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John Lewis: A LifePulitzer Prize Finalist New York Times Book Review Top 100 Books of 2024 Explore the "comprehensive and compelling" (Jon Meacham) biography of civil rights leader John Lewis, celebrated as "the conscience of Congress," through a narrative that weaves together exclusive interviews, never-before-seen FBI files,...
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On Air: The Triumph and Tumult of NPRAn "engrossing and entertaining...major work of media history" (The New York Times Book Review) that reveals the unlikely story of one of America's most celebrated but least understood media empires. Founded in 1970, NPR is America's most powerful broadcast news network. Despite being overshadowed...
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Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman's Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue"A thorough account of Harriman's rise which also manages to be a brisk, twisty read ... riveting and revelatory." --The New Yorker "Rigorous but rollicking." --The New York TimesNamed a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by The New Yorker, Apple Books, The Economist, Politico,...
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Zbig: The Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski, America's Great Power ProphetNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An intimate and masterful biography of Zbigniew Brzezinski--President Carter's national security advisor and one of America's leading geopolitical thinkers--from one of the finest columnists and political writers at work today. Zbigniew Brzezinski was a key architect of the Soviet Union's...
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Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of SpaceWinner of the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction - Winner of the 2024 Kirkus Nonfiction Prize - Shortlisted for the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction - A New York Times Notable Book of 2024 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER...
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The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund FitzgeraldFor three decades following World War II, the Great Lakes overtook Europe as the epicenter of global economic strength. The region was the beating heart of the world economy, possessing all the power and prestige Silicon Valley does today. And no ship represented the...
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Deadwood: Gold, Guns, and Greed in the American WestThe true story of the Black Hills gold rush settlement once described as "the most diabolical town on earth" and of its most colorful cast of characters, from Wild Bill Hickok to Calamity Jane to Al Swearingen and Sheriff Seth Bullock. "In these pungent...
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An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960sThe #1 New York Times bestseller from "America's historian-in-chief" (New York magazine). An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America's most beloved historians, artfully weaves together biography, memoir, and history. She takes you along on...
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King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic MiscalculationNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE - From the author of the landmark bestseller Lawrence in Arabia comes a stunningly revelatory narrative history of the Iranian Revolution, one of the most momentous events in modern times. This groundbreaking work exposes...
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The Gunfighters: How Texas Made the West Wild"One hell of a good read." --The New York Times "One of the most important books written on the American West in many years." --True West Magazine From the New York Times bestselling author of The Big Rich and Forget the Alamo comes an...
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The Undiscovered Country: Triumph, Tragedy, and the Shaping of the American WestNew York Times Bestseller From the author of The Apache Wars, the true story of the American West, revealing how American ambition clashed with the realities of violence and exploitation The epic of the American West became a tale of progress, redemption, and glorious...
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The CIA Book Club: The Secret Mission to Win the Cold War with Forbidden Literature"A story as fascinating as it is undersung . . . a riveting account" (The New York Times Book Review, Best Books of 2025 So Far) of the CIA's secret program to smuggle millions of books through the Iron Curtain during the Cold War...
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The Nightingale Deluxe EditionLimited edition hardcover jacket with foil and embossing, gorgeous designed edges, a ribbon bookmark, exclusive four color endpapers, and a decorative, gold foil stamp on the front case.A #1 New York Times bestseller and Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year, the stunning...
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The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic BombNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "Magisterial...A stunning account that brings to the fore the nuclear saga's surreal combination of ingenuity, fate, and terror." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) - "If you are an intelligent person, or at the very least think you are, you have...
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The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War in this "riveting reexamination of a nation in tumult" (Los...
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Rewriting Hisstory: A Fifty-Year Journey to Uncover the Truth about Alger HissA revelatory political history that uncovers the innocence of alleged Communist spy Alger Hiss and points a finger at who was really behind one of the most sensational and divisive accusations of the twentieth century.When Alger Hiss was accused by Whittaker Chambers in 1948...
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Woodrow Wilson: The Light WithdrawnAn "assiduously researched" (The Wall Street Journal), "powerful...dispassionate new biography" (The Christian Science Monitor) of Woodrow Wilson, focused on his role in the long national struggle for racial equality and women's voting rights. More than a century after his death, Woodrow Wilson's influence on...
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Bright Circle: Five Remarkable Women in the Age of TranscendentalismA group biography of five women who played path-breaking roles in the transcendentalist movement In November 1839, a group of young women in Boston formed a conversation society "to answer the great questions" of special importance to women: "What are we born to do?...
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Protesting with Rosa Parks: From Stagecoaches to Driving While BlackProtesting with Rosa Parks details the history of the intersections between Black activism and travel over a span of one hundred and ninety years. John K. Bollard recounts the experiences of more than ninety-five civil rights leaders and private citizens who protested against segregation...
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Pink Triangle Legacies: Coming Out in the Shadow of the HolocaustPink Triangle Legacies traces the transformation of the pink triangle from a Nazi concentration camp badge and emblem of discrimination into a widespread, recognizable symbol of queer activism, pride, and community. W. Jake Newsome provides an overview of the Nazis' targeted violence against LGBTQ+...
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