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Why Do People Hate America?

Why Do People Hate America?

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The economic power of US corporations and the virus-like power of American popular culture affect the lives and infect the indigenous cultures of millions around the world. The foreign policy...
Wallis in Love: The untold true passion of the Duchess of Windsor

Wallis in Love: The untold true passion of the Duchess of Windsor

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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. Sunday Times bestselling author Andrew Morton reveals new information and sources that totally transform our perception of Wallis Simpson. Wallis in Love brings a fascinating...
Death at Morning House

Death at Morning House

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An instant New York Times and Indie bestseller! From the bestselling author of the Truly Devious books, Maureen Johnson, comes a new stand-alone YA about a teen who uncovers a...
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...
United States V. George W. Bush Et Al.

United States V. George W. Bush Et Al.

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A New York Times Bestseller What if there were a fraud worse than Enron and no one did anything about it? In United States v. George W. Bush et. al.,...
The Sword and the Shield

The Sword and the Shield

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The Sword and the Shield is based on one of the most extraordinary intelligence coups of recent times: a secret archive of top-level KGB documents smuggled out of the Soviet...
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...
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,...
Fifties, the

Fifties, the

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The Fifties is a sweeping social, political, economic, and cultural history of the ten years that Halberstam regards as seminal in determining what our nation is today. Halberstam offers portraits...
The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War

The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War

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"The Closed World" offers an alternative to the canonical histories of computers and cognitive science. Arguing that we can make sense of computers as tools only when we simultaneously grasp...
Sontag: Her Life

Sontag: Her Life

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The definitive portrait of one of the twentieth century's most towering figures- her writing and her radical thought, her public activism and her private face. Susan Sontag was our last...
Glory Be

Glory Be

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A Mississippi town in 1964 gets riled when tempers flare at the segregated public pool. As much as Gloriana June Hemphill, or Glory as everyone knows her, wants to turn...
War, 1914: Punishing the Serbs

War, 1914: Punishing the Serbs

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Dealing with the events leading up to the outbreak of the First World War, and mirroring recent events in Serbia, this report contains the diplomatic exchanges that followed the assassination...
The Day the President Was Shot

The Day the President Was Shot

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The year was 1981. Just two months into his presidency, Ronald Reagan was shot after leaving a speaking engagement in Washington, D. C. The quick action of the Secret Service...
American Survivors: Trans-Pacific Memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

American Survivors: Trans-Pacific Memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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American Survivors is a fresh and moving historical account of U.S. survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, breaking new ground not only in the study of World War...
American Survivors: Trans-Pacific Memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

American Survivors: Trans-Pacific Memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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American Survivors is a fresh and moving historical account of U.S. survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, breaking new ground not only in the study of World War...
Saving Soldiers or Civilians?: Casualty-Aversion versus Civilian

Saving Soldiers or Civilians?: Casualty-Aversion versus Civilian

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Concerns for the lives of soldiers and innocent civilians have come to underpin Western, and particularly American, warfare. Yet this new mode of conflict faces a dilemma: these two norms...
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...
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...
Dead End in Norvelt: (Newbery Medal Winner)

Dead End in Norvelt: (Newbery Medal Winner)

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Dead End in Norvelt is the winner of the Newbery Medal for best contribution to children's literature and the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction! Melding the entirely true and...
NFL Best Shots

NFL Best Shots

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Takes a look at more than 100 of the best football photographs spanning eight decades of dramatic NFL action. It aims to capture athletic grace, the thrilling action and the...
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,...
We March

We March

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On August 28, 1963, a remarkable event took place--more than 250,000 people gathered in our nation's capital to participate in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The march...
Elusive Peace: How the Holy Land Defeated America

Elusive Peace: How the Holy Land Defeated America

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Ehud Barak's election as Prime Minister of Israel on 17th May 1999 and his determination to conclude a peace deal with the Palestinians inspired both Israeli voters and the international...
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...
Play It As It Lays (Collins Modern Classics)

Play It As It Lays (Collins Modern Classics)

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A ruthless and unflinching examination of American life in the late 1960s, from the author of The Year of Magical Thinking. One thing in my defence, not that it matters:...
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...
Make Love Not War: The Sexual Revolution;An Unfettered History

Make Love Not War: The Sexual Revolution;An Unfettered History

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MAKE LOVE, NOT WAR is the first full-scale history of how the Sexual Revolution changed life in America forever. A fascinating and frank portrait of private lives and public discourse,...
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...
Sexing the Millennium

Sexing the Millennium

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Sex is under siege - sex is fighting back - sex has always been dangerous, to societies, as well as individuals. It has always been the stuff around which utopias...
The Luxe

The Luxe

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The Luxe is the first book in the New York Times bestselling Luxe series by Anna Godbersen. In a world of luxury and deception, where appearance matters above everything and...
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 Box in the Woods

The Box in the Woods

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After solving the case of Truly Devious, Stevie Bell investigates her first mystery outside of Ellingham Academy in this spine-chilling and hilarious stand-alone mystery from New York Times bestselling author...
Play It As It Lays (Collins Modern Classics)

Play It As It Lays (Collins Modern Classics)

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A ruthless and unflinching examination of American life in the late 1960s, from the author of The Year of Magical Thinking. One thing in my defence, not that it matters:...
Love in the Library

Love in the Library

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"A powerful must-read."- Booklist (starred review) Set in an incarceration camp where the United States cruelly detained Japanese Americans during WWII and based on true events, this moving love story...
Authors Take Sides On Iraq

Authors Take Sides On Iraq

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This book records the contemporary opinions and reactions of over 170 distinguished authors to two of the most contentious issues of our times, the Gulf War of 1991 and the...
Russian Supply Efforts in America During the First World War

Russian Supply Efforts in America During the First World War

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The Imperial Russian government's efforts to procure much-needed military supplies in the American market before and after America's entry into World War I are the focus of this work. It...
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...
Kingmaker: Pamela Churchill Harriman's astonishing life of seduction, intrigue and power, from the bestselling author of A Woman of No Importance

Kingmaker: Pamela Churchill Harriman's astonishing life of seduction, intrigue and power, from the bestselling author of A Woman of No Importance

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An electrifying re-examination of one of the twentieth century's greatest unsung power players, from the bestselling author of A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR...
Be Useful: Seven tools for life

Be Useful: Seven tools for life

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Seven lessons from the international icon on how to live a meaningful, purposeful life, for fans of Atomic Habits and Wim Hof THE INSTANT NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER The seven rules...
Overground Railroad (The Young Adult Adaptation): The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America

Overground Railroad (The Young Adult Adaptation): The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America

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Overground Railroad chronicles the history of the Green Book , which was published from 1936 to 1966 and was the "Black travel guide to America." For years, it was dangerous...