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The Triumph of William McKinley: Why the Election of 1896 Still MattersA fresh look at President William McKinley from New York Times bestselling author and political mastermind Karl Rove--"a rousing tale told by a master storyteller whose love of politics, campaigning, and combat shines through on every page" (Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of...
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The Very Best Men: The Daring Early Years of the CIAThe Very Best Men is the story of the CIA's early days as told through the careers of four glamorous, daring, and idealistic men who ran covert operations for the government from the end of World War II to Vietnam. Evan Thomas re-creates the...
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Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World"No one has written with more penetrating skepticism about the history of human rights."--Adam Kirsch, Wall Street Journal "Moyn breaks new ground in examining the relationship between human rights and economic fairness."--George Soros The age of human rights has been kindest to the rich....
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The Chinese Civil War: 1945-49In this fully illustrated introduction, Dr Michael Lynch provides a concise overview of the Chinese Civil War, a defining conflict in world history. Between the end of World War II and the dawn of the Cold War, one of the most important conflicts in...
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The Last Million: Europe's Displaced Persons from World War to Cold WarFrom bestselling author David Nasaw, a sweeping new history of the one million refugees left behind in Germany after WWII In May 1945, after German forces surrendered to the Allied powers, millions of concentration camp survivors, POWs, slave laborers, political prisoners, and Nazi collaborators...
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Empires of the Sky: Zeppelins, Airplanes, and Two Men's Epic Duel to Rule the WorldThe Golden Age of Aviation is brought to life in this story of the giant Zeppelin airships that once roamed the sky--a story that ended with the fiery destruction of the Hindenburg. "Genius . . . a definitive tale of an incredible time when...
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Men on Horseback: The Power of Charisma in the Age of RevolutionIn his lucid and bracing history, David] Bell helps us better understand how a] charismatic grifter came to occupy the most powerful office in the world . . . Bell's description of our predicament makes for essential reading. --Robert Zaretsky, Los Angeles Review of...
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Panic at the Pump: The Energy Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the 1970sAn authoritative history of the energy crises of the 1970s and the world they wrought In 1973, the Arab OPEC cartel banned the export of oil to the United States, sending prices and tempers rising across the country. Dark Christmas trees, lowered thermostats, empty...
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In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER. The definitive insider's account of American policy making in Vietnam. "Can anyone remember a public official with the courage to confess error and explain where he and his country went wrong? This is what Robert McNamara does in this brave, honest,...
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The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan EnglandAn entertaining, accessible guide to Elizabethan England--the latest in the Time Traveler's Guide series Acclaimed historian Ian Mortimer shows readers that the past is not just something to be studied; it is also something to be lived. Using diaries, letters, books, and other writings...
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Operation Jubilee: Dieppe, 1942: The Folly and the SacrificeIn the tradition of Ben Macintyre, Tim Cook, and other bestselling World War Two historians, a riveting and updated telling of the tragic Dieppe raid of 1942. On the moonless night of August 18th 1942 a flotilla pushes out into the flat water of...
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The Black Cabinet: The Untold Story of African Americans and Politics During the Age of RooseveltA magnificently researched, dramatically told work of narrative nonfiction about the history, evolution, impact, and ultimate demise of what was known in the 1930s and 1940s as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Black Cabinet. In 1932 in the midst of the Great Depression, Franklin Delano...
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The Art of Rivalry: Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern ArtPulitzer Prize-winning art critic Sebastian Smee tells the fascinating story of four pairs of artists--Manet and Degas, Picasso and Matisse, Pollock and de Kooning, Freud and Bacon--whose fraught, competitive friendships spurred them to new creative heights. Rivalry is at the heart of some of...
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The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (20th Anniversary Edition)With a new afterword by the author, this classic analysis of Western liberal capitalist society contends that capitalism--and the culture it creates--harbors the seeds of its own downfall by creating a need among successful people for personal gratification--a need that corrodes the work ethic...
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The Korean War: 1950-53In this fully illustrated introduction, Dr Carter Malkasian provides a concise overview of the so-called "Forgotten War" in Korea. From 1950 to 1953, the most powerful countries in the world engaged in a major conventional war in Korea. Yet ironically this conflict has come...
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Haste to Rise: A Remarkable Experience of Black Education During Jim CrowBetween 1910 and the mid-1920s, more than sixty black students from the South bravely traveled north to Ferris Institute, a small, mostly white school in Big Rapids, Michigan. They came to enroll in college programs and college preparatory courses--and to escape, if only temporarily,...
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The Devil Is Here in These Hills: West Virginia's Coal Miners and Their Battle for FreedomFrom before the dawn of the twentieth century until the arrival of the New Deal, one of the most protracted and deadly labor struggles in American history was waged in West Virginia. On one side were powerful corporations and industrialists whose millions bought political...
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The Conspiracy Trial of the Chicago SevenIn 1969, the Chicago Seven were charged with intent to "incite, organize, promote, and encourage" antiwar riots during the chaotic 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The defendants included major figures of the antiwar and racial justice movements: Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, the...
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The Cuban Missile Crisis: When Intelligence Made a DifferenceThe Cuban Missile Crisis: When Intelligence Made a DifferenceBy: Regis D. HeitchueThe Cuban Missile Crisis-the most dangerous event of the Cold War- has been chronicled in countless books and several movies that speak primarily to the political and diplomatic aspects, with only marginal reference...
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The Skull Collectors: Race, Science, and America's Unburied DeadWhen Philadelphia naturalist Samuel George Morton died in 1851, no one cut off his head, boiled away its flesh, and added his grinning skull to a collection of crania. It would have been strange, but perhaps fitting, had Morton's skull wound up in a...
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