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How the World Was Won: The Americanization of Everywhere

How the World Was Won: The Americanization of Everywhere

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Unspeakable Awfulness: America Through the Eyes of European Travelers, 1865-1900

Unspeakable Awfulness: America Through the Eyes of European Travelers, 1865-1900

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The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War

The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War

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Author: Jonathan D Wells Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Winner of a 2020-2021 New York City Book AwardIn a rapidly changing New York, two forces battled for the city's...
American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy

American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy

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Author: David Corn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 "[Corn is] a great journalist. I love the way he thinks. I love the way he writes. I'm so glad he's...
Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America

Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America

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Author: Cody KeenanFormat: Paperback, 135mm x 203mm, 265g, 320 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, United States, 2023 A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"At a time when the meaning of America is up...
The Reckoning: America's Trauma and Finding a Way to Heal

The Reckoning: America's Trauma and Finding a Way to Heal

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Author: Mary L Trump Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER America is suffering from PTSD. The Reckoning diagnoses its core causes and helps begin the...
The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison

The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison

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Author: Hugh Ryan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 The Women's House of Detention, a landmark that ushered in the modern era of women's imprisonment, is now largely forgotten. But...
Eleanor Roosevelt: V.2

Eleanor Roosevelt: V.2

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The Big Time: How the 1970s Transformed Sports in America

The Big Time: How the 1970s Transformed Sports in America

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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...
Highways and Heartaches: How Ricky Skaggs, Marty Stuart, and Children of the New South Saved the Soul of Country Music

Highways and Heartaches: How Ricky Skaggs, Marty Stuart, and Children of the New South Saved the Soul of Country Music

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Author: Michael Streissguth Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 In a dim clearing off a county road in Kentucky sits a sagging outdoor stage buried in moss and dead leaves....
The Lively Place: Mount Auburn, America's First Garden Cemetery, and Its Revolutionary and Literary Residents

The Lively Place: Mount Auburn, America's First Garden Cemetery, and Its Revolutionary and Literary Residents

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A Woman Alone: Mona Bell, Sam Hill and the Mansion on Bonneville Rock

A Woman Alone: Mona Bell, Sam Hill and the Mansion on Bonneville Rock

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Nemesis: The True Story of Aristotle Onassis, Jackie O and the Love Triangle that Brought Down the Kennedys

Nemesis: The True Story of Aristotle Onassis, Jackie O and the Love Triangle that Brought Down the Kennedys

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The Great Divide

The Great Divide

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Author: Cristina Henriquez Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'A gorgeous, sweeping epic' ANN NAPOLITANO 'A master of prose' WASHINGTON POST 'One of my favourite writers' ROXANE GAY 'Spectacular' JOANNE...
The Year Of Indecision: A Tour Through the Crucible of Harry Truman's America

The Year Of Indecision: A Tour Through the Crucible of Harry Truman's America

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Boston: Then and Now

Boston: Then and Now

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Intellectual Manhood: University, Self, and Society in the Antebellum South

Intellectual Manhood: University, Self, and Society in the Antebellum South

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New York's Finest: Stories of the NYPD and the Hero Cops Who Saved the City

New York's Finest: Stories of the NYPD and the Hero Cops Who Saved the City

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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...
Opium: How an Ancient Flower Shaped and Poisoned Our World

Opium: How an Ancient Flower Shaped and Poisoned Our World

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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...
Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-ins and Breakdowns That Put Donald Trump in the White House

Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-ins and Breakdowns That Put Donald Trump in the White House

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Author: Donna Brazile Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 In the fallout of the Russian hacking of the Democratic National Committee--and as chaos threatened to consume the party's convention--Democrats turned...
Murder in the Neighbourhood: The true story of America's first recorded mass shooting

Murder in the Neighbourhood: The true story of America's first recorded mass shooting

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Author: Ellen J. Green Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 On September 6,1949, twenty-eight-year-old Howard Barton Unruh shot thirteen people in less than twelve minutes on his block in East...
Passion and Principle: John and Jessie Fremont, the Couple Whose Power, Politics, and Love Shaped Nineteenth-Century America

