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A Traitor to His Species: Henry Bergh and the Birth of the Animal Rights Movement

A Traitor to His Species: Henry Bergh and the Birth of the Animal Rights Movement

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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

Republic of Wrath: How American Politics Turned Tribal, From George Washington to Donald Trump

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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...
Brothers Down: Pearl Harbor and the Fate of the Many Brothers Aboard the USS Arizona

Brothers Down: Pearl Harbor and the Fate of the Many Brothers Aboard the USS Arizona

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Author: Walter R. Borneman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 The surprise attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 remains one of the most traumatic events in American history,...
How to Sell a Poison: The Rise, Fall, and Toxic Return of DDT

How to Sell a Poison: The Rise, Fall, and Toxic Return of DDT

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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...
Republic of Wrath: How American Politics Turned Tribal, From George Washington to Donald Trump

Republic of Wrath: How American Politics Turned Tribal, From George Washington to Donald Trump

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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...
A Traitor to His Species: Henry Bergh and the Birth of the Animal Rights Movement

A Traitor to His Species: Henry Bergh and the Birth of the Animal Rights Movement

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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...
The Ads That Won the War

The Ads That Won the War

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Robert Kennedy, in His Own Words: The Unpublished Recollections of the Kennedy Years

Robert Kennedy, in His Own Words: The Unpublished Recollections of the Kennedy Years

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Quarantine!: East European Jewish Immigrants and the New York City Epidemics of 1892

Quarantine!: East European Jewish Immigrants and the New York City Epidemics of 1892

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My Misspent Youth

My Misspent Youth

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Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics

Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics

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American Jesus: How The Son Of God Became A National Icon

American Jesus: How The Son Of God Became A National Icon

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Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past

Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past

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Author: Kevin Kruse Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 In this "incisive" (Vanity Fair) and "authoritative" (New York Times) instant New York Times bestseller, America's top historians set the record...
Crooked: The Roaring 20s Tale of a Corrupt Attorney General, a Crusading Senator, and the Birth of the American Political Scandal

Crooked: The Roaring 20s Tale of a Corrupt Attorney General, a Crusading Senator, and the Birth of the American Political Scandal

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Author: Nathan Masters Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Many tales from the Jazz Age reek of crime and corruption. But perhaps the era's greatest political fiasco-one that resulted in...
All the Presidents' Gardens: How the White House Grounds Have Grown with America

All the Presidents' Gardens: How the White House Grounds Have Grown with America

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Author: Marta McDowell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 312 Since 1800, the 18 acres surrounding the White House have been an unwitting witness to history. Kings and queens have dined...
The Seventies: The Great Shift In American Culture, Society, And Politics

The Seventies: The Great Shift In American Culture, Society, And Politics

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The Impulse Society: America in the Age of Instant Gratification

The Impulse Society: America in the Age of Instant Gratification

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When the United States Spoke French: Five Refugees Who Shaped a Nation

When the United States Spoke French: Five Refugees Who Shaped a Nation

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The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America

The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America

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City of Sedition: The History of New York City during the Civil War

City of Sedition: The History of New York City during the Civil War

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The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution

The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution

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Red Apple: Communism and McCarthyism in Cold War New York

Red Apple: Communism and McCarthyism in Cold War New York

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The Other Eighties: A Secret History of America in the Age of Reagan

The Other Eighties: A Secret History of America in the Age of Reagan

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Decision Points

Decision Points

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Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood

Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood

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Life in Camelot: The Kennedy Years

Life in Camelot: The Kennedy Years

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The Rush: A New History of the Gold Rush - America's Fevered Quest for Fortune, 1848-1855

The Rush: A New History of the Gold Rush - America's Fevered Quest for Fortune, 1848-1855

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Our Man in Charleston: Britain's Secret Agent in the Civil War South

Our Man in Charleston: Britain's Secret Agent in the Civil War South

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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...