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To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause (Pulitzer Prize Winner): The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident MovementWINNER OF THE 2025 PULITZER PRIZE Winner of the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize - Shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize A "riveting history" (Wall Street Journal) of the Soviet dissident movement, which hastened the end of the USSR and still provides a model...
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Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America - Updated EditionThis book traces the origins of the "illegal alien" in American law and society, explaining why and how illegal migration became the central problem in U.S. immigration policy-a process that profoundly shaped ideas and practices about citizenship, race, and state authority in the twentieth...
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Beyond the Fence Line: The Eyewitness Account of Ed Hoffman and the Murder of President John F. KennedyForty-five years ago, n November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Deaf witness Ed Hoffman saw the man who fired the fatal shot that killed the Presidentand it was not Lee Harvey Oswald. His eyewitness account destroys the governments version of a...
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Black Scare / Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United StatesA radical explication of the ways anti-Black racial oppression has infused the US government's anti-communist repression. In the early twentieth century, two panics emerged in the United States. The Black Scare was rooted in white Americans' fear of Black Nationalism and dread at what...
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The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia TrapThe definitive edition of the classic, myth-shattering history of the American familyLeave It to Beaver was not a documentary, a man's home has never been his castle, the "male breadwinner marriage" is the least traditional family in history, and rape and sexual assault were...
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The Gilded Age in New York, 1870-1910An expansive exploration of The Gilded Age in New York City, from of the extravagant lifestyles and magnificent mansions of the ultra-rich to the daily doings of the wretchedly poor who lived in the shadows of their newly constructed skyscrapers. Written by the curator...
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Citizens: A Chronicle of the French RevolutionIn this New York Times bestseller, award-winning author Simon Schama presents an ebullient country, vital and inventive, infatuated with novelty and technology--a strikingly fresh view of Louis XVI's France. One of the great landmarks of modern history publishing, Citizens: A Chronicle of the French...
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The Great Transformation: China's Road from Revolution to ReformThe first thorough account of a formative and little understood chapter in Chinese history "A superb history of China's transition into and out of the Cultural Revolution. . . . Chen and Westad--two of the best archival historians of Communist China writing today--coolly but...
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great MigrationNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER - TIME'S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE - ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES'S FIVE BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY - A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE CENTURY...
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Leviathan and Its EnemiesLeviathan and Its Enemies is Samuel T. Francis's magnum opus on political theory and the history of the modern world, which had been lost to the world after his untimely death in 2005 and is published here for the first time. This edition includes...
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You Can't Kill a Man Because of the Books He Reads: Angelo Herndon's Fight for Free SpeechDecades before the impeachment of an American president for a similar offense, Angelo Herndon was charged under Georgia law with "attempting to incite insurrection"--a crime punishable by death. In 1932, the eighteen-year-old Black Communist Party organizer was arrested and had his room illegally searched...
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The Sewards of New York: A Biography of a Leading American Political FamilyThe Sewards of New York shines a light on one of the most important and fascinating political families of the nineteenth century. Through recently discovered family correspondence, Thomas P. Slaughter unveils the inner lives of the Seward family, tracing their joys and sorrows as...
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The War Correspondents: The Incredible Stories of the Brave Men and Women Who Covered the Fight Against Hitler's GermanyThe War Correspondents unveils the extraordinary bravery and unmatched literary legacy of the journalists who risked their lives to cover WWII's European Theater Ernie Pyle, John Steinbeck, Walter Cronkite, Edward R. Murrow, Ernest Hemingway, Bill Mauldin, Robert Capa, Margaret Bourke-White, Andy Rooney, Martha Gellhorn,...
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Kalamazoo Gals - A Story of Extraordinary Women & Gibson's "Banner" Guitars of WWIIIt's a haunting image. At least it was for author John Thomas. Some seventy women sit in four rows in front of the Gibson Guitar factory in the mid-1940s. Conventional wisdom and company lore had it that Gibson had ceased guitar production during World...
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The Thirty Years War: Europe's TragedyA deadly continental struggle, the Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe, killing nearly a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to towns and countryside alike. Peter Wilson offers the first new history in a generation of a horrifying conflict that transformed the map...
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Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart GardnerThe vivid and masterful story of Isabella Stewart Gardner--creator of one of America's most stunning museums--an American original whose own life was remade by art. Includes archival photos of Isabella's world, museum, and the art she collected.Isabella Stewart Gardner's museum, with its plain exterior...
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Sand, Snow, and Stardust: How Us Military Engineers Conquered Extreme EnvironmentsA vivid tour of US military efforts to understand, survive, and command harsh environments worldwide--and beyond. Deserts, the Arctic, outer space--these extreme environments are often seen as inhospitable places at the edges of our maps. But from the 1940s through the 1960s, spurred by...
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Banished Citizens: A History of the Mexican American Women Who Endured RepatriationA moving portrait of a grim period in American immigration history, when approximately one million ethnic Mexicans--mostly women and children who were US citizens--were forced to relocate across the southern border. From 1921 to 1944, approximately one million ethnic Mexicans living in the United...
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Andrew Jackson and the Rise of the Democratic PartyIn Andrew Jackson and the Rise of the Democratic Party, author Mark R. Cheathem provides a unique historical analysis and bold critique of American partisanship from the early republic to the end of Andrew Jackson's administration. Cheathem begins by discussing the American political system...
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Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made ManFrom one of America's most distinguished historians comes this classic analysis of Richard Nixon. By considering some of the president's opinions, Wills comes to the controversial conclusion that Nixon was actually a liberal. Both entertaining and essential, Nixon Agonistes captures a troubled leader and...
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