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  • The Winning of the West, Vol. 1: From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 by Roosevelt, Theodore
    Theodore Roosevelt

    The Winning of the West, Vol. 1: From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776

    A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsThe Winning of the West by Theodore Roosevelt. A Major US History Series in six volumes. G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1889.Volume One--From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776Narrated by Joseph TablerNote--This book is "read as written." It...
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  • Party of One: The Rise of XI Jinping and China's Superpower Future by Wong, Chun Han
    Chun Han Wong

    Party of One: The Rise of XI Jinping and China's Superpower Future

    From one of the most admired reporters covering China today, a vital new account of the life and political vision of Xi Jinping, the authoritarian leader of the People's Republic whose hard-edged tactics have set the rising superpower on a collision with Western liberal...
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  • The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe by Rady, Martyn
    Martyn Rady

    The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe

    An essential new history of Central Europe, the contested lands so often at the heart of world history Central Europe has long been infamous as a region beset by war, a place where empires clashed and world wars began. In The Middle Kingdoms, Martyn...
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  • Pisces Moon: The Dark Arts of Empire by Valentine, Douglas
    Douglas Valentine

    Pisces Moon: The Dark Arts of Empire

    Pisces Moon: The Dark Arts of Empire is a sweeping critical analysis of Western colonialism, its foundational beliefs in militarism, patriarchy, Christianity, and white supremacy; and its destructive impact on the nations of Southeast Asia and, ultimately, America.Valentine focuses on the "dark arts" of...
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  • An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created by Holley, Santi Elijah
    Santi Elijah Holley

    An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created

    An Amerikan Family is a light helping us go forward." -- Nikki Giovanni, poetAn enlightening history of the rise and lasting impact of Black liberation groups in America, as seen through the Shakurs, one of the movement's most prominent and fiercely creative families, home...
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  • Valiant Women: The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II by Andrews, Lena S.
    Lena S. Andrews

    Valiant Women: The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II

    "An ingenious look at WWII." --Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)A groundbreaking new history of the role of American servicewomen in WWII, illuminating their forgotten yet essential contributions to the Allies' victory.Valiant Women is the story of the 350,000 American women who served in uniform during...
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  • The New Book of Christian Martyrs: The Heroes of Our Faith from the 1st Century to the 21st Century by Moore, Johnnie
    Johnnie Moore

    The New Book of Christian Martyrs: The Heroes of Our Faith from the 1st Century to the 21st Century

    An inspiring keepsake that honors the heroic sacrifice of today's martyrs for the Christian faith--and shows how their actions mirror the courage of a long line of brave Christians. In the twenty-first century, we are witnessing an escalation in Christian persecution like we have...
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  • 62: Aaron Judge, the New York Yankees, and the Pursuit of Greatness by Hoch, Bryan
    Bryan Hoch

    62: Aaron Judge, the New York Yankees, and the Pursuit of Greatness

    An inside look at Yankees slugger Aaron Judge's incredible, unparalleled run to break Roger Maris's home run record and the franchise both men called homeBabe Ruth. Roger Maris. Aaron Judge.Three historic figures across generations of Major League Baseball, all swinging for the fences and...
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  • In the Blood: How Two Outsiders Solved a Centuries-Old Medical Mystery and Took on the US Army by Barber, Charles
    Charles Barber

    In the Blood: How Two Outsiders Solved a Centuries-Old Medical Mystery and Took on the US Army

    The "high-stakes" true story of how an absent-minded inventor and a down-on-his-luck salesman joined forces to create a once-in-a-generation lifesaving product: "Suspenseful storytelling helps us see and feel the struggle and frustration, the sweat and tears . . . Inspiring" (Robert Kolker, #1 New...
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  • War and Punishment: Putin, Zelensky, and the Path to Russia's Invasion of Ukraine by Zygar, Mikhail
    Mikhail Zygar

    War and Punishment: Putin, Zelensky, and the Path to Russia's Invasion of Ukraine

