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Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America

Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America

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A Guardian Best Book of the Year "A gripping study of white power Explosive." - New York Times "Helps explain how we got to today's alt-right." -Terry Gross, Fresh Air...
The Dead Are Arising: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography

The Dead Are Arising: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography

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An epic biography of Malcolm X finally emerges, drawing on hundreds of hours of the author's interviews, rewriting much of the known narrative Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative...
Clint: The Man and the Movies

Clint: The Man and the Movies

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New York Times "Editors Choice," Los Angeles Times "Must Read Book for Summer," and a New Yorker "Best Book of the Year So Far" "This is the biography of Clint...
Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America's Civil Rights Revolution

Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America's Civil Rights Revolution

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A kaleidoscopic narrative history of 1963, the pivotal moment in America's long civil rights movement-the year of the March on Washington, Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail," and...
A Promised Land

A Promised Land

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A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making-from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of...
The Louder I Will Sing: A story of racism, riots and redemption:

The Louder I Will Sing: A story of racism, riots and redemption:

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WINNER OF THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2020 'This is the story of arguably one of the most important, yet least known, events in modern British history. Lee's journey and fight...
Soldiers of Empire: Indian and British Armies in World War II

Soldiers of Empire: Indian and British Armies in World War II

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How are soldiers made? Why do they fight? Re-imagining the study of armed forces and society, Barkawi examines the imperial and multinational armies that fought in Asia in the Second...
Becoming

Becoming

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An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir; 17 million copies sold worldwide Now in paperback featuring a new introduction by Michelle Obama, a letter from the author to her younger self,...
The Dead Are Arising: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography

The Dead Are Arising: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography

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The definitive biography of Malcolm X- "fascinating and essential" (Washington Post), this is a new portrait which vividly rewrites much of the known narrative The Dead Are Arising is a...
Orientalism

Orientalism

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The book that redefined our understanding of the legacy of European colonialism and empire, now reissued with a new PMC jacket 'Stimulating, elegant and pugnacious' Observer In this highly acclaimed...
Notes of a Native Son

Notes of a Native Son

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A breakthrough work of social and cultural criticism from one of the foremost intellectuals of his era Written during the 1940s and early 1950s, when Baldwin was only in his...
Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture

Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture

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The definitive modern biography of the great slave leader, military genius and revolutionary hero The Haitian Revolution began in the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue with a slave revolt in...
Black and British: A Forgotten History

Black and British: A Forgotten History

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