Passion and Principle: John and Jessie Fremont, the Couple Whose Power, Politics, and Love Shaped Nineteenth-Century America

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Going Back To Bisbee

Going Back To Bisbee

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War Letters

War Letters

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Hunters and Shooters: An Oral History of the U.S. Navy Seals in Vietnam

Hunters and Shooters: An Oral History of the U.S. Navy Seals in Vietnam

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Skull Wars: Kennewick Man, Archeology and the Battle for Native American Identity

Skull Wars: Kennewick Man, Archeology and the Battle for Native American Identity

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Eleanor And Hick: The Love Affiar That Shaped a First Lady

Eleanor And Hick: The Love Affiar That Shaped a First Lady

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The People's Porn: A History of Handmade Pornography in America

The People's Porn: A History of Handmade Pornography in America

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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...
Life: My Story Through History

Life: My Story Through History

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Author: Pope Francis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 For the first time, Pope Francis tells the story of his life as he looks back on the momentous world events...
Life: My Story Through History

Life: My Story Through History

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Author: Pope Francis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 For the first time, Pope Francis tells the story of his life as he looks back on the momentous world events...
Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the age of Obama, Twitter and Trump

Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the age of Obama, Twitter and Trump

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Taking Charge: The Johnson White House Tapes 1963 1964

Taking Charge: The Johnson White House Tapes 1963 1964

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The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II

The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II

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Author: Buzz Bissinger Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 Instant New York Times Bestseller * Winner of the General Wallace M. Greene Jr. Award from the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation...
The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II

The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II

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Author: Buzz Bissinger Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 Instant New York Times Bestseller * Winner of the General Wallace M. Greene Jr. Award from the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation...
Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood

Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood

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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...
Eliza Hamilton: The Extraordinary Life and Times of the Wife of Alexander Hamilton

Eliza Hamilton: The Extraordinary Life and Times of the Wife of Alexander Hamilton

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Author: Tilar J. Mazzeo Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 From the New York Times bestselling author of Irena's Children comes a "vivid, compelling, and unputdownable new biography" (Christopher Andersen,...
New York's Finest: Stories of the NYPD and the Hero Cops Who Saved the City

New York's Finest: Stories of the NYPD and the Hero Cops Who Saved the City

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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...
After Watergate

After Watergate

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The Race Underground: Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built America's First Subway

The Race Underground: Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built America's First Subway

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Abyss: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962

Abyss: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962

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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...
An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created

An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created

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Author: Santi Elijah Holley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A New York Times Editors' Pick "Magnificent.... A uniquely intimate history of Black liberation." - Los Angeles Times The long...
The Society for Useful Knowledge: How Benjamin Franklin and Friends Brought the Enlightenment to America

The Society for Useful Knowledge: How Benjamin Franklin and Friends Brought the Enlightenment to America

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Agent 110: An American Spymaster and the German Resistance in WWII

Agent 110: An American Spymaster and the German Resistance in WWII

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A Nation Among Nations

A Nation Among Nations

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The Great Divide

The Great Divide

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Author: Cristina Henriquez Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'A gorgeous, sweeping epic' ANN NAPOLITANO 'A master of prose' WASHINGTON POST 'One of my favourite writers' ROXANE GAY 'Spectacular' JOANNE...
Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller

Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller

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Author: Alec Nevala-Lee Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 672 One of Esquire's 50 Best Biographies of All Time * One of The Economist's Best Books of 2022 * A New...
Team America: Patton, MacArthur, Marshall, Eisenhower, and the World They Forged

Team America: Patton, MacArthur, Marshall, Eisenhower, and the World They Forged

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Author: Robert L. O'Connell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 From national bestselling author and acclaimed military historian Robert L. O'Connell, a dynamic history of four military leaders whose extraordinary...
The President's Man: The Memoirs of Nixon's Trusted Aide

The President's Man: The Memoirs of Nixon's Trusted Aide

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Author: Dwight Chapin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 An inside look at President Richard Nixon's administration and epic trips to China and Russia, as well as his incredible Watergate...