    From an award-winning Russian journalist, a brisk, clearly written history of Ukraine--from its emergence as a post-Soviet oligarchic state to a progressive country with increasing economic, cultural, and political ties to Europe and the US--which have led to Putin's current brutal attempt to obliterate...
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  • Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West by Walton, Calder
    Calder Walton

    Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West

    The riveting, secret story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with lessons for our new superpower conflict with China.Spies is the history of the secret war that Russia and the West have been waging for a century. Espionage, sabotage, and...
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  • Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity by Acemoglu, Daron
    Daron Acemoglu

    Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity

    The bestselling co-author of Why Nations Fail and the bestselling co-author of 13 Bankers deliver a bold reinterpretation of economics and history that will fundamentally change how you see the world A thousand years of history and contemporary evidence make one thing clear. Progress...
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  • The Science of Spin: How Rotational Forces Affect Everything from Your Body to Jet Engines to the Weather by Ennos, Roland
    Roland Ennos

    The Science of Spin: How Rotational Forces Affect Everything from Your Body to Jet Engines to the Weather

    A clear and captivating work of popular science that explains rotational force--a basic driver of the universe affecting everything from the cosmos to our own bodies--from the masterful author of The Age of Wood.From the time women first used rotating bobbins to twist thread...
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  • Book of Queens: The True Story of the Middle Eastern Horsewomen Who Fought the War on Terror by Mahdavi, Pardis
    Pardis Mahdavi

    Book of Queens: The True Story of the Middle Eastern Horsewomen Who Fought the War on Terror

    The untold story of generations of Middle Eastern freedom fighters--horsewomen who safeguarded an ancient breed of Caspian horse--and their efforts to defend their homelands from the Taliban and others seeking to destroy them."A breathtaking book that revisits nearly one hundred years of Iranian history,...
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  • The Last Honest Man: The Cia, the Fbi, the Mafia, and the Kennedys―and One Senator's Fight to Save Democracy by Risen, James
    James Risen

    The Last Honest Man: The Cia, the Fbi, the Mafia, and the Kennedys―and One Senator's Fight to Save Democracy

    Witnesses were mysteriously murdered. The FBI, NSA, CIA, and even the IRS were on the warpath. It was 1975, and a senator named Frank Church stood almost alone in the face of extraordinary abuses of power.For decades now, America's national security state has grown...
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  • American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America by Woodard, Colin
    Colin Woodard

    American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America

    An illuminating history of North America's eleven rival cultural regions that explodes the red state-blue state myth. North America was settled by people with distinct religious, political, and ethnographic characteristics, creating regional cultures that have been at odds with one another ever since. Subsequent...
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  • The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Perkins, Derek
    Derek Perkins

    The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914

    One of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the YearWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History)The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 is historian Christopher Clark's riveting account of the explosive beginnings of World War I.Drawing...
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  • Victory City: A History of New York and New Yorkers During World War II by Strausbaugh, John
    John Strausbaugh

    Victory City: A History of New York and New Yorkers During World War II

    From John Strausbaugh, author of City of Sedition and The Village, comes the definitive history of Gotham during the World War II era.New York City during World War II wasn't just a place of servicemen, politicians, heroes, GI Joes and Rosie the Riveters but...
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  • The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
    Thucydides

    The History of the Peloponnesian War

    Thucydides' classic chronicle of the war between Athens and Sparta from 431 to 404 BCE persists as one of the most brilliant histories of all time. As one who actually participated in the conflict, Thucydides recognized the effect it would have on the history...
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  • Conduct Books and the History of the Ideal Woman by Kenlon, Tabitha
    Tabitha Kenlon

    Conduct Books and the History of the Ideal Woman

    The longest-running war is the battle over how women should behave. Conduct Books and the History of the Ideal Woman examines seven centuries of advice literature, analyzing the print origins of gendered expectations that continue to inform our thinking about women's roles and abilities....
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  • The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior: Da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Borgia and the World They Shaped by Strathern, Paul
    Paul Strathern

