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Massacre in the Clouds: An American Atrocity and the Erasure of History

Massacre in the Clouds: An American Atrocity and the Erasure of

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In March 1906, American soldiers on the island of Jolo in the southern Philippines surrounded and killed 1000 local men, women, and children, known as Moros, on top of an...
Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream

Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream

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'An important book' Martin Wolf, Financial Times (BOOK OF THE YEAR)The clear-eyed, definitive history of the modern American economy and the decline of the American Dream, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning...
Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream

Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream

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'An important book' Martin Wolf, Financial Times (BOOK OF THE YEAR)The clear-eyed, definitive history of the modern American economy and the decline of the American Dream, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning...
The Abuse of Power: Confronting Injustice in Public Life

The Abuse of Power: Confronting Injustice in Public Life

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THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER'So boldly different it creates a mini-genre all of its own' - ANDREW MARRAs Prime Minister for three years and Home Secretary for six years,...
Glass

Glass

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A writer in self-imposed exile in London receives a call from the Prime Minister of his former country, inviting him to return to write the Prime Minister's biography. As he...
King Richard: Nixon and Watergate: an American tragedy

King Richard: Nixon and Watergate: an American tragedy

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From an acclaimed British author, a sharply focused, riveting account - told from inside the White House - of the crucial days, hours, and moments when the Watergate conspiracy consumed,...
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...
Strictly Ann: The Autobiography

Strictly Ann: The Autobiography

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In this life story of one of our most outspoken and celebrated politicians, Ann Widdecombe offers a unique insight into her time as a minister in three government departments and...
Harold Wilson: The Winner

Harold Wilson: The Winner

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Harold Wilson is the only post-war leader of any party to serve as Britain's Prime Minister on two separate occasions. In total he won four General Elections, spending nearly eight...
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...
Iran, Islam and Democracy: The Politics of Managing Change

Iran, Islam and Democracy: The Politics of Managing Change

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The surprise election of Hasan Rouhani in 2013 has refocused attention on the dynamics between Islam and democracy in Iran after the hiatus of the Ahmadinejad presidency. With comparisons being...
The Unsettling of Europe: How Migration Reshaped a Continent

The Unsettling of Europe: How Migration Reshaped a Continent

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An acclaimed historian examines postwar migration's fundamental role in shaping modern Europe Migration is perhaps the most pressing issue of our time, and it has completely decentered European politics in...
The Dissident Mullah: Ayatollah Montazeri and the Struggle for Reform in Revolutionary Iran

The Dissident Mullah: Ayatollah Montazeri and the Struggle for [...]

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The Iranian cleric Ayatollah Montazeri (1922-2009) played an integral role in the founding of the Islamic Republic in the wake of the Iranian Revolution of 1978/9. Yet at the time...
Business Politics and the State in Twentieth-Century Latin America

Business Politics and the State in Twentieth-Century Latin America

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This is the first systematically comparative and historical analysis of the incorporation of business into politics in Latin America, examining business organizing and political activity over the last century in...
Transatlantic Divide: Comparing American and European Society

Transatlantic Divide: Comparing American and European Society

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The book describes, interprets, and analyzes the key features of European society and American society and major social trends in the United States and in the European Union in the...
Defending Democratic Norms: International Actors and the Politics of Electoral Misconduct

Defending Democratic Norms: International Actors and the Politics of Electoral Misconduct

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Although nearly every country in the world today holds multiparty elections, these contests are often blatantly unfair. For governments, electoral misconduct is a tempting but also a risky practice, because...
The Shadow Man: At the Heart of the Cambridge Spy Circle

The Shadow Man: At the Heart of the Cambridge Spy Circle

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Author: Geoff AndrewsFormat: Hardback, 155mm x 226mm, 553g, 288 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2015James Klugmann appears as a shadowy figure in the legendary history of the Cambridge spies....
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...
Designing Peace: Building a Better Future Now

Designing Peace: Building a Better Future Now

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Author: Cynthia E. SmithFormat: Paperback, 220mm x 300mm, 1100g, 240 pagesPublished: Cooper-Hewitt Museum, United Kingdom, 2022Designing Peace asks, how might we collectively put our creative forces together to envision a...