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The Unfit Heiress: The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization of Ann Cooper HewittNAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2021 BY THE NEW YORK POST AND BOOK RIOT NAMED A BEST TRUE CRIME BOOK OF 2021 BY CRIMEREADS For readers of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and The Phantom of Fifth Avenue, "a sensational story told with...
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All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family KeepsakeNATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A renowned historian traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women to craft a "deeply layered and insightful" (The Washington Post) testament to people who are left...
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Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American DynastyAuthor: Anderson Cooper, Katherine HowePublisher: Harper PaperbacksPublished: 09/20/2022Pages: 352Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 7.90h x 5.30w x 1.00dISBN: 9780062964625
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The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal WestThe #1 New York Times bestseller by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important chapter in the American story that's "as resonant today as ever" (The Wall Street Journal)--the settling of the Northwest Territory by courageous pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build...
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Transgender History: The Roots of Today's RevolutionCovering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today, Transgender History takes a chronological approach to the subject of transgender history, with each chapter covering major movements, writings, and events. Chapters cover the transsexual and transvestite communities in the years following World War...
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All the President's Men50th Anniversary Edition--With a new foreword on what Watergate means today. "The work that brought down a presidency...perhaps the most influential piece of journalism in history" (Time)--from the #1 New York Times bestselling authors of The Final Days. The most devastating political detective story...
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Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New AmericaWinner of the Pulitzer Prize"A must-read, cannot-put-down history." -- Thomas Friedman, New York TimesArguably the most important American lawyer of the twentieth century, Thurgood Marshall was on the verge of bringing the landmark suit Brown v. Board of Education before the U.S. Supreme Court...
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Leadership: In Turbulent TimesFrom Pulitzer Prize-winning author and esteemed presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, an invaluable guide to the development and exercise of leadership from Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. The inspiration for the multipart HISTORY Channel series Abraham Lincoln and...
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The Day After RoswellA breathtaking exposé that reads like a thriller, The Day After Roswell is a stunning depiction of just what happened in Roswell, New Mexico all those years ago and how the effects of this mysterious unidentified aircraft crash are still relevant today.Former member of...
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Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother's Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow SouthThe true story of two African-American brothers who were kidnapped and displayed as circus freaks, and whose mother endured a 28-year struggle to get them back. The year was 1899 and the place a sweltering tobacco farm in the Jim Crow South town of...
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When Broadway Was Black: The Triumphant Story of the All-Black Musical That Changed the WorldThe triumphant story of how an all-Black Broadway cast and crew changed musical theatre--and the world--forever."This musical introduced Black excellence to the Great White Way. Broadway was forever changed and we, who stand on the shoulders of our brilliant ancestors, are charged with the...
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True Raiders: The Untold Story of the 1909 Expedition to Find the Legendary Ark of the CovenantTrue Raiders is The Lost City of Z meets The Da Vinci Code, from critically acclaimed author Brad Ricca. This book tells the untold true story of Monty Parker, a British rogue nobleman who, after being dared to do so by Ava Astor, the...
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Guerra Contra Todos Los Puertorriqueños: Revolución Y Terror En La Colonia Americana"Prepárese para ser enfurecido. Una lectura obligada y reveladora." --Robert Domínguez, New York Daily News En 1950, después de cincuenta años de ocupación militar y gobierno colonial, el Partido Nacionalista de Puerto Rico montó una fallida revolución armada contra Estados Unidos. La violencia arraso...
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War on the Border: Villa, Pershing, the Texas Rangers, and an American InvasionAn "engagingly written" (The Wall Street Journal) account of the "Punitive Expedition" of 1916 that brought Pancho Villa and Gen. John J. Pershing into conflict, and whose reverberations continue in the Southwestern US to this day. Jeff Guinn, chronicler of the Southwestern US and...
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Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest HourThe acclaimed author of Troublesome Young Men reveals the behind-the-scenes story of how the United States forged its wartime alliance with Britain, told from the perspective of three key American players in London: Edward R. Murrow, the handsome, chain-smoking head of CBS News in...
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A Killer by Design: Murderers, Mindhunters, and My Quest to Decipher the Criminal MindA vivid behind-the-scenes look into the creation of the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit and the evolution of criminal profiling, written by the pioneering forensic nurse who transformed the way the FBI studies, profiles, and catches serial killers. Lurking beneath the progressive activism and sex...
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The Guns of John Moses Browning: The Remarkable Story of the Inventor Whose Firearms Changed the WorldA "well-researched and very readable new biography" (The Wall Street Journal) of "the Thomas Edison of guns," a visionary inventor who designed the modern handgun and whose awe-inspiring array of firearms helped ensure victory in numerous American wars and holds a crucial place in...
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The Great Depression: A DiaryWhen the stock market crashed in 1929, Benjamin Roth was a young lawyer in Youngstown, Ohio. After he began to grasp the magnitude of what had happened to American economic life, he decided to set down his impressions in his diary.This collection of those...
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed AmericaErik Larson, author of #1 bestseller In the Garden of Beasts, intertwines the true tale of the 1893 World's Fair and the cunning serial killer who used the fair to lure his victims to their deaths. Combining meticulous research with nail-biting storytelling, Erik Larson...
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The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas FrontierWinner of the TCU-Texas Book Award for Best Book on Texas On New Year's Day in 1870, ten-year-old Adolph Korn was kidnapped by an Apache raiding party. Traded to Comaches, he thrived in the rough, nomadic existence, quickly becoming one of the tribe's fiercest...
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