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Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965The 30th-anniversary edition of Juan Williams's celebrated account of the tumultuous early years of the civil rights movement From the Montgomery bus boycott to the Little Rock Nine to the Selma-Montgomery march, thousands of ordinary people who participated in the American civil rights movement;...
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Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's VietnamWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE Written with the style of a great novelist and the intrigue of a Cold War thriller, Embers of War is a landmark work that will forever change your understanding of how and why America went to war in Vietnam....
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West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America After the Civil WarFrom the author of the popular "Letters from an American" newsletter: a sweeping story of how Northerners, Southerners, and Westerners together created modern America in the years from Abraham Lincoln to Theodore Roosevelt A Wall Street Journal Bestseller The story of Reconstruction is not...
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The Beekeeper's QuestionAvailable in both paperback and eBook on Amazon Molly Guptill Manning, When Books Went to War, NYT Best Seller: A beautifully crafted story that gripped me from the first page. The Beekeeper's Question is a moving tale of one family's journey through World War...
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Kissinger: A BiographyThe definitive biography of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and how his ideas still resonate in the world today from the bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs. By the time Henry Kissinger was made secretary of state in 1973, he had...
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JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It MattersThe acclaimed book Oliver Stone called "the best account I have read of this tragedy and its significance," JFK and the Unspeakable details not just how the conspiracy to assassinate President John F. Kennedy was carried out, but WHY it was done...and why it...
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CalvinA revealing new portrait of John Calvin that captures his human complexity and the sixteenth-century world in which he fought his personal and theological battles During the glory days of the French Renaissance, young John Calvin (1509-1564) experienced a profound conversion to the faith...
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The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945"[The Rising Sun] is quite possibly the most readable, yet informative account of the Pacific war."--Chicago Sun-Times This Pulitzer Prize-winning history of World War II chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of the Japanese empire, from the invasion of Manchuria and China to the...
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Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - From the bestselling author of The Sleepwalkers comes an epic history of the 1848 revolutions that swept Europe, and the charismatic figures who propelled them forward "Refreshingly original . . . Familiar characters are given vibrancy...
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A World Undone: The Story of the Great War 1914 to 1918NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Drawing on exhaustive research, this intimate account details how World War I reduced Europe's mightiest empires to rubble, killed twenty million people, and cracked the foundations of our modern world "Thundering, magnificent . . . [A World Undone] is...
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American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White HouseThe definitive biography of a larger-than-life president who defied norms, divided a nation, and changed Washington forever Andrew Jackson, his intimate circle of friends, and his tumultuous times are at the heart of this remarkable book about the man who rose from nothing to...
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The Best and the BrightestDavid Halberstam's masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy "A rich, entertaining, and profound reading experience."--The New York Times Using portraits of America's flawed policy makers and accounts of the forces that drove them, The Best and the Brightest reckons...
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The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000About national and international power in the "modern" or Post Renaissance period. Explains how the various powers have risen and fallen over the 5 centuries since the formation of the "new monarchies" in W. Europe.Author: Paul KennedyPublisher: VintagePublished: 01/15/1989Pages: 704Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 8.00h...
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Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson IIIMaster of the Senate, Book Three of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, carries Johnson's story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 to 1960, in the United States Senate. A Los Angeles Times Best Nonfiction Book of the Last...
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Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention (Pulitzer Prize Winner)Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History and a New York Times bestseller, the definitive biography of Malcolm X Hailed as "a masterpiece" (San Francisco Chronicle), Manning Marable's acclaimed biography of Malcolm X finally does justice to one of the most influential and controversial...
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Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize - Winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award - One of the New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century "Impressive . . . Mr. Judt writes with enormous authority." --The Wall Street...
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Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American DreamThe clear-eyed, definitive history of the modern American economy and the decline of the American Dream, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist behind The New York Times's "The Morning" newsletter. "With the even-handed incisiveness that has made him one of the country's most-respected voices on...
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Night: Memorial EditionA memorial edition of Elie Wiesel's seminal memoir of surviving the Nazi death camps, with tributes by President Obama and Samantha Power When Elie Wiesel died in July 2016, the White House issued a memorial statement in which President Barack Obama called him "the...
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Metamaus: A Look Inside a Modern Classic, MausNATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD WINNER - Visually and emotionally rich, MetaMaus is as groundbreaking as the masterpiece whose creation it reveals - Featured in the documentary Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse In the pages of MetaMaus, Art Spiegelman re-enters the Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus,...
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Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from DestructionNew York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - The remarkable story of the intrepid French archaeologist who led the international effort to save ancient Egyptian temples from the floodwaters of the Aswan Dam, by the New York Times bestselling author of Madame Fourcade's Secret...
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