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The Cuban Missile Crisis in American Memory: Myths Versus RealityThis book exposes the misconceptions, half-truths, and outright lies that have shaped the still dominant but largely mythical version of what happened in the White House during those harrowing two weeks of secret Cuban missile crisis deliberations. A half-century after the event it is...
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The View from My Foxhole: A Marine Private's Firsthand World War II Combat Experience from Guadalcanal to Iwo JimaAfter the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, millions of young American men were eager to join up and defend their country. William Swanson was among them. The View from My Foxhole tells William Swanson's story of fighting in the jungles of Bougainville and Guam and...
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The Specter of Communism: The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1917-1953The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics. The Specter of Communism is a concise history of the origins of the Cold War and the evolution of U.S.-Soviet relations, from the Bolshevik revolution...
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Farewell AmericaAn underground bestseller in Europe, suppressed in the United States, Farewell America is the underground classic that first posited a major conspiracy in the assassination of President Kennedy. Rumored to have its origins in secret investigations conducted by French intelligence on behalf of none...
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Between Two Millstones, Book 1: Sketches of Exile, 1974-1978Russian Nobel prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) is widely acknowledged as one of the most important figures--and perhaps the most important writer--of the last century. To celebrate the centenary of his birth, the first English translation of his memoir of the West, Between Two Millstones,...
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The Search for Order, 1877-1920At the end of the Reconstruction, the spread of science and technology, industrialism, urbanization, immigration, and economic depressions eroded Americans' conventional beliefs in individualism and a divinely ordained social system. In The Search for Order, Robert Wiebe shows how, in subsequent years, during the...
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A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My FatherPulitzer Prize-winning author and "one of our most talented biographers and historians" (The New York Times) David Maraniss delivers a "thoughtful, poignant, and historically valuable story of the Red Scare of the 1950s" (The Wall Street Journal) through the chilling yet affirming story of...
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Once We Were HereAs World War II intrudes upon their home, three young friends risk everything for freedom, love, and a chance at a better life. On October 28th, 1940, Mussolini provides Greek Prime Minister Ioannis Metaxas with an ultimatum: either allow Axis forces to occupy their...
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The Museum of Lost Quilts: An ELM Creek Quilts NovelJennifer Chiaverini's beloved and bestselling Elm Creek Quilts series returns with the first Elm Creek Quilts novel since 2019's The Christmas Boutique.Summer Sullivan, the youngest founding member of Elm Creek Quilts, has spent the last two years pursuing a master's degree in history at...
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The French Revolution: An Enthralling Guide to a Major Event in World HistoryThe French Revolution is incredibly complex and involves a lot of moving parts, from the monarchy to the political clubs, from the intelligentsia to the starving peasantry protesting in the streets. This book breaks it down for you in simple terms.It could be argued...
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This CupIn late 1938, two girls flee from their university in Paris after learning of an SS plot to murder them in an attempt to seize the most powerful ancient relic of all: The Holy Grail. With Gestapo spies setting them on the run, the...
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Operation Dragon: Inside the Kremlin's Secret War on AmericaFormer Director of Central Intelligence R. James Woolsey and former Romanian acting spy chief Lt. General Ion Mihai Pacepa, who was granted political asylum in the U.S. in 1978, describe why Russia remains an extremely dangerous force in the world, and they finally and...
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Racing Against History: The 1940 Campaign for a Jewish Army to Fight HitlerRacing Against History is the stunning story of three powerful personalities who sought in 1940 to turn the tide of history. David Ben-Gurion, Vladimir Jabotinsky, and Chaim Weizmann--the leaders of the left, right, and center of Zionism--undertook separate missions that year to America, then...
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The Nixon Effect: How Richard Nixon's Presidency Fundamentally Changed American PoliticsThe Nixon Effect examines the 37th president's political legacy in broad-ranging ways that make clear, for the first time, the breadth and duration of his influence on American political life. The book argues that Nixon is the key political figure in postwar American politics...
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Billy the Kid's Writings, Words, and WitThis is a new edition. This second edition of Billy the Kid's Writings, Words, and Wit is the definitive study of the written and recorded words of Old West icon, William H. Bonney aka Billy the Kid. In hardback and paperback, it is 592...
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Radicals in America: The U.S. Left Since the Second World WarRadicals in America is a masterful history of controversial dissenters who pursued greater equality, freedom and democracy - and transformed the nation. Written with clarity and verve, Radicals in America shows how radical leftists, while often marginal or ostracized, could assume a catalytic role...
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Annie Oakley: A Captivating Guide to an American Sharpshooter Who Later Became a Wild West Folk HeroIf you want to discover the captivating life of Annie Oakley, then keep reading...How could Annie Oakley, a woman of barely 110 pounds with a childlike beauty, beat so many of the greatest sharpshooters with her skill and talent?The name is probably familiar to...
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The Great Uprising: Race Riots in Urban America During the 1960sBetween 1963 and 1972 America experienced over 750 urban revolts. Considered collectively, they comprise what Peter Levy terms a 'Great Uprising'. Levy examines these uprisings over the arc of the entire decade, in various cities across America. He challenges both conservative and liberal interpretations,...
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American HippiesIn the late 1960s and early 1970s hundreds of thousands of white middle-class American youths suddenly became hippies. This short overview of the hippie social movement in the United States examines the movement's beliefs and practices, including psychedelic drugs, casual sex, and rock music,...
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Heart of Europe: The Past in Poland's PresentThe image of Poland has once again been impressed on European consciousness. Norman Davies provides a key to understanding the modern Polish crisis in this lucid and authoritative description of the nation's history. Beginning with the period since 1945, he travels back in time...
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