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No More Silence: An Oral History of the Assassination of President
A history of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, from eyewitness accounts through to the police reactions, investigations, and aftermath. Based on in-depth interviews conducted in Dallas, it features...
First Over There: The Attack on Cantigny, America's First Battle of
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The riveting true story of America's first modern military battle, its first military victory during World War One, and its first steps onto the world stage At first light on...
The Heart of Hell: The Untold Story of Courage and Sacrifice in the
The Heart of Hell is the untold story of the crew of Landing Craft Infantry 449. Based on 130 exclusive interviews with sailors who survived the battle, the families of...
F-86 Sabres of the 4th Fighter Interceptor Wing
The 4th Fighter Interceptor Wing (FIW) was sent to Korea in December 1950 expressly to deal with the threat posed by the all-new MiG-15 fighter that had made its combat...
Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Today
A searing indictment of racial injustice in America - inspired by the life and work of James Baldwin - to help us understand the present moment, and imagine a new...
City Of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
'Courageously broad in its scope, City of Quartz changes intellectual gear - from history to sociology to urban theory - often with consummate ease, and fits its diverse threads together...
African American Art and Artists
Samella Lewis has brought African American Art and Artists fully up to date in this revised and expanded edition. The book now looks at the works and lives of artists...
The Arrogance of Power: Nixon and Watergate
The biographer of Hoover and Marilyn Monroe turns his skills to the complex story of Richard Nixon, and offers an intimate portrait of the man - and major new revelations....
The American Dream: pop to the present
In the early 1960s, American printmaking experienced a dynamic resurgence that placed it at the heart of artistic practice. Such was the medium's attraction that by 1970 virtually every major...
When Skateboards Will Be Free: My Reluctant Political Childhood
The revolution is not only inevitable, it is imminent. It is not only imminent, it is quite imminent. And when the time comes, my father will lead it. Said Sayrafiezadeh's...
When Thunder Rolled
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More than 300 F-105 Thunderchief figher-bombers were lost in the "Rolling Thunder" campaign in North Vietnam because the Air Force brought the wrong strategy, disastrous tactics, and an ill-suited aircraft....
Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War
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One of our most acclaimed historians explores the decorated military service of one of America's most intriguing politicians--the leading Democratic presidential candidate for 2004--and its profound effects on his career...
When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "Absolutely gripping." -- The Washington Post - "A masterpiece of oral history...stirring, surprising, grim, joyous, moving, and always riveting." --Evan Thomas From the New...
Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the
RUSSIAN ROULETTE is a story of political skullduggery unprecedented in American history. It weaves together tales of international intrigue, cyber espionage, and superpower rivalry. After U.S.-Russia relations soured, as Vladimir...
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
In the mid-seventies, Steve Martin exploded on to the comedy scene. By 1978, he was the biggest concert draw in the history of stand-up. In 1981 he quit forever. This...
The Economists' Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture
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In this "lively and entertaining" history of ideas (Liaquat Ahamed, The New Yorker ), New York Times editorial writer Binyamin Appelbaum tells the story of the people who sparked four...
1941: Politics, Espionage and the Secret Pact between Churchill and
Prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor, America had long been involved in a shadow war. Winston Churchill, England's beleaguered new Prime Minister, pleaded with Franklin D. Roosevelt for help....
Wallis in Love: The Untold Life of the Duchess of Windsor, the Woman
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For fans of the Netflix series The Crown and from the author of the New York Times bestseller 17 Carnations comes a captivating biography of Wallis Simpson, the notorious woman...
American West Designs
Icons, symbols and artefacts of the way of life traditionally associated with the American West.
Hidden Treasure: A timeless children's adventure story from the
From the bestselling author of The Miniaturist . Jessie Burton's Hidden Treasure is the phenomenal page-turning story of two children whose lives collide when they find an ancient treasure with...
Camping and Tramping with Roosevelt
In 1903, a renowned naturalist joined the President of the United States for a two-week camping trip to Yosemite. John Burroughs offers delightful reminiscences of Theodore Roosevelt and their shared...
Chrome Dome 1960-68: The B-52s' high-stakes Cold War nuclear operation
In 1960, SAC's B-52s began a nonstop, eight-year, nuclear-armed patrol. Fully illustrated, this study explains how one of the Cold War's most challenging operations was conceived and flown. Operation Chrome...
Al Qaeda's Great Escape: The Military and the Media on Terror's Trail
When President Bush announced in a televised speech the week after September 11 that he wanted Osama bin Laden "dead or alive," a grieving America seeking justice and revenge roared...
