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Ten Innings at Wrigley: The Wildest Ballgame Ever, with Baseball on the BrinkThe dramatic story of a legendary 1979 slugfest between the Chicago Cubs and the Philadelphia Phillies, full of runs, hits, and subplots, on the cusp of a new era in baseball history It was a Thursday at Chicago's Wrigley Field, mostly sunny with the...
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The Year Without Summer: 1816 and the Volcano That Darkened the World and Changed HistoryLike Winchester's Krakatoa, The Year Without Summer reveals a year of dramatic global change long forgotten by history In the tradition of Krakatoa, The World Without Us, and Guns, Germs and Steel comes a sweeping history of the year that became known as 18-hundred-and-froze-to-death....
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Bunny Mellon: The Life of an American Style LegendA biography of Bunny Mellon, the style icon and American aristocrat who designed the White House Rose Garden for her friend JFK and served as a living witness to 20th Century American history, operating in the high-level arenas of politics, diplomacy, art and fashion....
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Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit"Published in 2017 by arrangement with Simon & Schuster, Inc."--Title page verso.Author: Chris MatthewsPublisher: Large Print PressPublished: 10/23/2018Pages: 620Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.54lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w x 1.10dISBN: 9781432852405
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The Cold War's Killing Fields: Rethinking the Long PeaceA brilliant young historian offers a vital, comprehensive international military history of the Cold War in which he views the decade-long superpower struggles as one of the three great conflicts of the twentieth century alongside the two World Wars, and reveals how bloody the...
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Marching Through Georgia: The Story of Soldiers and Civilians During Sherman's Campaign"Well researched, endlessly informed, and compulsively readable, Marching Through Georgia is everything a work of popular history ought to be." -- Civil War Times IllustratedIn this engrossing work of history, Lee Kennett brilliantly brings General Sherman's 1864 invasion of Georgia to life by capturing...
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The Darkest Year: The American Home Front 1941-1942The Darkest Year is acclaimed author William K. Klingaman's narrative history of the American home front from December 7, 1941 through the end of 1942, a psychological study of the nation under the pressure of total war. For Americans on the home front, the...
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The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus AngletonThe best book ever written about the strangest CIA chief who ever lived. - Tim Weiner, National Book Award-winning author of Legacy of Ashes A revelatory new biography of the sinister, powerful, and paranoid man at the heart of the CIA for more than...
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Shadow Warrior: William Egan Colby and the CIAWorld War II commando, Cold War spy, and CIA director under presidents Nixon and Ford, William Egan Colby played a critical role in some of the most pivotal events of the twentieth century. A quintessential member of the greatest generation, Colby embodied the moral...
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1917: Lenin, Wilson, and the Birth of the New World DisorderHow did two men move the world away from wars for land and treasure to wars over ideas and ideologies--a change that would go on to kill millions?In April 1917, Woodrow Wilson--champion of American democracy but also of segregation, advocate for free trade and...
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The Last Innocents: The Collision of the Turbulent Sixties and the Los Angeles DodgersWinner of the CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the YearFinalist for the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports WritingFrom an award-winning journalist comes the riveting odyssey of seven Los Angeles Dodgers in the 1960s--a chronicle of a team, a game, and a nation...
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Inside Camp David: The Private World of the Presidential RetreatThe first-ever insider account of Camp David, the president's private retreat, on the seventy-fifth anniversary of its inception.Never before have the gates of Camp David been opened to the public. Intensely private and completely secluded, the president's personal campground is situated deep in the...
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Rum: A Distilled History of Colonial AustraliaAustralia and its formation - through the distorted view of a rum bottle. Could the Rum Rebellion have been averted if Major Johnston wasn't hungover?Would the Eureka Stockade have been different if the rebels weren't pissed?How were prisoners to get drunk if Macquarie closed...
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Hell on Wheels: Wicked Towns Along the Union Pacific RailroadOvernight settlements, better known as "Hell on Wheels," sprang up as the transcontinental railroad crossed Nebraska and Wyoming. They brought opportunity not only for legitimate business but also for gamblers, land speculators, prostitutes, and thugs. Dick Kreck tells their stories along with the heroic...
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Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay RevolutionDavid Carter's Stonewall is the basis of the PBS American Experience documentary Stonewall Uprising. In 1969, a series of riots over police action against The Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village, changed the longtime landscape of the homosexual in...
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The Bonanza King: John MacKay and the Battle Over the Greatest Riches in the American West"A monumentally researched biography of one of the nineteenth century's wealthiest self-made Americans...Well-written and worthwhile" (The Wall Street Journal) it's the rags-to-riches frontier tale of an Irish immigrant who outwits, outworks, and outmaneuvers thousands of rivals to take control of Nevada's Comstock Lode. Born...
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The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution"Captures the excitement of the scientific revolution and makes a point of celebrating the advances it ushered in." --Financial TimesA companion to such acclaimed works as The Age of Wonder, A Clockwork Universe, and Darwin's Ghosts--a groundbreaking examination of the greatest event in history,...
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Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our NationFrom New York Times bestselling author Cokie Roberts comes Ladies of Liberty a follow up to Founding Mothers in which she examines the lives and times of the women who have helped shape America.In this eye-opening companion volume to her acclaimed history Founding Mothers,...
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1941: The Year Germany Lost the War: The Year Germany Lost the WarBestselling historian Andrew Nagorski "brings keen psychological insights into the world leaders involved" (Booklist) during 1941, the critical year in World War II when Hitler's miscalculations and policy of terror propelled Churchill, FDR, and Stalin into a powerful new alliance that defeated Nazi Germany....
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Big Hair and Plastic Grass: A Funky Ride Through Baseball and America in the Swinging '70sThe Bronx Is Burning meets Chuck Klosterman in Big Hair, a wild pop-culture history of baseball's most colorful and controversial decade. The Major Leagues witnessed more dramatic stories and changes in the '70s than in any other era. The American popular culture and counterculture...
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