    The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior: Da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Borgia and the World They Shaped

    Leonardo da Vinci, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Cesare Borgia--three iconic figures whose intersecting lives provide the basis for this astonishing work of narrative history. They could not have been more different, and they would meet only for a short time in 1502, but the events...
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  • Dreams of Africa in Alabama Lib/E: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America by Johnson, Allyson
    Allyson Johnson

    Dreams of Africa in Alabama Lib/E: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America

    In the summer of 1860, more than fifty years after the United States legally abolished the international slave trade, 110 men, women, and children from Benin and Nigeria were brought ashore in Alabama under cover of night. They were the last recorded group of...
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  • London Under: The Secret History Beneath the Streets by Ackroyd, Peter
    Peter Ackroyd

    London Under: The Secret History Beneath the Streets

    In this vividly descriptive short study, Peter Ackroyd tunnels down through the geological layers of London, meeting the creatures that dwell in darkness and excavating the lore and mythology beneath the surface. There is a Bronze Age trackway below the Isle of Dogs, Anglo-Saxon...
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  • Chinese Communist Espionage: An Intelligence Primer by Mattis, Peter
    Peter Mattis

    Chinese Communist Espionage: An Intelligence Primer

    This is the first book of its kind to employ hundreds of Chinese sources to explain the history and current state of Chinese Communist intelligence operations. It profiles the leaders, top spies, and important operations in the history of China's espionage organs, and links...
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  • The Rise and Fall of Alexandria: Birthplace of the Modern Mind by Pollard, Justin
    Justin Pollard

    The Rise and Fall of Alexandria: Birthplace of the Modern Mind

    Author: Justin Pollard, Howard ReidISBN-10: 820014707XISBN-13: 9798200147076Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2006Format: CDWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 5.80h x 5.60w x 1.10d
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  • The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931 by Tooze, Adam
    Adam Tooze

    The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931

    Author: Adam ToozeISBN-13: 9798200036080Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/13/2014Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 6.69h x 5.28w x 0.63d
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  • An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne
    Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

    An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

    Author: Roxanne Dunbar-OrtizISBN-10: 8200027880ISBN-13: 9798200027880Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/18/2014Format: CDWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 5.60h x 5.80w x 1.10d
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  • Dead Doubles: The Extraordinary Worldwide Hunt for One of the Cold War's Most Notorious Spy Rings by Barnes, Trevor
    Trevor Barnes

    Dead Doubles: The Extraordinary Worldwide Hunt for One of the Cold War's Most Notorious Spy Rings

    The astonishing but true story of one of the most notorious spy cases from the Cold War--and the international manhunt that seized global attention as it revealed the shadowy world of deep cover KGB operatives. The dramatic arrest in London on January 7, 1961...
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  • How Women Won the Vote: Alice Paul, Lucy Burns, and Their Big Idea by Bartoletti, Susan Campbell
    Susan Campbell Bartoletti

    How Women Won the Vote: Alice Paul, Lucy Burns, and Their Big Idea

    This is how history should be told to kids From Newbery Honor medalist Susan Campbell Bartoletti and in time to celebrate the 100th anniversary of woman suffrage in America comes the tirelessly researched story of the little-known DC Women's March of 1913.Bartoletti spins a...
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  • The Book of Spice: From Anise to Zedoary by O'Connell, John
    John O'Connell

    The Book of Spice: From Anise to Zedoary

    A tasty compendium of spices and a fascinating history and wide array of uses of the world's favorite flavors?The Book of Spice: From Anise to Zedoary reveals the amazing history of spices both familiar and esoteric. John O'Connell's erudite chapters combine history with insights...
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  • The Heart of Understanding, Twentieth Anniversary Edition: Commentaries on the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra by Hanh, Thich Nhat
    Thich Nhat Hanh

    The Heart of Understanding, Twentieth Anniversary Edition: Commentaries on the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra

