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Founding Character: The Words and Documents That Forged a Nation

Founding Character: The Words and Documents That Forged a Nation

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The essential historical references and documents in this volume reflect the character of the United States during the Revolutionary War. This compilation includes the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up...
Rendezvous with Destiny: How Franklin D. Roosevelt and Five

Rendezvous with Destiny: How Franklin D. Roosevelt and Five

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"A fascinating and well-written account of a little-known chapter that was crucial to the course of World War II and to America's global leadership." -Henry A. Kissinger In the dark...
The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer: And the Birth of the Modern Arms

The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer: And the Birth of the Modern Arms

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In a groundbreaking book that recasts the history of the Cold War, bestselling author Priscilla J. McMillan exposes, for the first time, the truth behind J. Robert Oppenheimer's 1954 trial...
The Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans' War on

The Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans' War on

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Instant New York Times Bestseller A searing, vital investigation of the Republican Party's dangerous campaign to rewrite recent history in real time, from the Emmy Award-winning Rachel Maddow Show producer...
Into Unknown Skies: An Unlikely Team, a Daring Race, and the First

Into Unknown Skies: An Unlikely Team, a Daring Race, and the First

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"Thrilling . . . With deep research and suspenseful storytelling, Mr. Randall reminds us that America's pre-eminence in the aviation industry was never assured and that it took a race...
Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama

Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama

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The definitive account of Barack Obama's life before he became the 44th president of the United States - the formative years, confluence of forces, and influential figures who helped shaped...
What Happened

What Happened

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A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR AND NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK "In the past, for reasons I try to explain, I've often felt I had to be careful...
Better Day Coming: Blacks and Equality, 1890-2000

Better Day Coming: Blacks and Equality, 1890-2000

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From the end of postwar Reconstruction in the South to an analysis of the rise and fall of Black Power, acclaimed historian Adam Fairclough presents a straightforward synthesis of the...
Den of Spies: The Untold Story of Reagan, Carter and the Treason that

Den of Spies: The Untold Story of Reagan, Carter and the Treason that

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Argo meets Spotlight , as New York Times bestselling author Craig Unger reveals his thirty-year investigation into the secret collusion between Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign and Iran, raising urgent...
Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65

Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65

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Volume two of a three volume history of the American civil rights movement, America in the King Years. This volume takes the reader from the assassination of President Kennedy and...
Invisible Hands: The Businessmen's Crusade Against the New Deal

Invisible Hands: The Businessmen's Crusade Against the New Deal

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In the wake of the profound economic crisis known as the Great Depression, a group of high-powered individuals joined forces to campaign against the New Deal-not just its practical policies...
The Watergate Affair, 1972: The Resignation of President Richard

The Watergate Affair, 1972: The Resignation of President Richard

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This publication presents the report of the Watergate Special Prosecution Force (WSPF) during the 28th month period from May 25, 1973 when Archibald Cox took office as Special Prosecutor to...
The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House

The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House

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From the mystique of the glamorous Kennedys to the tumult that surrounded Bill and Hillary Clinton during the president's impeachment to the historic tenure of Barack and Michelle Obama, each...
Destroyer Captain: Lessons of a First Command

Destroyer Captain: Lessons of a First Command

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This memoir of James Stavridis' two years in command of the destroyer USS Barry reveals the human side of what it is like to be in charge of a warship...
The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and

The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year * Drawing on previously classified CIA documents and on interviews with firsthand participants, The Billion Dollar Spy is a...
An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created

An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created

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A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' PICK An NPR Best Book of the Year * Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year Longlisted for the 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence...
Tanker War: America'S First Conflict with Iran, 1987-88

Tanker War: America'S First Conflict with Iran, 1987-88

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In May 1987 the US guided missile frigate Stark, sailing the waters of the Persian Gulf, was suddenly blown apart by the air force of Iraq. A fifth of the...
The Stadium: An American History of Politics, Protest, and Play

The Stadium: An American History of Politics, Protest, and Play

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The sweeping story of the American stadium-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,...
The Stadium: An American History of Politics, Protest, and Play

The Stadium: An American History of Politics, Protest, and Play

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The sweeping story of the American stadium-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,...
Our Mothers' War: American Women at Home and at the Front During World

Our Mothers' War: American Women at Home and at the Front During World

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"Our women are serving actively in many ways in this war, and they are doing a grand job on both the fighting front and the home front." -- Eleanor Roosevelt,...
The Soccer War

The Soccer War

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Part diary and part reportage, The Soccer War is a remarkable chronicle of war in the late twentieth century. Between 1958 and 1980, working primarily for the Polish Press Agency,...
The Falklands War: An Imperial History

The Falklands War: An Imperial History

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Why did Britain and Argentina go to war over a wintry archipelago that was home to an unprofitable colony? Could the Falklands War, in fact, have been a last-ditch revival...
Why America Loses Wars: Limited War and US Strategy from the Korean

Why America Loses Wars: Limited War and US Strategy from the Korean

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How can you achieve victory in war if you don't have a clear idea of your political objectives and a vision of what victory means? In this provocative challenge to...
The Cambridge History of America and the World: Volume 4, 1945 to the

The Cambridge History of America and the World: Volume 4, 1945 to the

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The fourth volume of The Cambridge History of America and the World examines the heights of American global power in the mid-twentieth century and how challenges from at home and...
The Cambridge History of America and the World

