not to mention the president and his advisers--could benefit from reading." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times An examination of a world increasingly defined by disorder and a United States...
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A Tryal of Witches, at the Assizes Held at Bury St. Edmonds for the County of Suffolk; On the Tenth Day of March, 1664. Before Sir Matthew Hale, ... TThe 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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Oriental Scenery. Twenty-Four Views in Hindoostan, Taken in the Year 1792; Drawn by Thomas Daniell, and Engraved by Himself and William Daniell; ...The 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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Mafia Spies: The Inside Story of the Cia, Gangsters, Jfk, and Castro (Series Tie-In)**SOON TO BE A MINI-SERIES FROM PARAMOUNT+ IN SPRING 2024** From bestselling author and the producer of the hit cable series Masters of Sex, Thomas Maier, comes a true story of espionage and mobsters, based on the never-before-released JFK Files. From Vegas to Miami...
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The Devils Will Get No Rest: Fdr, Churchill, and the Plan That Won the WarWritten with "a cinematic sense of urgency and realism" (Evan Osnos, National Book Award-winning author), this is the first full account of the Casablanca Conference of January 1943, the secret ten-day parlay in Morocco where FDR, Churchill, and their divided high command hammered out...
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His Majesty's Sailor and the Girl in the Blue CoatIt's the fall of 1942, and the Second World War rages on. The skies above Britain and the oceans around her are a battleground: German bombers target cities like Liverpool and Crewe, while U-Boats and warships prowl the waters between England and France. Ten-year-old...
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