    In this modern classic, world-renowned Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh presents a clear, concise translation and commentary of the Heart Sutra--the world's most popular piece of Buddhist scripture.Comprising only 632 Chinese characters, the Heart Sutra is Buddhism in a nutshell. Despite its brevity, this...
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  • The Arms of Krupp: 1587-1968 by Manchester, William
    William Manchester

    The Arms of Krupp: 1587-1968

    In this narrative of extraordinary richness, depth, and authority, America's preeminent biographer/historian explored the German national character as no other writer has done. The Arms of Krupp brings to life Europe's wealthiest, most powerful family, a four-hundred-year German dynasty that developed the world's most...
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  • The Civil War: A Narrative: Volume 3: Red River to Appomattox by Foote, Shelby
    Shelby Foote

    The Civil War: A Narrative: Volume 3: Red River to Appomattox

    This remarkable three-part work of history is told entirely from the point of view of the people involved in it. The narrative begins here, with all the major battles of course, but also the smaller ones.Author: Shelby FooteISBN-10: 1441737448ISBN-13: 9781441737441Publisher: Blackstone AudiobooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2010Pages:...
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  • The Day the World Ended at Little Big Horn: A Lakota History by III, Joseph M. Marshall
    Joseph M. Marshall III

    The Day the World Ended at Little Big Horn: A Lakota History

    The Battle of the Little Bighorn in Montana in 1876 has become known as the quintessential clash of cultures between the Lakota Sioux and whites. The men who led the battle--Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and Colonel George A. Custer--have become the stuff of legends,...
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  • Burning the Breeze: Three Generations of Women in the American West by Hendrickson, Lisa
    Lisa Hendrickson

    Burning the Breeze: Three Generations of Women in the American West

    In the middle of the Great Depression, Montana native Julia Bennett arrived in New York City with no money and an audacious business plan: to identify and visit easterners who could afford to spend their summers at her brand new dude ranch near Ennis,...
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  • The Party and the People: Chinese Politics in the 21st Century by Dickson, Bruce
    Bruce Dickson

    The Party and the People: Chinese Politics in the 21st Century

    Since 1949, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has maintained unrivalled control over the country, persisting even in the face of economic calamity, widespread social upheaval, and violence against its own people. Yet the party does not sustain dominance through repressive tactics alone--it pairs this...
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  • Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition by Schrad, Mark Lawrence
    Mark Lawrence Schrad

    Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition

    When most people think of the prohibition era, they think of speakeasies, rum runners, and backwoods fundamentalists railing about the ills of strong drink. In other words, in the popular imagination, it is a peculiarly American history. Yet, as Mark Lawrence Schrad shows in...
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  • The Red Menace: How Lipstick Changed the Face of American History by Carter, Ilise S.
    Ilise S. Carter

    The Red Menace: How Lipstick Changed the Face of American History

    In America, lipstick is the foundation of empires; it's a signature of identity; it's propaganda, self-expression, oppression, freedom, and rebellion. It's a multibillion-dollar industry and one of our most iconic accessories of gender.This engaging and entertaining history of lipstick from the colonies to the...
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  • Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by Snorton, C. Riley
    C. Riley Snorton

    Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity

    The story of Christine Jorgensen, America's first prominent transsexual, narrated trans embodiment in the postwar era. Her celebrity, however, has obscured other mid-century trans narratives. Their erasure from trans history masks the ways race has figured prominently in the construction and representation of transgender...
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  • The King's Shadow: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Deadly Quest for the Lost City of Alexandria by Richardson, Edmund
    Edmund Richardson

    The King's Shadow: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Deadly Quest for the Lost City of Alexandria

    For centuries the city of Alexandria Beneath the Mountains was a meeting point of East and West. Then it vanished. In 1833 it was discovered in Afghanistan by the unlikeliest person imaginable: Charles Masson, deserter, pilgrim, doctor, archaeologist, spy, one of the most respected...
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  • What the Taliban Told Me by Fritz, Ian
    Ian Fritz

