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Willard Gibbs: The Whole Is Simpler Than Its PartsMarginalian Editions presents a groundbreaking poet's biography of the forgotten scientist who founded physical chemistry, shaping much of the 20th century--and an ingenious, expansive treatise on American creativity, character, and remembrance. Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839-1903) was an American visionary whose work shaped a century...
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Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force That Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil WarWinner of the Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians * Winner of the Lincoln Forum Book Prize * Finalist for the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize A propulsive account of our history's most surprising, most consequential political club: the Wide Awake anti-slavery...
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The Stadium: An American History of Politics, Protest, and PlayThe "deep and impactful" story of the American stadium (Howard Bryant, author of Full Dissidence)--from the first wooden ballparks to today's glass and steel mega-arenas--revealing how it has made, and remade, American life. Stadiums are monuments to recreation, sports, and pleasure. Yet from the...
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There Was Nothing You Could Do: Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the U.S.A." and the End of the HeartlandA thought-provoking exploration of Bruce Springsteen's iconic album, Born in the U.S.A.--a record that both chronicled and foreshadowed the changing tides of modern America On June 4, 1984, Columbia Records issued what would become one of the best-selling and most impactful rock albums of...
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Perfect Communities: Levitt, Levittown, and the Dream of White SuburbiaThe rise and fall of William J. Levitt, the man who made the suburban house a mass commodity Two material artifacts defined the middle-class American lifestyle in the mid-twentieth century: the automobile, which brought gas stations, highways, commercial strips, and sprawl; and the single-family...
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The Sinners All Bow: Two Authors, One Murder, and the Real Hester PrynneAcclaimed journalist, podcaster, and crime historian Kate Winkler Dawson tells the chilling true story of a young woman whose scandalous life was rumored to be Nathaniel Hawthorne's inspiration for The Scarlet Letter--and whose shocking death inspired the first true-crime book published in America. On...
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Tangled Fortunes: The Hidden History of Interracial Marriage in the Segregated SouthA "brilliantly researched and surprising" (Hendrik Hartog, Princeton University) history of Southern segregationists' long war against interracial relationships, and the century-long fight to restore the freedom to love, marry, and inherit Interracial marriage was already illegal in some American colonies as early as the...
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Start Making Sense: How Existential Psychology Can Help Us Build Meaningful Lives in Absurd TimesA "beautiful, deep, thoughtful" (Angela Duckworth, New York Times-bestselling author of Grit) investigation into the science of why we crave meaning--and how we can pursue it in this age of anxiety These days everyone feels on edge, panicked by climate change, political polarization, and...
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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin"Larson is a marvelous writer...superb at creating characters with a few short strokes."--New York Times Book Review Erik Larson has been widely acclaimed as a master of narrative non-fiction, and in his new book, the bestselling author of Devil in the White City turns...
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Snowy Day and Other Stories"Vivid . . . These stories, in which class divisions form impassable rifts and submission to the status quo comes at great psychic cost, have much to say about our contemporary reality." --The New York Times Book Review "What a gift to have these...
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Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern ScienceA captivating portrait of the poet and the scientist who shared an enchanted view of nature Emily Dickinson and Charles Darwin were born at a time when the science of studying the natural world was known as natural philosophy, a pastime for poets, priests,...
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Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the PeopleThe first English-language biography of Henri Bergson, the French philosopher who defined individual creativity and transformed twentieth-century thought--a "fascinating biography and magnificent revival of this brilliant thinker" (Skye Cleary, author of How to Be Authentic) Named a Best Book of 2024 by the New...
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Takeover: Hitler's Final Rise to PowerFrom the internationally acclaimed author of Hitler's Private Library, a dramatic recounting of the six critical months before Adolf Hitler seized power, when the Nazi leader teetered between triumph and ruin In the summer of 1932, the Weimar Republic was on the verge of...
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah StoryNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A modern classic of true crime, set in a most beguiling Southern city--now in a 30th anniversary edition with a new afterword by the author The basis for the upcoming Broadway musical, coming in 2025! "Elegant and wicked ....
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Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American HistoryThe Epic New York Times Bestseller Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award A New York Times Notable Book Winner of the Texas Book Award Winner of the Oklahoma Book Award This stunning historical account of the forty-year...
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The Lost Baker of ViennaAn historical novel inspired by the experiences of the author's own family after the Holocaust, a sweeping saga about survival, loss, love, and the reverberating effects of war In 2018, Zoe Rosenzweig is reeling after the loss of her beloved grandfather, a Holocaust survivor....
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed AmericaNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The true tale of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the cunning serial killer who used the magic and majesty of the fair to lure his victims to their death. A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the...
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Patton's Prayer: A True Story of Courage, Faith, and Victory in World War IIFrom Alex Kershaw, author of the New York Times bestseller Against All Odds, comes an epic story of courage, resilience, and faith during the Second World War General George Patton needed a miracle. In December 1944, the Allies found themselves stuck. Rain had plagued...
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One Good ThingFrom the New York Times-bestselling author of We Were the Lucky Ones, an unforgettable novel of remarkable bravery and perseverance, about a Jewish woman making her way through war-torn Italy during the Holocaust 1941, Italy. Lili and Esti have been best friends since meeting...
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The Icon and the Idealist: Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry That Brought Birth Control to AmericaSHORTLISTED FOR THE PLUTARCH AWARD FOR BEST BIOGRAPHYA riveting history about the little-known rivalry between Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett that profoundly shaped reproductive rights in AmericaIn the 1910s, as the birth control movement was born, two leaders emerged: Margaret Sanger and Mary...
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