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The Blood in Winter: England on the Brink of Civil War, 1642A riveting account of the five heated months in which King Charles I attempted to arrest five dissident Members of Parliament by bringing an armed force to the House of Commons--a shocking act of political terrorism that pushed England toward civil war and planted...
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Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in HistoryThe Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller (October 2018) Confronting Nazi evil is the subject of the next installment in the mega-bestselling Killing series As the true horrors of the Third Reich began to be exposed immediately after World War II, the Nazi war...
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King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic MiscalculationNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE - From the author of the landmark bestseller Lawrence in Arabia comes a stunningly revelatory narrative history of the Iranian Revolution, one of the most momentous events in modern times. This groundbreaking work exposes...
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The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War in this "riveting reexamination of a nation in tumult" (Los...
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Baseball in the Roaring Twenties: The Yankees, the Cardinals, and the Captivating 1926 SeasonIn the mid-1920s, America was in the throes of exuberant excess and clashing social change. It was the era of Prohibition and speakeasies; the reemergence of the Ku Klux Klan; popular evangelists, including ex-ballplayer Billy Sunday; a fascination with dangerous stunts like pole-sitting and...
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Elizabeth Seton: American SaintFrom socialite to saint, it was an extraordinary journey for Seton, one gracefully chronicled in Catherine O'Donnell's richly textured new biography.... A remarkable biography of a remarkable woman.― Wall Street JournalIn 1975, two centuries after her birth, Pope Paul VI canonized Elizabeth Ann Seton,...
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The Determined Spy: The Turbulent Life and Times of CIA Pioneer Frank WisnerFrom Douglas Waller, New York Times bestselling author of Wild Bill Donovan, an intimate and expertly researched biography of little-known early CIA leader Frank Wisner, whose behind-the-scenes influence on Cold War policy--and hundreds of highly secret anti-Soviet missions--resonates with the international crises we see...
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Confronting Bad History -- How a Lost Cause and Fraudulent Book Caused the John Wilkes Booth Exhumation TrialConfronting Bad History is about our history's most infamous villain and debunks the conspiracy story that Lincoln' assassin escaped justice. John Wilkes Booth's assassination of President Abraham Lincoln is the most infamous political assassination in United States history. The assassination of Lincoln suddenly ended...
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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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Europe Without Borders: A HistoryThe contested creation of free movement--for people and goods--in the Schengen area of Europe Europe is a place of free movement among nations--or is it? The Schengen area, established in 1985 and today encompassing twenty-nine European countries, allows people, goods, and capital to cross...
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Photographic Memory: William Henry Jackson and the American WestLegendary cartoonist Bill Griffith brings a personal touch to this illustrated history of his great-grandfather, William Henry Jackson--a pioneering photographer of the American West whose work led to Yellowstone becoming the first National Park and was a major influence on Ansel Adams In his...
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World Enemy No. 1: Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Fate of the JewsA major new history that transforms our understanding of World War II--tracing the conflict and its most infamous crime, the Holocaust, to Germany's implacable hostility toward Soviet Russia In the West, World War II is commonly understood as the Allies' struggle against Nazism. Often...
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They Flew: A History of the ImpossibleAn award-winning historian's examination of impossible events at the dawn of modernity and of their enduring significance "Historically rich and superbly written."--David J. Davis, Wall Street Journal Shortlisted for the International Society for Science and Religion Book Prize Accounts of seemingly impossible phenomena abounded...
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The Wounded Generation: Coming Home After World War IIFrom award-winning and bestselling author David Nasaw, a brilliant re-examination of post-World War II America that looks beyond the victory parades and into the veterans'--and nation's--unhealed traumas In its duration, geographical reach, and ferocity, World War II was unprecedented, and the effects on those...
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The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended AmericaFrom Pulitzer Prize finalist John Fabian Witt comes the captivating secret history of an epic experiment to remake American democracy. Before the dark money of the Koch Brothers, before the billions of the Ford Foundation, there was the Garland Fund. In 1922, a young...
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Chain of Fire: The Siege of Khartoum and the Campaign of Egypt and the SudanThe dramatic story of the siege of Khartoum and Britain's extraordinarily violent 1882 campaign in Egypt and Sudan. In the 1880s, British control over northeastern Africa was a political minefield that Prime Minister William Gladstone wished to avoid--until his emissary Charles Gordon was besieged...
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1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--And How It Shattered a NationNamed a Most Anticipated Book by New York Times Books Review, TIME, Washington Post, Associated Press, Town & Country, New York Post, and more From the bestselling author of Too Big to Fail, "the definitive history of the 2008 banking crisis,"* comes a spellbinding...
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The Light of Battle: Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American SuperpowerA thrilling new biography of Dwight Eisenhower set in the months leading up to D-Day, when he grew from a well-liked general into one of the singular figures of American history."This is hands-down the most deeply researched, sensitive, intimate, and nuanced portrait of Eisenhower."...
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The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway"Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." So begins Virginia Woolf's much-beloved fourth novel. First published in 1925, Mrs. Dalloway has long been viewed not only as Woolf's masterpiece, but as a pivotal work of literary modernism and one of the most...
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American Anarchy: The Epic Struggle Between Immigrant Radicals and the Us Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth CenturyFINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY A "lively, fast-paced history" (Adam Hochschild, bestselling author of American Midnight) of America's anarchist movement and the government's tireless efforts to destroy it In the early twentieth century, anarchists like Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman championed a...
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