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King Richard: Nixon and Watergate: an American tragedy

King Richard: Nixon and Watergate: an American tragedy

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From an acclaimed British author, a sharply focused, riveting account - told from inside the White House - of the crucial days, hours, and moments when the Watergate conspiracy consumed,...
The Last Honest Man: The CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, and the Kennedys-and One Senator's Fight to Save Democracy

The Last Honest Man: The CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, and the [...]

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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn this "gripping . . . spectacular piece of reporting" (Ken Burns), a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines Senator Frank Church, the man at the center...
Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America

Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America

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The New York Times Editors' ChoiceNPR Science Friday Book Club SelectionAn intimate and revelatory dive into the world of the beaver-the wonderfully weird rodent that has surprisingly shaped American history...
White World Order, Black Power Politics: The Birth of American International Relations

White World Order, Black Power Politics: The Birth of American International Relations

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A Brief History of America

A Brief History of America

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The next in this series of admirably concise yet nevertheless comprehensive titles looks at the history of all Americans as well as America; its environmental history and its linkage to...
The Unfit Heiress: The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization of Ann Cooper Hewitt

The Unfit Heiress: The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization [...]

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NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2021 BY THE NEW YORK POST AND BOOK RIOTNAMED A BEST TRUE CRIME BOOK OF 2021 BY CRIMEREADSAt the turn of the twentieth century, emboldened...
Freedom's Dominion (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power

Freedom's Dominion (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): A Saga of [...]

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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY! An "important, deeply affecting-and regrettably relevant" (New York Times Book Review) chronicle of a sinister idea of freedom: white Americans' freedom to oppress...
The Unfit Heiress: The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization of Ann Cooper Hewitt

The Unfit Heiress: The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization [...]

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NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2021 BY THE NEW YORK POST AND BOOK RIOTNAMED A BEST TRUE CRIME BOOK OF 2021 BY CRIMEREADSAt the turn of the twentieth century, emboldened...
A Brief History of Slavery: A New Global History

A Brief History of Slavery: A New Global History

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America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States

America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States

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Blood and Fears: How America's Bomber Boys and Girls in England Won their War

Blood and Fears: How America's Bomber Boys and Girls in England Won their War

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Obama from Promise To Power

Obama from Promise To Power

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The King of Confidence: A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True Believers, False Prophets, and the Murder of an American Monarch

The King of Confidence: A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier [...]

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The "unputdownable" (Dave Eggers, National Book award finalist) story of the most infamous American con man you've never heard of: James Strang, self-proclaimed divine king of earth, heaven, and an...
The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age

The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age

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Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years, Volume 1: Made for America, 1890-1901

Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years, [...]

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Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years reconstructs the life of Emma Goldman through significant texts and documents. These two volumes - part of a projected four-volume series...
Lemay

Lemay

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LeMay was a terrifying, complex, and brilliant general. In World War II, he ordered the firebombing of Tokyo and was in charge when Atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and...
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...
Rough Riders: Theodore Roosevelt, His Cowboy Regiment, and the Immortal Charge Up San Juan Hill

Rough Riders: Theodore Roosevelt, His Cowboy Regiment, and the Immortal Charge Up San Juan Hill

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The award-winning, new definitive history of Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders"Thrilling. ... A CLASSIC." -True WestWINNER: Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award; New Mexico-Arizona Book Award; and Colorado Book...
K Blows Top

K Blows Top

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Transatlantic Divide: Comparing American and European Society

Transatlantic Divide: Comparing American and European Society

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The book describes, interprets, and analyzes the key features of European society and American society and major social trends in the United States and in the European Union in the...
The Radicalism of the American Revolution: Pulitzer Prize Winner

The Radicalism of the American Revolution: Pulitzer Prize Winner

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In a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a prize-winning historian describes the events that made the American Revolution. Gordon S. Wood depicts a...
Dreams of a More Perfect Union

Dreams of a More Perfect Union

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In a brilliantly conceived and elegantly written book, Rogan Kersh investigates the idea of national union in the United States. For much of the period between the colonial era and...
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,...
To Gettysburg and beyond

