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Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of WatergateA New York Times Notable Book of the Year Twenty-five years ago, after Richard Nixon resigned the presidency, Gerald Ford promised a return to normalcy. "My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over," President Ford declared. But it was not. The Watergate scandal,...
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To Repel Ghosts: The RemixRevamped from its original "double album" version of 350 pages into this unique "remix," To Repel Ghosts captures the dynamic work and brief life of the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. In spare, jazzlike verse Kevin Young tells the story of Basquiat's rise from the mock...
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Esalen: America and the Religion of No ReligionAuthor: Jeffrey J. KripalPublisher: University of Chicago PressPublished: 11/01/2008Pages: 594Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.85lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.60dISBN: 9780226453705Review Citation(s): New York Times Book Review 12/07/2008 pg. 68About the AuthorJeffrey J. Kripal is the J. Newton Rayzor Professor in and chair of the Department...
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A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthyFew politicians in our history have had the emotional impact of Joe McCarthy and acclaimed historian David Oshinsky's chronicling of his life has been called both "nuanced" and "masterful."Here, David Oshinsky presents us with a work heralded as the finest account available of Joe...
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Honours of War: Wargames Rules for the Seven Years' WarThe Seven Years' War was the pinnacle of 18th-century warfare, with dramatic campaigns and battles, famous leaders, and wide variety of colourful uniforms. Compared with the later Napoleonic Wars, tactics were simpler, armies more professional, and battles tended to be smaller. Using these quick-to-learn...
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion--Abridged EditionThe landmark study of world myth and culture Draws on myths, rituals, totems and taboos of ancient European and primitive cultures throughout the world. The third edition of this monumental study of folklore, magic, and religion was abridged by the authour into this single...
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Casanova: The World of a Seductive Genius"Sexy, surprising, funny, insightful, and wildly entertaining" (Huffington Post)--the definitive biography of Giacomo Casanova, the impoverished boy who became the famous writer, notorious libertine, and self-invented genius in decadent eighteenth-century Europe. Today, "Casanova" is a synonym for "great lover," yet the real story of...
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The Invention of Russia: The Rise of Putin and the Age of Fake NewsWINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZEWINNER OF THE CORNELIUS RYAN AWARD FINALIST FOR THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZE FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR "Fast-paced and excellently written. --New York Times "Filled with sparkling prose and deep analysis." -The Wall Street Journal An essential analysis to...
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Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White SupremacyA haunting tapestry of interwoven stories that inform us not just about our past but about the resentment-bred demons that are all too present in our society today . . . The interconnected strands of race and history give Ball's entrancing stories a Faulknerian...
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I Invented the Modern Age: The Rise of Henry FordA fresh, meticulous, and entertaining account of Henry Ford, the Model-T, and the invention of the American car industry in the early twentieth century that "will make you rethink the man whose legacy sits in your garage" (Parade). From the acclaimed popular historian Richard...
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A City So Grand: The Rise of an American Metropolis, Boston 1850-1900A lively history of Boston's emergence as a world-class city--home to the likes of Frederick Douglass and Alexander Graham Bell--by a beloved Bostonian historian "It's been quite a while since I've read anything--fiction or nonfiction--so enthralling."--Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River and Shutter Island...
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The Collapse of Yugoslavia: 1991-99An accessible illustrated introduction to the brutal conflict in the former Yugoslavia, one of the greatest yet least understood tragedies of the 20th century. In 1991, an ethnically diverse and peaceful region of Europe descended into violence, lawlessness, bitter hatred and chaos, almost overnight...
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World War II US Army Combat EquipmentsDiscover what equipment a GI carried with him during World War II: what he had strapped around his body, what it contained, and what those items were used for. In this highly illustrated book, Special Forces veteran Gordon Rottman offers a truly comprehensive treatment...
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Call Me Burroughs: A LifeFifty years ago, Norman Mailer asserted, William Burroughs is the only American novelist living today who may conceivably be possessed by genius. Few since have taken such literary risks, developed such individual political or spiritual ideas, or spanned such a wide range of media....
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Fierce Patriot: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh ShermanNATIONAL BESTSELLER - William Tecumseh Sherman was more than just one of our greatest generals. Fierce Patriot is a bold, revisionist portrait of how this iconic and enigmatic figure exerted an outsize impact on the American landscape--and the American character. America's first "celebrity" general,...
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Paradise Now: The Story of American UtopianismFor readers of Jill Lepore, Joseph J. Ellis, and Tony Horwitz comes a lively, thought-provoking intellectual history of the golden age of American utopianism--and the bold, revolutionary, and eccentric visions for the future put forward by five of history's most influential utopian movements. In...
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Secret History, Second Edition: The Cia's Classified Account of Its Operations in Guatemala, 1952-1954The first edition of this book, published in 1999, was well-received, but interest in it has surged in recent years. It chronicles an early example of "regime change" that was based on a flawed interpretation of intelligence and proclaimed a success even as its...
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Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour: Armistice Day, 1918 World War I and Its Violent ClimaxNovember 11, 1918. The final hours pulsate with tension as every man in the trenches hopes to escape the melancholy distinction of being the last to die in World War I. The Allied generals knew the fighting would end precisely at 11:00 A.M, yet...
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Voices in Our Blood: America's Best on the Civil Rights MovementA literary anthology of important and artful interpretations of the civil rights movement and the fight against white supremacy, past and present--including pieces by Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Alice Walker, Richard Wright, and John Lewis "Jon Meacham . . . has done...
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The Penguin Book of Modern SpeechesThis definitive collection gathers the most significant speeches of the modern era, from Theodore Roosevelt and Martin Luther King Jr. to Ronald Reagan and Michelle Obama Defined by waves of idealism and doubt, progress and destruction, the twentieth century and the first decades of...
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