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Inside the White HouseWhen Ronald Kessler's The FBI resulted in the dismissal of FBI Director William S. Sessions, it established Kessler as the preeminent examiner of secretive U.S. government organizations. Now Kessler focuses on the most myth-laden and clandestine institution of them all: the modern White House....
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Watergate in American Memory: Private Struggles in a Political WorldA look at what Americans remember (and what they have forgotten) about one of the most traumatic domestic political event in the America's post-war history.Author: Michael SchudsonPublisher: Basic BooksPublished: 11/17/1993Pages: 304Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 8.02h x 5.14w x 0.82dISBN: 9780465090839
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Other PowersBarbara Goldsmith's portrait of suffragette Victoria Woodhull and her times was hailed by George Plimpton as "a beautifully written biography of a remarkable woman" and by Gloria Steinem as "more memorable than a dozen histories." A highly readable combination of history and biography, Other...
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The Live and Writings of Frederick Douglass, Volume 3: The Civil WarThe second volume of The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass traced the career of this outstanding leader of the Negro people during the crucial decade, 1850-1860. In that volume was presented Douglass' incisive analysis of the strategy and tactics of the Abolitionist movement,...
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3 Presidents, 2 Accidents: More MO41 UFO Data and Surprises3 Presidents, 2 Acciidents picks up where MO41: The Bombshell Before Rowell left off, exploring the commonly held belief that the United States federall government engaged in a massive cover-up about outer space aliens visitng the Earth; a cover-up perpeterated by a series of...
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The Georgia Gold Rush: Twenty-Niners, Cherokees, and Gold FeverThe definitive story of Georgia's role in the first U.S. gold rushIn the 1820s a series of gold strikes from Virginia to Alabama caused such excitement that thousands of miners poured into the region. This southern gold rush, the first in U.S. history, reached...
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The Man Who Sold the World: Ronald Reagan and the Betrayal of Main Street AmericaSince Ronald Reagan left office -- and particularly after his death -- his shadow has loomed large over American politics: Republicans and many Democrats have waxed nostalgic, extolling the Republican tradition he embodied, the optimism he espoused, and his abilities as a communicator. This...
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Will You Die with Me?: My Life and the Black Panther PartyAmid the social turmoil of the 1960s and '70s, Flores Forbes was drawn to the Black Panther Party's mission of organizing resistance to police brutality. Eagerly joining the revolution, he soon found himself immersed in a culture of Mao-inspired rigor - aAuthor: Flores Alexander...
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Jfk, Conservative"America, meet the real John F. Kennedy." -- Washington Times John F. Kennedy is lionized by liberals. He inspired Lyndon Johnson to push Congress to pass the Civil Rights Act. His New Frontier promised increased spending on education and medical care for the elderly....
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The Health of the Country: How American Settlers Understood Themselves and Their LandMany have written about the settling of early 19th century America, but until now no one has explored these settlers' self-consciousness about what they were doing, what settling and cultivating the land itself meant. In The Health of the Country, Conevery Valencius shows that...
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Amateurs, to Arms!: A Military History of the War of 1812A gripping narrative of an unpopular and badly fought war--a century and a half before Vietnam--that will shock the uninformed reader.--Military History Begun in ignorance of the military reality, the War of 1812 was fought catch-as-catch-can with raw troops, incompetent officers, and appallingly inadequate...
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Journal of the Waterloo CampaignAn outstanding picture of the haste, confusion, and uncertainty of both the campaign and the battle, written by a man who definitely was there!--Col. John R. Elting, author of Swords Around a Throne: Napoleon's Grande ArmeeJournal of the Waterloo Campaign remains one of the...
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The Story of the Mexican WarAn excellent history of the Mexican War of 1846-1848, with the US Army commanded by the likes of Zachary Taylor, Robert E. Lee, Winfield Scott, John E. Wool, Stephen Kearny, The Texas Rangers, etc., versus the Mexican Army with the likes of Antonio Lopez...
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1947: When All Hell Broke Loose in BaseballWhen Jackie Robinson was penciled into the lineup for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, America's national pastime and America's future changed forever. How much is reflected in a remark Martin Luther King Jr. made to Don Newcombe: You'll never know what you and Jackie...
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Sacred Causes: The Clash of Religion and Politics, from the Great War to the War on TerrorBeginning with the chaotic post-World War I landscape, in which religious belief was one way of reordering a world knocked off its axis, Sacred Causes is a penetrating critique of how religion has often been camouflaged by politics. All the bloody regimes and movements...
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The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean WarIn a grand gesture of reclamation and remembrance, Mr. Halberstam has brought the war back home.---The New York Times David Halberstam's magisterial and thrilling The Best and the Brightest was the defining book about the Vietnam conflict. More than three decades later, Halberstam used...
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The Cornbread Mafia: A Homegrown Syndicate's Code of Silence and the Biggest Marijuana Bust in American HistoryIn the summer of 1987, Johnny Boone set out to grow and harvest one of the greatest outdoor marijuana crops in modern times. In doing so, he set into motion a series of events that defined him and his associates as the largest homegrown...
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Bad Blood: The Violent Lives of John Wesley Hardin, His Brothers, and AssociatesChuck Parson and Norman Wayne Brown are noted experts on the life and times of John Wesley Hardin. They have written numerous books and magazine articles covering the topic from all angles and in such respected publications as True West, Frontier Times, and The...
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Allies for Freedom & Blacks on John BrownJohn Brown is an endlessly fascinating historical figure. Here are two classic studies by a pioneer in African American studies, one about the place of John Brown in African American history, the other about the reasons for the unique esteem in which he has...
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Thunder at Twilight: Vienna 1913/1914Thunder at Twilight is a landmark historical vision, drawing on hitherto untapped sources to illuminate two crucial years in the life of the extraordinary city of Vienna-and in the life of the twentieth century.It was during the carnival of 1913 that a young Stalin...
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