The Cambridge History of America and the World

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The second volume of The Cambridge History of America and the World examines how the United States rose to great power status in the nineteenth century and how the rest...
The Cambridge History of America and the World: Volume 1, 1500-1820

The Cambridge History of America and the World: Volume 1, 1500-1820

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The first volume of The Cambridge History of America and the World examines how the United States emerged out of a series of colonial interactions, some involving indigenous empires and...
LBJ's 1968: Power, Politics, and the Presidency in America's Year of

LBJ's 1968: Power, Politics, and the Presidency in America's Year of

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1968 was an unprecedented year in terms of upheaval on numerous scales: political, military, economic, social, cultural. In the United States, perhaps no one was more undone by the events...
African Americans and the Pacific War, 1941-1945: Race, Nationality,

African Americans and the Pacific War, 1941-1945: Race, Nationality,

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In the patriotic aftermath of Pearl Harbor, African Americans demanded the right to play their part in the war against Japan. As they soon learned, however, the freedom for which...
Big Burn, The

Big Burn, The

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A New York Times Bestseller. A Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, Entertainment Weekly, and Amazon Best Book of the Year. A dramatic account of the worst forest fire in American history...
A History of the British Presence in Chile: From Bloody Mary to

A History of the British Presence in Chile: From Bloody Mary to

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This book sets out to narrate the contributions to and influence on the history of Chile that British visitors and immigrants have had, not as bystanders but as key players,...
Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire

Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire

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Examines every aspect of government, attending a political convention, the presidential election and inauguration, Congress, the Supreme Court and a small town meeting in New Hampshire. He examines the budget,...
My Father the Spy: A Family History of the CIA, the Cold War, and the

My Father the Spy: A Family History of the CIA, the Cold War, and the

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As his father nears death in his retirement home in Mexico, John H. Richardson begins to unravel a life filled with drama and secrecy. John Sr. was a CIA "chief...
Sleeper Agent: The Atomic Spy in America Who Got Away

Sleeper Agent: The Atomic Spy in America Who Got Away

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This "historical page-turner of the highest order" ( The Wall Street Journal ) tells the chilling, little-known story of an American-born Soviet spy in the atom bomb project during World...
The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly

The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly

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Today the very ideas that made America great imperil its future. Our plans go awry and policies fail. History's grandest war against terrorism creates more terrorists. Global capitalism, intended to...
An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created

An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created

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A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' PICK An NPR Best Book of the Year * Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year Longlisted for the 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence...
An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created

An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created

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A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' PICK An NPR Best Book of the Year * Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year Longlisted for the 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence...
The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of

The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of

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When Tom Breihan launched his Stereogum column in early 2018, "The Number Ones"-a space in which he has been writing about every #1 hit in the history of the Billboard...
El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America

El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America

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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940

Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940

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The "monumental" ( Washington Post ), field-defining history of gay life in New York City in the early to mid-20th century Gay New York brilliantly shatters the myth that before...
Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor

Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A fast-paced debut...Espionage buffs will savor this vibrant account." - Publishers Weekly A U.S. naval counterintelligence officer working to safeguard Pearl Harbor; a Japanese spy ordered...
The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression

The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression

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In The Forgotten Man , Amity Shlaes, one of the nation's most-respected economic commentators, offers a striking reinterpretation of the Great Depression. She traces the mounting agony of the New...
I Have a Dream - 60th Anniversary Edition

I Have a Dream - 60th Anniversary Edition

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With new forewords and an afterword by Martin Luther King III, Dr. Bernice A. King, and Dexter Scott King A beautiful collectible edition celebrating the 60th anniversary of Dr. Martin...
An Ordinary Man: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford

An Ordinary Man: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford

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"Richard Norton Smith had brought a lifetime of wisdom, insight, and storytelling verve to the life of a consequential president-Gerald R. Ford. Ford's is a very American life, and Smith...
The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man

The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man

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One of our nation's most prominent writers discovers the truth about how to live a long and happy life from the centenarian next door in this "original and highly readable...
An Ordinary Man: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford

An Ordinary Man: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford

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"Richard Norton Smith had brought a lifetime of wisdom, insight, and storytelling verve to the life of a consequential president-Gerald R. Ford. Ford's is a very American life, and Smith...
Robert F. Kennedy: Ripples of Hope: Kerry Kennedy in Conversation with Heads of State, Business Leaders, Influencers, and Activists about Her Father's Impact on Their Lives

Robert F. Kennedy: Ripples of Hope: Kerry Kennedy in Conversation with Heads of State, Business Leaders, Influencers, and Activists about Her Father's Impact on Their Lives

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Robert F. Kennedy staunchly advocated for civil rights, education, justice, and peace; his message transcended race, class, and creed, resonating deeply within and across America. He was the leading candidate...
Letter from America: 1946-2004

Letter from America: 1946-2004

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A defining collection from Alistair Cooke's legendary BBC Radio broadcasts guiding us through nearly sixty years of changing life in the United States When Alistair Cooke retired in February 2004...
The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World

The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the

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From one of the world's most prominent thinkers comes an urgent warning of the threat that US power poses to humanity's future The land of the free. The home of...