    What the Taliban Told Me

    A powerful, timely memoir of a young Air Force linguist coming-of-age in a war that is lost.When Ian Fritz joined the Air Force at eighteen, he did so out of necessity. He hadn't been accepted into college thanks to an indifferent high school career....
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  • Monumental Controversies: Mount Rushmore, Four Presidents, and the Quest for National Unity by Senie, Harriet F.
    Harriet F. Senie

    Monumental Controversies: Mount Rushmore, Four Presidents, and the Quest for National Unity

    In recent years the United States has witnessed major controversies surrounding past American presidents, monuments, and sites. Consider Mount Rushmore, which features the heads of the nation's most revered presidents--George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt. Is Rushmore a proud national achievement...
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  • Understanding Iraq: The Whole Sweep of Iraqi History, from Genghis Khan's Mongols to the Ottoman Turks to the British Mandate to the Ameri by Polk, William R.
    William R. Polk

    Understanding Iraq: The Whole Sweep of Iraqi History, from Genghis Khan's Mongols to the Ottoman Turks to the British Mandate to the Ameri

    Iraq will continue to be a major issue and involvement for the United States into the foreseeable future says William R. Polk, former member of the State Department's Policy Planning Council and professor of Middle Eastern history at the University of Chicago. Iraq sits...
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  • The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts by Grush, Loren
    Loren Grush

    The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts

    In the bestselling tradition of Hidden Figures and Code Girls, the remarkable true story of America's first women astronauts--six extraordinary women, each making history going to orbit aboard NASA's Space Shuttle.When NASA sent astronauts to the moon in the 1960s and 1970s the agency...
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  • The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy: And the Path to a Shared American Future by Jones, Robert P.
    Robert P. Jones

    The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy: And the Path to a Shared American Future

    Taking the story of white supremacy in America back to 1493, and examining contemporary communities in Mississippi, Minnesota, and Oklahoma for models of racial repair, The Rivers Before Us helps chart a new course toward a genuinely pluralistic democracy.Beginning with contemporary efforts to reckon...
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  • Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death by Cumming, Laura
    Laura Cumming

    Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

    New York Times bestselling author and art critic Laura Cumming reveals the fascinating, little-known story of the Thunderclap--the massive explosion at a gunpowder store in Holland that killed Carel Fabritius, renowned painter of The Goldfinch and nearly killed Johannes Vermeer, painter of Girl with...
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  • The Watchdog: How the Truman Committee Battled Corruption and Helped Win World War Two by Drummond, Steve
    Steve Drummond

    The Watchdog: How the Truman Committee Battled Corruption and Helped Win World War Two

    The story of how a little-known junior senator fought wartime corruption and, in the process, set himself up to become vice president and ultimately President Harry Truman. Months before Pearl Harbor, Franklin D. Roosevelt knew that the United States was on the verge of...
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  • America Redux: Visual Stories from Our Dynamic History by Aberg-Riger, Ariel
    Ariel Aberg-Riger

    America Redux: Visual Stories from Our Dynamic History

    A critical, unflinching cultural history and fierce beacon of hope for a better future, America Redux is a necessary and galvanizing read. What are the stories we tell ourselves about America? How do they shape our sense of history, cloud our perceptions, inspire us?...
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  • A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Tuchman, Barbara W.
    Barbara W. Tuchman

    A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

    The fourteenth century reflects two contradictory images: on the one hand, a glittering time of crusades and castles, cathedrals and chivalry, and the exquisitely decorated Books of Hours; and on the other, a time of ferocity and spiritual agony, a world of chaos and...
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  • The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of Darpa, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency by Jacobsen, Annie
    Annie Jacobsen

    The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of Darpa, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency

    Discover the definitive history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, in this Pulitzer Prize finalist from the author of the New York Times bestseller Area 51.No one has ever written the history of the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful, and most...
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