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American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race

American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race

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Author: Douglas Brinkley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 Now in paperback, an award-winning historian and perennial New York Times bestselling author takes a fresh look at the space program,...
Brazil: A Biography

Brazil: A Biography

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Author: Lilia M Schwarcz Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 800 A sweeping and absorbing biography of Brazil, from the sixteenth century to the present For many Americans, Brazil is a...
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty

Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty

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Author: Anderson Cooper Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine...
The Crowded Hour: Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the Dawn of the American Century

The Crowded Hour: Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the Dawn of the American Century

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Author: Clay Risen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2019 SELECTION The dramatic story of the most famous regiment in American history:...
Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of the African American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race

Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of the African American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race

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Author: Margot Lee Shetterly Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE The #1 New York Times Bestseller Set amid the civil rights movement,...
The Russian Job: The Forgotten Story of How America Saved the Soviet Union from Ruin

The Russian Job: The Forgotten Story of How America Saved the Soviet Union from Ruin

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Author: Douglas Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 An award-winning historian reveals the harrowing, little-known story of an American effort to save the newly formed Soviet Union from disaster...
President McKinley Architect of the American Century

President McKinley Architect of the American Century

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Author: Robert W Merry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 Acclaimed historian Robert Merry resurrects the presidential reputation of William McKinley in a "measured, insightful biography that seeks...
Olympic Pride, American Prejudice:

Olympic Pride, American Prejudice:

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Author: Deborah Riley Draper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400  The Untold Story of 18 African Americans Who Defied Jim Crow and Adolf Hitler to Compete in the 1936 Berlin...
A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America

A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America

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Author: Lizabeth Cohen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America In this signal work of history, Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist...
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty

Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty

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Author: Anderson Cooper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to...
The Adventurer's Son: A Memoir

The Adventurer's Son: A Memoir

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Author: Roman Dial Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Gripping." -New York Times Book Review (Editor's Choice) * "A page-turner that will rip your heart out."...
The Pirate Coast: Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines and the Secret Mission of 1805

The Pirate Coast: Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines and the Secret Mission of 1805

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Author: Richard Zacks Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 A real-life thriller -- the true story of the unheralded American who brought the Barbary Pirates to their knees. In an...
Great Society: A New History

Great Society: A New History

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Author: Amity Shlaes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 The New York Times bestselling author of The Forgotten Man and Coolidge offers a stunning revision of our last great period...
Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic

Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic

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Author: David Frum Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 New York Times Bestseller! Bestselling author, former White House speechwriter, and Atlantic columnist and media commentator David Frum explains why President...
The Strategy of Victory How General George Washington Won the American Revolution

The Strategy of Victory How General George Washington Won the American Revolution

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Author: Thomas Fleming Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Led by the Continental Congress, the Americans almost lost their war for independence because their military thinking was badly muddled. The...
To Rescue the Republic: Ulysses S. Grant, the Fragile Union, and the Crisis of 1876

To Rescue the Republic: Ulysses S. Grant, the Fragile Union, and the Crisis of 1876

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Author: Bret Baier Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 #1 New York Times Bestseller Fox News Channel's Chief Political Anchor illuminates the heroic life of Ulysses S. Grant "To Rescue...
Watching Darkness Fall: FDR, His Ambassadors, and the Rise of Adolf Hitler

Watching Darkness Fall: FDR, His Ambassadors, and the Rise of Adolf Hitler

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Author: David McKean Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 A gripping and groundbreaking account of how all but one of FDR's ambassadors in Europe misjudged Hitler and his intentions As...
Conquistadores

Conquistadores

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Author: Fernando Cervantes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 A riveting new history of Spanish imperialism, and the men who laid its foundations The 'conquistadores', the early explorers...
A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Story of the Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down a President

A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Story of the Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down a President

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Author: Jeffrey Toobin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 452 The International Bestseller The inspiration for Impeachment: American Crime Story The definitive account of the Clinton-Lewinsky sex scandals, A...
The Red Mans Bones George Catlin

The Red Mans Bones George Catlin

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Author: Benita Eisler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 George Catlin has been called the "first artist of the West," as none before him lived among and painted the Native...
El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America

El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America

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Author: Carrie Gibson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 For reasons of language and history, the United States has prized its Anglo heritage above all others. However, as Carrie Gibson...
Franklin & Washington: The Founding Partnership

Franklin & Washington: The Founding Partnership

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Author: Edward J. Larson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 "Larson's elegantly written dual biography reveals that the partnership of Franklin and Washington was indispensable to the success...
America's Bank: The Epic Struggle To Create The Federal Reserve

America's Bank: The Epic Struggle To Create The Federal Reserve

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Author: Roger Lowenstein Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A tour de force of historical reportage, America's Bank illuminates the tumultuous era and remarkable personalities that spurred the unlikely birth...
The Warrior and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation

The Warrior and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation

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Author: Peter Cozzens Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 'Marvellous... One of the best pieces of Native American history I have read.' - S.C. Gwynne, bestselling author of Empire of...
Herbert Hoover: A Life

