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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...
Great Society: A New History
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...
Pacific Partners: History of Australian-American Naval Relations
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The People's Porn: A History of Handmade Pornography in America
Author: Lisa Z. Sigel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 The first history of American handmade and homemade pornography, The People's Porn offers the backstory to the explosion of amateur...
My Life
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Opium: How an Ancient Flower Shaped and Poisoned Our World
Author: David Blistein Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In 2017 over 60,000 Americans died as the result of opioid overdoses, more than died annually in this country during the...
Abyss: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962
Author: Max Hastings Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 A Times History Book of the Year 2022 From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings 'the heart-stopping story of the missile...
Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
Author: Johnny Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 392 In 1962, boxing writers and fans considered Cassius Clay an obnoxious self-promoter, and few believed that he would become the heavyweight...
Up from the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times
Author: Professor Aaron Sachs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 472 Up from the Depths tells the interconnected stories of two of the most important writers in American history-the novelist and...
Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America
Author: Cody Keenan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "At a time when the meaning of America is up for grabs, Cody Keenan's new book...
One Summer: America 1927
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Reporting America: The Life of the Nation 1946 - 2004
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How to Sell a Poison: The Rise, Fall, and Toxic Return of DDT
Author: Elena Conis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 The chemical compound DDT first earned fame during World War II by wiping out insects that caused disease and boosting Allied...
The Big Time: How the 1970s Transformed Sports in America
Author: Michael MacCambridge Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 "Indispensable history." -Sally Jenkins, bestselling author of The Right Call Every decade brings change, but as Michael MacCambridge chronicles in THE...
Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood
Author: Maureen Ryan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER In this spectacular, newsmaking expose that has the entertainment industry abuzz and...
New York's Finest: Stories of the NYPD and the Hero Cops Who Saved the City
Author: Michael Daly Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 NEW YORK'S FINEST is the story of a city's transformation through the tireless efforts of Detective Steven McDonald, Nurse Justiniano, Jack...
White House Ghosts: Presidents and Their Speechwriters
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Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s
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God's Red Son: The Ghost Dance Religion and the Making of Modern America
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Alistair Cooke's America
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To the Shores of Tripoli: The Birth of the U.S. Navy and Marines
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The Last Cowboys at the End of the World: The Story of the Gauchos of Patagonia
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Guests of the Ayatollah: The Iran Hostage Crisis, the First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam
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Autumn of the Black Snake: The Creation of the U.S. Army and the Invasion That Opened the West
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Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West
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Emigrants: Why the English Sailed to the New World
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A Nation Without Borders: The United States and Its World, 1830-1910
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The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
Author: Peniel Joseph Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X are the two most iconic figures of the Civil Rights movement. To most Americans,...
A Girl Stands at the Door: The Generation of Young Women Who Desegregated America's Schools
Author: Rachel Devlin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 A new history of school desegregation in America, revealing how girls and women led the fight for interracial education The struggle...
The Inner World of American Psychiatry 1890-1940: Selected Correspondence
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Author: Gerald N. Grobbinding: HardbackPublished: Rutgers Univ Press, 1985Condition: book: Very good, jacket: Unblemished, page: Good, markings: No markingsThis book compiles selected correspondence that sheds light on the development of...
South America Overland: From New York to Tierra del Fuego
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Author: Iain Finlay & Trish Sheppardbinding: HardbackPublished: Angus & Robertson, 1980Condition: book: Very good, jacket: Unblemished, page: Good, markings: No markingsThis book takes readers on an adventurous journey through South...
The Conquest of the Incas
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Author: John Hemmingbinding: HardbackPublished: Macmillan, 1977Condition: book: Very good, jacket: Unblemished, page: Good, markings: No markingsJohn Hemming's masterly and highly acclaimed account is a must-read for anyone considering a trip...
Oro
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Author: Cizia Zykebinding: HardbackPublished: Bantam Press, 1987Condition: book: Very good, jacket: Unblemished, page: Good, markings: No markingsOro is a captivating tale by Cizia Zyke, originally published in multiple languages. This...