To Gettysburg and beyond

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The Battle for New York: The City at the Heart of the American Revolution

The Battle for New York: The City at the Heart of the American Revolution

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Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover In The Civil War

Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover In The Civil War

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Death Valley: The Summer Offensive, I Corps, August 1969

Death Valley: The Summer Offensive, I Corps, August 1969

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Campaigning with Grant

Campaigning with Grant

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Unlikely Allies: How a Merchant, a Playwright, and a Spy Saved the American Revolution

Unlikely Allies: How a Merchant, a Playwright, and a Spy Saved the American Revolution

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Eye of the Storm: A Civil War Odyssey

Eye of the Storm: A Civil War Odyssey

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Haven of Liberty: New York Jews in the New World, 1654-1865

Haven of Liberty: New York Jews in the New World, 1654-1865

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Author: Howard B. RockFormat: Paperback, 152mm x 229mm, 658g, 368 pagesPublished: New York University Press, United States, 2015Haven of Liberty chronicles the arrival of the first Jews to New York...
The Longest Year: America at War and at Home in 1944

The Longest Year: America at War and at Home in 1944

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Author: Victor BrooksFormat: Paperback, 152mm x 229mm, 374g, 272 pagesPublished: Skyhorse Publishing, United States, 2016A meticulous exploration of one of the most important years in American history.The D-Day invasion, launched...
The United States Navy in the Pacific, 1897-1909

The United States Navy in the Pacific, 1897-1909

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Author: William R. BraistedFormat: Paperback, 156mm x 234mm, 295 pagesPublished: Naval Institute Press, United States, 2008Professor William R. Braisted tells the story of the twelve important years during which the...
Haven of Liberty: New York Jews in the New World, 1654-1865

Haven of Liberty: New York Jews in the New World, 1654-1865

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Author: Howard B. RockFormat: Paperback, 152mm x 229mm, 658g, 368 pagesPublished: New York University Press, United States, 2015Haven of Liberty chronicles the arrival of the first Jews to New York...
The Trump Indictments: The 91 Criminal Counts Against the Former President of the United States

The Trump Indictments: The 91 Criminal Counts Against the Former President of the United States

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Author: Ali VelshiFormat: Paperback, 135mm x 203mm, 263g, 320 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, United States, 2023 Edited and introduced by MSNBC's Ali Velshi, The Trump Indictments collects the complete charging...
Chile

Chile

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Rewriting History

Rewriting History

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A New Republic: A History of the United States in the Twentieth Century

A New Republic: A History of the United States in the Twentieth Century

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The Wisdom of Eleanor Roosevelt

The Wisdom of Eleanor Roosevelt

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Fusiliers

Fusiliers

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Author: Mark UrbanFormat: Paperback, 127mm x 198mm, 323g, 416 pagesPublished: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 2008From Lexington Green in 1775 to Yorktown in 1781, one regiment marched thousands of miles...
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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Author: Adam HochschildFormat: Paperback, 152mm x 229mm, 440g, 432 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, United States, 2023 National Bestseller * One of the year's most acclaimed works of nonfictionA BEST BOOK...
My People: Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives

My People: Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives

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Author: Charlayne Hunter-GaultFormat: Paperback, 135mm x 203mm, 270g, 368 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, United States, 2023 "Charlayne Hunter-Gault is an eminent Dean of American journalism, a vital voice whose work...
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...
A Promised Land

A Promised Land

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Author: Barack ObamaFormat: Paperback, 151mm x 232mm, 920g, 768 pagesPublished: Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2024A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making-from the president who inspired us...
Victoria: A History in Photographs

Victoria: A History in Photographs

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Hoodwinked: The Documents that Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War

Hoodwinked: The Documents that Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War

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Conscience: Two Soldiers, Two Pacifists, One Family--a Test of Will andFaith in World War I

Conscience: Two Soldiers, Two Pacifists, One Family--a Test of Will andFaith in World War I

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The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy

The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy

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