Ghosts of Iron Mountain: The Hoax that Duped America and its Sinister
A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR How did America end up trapped in a nightmare of conspiracy theories, in which millions see the government as an evil 'deep state'?...
The Education of an Idealist
'Her highly personal and reflective memoir ... is a must-read for anyone who cares about our role in a changing world' Barack Obama THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE...
Phenomena: US Government Investigations into ESP and Psychokinesis
The definitive history of the military's decades-long investigation into mental powers and phenomena. This is a book about a team of scientists and psychics with top secret clearances. For more...
The New Cold War: How the Contest Between the US and China Will Shape
'An illuminating book for the interested citizen as well as for those making policy' HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON'An important, crystal-clear account of contemporary global geopolitics... Essential reading' PETER FRANKOPAN'An excellent short...
Modernist Impulses in the Human Sciences, 1870-1930
These essays examine modernism in the human sciences and adjacent areas of philosophy and natural science. Among the contributors, David Hollinger expands his important work on the cognitive/aesthetic divide to...
A History of Sociological Research Methods in America, 1920-1960
This is the first book on the general history of US sociological research. It provides systematic archival, documentary, and interview data which question conventional views on research methods, developing our...
A Second Chicago School?: The Development of a Postwar American
From 1945 to about 1960, the University of Chicago was home to a group of faculty and graduate students whose work has come to define what many call a second...
Grand Theft Pentagon: How War Contractors Rip Off America and Threaten
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"Jeffrey St. Clair is the Seymour Hersh of environmental journalism."--Josh Frank From the F-22 fighter jet and B-2 bomber to the Stryker tank and Star Wars , Grand Theft Pentagon...
The Road To Tahrir Square: Eqypt and the United States from the Rise
When protesters in Egypt began to fill Cairo's Tahrir Square on January 25th--and refused to leave until their demand that Hosni Mubarak step down was met--the politics of the region...
Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears
The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively history of the Academy Awards, focusing on the brutal battles, the starry rivalries,...
Unholy Wars: Afghanistan, America and International Terrorism
To oppose the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, the USA formed an extraordinary anti-communist alliance with militant Islamic forces in South Asia. In this controversial book, John Cooley provides...
Ezra Pound as Literary Critic
What literary historians describe as the modernist' movement in literature - in which Ezra Pound doubled as major poet and principal publicist - is currently being revalued by practitioners of...
The Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans' War on
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...
In the Family Way
'Bursts with complexity, drama and warmth... A timely, timeless novel' Catherine Newman, author of Sandwich 'Uplifting ... A warm tale of friendship' Platinum Book of the Month 'A powerful tale,...
Douglas Macarthur: American Warrior
Douglas MacArthur was arguably the last American public figure to be worshipped unreservedly as a national hero, the last military figure to conjure up the romantic stirrings once evoked by...
Tis Herself
Maureen O'Hara was born for Technicolour. Her fiery red hair and piercing green eyes made the screen crackle with electricity. Her bold Irish bearing cast her as the prototypical strong,...
Understanding Vietnam
The American experience in Vietnam divided us as a nation and eroded our confidence in both the morality and the effectiveness of our foreign policy. Yet our understanding of this...
Out of this Century - Confessions of an Art Addict: The Autobiography
This is the fascinating autobiography of a society heiress who became the bohemian doyenne of the art world. Written in her own words it is the frank and outspoken story...
The American Scene
After living abroad for 20 years, Henry James returned to his native America and travelled down the East Coast from Boston to Florida. This a journal describing his feelings on...
Searching for John Ford
Nobody captured the landscape and faces of the American people the way John Ford did, in films such as The Searchers, Stagecoach and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence. He...
Goldwyn: A Biography
The book titled Goldwyn: A Biography by the author A. Scott Berg. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Reimagining the American Pacific: From South Pacific to Bamboo Ridge
An exploration of the "Pacific Rim" in the American imagination and of how the concept has been variously adapted and resisted in Hawaii, the Pacific Islands, New Zealand and Australia....
Courage to Soar: A Body in Motion, A Life in Balance
In Courage to Soar , the official autobiography from four-time Olympic gold-winning and record-setting American gymnast Simone Biles, Simone shares how her faith, family, passion, and perseverance has made her...
Trumbo: A biography of the Oscar-winning screenwriter who broke the
Dalton Trumbo was the central figure of the infamous ' Hollywood Ten ,' the screenwriters who, during the McCarthy era, were charged by the House Committee on Un-American Acitivities for...
Hemingway: The Paris Years
The book titled Hemingway: The Paris Years by the author Michael S. Reynolds. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.