Beyond the Andes: My Search for the Origins of Pre-Inca Civilization
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Author: Pino Turollabinding: HardbackPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, 1980Condition: book: Very good, jacket: Wear and tear, page: Good, markings: No markingsThis book explores the origins of Pre-Inca civilization in the Andean region,...
Confessions of a Taoist on Wall Street : a Chinese American Romance
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Author: William David Paynebinding: HardbackPublished: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 1984Condition: book: Very good, jacket: Unblemished, page: Good, markings: No markingsThis book tells the story of a Chinese American's experiences...
Butterfly Sings to Pacaya: Travels in Mexico, Guatemala and Belize
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Author: Nigel Pridebinding: HardbackPublished: Constable, 1978Condition: book: Very good, jacket: Unblemished, page: Good, markings: No markingsIn this captivating narrative, artist and lecturer Nigel Pride recounts a year-long expedition in 1974...
An American Experience
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Author: Allan Ashboltbinding: HardbackPublished: Victor Gollancz with Australasian Book Society , 1966Condition: book: Very good, jacket: Wear and tear, page: Good, markings: No markingsAn American Experience offers a compelling look...
The Boat and the Town
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Author: Geoffrey Moorhousebinding: HardbackPublished: Little, Brown & Company, 1979Condition: book: Very good, jacket: Wear and tear, page: Good, markings: No markingsSubjects: Fishers --New England. Lobster fisheries --New England. Atlantic herring...
Independence: Sovereignty and Social Justice in the Thinking of the Liberator Simon Bolivar
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Author: Acosta, Vladimirbinding: HardbackPublished: Pool Reading, 1975Condition: book: Good, jacket: No dust jacket, page: Good, markings: No markingsThis book explores the profound impact of Simón Bolívar, a key figure in...
Sangay Survived: The Story of the Ecuador Volcano Disaster
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Author: Richard Snailhambinding: HardbackPublished: Hutchinson, 1978Condition: book: Very good, jacket: Unblemished, page: Good, markings: No markingsThis book recounts the dramatic events surrounding the Sangay volcano disaster in Ecuador. It explores...
Bay of Pigs: The Untold Story
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Author: Peter Wydenbinding: HardbackPublished: Jonathan Cape, 1979Condition: book: Very good, jacket: Unblemished, page: Good, markings: No markingsThis book provides a detailed account of the Bay of Pigs invasion, exploring the...
America's National Parks
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Author: Nelson Beecher Keyesbinding: HardbackPublished: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1957Condition: book: Very good, jacket: No dust jacket, page: Good, markings: No markingsThis book serves as an informative guide exploring the...
The Oxford Companion to American History
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Author: Thomas H. Johnson, Harvey Wishbinding: HardbackPublished: Oxford University Press, 1966Condition: book: Good, jacket: Wear and tear, page: Good, markings: No markingsThe Oxford Companion to American History offers extensive multi-part...
1400 DAYS
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Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
Author: Kevin Kruse Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 The United States is in the grip of a crisis of bad history. Distortions of the past promoted in the conservative...
Still Life with Bones: A forensic quest for justice among Latin America's mass graves: CHOSEN AS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2023 BY FT READERS AND THE NEW YORKER
Author: Dr Alexa Hagerty Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 ONE OF THE NEW YORKER'S BEST BOOKS OF 2023 SO FAR CHOSEN BY FINANCIAL TIMES' READERS' FOR BEST BOOKS OF...
A Traitor to His Species: Henry Bergh and the Birth of the Animal Rights Movement
Author: Ernest Freeberg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Gilded Age Americans lived cheek-by-jowl with free range animals. Cities and towns teemed with milk cows in dark tenement alleys, pigs...
Republic of Wrath: How American Politics Turned Tribal, From George Washington to Donald Trump
Author: James A. Morone Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 American politics seems to be in an unprecedented uproar. But in this revelatory work of political history, James A. Morone...