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Alistair Cooke's America

Alistair Cooke's America

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Reports from America

Reports from America

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Katharine Graham's Washington

Katharine Graham's Washington

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America and the Intellectual Cold Wars in Europe

America and the Intellectual Cold Wars in Europe

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True Tales of American Life

True Tales of American Life

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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...
Great Society: A New History

Great Society: A New History

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Author: Amity Shlaes Format: Paperback 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...
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...
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,...
Here Lies Hugh Glass

Here Lies Hugh Glass

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Author: Jon T Coleman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 The true story behind The Revenant. In the summer of 1823, a grizzly bear mauled mountain man Hugh Glass in...
Mordecai: An Early American Family

Mordecai: An Early American Family

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Author: Emily Bingham Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 346 An Intimate Portrait of a Jewish American Family in America's First Century Mordecai is a brilliant multigenerational history at the forefront...
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...
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...
The Widow Washington: The Life of Mary Washington

The Widow Washington: The Life of Mary Washington

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Author: Martha Saxton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 An insightful biography of Mary Ball Washington, the mother of our nation's father The Widow Washington is the first life of...
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...
Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II

Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II

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The Journey to the Mayflower: God's Outlaws and the Invention of Freedom

The Journey to the Mayflower: God's Outlaws and the Invention of Freedom

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Author: Stephen Tomkins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 'A rattling good read' - The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu 2020 sees the 400th anniversary of the sailing of...
Crowns of Glory, Tears of Blood: The Demerara Slave Rebellion of 1823

Crowns of Glory, Tears of Blood: The Demerara Slave Rebellion of 1823

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The Last Cowboys at the End of the World: The Story of the Gauchos of Patagonia

The Last Cowboys at the End of the World: The Story of the Gauchos of Patagonia

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Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin

Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin

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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"...
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...
Barack Obama: Quotes to Live By

Barack Obama: Quotes to Live By

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Author: Carlton Books Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Barack Obama: Quotes to Live By is a life-affirming collection of over 170 quotes from one of the world's most admired...
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...
Lost City of the Incas

Lost City of the Incas

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Author: Hiram Bingham Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 In 1911 Hiram Bingham, a pre-historian with a love of exotic destinations, set out to Peru in search of...
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...
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

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Author: Isabel Wilkerson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 The epic story of how millions of black Americans fled the Jim Crow south, told through the journeys of...
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...
The Motorcycle Diaries

The Motorcycle Diaries

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Author: Ernesto Che Guevara Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 An iconic bestseller- Che Guevara's account of his youthful adventures travelling around South America on his motorcycle 'All...
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...
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...
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:...
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...
In Patagonia: (Vintage Voyages)

In Patagonia: (Vintage Voyages)

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Author: Bruce Chatwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 VINTAGE VOYAGES- A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind Chatwin's brilliantly unique...
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

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Author: Dee Brown Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 The shocking and compelling story about the original inhabitants of America and the first book to focus on their...
A Rabble of Dead Money: The Great Crash and the Global Depression: 1929-1939

A Rabble of Dead Money: The Great Crash and the Global Depression: 1929-1939

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Author: Charles Morris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 The Great Crash of 1929 violently disrupted the United States' confident march toward becoming the world's superpower. The suddenness of the...
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 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...
Cuba A Cultural History

Cuba A Cultural History

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Author: Alan West-Duran Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Cuba is a rare and fascinating place. In a world where revolutionary socialism seems an almost quaint reminder of the Cold...