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Seabiscuit: An American Legend

Seabiscuit: An American Legend

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the author of the runaway phenomenon Unbroken comes a universal underdog story about the horse who came out of nowhere to become a...
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...
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...
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...
Kingmaker: Pamela Churchill Harriman's astonishing life of seduction,

Kingmaker: Pamela Churchill Harriman's astonishing life of seduction,

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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...
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...
America's Great Game: The CIA's Secret Arabists and the Shaping of the Modern Middle East

America's Great Game: The CIA's Secret Arabists and the Shaping of the Modern Middle East

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"An absorbing account of romantics enchanted by Kiplingesque myths and the Lawrence of Arabia legend, who cynically harboured the self-contradictory ambition of democratizing the Arab world and Iran while arrogating...
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...
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...
A Choice Of Enemies: America Confronts The Middle East

A Choice Of Enemies: America Confronts The Middle East

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The United States is locked into three prolonged conflicts without much hope of early resolution. Iran is pursuing a nuclear programme; the aftermath of the overthrow of Saddam Hussein has...
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...
Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Travels with Charley: In Search of America

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A witty, incisive classic of road-trip literature, from one of the great champions and critics of the American identity 'Delightful. This is a book to be read slowly for its...
The Autobiography of Malcolm X

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

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From hustling, drug addiction and armed violence in America's black ghettos Malcolm X turned, in a dramatic prison conversion, to the puritanical fervour of the Black Muslims. As their spokesman...
The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of Lies

The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of

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A blistering critique of the forces threatening the American intelligence community, beginning with the President of the United States himself, in a time when that community's work has never been...
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...
Warhol: A Life as Art

Warhol: A Life as Art

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The definitive biography of one of the most famous and influential artists the world has ever seen When critics attacked Andy Warhol's Marilyn paintings as shallow, the Pop artist was...
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

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The epic story of how millions of black Americans fled the Jim Crow south, told through the journeys of three remarkable individuals From 1915 to 1970, an exodus of almost...
Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life

Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life

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A superb one-volume biography by the Number One New York Times bestselling biographer of JFK, explaining Roosevelt's career as an incomparable politician, deal-maker and uniter Franklin D. Roosevelt is a...
Becoming

Becoming

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An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir; 17 million copies sold worldwide Now in paperback featuring a new introduction by Michelle Obama, a letter from the author to her younger self,...
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 *Featuring new bonus material Arnold Schwarzenegger's 77 Lessons...
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 Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

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Tom Wolfe's genre-defining ride through the 1960s published in Vintage Classics for the first time to mark its fiftieth anniversary Tom Wolfe's genre-defining magical mystery tour through the 1960s published...
Actress

Actress

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From the greatest living Irish author, a brilliant and moving novel about fame, sexual power, and a daughter's search to understand her mother's hidden truths 'Written with all the ingenuity...
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History

The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History

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In 1918, the world faced the deadliest pandemic in human history. What can the story of the so-called Spanish Flu teach us about the fight against present day crises, and...
The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel / The Novel as History

The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel / The Novel as History

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Mailer's classic account of the 1967 anti-Vietnam War rally in Washington D.C., and one of the best 'nonfiction novels' ever written October 21, 1967, Washington, D.C. 20,000 to 200,000 protesters...
Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front: An Untold Story of World War II

Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front: An Untold Story of World War

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From the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize, the incredible true story of one of the most audacious and little-known operations of WW2 In November 1943, with the outcome of...
Optimism Over Despair

Optimism Over Despair

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A new Penguin Special on the problems of the world and how to prepare for tomorrow -- from the greatest public intellectual of our times We have two choices. We...
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...
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...
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',...
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...
The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music

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...
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...
George I. Sanchez: The Long Fight for Mexican American Integration

George I. Sanchez: The Long Fight for Mexican American Integration

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George I. Sanchez was a reformer, activist, and intellectual, and one of the most influential members of the "Mexican American Generation" (1930-1960). A professor of education at the University of...
The Lion and the Fox: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Navy

The Lion and the Fox: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Navy

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From the New York Times bestselling author of Washington's Spies, the thrilling story of the Confederate spy who came to Britain to turn the tide of the Civil War-and the...
American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis

American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis

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National Bestseller * One of the year's most acclaimed works of nonfictionA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: New York Times, Washington Post, New Yorker, Chicago Tribune, Kirkus, New York Post,...
Operation Whisper: The Capture of Soviet Spies Morris and Lona Cohen

Operation Whisper: The Capture of Soviet Spies Morris and Lona Cohen

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Meet Morris and Lona Cohen, an ordinary-seeming couple living on a teacher's salary in a nondescript building on the East Side of New York City. On a hot afternoon in...