Herbert Hoover: A Life

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Author: Glen Jeansonne (University of Wisconsin Milwaukee) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 "At last, a biography of Herbert Hoover that captures the man in full... [Jeansonne] has splendidly illuminated...
The Great Crash 1929

The Great Crash 1929

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Author: John Kenneth Galbraith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 John Kenneth Galbraith, one of America's foremost economists, follows the incredible economic rise and fall that lead to...
1831: Year of Eclipse

1831: Year of Eclipse

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Author: University Louis P Masur (City College of the City University of NY) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 1776, 1861, 1929. Any high-school student should know what these years...
Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11

Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11

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Author: Mitchell Zuckoff Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'The farewell calls from the planes... the mounting terror of air traffic control... the...
Coffeeland: A History

Coffeeland: A History

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Author: Augustine Sedgewick Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 'Thoroughly engrossing ... his literary gifts and prodigious research make for a deeply satisfying reading experience studded with narrative...
A Fierce Glory: Antietam--The Desperate Battle That Saved Lincoln and Doomed Slavery

A Fierce Glory: Antietam--The Desperate Battle That Saved Lincoln and Doomed Slavery

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Author: Justin Martin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 September 17, 1862, was America's bloodiest day. When it ended, 3,654 soldiers lay dead on the land surrounding Antietam Creek in...
Valverde's Gold: In Search of the Last Great Inca Treasure

Valverde's Gold: In Search of the Last Great Inca Treasure

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Author: Mark Honigsbaum Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 When Mark Honigsbaum discovers an ancient Spanish treasure guide buried in his research notebooks, he cannot help but be drawn into...
Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free

Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free

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Author: Hector Tobar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Deep Down Dark is the novel that inspired the film The 33 starring Lou Diamond Phillips, Cote de Pablo and Antonio...
Spreading the American Dream

Spreading the American Dream

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Author: Emily Rosenberg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 269 In examining the economic and cultural trs that expressed America's expansionist impulse during the first half of the twentieth century, Emily...
Pacific Partners: History of Australian-American Naval Relations

Pacific Partners: History of Australian-American Naval Relations

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The Great Great Wall: Along the Borders of History from China to Mexico

The Great Great Wall: Along the Borders of History from China to Mexico

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Author: Ian Volner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 During his campaign for the presidency, one of Donald Trump's signature promises was that he would build a "great great wall"...
Revolutionary Brothers: Thomas Jefferson, the Marquis de Lafayette, and the Friendship that Helped Forge Two Nations

Revolutionary Brothers: Thomas Jefferson, the Marquis de Lafayette, and the Friendship that Helped Forge Two Nations

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Author: Tom Chaffin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 The bond linking Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette constituted a singularly extraordinary friendship, one which played a key role...
Madness Under the Royal Palms: Love and Death Behind the Gates of Palm Beach

Madness Under the Royal Palms: Love and Death Behind the Gates of Palm Beach

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Author: Laurence Leamer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 The New York Times bestselling history of the glamour and debauchery of the ultra-wealthy Palm Beach community--from The Breakers to Trump's...
The American Civil War: A Military History

The American Civil War: A Military History

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The Genius of Earth Day: How a 1970 Teach-In Unexpectedly Made the First Green Generation

The Genius of Earth Day: How a 1970 Teach-In Unexpectedly Made the First Green Generation

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Author: Adam Rome Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Rome's genial new book . . . brings to life another era. --Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker The first Earth Day...
Equality: An American Dilemma, 1866-1896

Equality: An American Dilemma, 1866-1896

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Author: Charles Postel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 The Civil War unleashed a torrent of claims for equality-in the chaotic years following the war, former slaves, women's rights activists,...
A Warning

A Warning

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Author: Anonymous Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 On September 5, 2018, the New York Times published a bombshell essay and took the rare step of granting its...
Henry Clay Americas Greatest Statesman

Henry Clay Americas Greatest Statesman

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Author: Harlow Giles Unger Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 In a critical and little-known chapter of early American history, author Harlow Giles Unger tells how a fearless young Kentucky...
Truman

Truman

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The Nixon Tapes: 1973

The Nixon Tapes: 1973

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Author: Professor Douglas Brinkley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 848 The blueprint for Nixon's downfall, based on tapes released from 2010 to 2013, most of which have never been published...
The Year of Dangerous Days: Riots, Refugees, and Cocaine in Miami 1980

The Year of Dangerous Days: Riots, Refugees, and Cocaine in Miami 1980

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Author: Nicholas Griffin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 In the tradition of The Wire, the "utterly absorbing" (The New York Times) story of the cinematic transformation of...
Whittaker Chambers: A Biography

Whittaker Chambers: A Biography

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JFK: The Smoking Gun

JFK: The Smoking Gun

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The Other Civil War: American Women in the Nineteenth Century

The Other Civil War: American Women in the Nineteenth Century

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Author: Catherine Clinton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 260 A lively, comprehensive account of the struggle for women's rights at a vital time in our national history. The American women...