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The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended AmericaFrom Pulitzer Prize finalist John Fabian Witt comes the captivating secret history of an epic experiment to remake American democracy. Before the dark money of the Koch Brothers, before the billions of the Ford Foundation, there was the Garland Fund. In 1922, a young...
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Chain of Fire: The Siege of Khartoum and the Campaign of Egypt and the SudanThe dramatic story of the siege of Khartoum and Britain's extraordinarily violent 1882 campaign in Egypt and Sudan. In the 1880s, British control over northeastern Africa was a political minefield that Prime Minister William Gladstone wished to avoid--until his emissary Charles Gordon was besieged...
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1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--And How It Shattered a NationNamed a Most Anticipated Book by New York Times Books Review, TIME, Washington Post, Associated Press, Town & Country, New York Post, and more From the bestselling author of Too Big to Fail, "the definitive history of the 2008 banking crisis,"* comes a spellbinding...
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The Light of Battle: Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American SuperpowerA thrilling new biography of Dwight Eisenhower set in the months leading up to D-Day, when he grew from a well-liked general into one of the singular figures of American history."This is hands-down the most deeply researched, sensitive, intimate, and nuanced portrait of Eisenhower."...
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The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway"Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." So begins Virginia Woolf's much-beloved fourth novel. First published in 1925, Mrs. Dalloway has long been viewed not only as Woolf's masterpiece, but as a pivotal work of literary modernism and one of the most...
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American Anarchy: The Epic Struggle Between Immigrant Radicals and the Us Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth CenturyFINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY A "lively, fast-paced history" (Adam Hochschild, bestselling author of American Midnight) of America's anarchist movement and the government's tireless efforts to destroy it In the early twentieth century, anarchists like Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman championed a...
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The Greek Revolution and the Violent Birth of NationalismA sweeping global history of the birth of modern Greece In 1821, a diverse territory in the southern Balkans on the fringe of the Ottoman Empire was thrust into a decade of astounding mass violence. The Greek Revolution and the Violent Birth of Nationalism...
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Palm Springs Tiki: Polynesia in the DesertPalm Springs Tiki presents a visual exploration of a mid-century tropical paradise in the California desert.From the 1930s through the 1970s, Palm Springs and other desert communities embraced the mid-century fantasy of a home-grown Polynesian paradise. The concept of the oasis and that of...
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A Machine to Move Ocean and Earth: The Making of the Port of Los Angeles and AmericaThe Port of Los Angeles is all around us. Objects we use on a daily basis pass through it: furniture, apparel, electronics, automobiles, and much more. The busiest container port in the Western hemisphere, it claims one-sixth of all US ocean shipping. Yet despite...
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The African Revolution: A History of the Long Nineteenth CenturyA panoramic global history of Africa in the age of imperialism Africa's long nineteenth century was a time of revolutionary ferment and cultural innovation for the continent's states, societies, and economies. Yet the period preceding what became known as "the Scramble for Africa" by...
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K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark FisherA comprehensive collection of the writings of Mark Fisher (1968-2017), whose work defined critical writing for a generation. This comprehensive collection brings together the work of acclaimed blogger, writer, political activist and lecturer Mark Fisher (aka k-punk). Covering the period 2004 - 2016, the...
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Who Will Rescue Us?: The Story of the Jewish Children Who Fled to France and America During the HolocaustThe first account of Jewish children's flight from Nazi Germany to France--and their subsequent escape to America from the Vichy regime At the eve of the Second World War, an estimated 1.6 million Jewish children lived in Nazi-occupied Europe. While 10,000 of them escaped...
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One Man's Freedom: Goldwater, King, and the Struggle Over an American IdealFrom the acclaimed author of The Fire Is upon Us, the dramatic untold story of Barry Goldwater and Martin Luther King Jr.'s decade-long clash over the meaning of freedom--and how their conflicting visions still divide American politics In the mid-1950s, Barry Goldwater and Martin...
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Cocaine and Rhinestones: A History of George Jones and Tammy WynetteFrom the creator of the acclaimed country music history podcast Cocaine & Rhinestones, comes the epic American saga of country music's legendary royal couple--George Jones and Tammy Wynette. By the early 1960s nearly everybody paying attention to country music agreed that George Jones was...
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Boom: Bubbles and the End of StagnationA timely investigation of the causes of technological and scientific stagnation, and a radical blueprint for accelerating innovation. "Read this book for the alternative history of our age." --Peter Thiel, investor and author of Zero to One "A must-read for those who seek to...
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World War Zoos: Humans and Other Animals in the Deadliest Conflict of the Modern AgeA new and heartbreaking history of World War II as told through the shocking experiences of zoos across the globe. As Europe lurched into war in 1939, zookeepers started killing their animals. On September 1, as German forces invaded Poland, Warsaw began with its...
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The CIA: An Imperial HistoryIn this "superb" (Kathryn Olmsted) new history of American intelligence, a celebrated historian uncovers how the CIA became the foremost defender of America's covert global empire As World War II ended, the United States stood as the dominant power on the world stage. In...
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Dark Brilliance: The Age of Reason: From Descartes to Peter the GreatA sweeping history of The Age of Reason, revealing how--although it was a time of great progress--it was also an era of brutality and intolerance with a very human cost. During the 1600s--between the end of the Renaissance and the start of the Enlightenment--Europe...
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A Popular History of IDI Amin's UgandaHow Africa's most notorious tyrant made his oppressive regime seem both necessary and patriotic Idi Amin ruled Uganda between 1971 and 1979, inflicting tremendous violence on the people of the country. How did Amin's regime survive for eight calamitous years? Drawing on recently uncovered...
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The Revolutionary Self: Social Change and the Emergence of the Modern Individual, 1770-1800Since the eighteenth century, one of the defining concerns of modern life has been the tension between the self and society: we believe in a person's autonomy, but we also acknowledge that people are shaped by social and cultural forces. The Revolutionary Self delves...
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