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America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present

America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present

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In the eighteenth century, Thomas Jefferson and John Quincy Adams greatly admired the Persian Empire, while Iranians regarded America as an ideal their own government might emulate. Beginning there, how...
There Was Nothing You Could Do: Bruce Springsteen's "Born In The U.S.A." and the End of the Heartland

There Was Nothing You Could Do: Bruce Springsteen's "Born In The

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A thought-provoking exploration of Bruce Springsteen's iconic album, Born in the U.S.A.-a record that both chronicled and foreshadowed the changing tides of modern AmericaOn June 4, 1984, Columbia Records issued...
I Pity the Dolls

I Pity the Dolls

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This book features the largest collection of Mr. T memorabilia in the world, including over 150 homemade soft sculpture dolls collected and documented over the past 25 years. The dolls...
The 54th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron

The 54th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron

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During the height of the Cold War, the United States started to develop and expand its air defence capabilities to knock down Russian Air Force nuclear-armed bombers flying over the...
Training the Right Stuff: The Aircraft That Produced America's Jet Pilots

Training the Right Stuff: The Aircraft That Produced America's Jet

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A comprehensive study of the training aircraft used to transition the United States military into the jet age. At the end of World War II, high-performance jets with unfamiliar operating...
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...
Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War

Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at

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'Effervescent' New Yorker Best Books Of 2022 So Far'Bursts with colour and incident' FT Best Books of Summer Read this prize-winning historian's "immersive" ( New York Times) account of the...
Air America

Air America

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Air America - a secret airline run by the CIA - flew missions no one else would touch, from General Claire Cennault's legendary Flying Tigers in WW II to two...
Lemmy & Motorhead: In The Studio

Lemmy & Motorhead: In The Studio

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One of the founding fathers of heavy metal, Lemmy Kilmister's musical legacy can never be forgotten despite his death in December 2015. As their frontman, songwriter and bassist, Ian Fraser...
Empire of Liberty

Empire of Liberty

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In this thoughtful and timely consideration of the nature of American power and empire, Anthony Bogues argues that America's self-presentation as the bastion of liberty is an attempt to force...
Emperor of Liberty: Thomas Jefferson's Foreign Policy

Emperor of Liberty: Thomas Jefferson's Foreign Policy

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A dramatic reevaluation of Thomas Jefferson's thinking on foreign policy and his record as a statesman This book, the first in decades to closely examine Thomas Jefferson's foreign policy, offers...
The Light of Battle: Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American Superpower

The Light of Battle: Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American

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A thrilling new biography of Dwight Eisenhower set in the months leading up to D-Day, when he grew from a well-liked general into one of the singular figures of American...
The Dragon's Trail: The Biography of Raphael's Masterpiece

The Dragon's Trail: The Biography of Raphael's Masterpiece

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In her fascinating new book, Pitman has written an enthralling micro history of Raphael's painting St. George and the Dragon--as well as the colorful rogue's gallery of historical characters who...
Winter Soldiers: An Oral History of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War

Winter Soldiers: An Oral History of the Vietnam Veterans Against the

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"Winter Soldiers is an immensely valuable contribution to the history of the Vietnam War. It brings to life, through the words of the veterans themselves, the journey each individual made,...
The Letter Tree: A Novel

The Letter Tree: A Novel

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Mere words can't end their families' feud, but the Campbell heir and the Bradshaw heiress plan to write a future together.Buffalo, NY, 1924Laura Bradshaw adores stories with happily ever afters....
Andy Warhol: The LIFE (R) Years 1949 - 1959

Andy Warhol: The LIFE (R) Years 1949 - 1959

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In 2011 a sensational find came to light in Andy Warhol's estate: an extensive collection of drawings that provides impressive evidence of Warhol's artistic talents. He used iconic photographs and...
Hell No: The Forgotten Power of the Vietnam Peace Movement

Hell No: The Forgotten Power of the Vietnam Peace Movement

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Why those who protested the Vietnam War must be honored, remembered, and appreciated "Hell no" was the battle cry of the largest peace movement in American history-the effort to end...
Anthony Hernandez

Anthony Hernandez

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Since the early 1970s, when he hit the streets of Los Angeles with a 35mm camera and the basic technical knowledge he had acquired in darkroom classes at East Los...
Frank and Al: FDR, Al Smith, and the Unlikely Alliance That Created the Modern Democratic Party

Frank and Al: FDR, Al Smith, and the Unlikely Alliance That Created

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"This is history told the old-fashioned way. The book is only as long as it needs to be, the adroit narrative full of heroes (Smith, Roosevelt, big-city Democratic bosses) and...
Aalto and America

Aalto and America

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The internationally renowned Finnish architect and designer Alvar Aalto (1898-1976) created several landmarks of modern design in the United States. The first, the Finland Pavilion at the New York World's...
American Future, The A History

