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The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern WarThe first international history of the emergence of economic sanctions during the interwar period and the legacy of this development A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2022 "Valuable . . . offers many lessons for Western policy makers today."--Paul Kennedy, Wall Street Journal "The...
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The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & PowerWinner of the Pulitzer Prize and hailed as "the best history of oil ever written" by Business Week, Daniel Yergin's "spellbinding...irresistible" (The New York Times) account of the global pursuit of oil, money, and power addresses the ongoing energy crisis. Now with an epilogue...
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Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in KenyaA major work of history that for the first time reveals the violence and terror at the heart of Britain's civilizing mission in Kenya As part of the Allied forces, thousands of Kenyans fought alongside the British in World War II. But just a...
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No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War IIDoris Kearns Goodwin's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic about the relationship between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt, and how it shaped the nation while steering it through the Great Depression and the outset of World War II. With an extraordinary collection of details, Goodwin masterfully...
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Thomas Jefferson: The Art of PowerNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review - The Washington Post - Entertainment Weekly - The Seattle Times - St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Bloomberg Businessweek In this magnificent biography, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American...
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The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of JournalismPulitzer Prize-winning author and presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin's dynamic history of Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft and the first decade of the Progressive era, that tumultuous time when the nation was coming unseamed and reform was in the air. Winner of the Carnegie...
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Ages of American Capitalism: A History of the United StatesA leading economic historian traces the evolution of American capitalism from the colonial era to the present--and argues that we've reached a turning point that will define the era ahead. "A monumental achievement, sure to become a classic."--Zachary D. Carter, author of The Price...
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Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America"Perlstein...aims here at nothing less than weaving a tapestry of social upheaval. His success is dazzling." --Los Angeles Times "Both brilliant and fun, a consuming journey back into the making of modern politics." --Jon Meacham "Nixonland is a grand historical epic. Rick Perlstein has...
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The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson IThe Years of Lyndon Johnson is the political biography of our time. No president--no era of American politics--has been so intensively and sharply examined at a time when so many prime witnesses to hitherto untold or misinterpreted facets of a life, a career, and...
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Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America"Beryl Satter's Family Properties is really an incredible book. It is, by far, the best book I've ever read on the relationship between blacks and Jews. That's because it hones in on the relationship between one specific black community and one specific Jewish community...
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Tannenberg 1914: Destruction of the Russian Second ArmyExplore the Eastern Front battle that resulted in one of the greatest defeats of World War I, in which an entire Russian army was annihilated by German arms. Tannenberg is a major battle that deserves a fully illustrated treatment all of its own, and...
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The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945" The Rising Sun] is quite possibly the most readable, yet informative account of the Pacific war."--Chicago Sun-Times This Pulitzer Prize-winning history of World War II chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of the Japanese empire, from the invasion of Manchuria and China to...
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Hitler: Ascent: 1889-1939NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - This landmark biography of Hitler puts an emphasis on the man himself: his personality, his temperament, and his beliefs. "[A] fascinating Shakespearean parable about how the confluence of circumstance, chance, a ruthless individual and the willful blindness of others...
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The Long Gray Line: The American Journey of West Point's Class of 1966The New York Times bestseller about West Point's Class of 1966, by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Rick Atkinson. A story of epic proportions [and] an awesome feat of biographical reconstruction.--The Boston Globe A classic of its kind, The Long Gray Line is the...
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Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 50th Anniversary EditionCrisis of the House Divided is the standard historiography of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Harry Jaffa provides the definitive analysis of the political principles that guided Lincoln from his reentry into politics in 1854 through his Senate campaign against Douglas in 1858. To mark the...
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Kissinger: A BiographyThe definitive biography of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and how his ideas still resonate in the world today from the bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs. By the time Henry Kissinger was made secretary of state in 1973, he had...
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The East Africa Campaign 1914-18: Von Lettow-Vorbeck's MasterpieceA fascinating, beautifully illustrated study of the daring war in East Africa waged by German colonial forces under Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck against the wide array of colonial and expeditionary forces of the Allied Powers. The East African Campaign in World War I comprised a...
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At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 is the final volume in Taylor Branch's magnificent history of America in the years of the Civil Rights Movement and Vietnam War, recognized universally as the definitive account and ultimate recognition of Martin Luther King's...
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Leyte Gulf 1944 (2): Surigao Strait and Cape EngañoThis is the second volume in a two-part illustrated study of the October 23-26 Battle of Leyte Gulf, which resulted in a decisive defeat for the Japanese. The Battle of Leyte Gulf-the largest naval battle in history-comprised four major actions conducted over the course...
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Eisenhower: Soldier and PresidentStephen E. Ambrose draws upon extensive sources, an unprecedented degree of scholarship, and numerous interviews with Eisenhower himself to offer the fullest, richest, most objective rendering yet of the soldier who became president. He gives us a masterly account of the European war theater...
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