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The Last Honest Man: The CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, and the Kennedys-and One Senator's Fight to Save Democracy

The Last Honest Man: The CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, and the [...]

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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn this "gripping . . . spectacular piece of reporting" (Ken Burns), a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines Senator Frank Church, the man at the center...
White World Order, Black Power Politics: The Birth of American International Relations

White World Order, Black Power Politics: The Birth of American International Relations

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The Unfit Heiress: The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization of Ann Cooper Hewitt

The Unfit Heiress: The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization [...]

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NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2021 BY THE NEW YORK POST AND BOOK RIOTNAMED A BEST TRUE CRIME BOOK OF 2021 BY CRIMEREADSAt the turn of the twentieth century, emboldened...
The Unfit Heiress: The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization of Ann Cooper Hewitt

The Unfit Heiress: The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization [...]

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NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2021 BY THE NEW YORK POST AND BOOK RIOTNAMED A BEST TRUE CRIME BOOK OF 2021 BY CRIMEREADSAt the turn of the twentieth century, emboldened...
Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years, Volume 1: Made for America, 1890-1901

Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years, [...]

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Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years reconstructs the life of Emma Goldman through significant texts and documents. These two volumes - part of a projected four-volume series...
Pilgrims to the Northland: The Archdiocese of St. Paul, 1840-1962

Pilgrims to the Northland: The Archdiocese of St. Paul, 1840-1962

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This is the first narrative history of the Archdiocese of St. Paul, from 1840 to 1962. Historian Marvin R. O'Connell brings to life the extraordinary labors and accomplishments of the...
Lemay

Lemay

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LeMay was a terrifying, complex, and brilliant general. In World War II, he ordered the firebombing of Tokyo and was in charge when Atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and...
From Sarah to Sydney: The Woman Behind All-of-a-Kind Family

From Sarah to Sydney: The Woman Behind All-of-a-Kind Family

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This is the first and only biography of Sydney Taylor (1904-1978), author of the award-winning All-of-a-Kind Family series of books, the first juvenile novels published by a mainstream publisher to...
George I. Sanchez: The Long Fight for Mexican American Integration

George I. Sanchez: The Long Fight for Mexican American Integration

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George I. Sanchez was a reformer, activist, and intellectual, and one of the most influential members of the "Mexican American Generation" (1930-1960). A professor of education at the University of...
The Lion and the Fox: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Navy

The Lion and the Fox: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Navy

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From the New York Times bestselling author of Washington's Spies, the thrilling story of the Confederate spy who came to Britain to turn the tide of the Civil War-and the...
K Blows Top

K Blows Top

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The Radicalism of the American Revolution: Pulitzer Prize Winner

The Radicalism of the American Revolution: Pulitzer Prize Winner

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In a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a prize-winning historian describes the events that made the American Revolution. Gordon S. Wood depicts a...
White Lies: The Double Life of Walter F. White and America's Darkest Secret

White Lies: The Double Life of Walter F. White and America's Darkest Secret

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A New Yorker Best Book of the Year 2022An "electrifying" biography of Walter White, a little-remembered Black civil rights leader who passed for white in order to investigate racist murders,...
Hubert Humphrey: The Conscience of the Country

Hubert Humphrey: The Conscience of the Country

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"A painstaking and . . . admiring portrait" (Edward Kosner, Wall Street Journal) of Hubert Humphrey, one of the great liberal politicians of the twentieth century"An outstanding account of the...
The Soldier from Independence: A Military Biography of Harry Truman

The Soldier from Independence: A Military Biography of Harry Truman

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Harry S. Truman was Commander-in-Chief at one of the (if not the) critical moments in American--and global--military history: when the decision had to be made to drop the Bomb. As...
American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis

American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis

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National Bestseller * One of the year's most acclaimed works of nonfictionA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: New York Times, Washington Post, New Yorker, Chicago Tribune, Kirkus, New York Post,...
The Story of Che Guevara

The Story of Che Guevara

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Hostage to Fortune: The Letters of Joseph P.Kennedy

Hostage to Fortune: The Letters of Joseph P.Kennedy

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The United States Navy in the Pacific, 1897-1909

The United States Navy in the Pacific, 1897-1909

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Author: William R. BraistedFormat: Paperback, 156mm x 234mm, 295 pagesPublished: Naval Institute Press, United States, 2008Professor William R. Braisted tells the story of the twelve important years during which the...
Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties

Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties

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Author: Mike DavisFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 235mm, 1074g, 800 pagesPublished: Verso Books, United Kingdom, 2020Histories of the US sixties invariably focus on New York City, but Los Angeles was an...
The Trump Indictments: The 91 Criminal Counts Against the Former President of the United States

The Trump Indictments: The 91 Criminal Counts Against the Former President of the United States

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Author: Ali VelshiFormat: Paperback, 135mm x 203mm, 263g, 320 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, United States, 2023 Edited and introduced by MSNBC's Ali Velshi, The Trump Indictments collects the complete charging...
America in the World: A History of U.S. Diplomacy and Foreign Policy

America in the World: A History of U.S. Diplomacy and Foreign Policy

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Blackout

Blackout

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American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis

American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis

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Author: Adam HochschildFormat: Paperback, 152mm x 229mm, 440g, 432 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, United States, 2023 National Bestseller * One of the year's most acclaimed works of nonfictionA BEST BOOK...
My People: Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives

My People: Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives

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Author: Charlayne Hunter-GaultFormat: Paperback, 135mm x 203mm, 270g, 368 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, United States, 2023 "Charlayne Hunter-Gault is an eminent Dean of American journalism, a vital voice whose work...
Battle for the Big Top: P. T. Barnum, James Bailey, John Ringling, and the Death-Defying Saga of the American Circus

Battle for the Big Top: P. T. Barnum, James Bailey, John Ringling, and the Death-Defying Saga of the American Circus

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Millions have sat under the "big top," watching as trapeze artists glide and clowns entertain, but few know the captivating stories behind the men whose creativity, ingenuity, and determination created...
Witness to the Revolution: Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Its Soul

Witness to the Revolution: Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Its Soul

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Our Man in Charleston: Britain's Secret Agent in the Civil War South

Our Man in Charleston: Britain's Secret Agent in the Civil War South

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The Lion And The Fox: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Navy

The Lion And The Fox: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Navy

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From the New York Times bestselling author of Washington's Spies, the thrilling story of the Confederate spy who came to Britain to turn the tide of the Civil War-and the...