American Future, The A History

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In November 2008 the United States will elect a new President. But the imminent collapse of twenty years of Republican conservativism means the country is already conducting an intense self-examination...
The Spy Who Couldn't Spell: A Dyslexic Traitor, an Unbreakable Code, and the FBI's Hunt for America's Stolen Secrets

The Spy Who Couldn't Spell: A Dyslexic Traitor, an Unbreakable Code,

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The thrilling, true-life account of the FBI's hunt for the ingenious traitor Brian Regan-known as the Spy Who Couldn't Spell. Before Edward Snowden's infamous data breach, the largest theft of...
Lincoln's Spies: Their Secret War to Save a Nation

Lincoln's Spies: Their Secret War to Save a Nation

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A major addition to the history of the Civil War, Lincoln's Spies is a riveting account of the secret battles waged by Union agents to save a nation. Filled with...
British Naval Supremacy and Anglo-American Antagonisms, 1914-1930

British Naval Supremacy and Anglo-American Antagonisms, 1914-1930

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During World War I, Britain's naval supremacy enabled it to impose economic blockades and interdiction of American neutral shipping. The United States responded by building 'a navy second to none',...
Silver Stars (The Front Lines series)

Silver Stars (The Front Lines series)

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The second novel in the epic new young adult series that Michael Grant is calling his best yet! It's WWII but not as you know it from school. This time...
The Ballad of Roy Benavidez: The Life and Times of America's Most Famous Hispanic War Hero

The Ballad of Roy Benavidez: The Life and Times of America's Most

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The dramatic life of Vietnam War hero Roy Benavidez, a Mexican American Green Beret from a working-class family with deep roots in Texas, revealing how Hispanic Americans have long shaped...
Spies: The epic intelligence war between East and West

Spies: The epic intelligence war between East and West

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The riveting story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with lessons for our new superpower conflict with China'A masterpiece' CHRISTOPHER ANDREW, author of The Defence of...
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...
A Liveable Future is Possible

A Liveable Future is Possible

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A series of interviews with Noam Chomsky, the world's greatest living public intellectual, about the pressing issues of our time In this illuminating collection of interviews, Noam Chomsky shares his...
The Brightwood Code

The Brightwood Code

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In a breathless, haunting, and rich historical mystery, New York Times bestselling author Monica Hesse speaks to the depths of trauma and the power of memory.Seven months ago, Edda was...
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 KingA beautiful collectible edition celebrating the 60th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther...
The Killing Code

The Killing Code

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A historical mystery about a girl who risks everything to track down a vicious serial killer-for fans of The Enigma Game and Last Night at the Telegraph Club.Virginia, 1943: World...
In True Face: A Woman's Life in the CIA, Unmasked

In True Face: A Woman's Life in the CIA, Unmasked

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The bestselling coauthor of The Moscow Rules and Argo tells her riveting, courageous story of being a female spy at the height of the Cold WarJonna Hiestand Mendez began her...
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...
Spies: The epic intelligence war between East and West

Spies: The epic intelligence war between East and West

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The riveting story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with lessons for our new superpower conflict with China'A masterpiece' CHRISTOPHER ANDREW, author of The Defence of...
Spies: The epic intelligence war between East and West

Spies: The epic intelligence war between East and West

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The riveting story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with lessons for our new superpower conflict with China'A masterpiece' CHRISTOPHER ANDREW, author of The Defence of...
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...
A Choice of Enemies: America Confronts the Middle East

A Choice of Enemies: America Confronts the Middle East

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It is in the Middle East that the U. S. has been made to confront its attitudes on the use of force, the role of allies, and international law. The...
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...
In True Face: A Woman's Life in the CIA, Unmasked

In True Face: A Woman's Life in the CIA, Unmasked

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The bestselling coauthor of The Moscow Rules and Argo tells her riveting, courageous story of being a female spy at the height of the Cold WarJonna Hiestand Mendez began her...
The Spy in Moscow Station: A Counterspy's Hunt for a Deadly Cold War Threat

The Spy in Moscow Station: A Counterspy's Hunt for a Deadly Cold War

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Moscow in the late 1970s: one by one, CIA assets are disappearing. The perils of American arrogance, mixed with bureaucratic infighting, had left the country unspeakably vulnerable to ultra-sophisticated Russian...
The Butterfly Club: The Trip to the Moon: Book 4 - A time-travelling adventure

The Butterfly Club: The Trip to the Moon: Book 4 - A time-travelling

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The adventures of the time-travelling Butterfly Club continue . . .Film is set to become the new craze. Butterfly Club member and filmmaker Georges Mlis pleads to be allowed to...
Twelfth

Twelfth

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Twelve-year-old Maren is sure theatre camp isn't for her. Theatre camp is for loud, confident, artsy people: people like her older sister, Hadley-the last person Maren wants to think about-and...
The Unravelling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq

The Unravelling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq

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When Emma Sky, an intrepid young British woman, volunteered to help rebuild Iraq after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, she had little idea what she was letting herself in for....
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...
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...