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  • Jews and Germans: Promise, Tragedy, and the Search for Normalcy by Lewy, Guenter
    Guenter Lewy

    Jews and Germans: Promise, Tragedy, and the Search for Normalcy

    Jews and Germans is the only book in English to delve fully into the history and challenges of the German-Jewish relationship, from before the Holocaust to the present day. The Weimar Republic era--the fifteen years between Germany's defeat in World War I (1918) and...
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  • The Journey of Liu Xiaobo: From Dark Horse to Nobel Laureate by Leedom-Ackerman, Joanne
    Joanne Leedom-Ackerman

    The Journey of Liu Xiaobo: From Dark Horse to Nobel Laureate

    An Authorlink Top Five Book of 2020 As a fearless poet and prolific essayist and critic, Liu Xiaobo became one of the most important dissident thinkers in the People's Republic of China. His nonviolent activism steered the nation's prodemocracy currents from Tiananmen Square to...
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  • Bubble in the Sun: The Florida Boom of the 1920s and How It Brought on the Great Depression by Knowlton, Christopher
    Christopher Knowlton

    Bubble in the Sun: The Florida Boom of the 1920s and How It Brought on the Great Depression

    Christopher Knowlton, author of Cattle Kingdom and former Fortune writer, takes an in-depth look at the spectacular Florida land boom of the 1920s and shows how it led directly to the Great Depression.The 1920s in Florida was a time of incredible excess, immense wealth,...
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  • The Accursed Tower: The Fall of Acre and the End of the Crusades by Crowley, Roger
    Roger Crowley

    The Accursed Tower: The Fall of Acre and the End of the Crusades

    From a New York Times-bestselling author, a stirring account of the siege of Acre in 1291, when the last Christian stronghold fell to the Muslim army The 1291 siege of Acre was the Alamo of the Christian Crusades -- the final bloody battle for...
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  • White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity by Jones, Robert P.
    Robert P. Jones

    White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity

    Drawing on history, public opinion surveys, and personal experience, Robert P. Jones delivers a provocative examination of the unholy relationship between American Christianity and white supremacy, and issues an urgent call for white Christians to reckon with this legacy for the sake of themselves...
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  • Monumental Jesus: Landscapes of Faith and Doubt in Modern America by Grubiak, Margaret M.
    Margaret M. Grubiak

    Monumental Jesus: Landscapes of Faith and Doubt in Modern America

    The American landscape is host to numerous works of religious architecture, sometimes questionable in taste and large, if not titanic, in scale. In her lively study of satire and religious architecture, Margaret Grubiak challenges how we typically view such sites by shifting the focus...
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  • How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America by Richardson, Heather Cox
    Heather Cox Richardson

    How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America

    While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "new birth of freedom," Heather Cox Richardson argues in this provocative work that democracy's blood-soaked victory was ephemeral. The system that had sustained the defeated South moved westward and...
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  • The American Story: Conversations with Master Historians by Rubenstein, David M.
    David M. Rubenstein

    The American Story: Conversations with Master Historians

    Co-founder of The Carlyle Group and patriotic philanthropist David M. Rubenstein takes readers on a sweeping journey across the grand arc of the American story through revealing conversations with our greatest historians.In these lively dialogues, the biggest names in American history explore the subjects...
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  • Freedom's Detective: The Secret Service, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Man Who Masterminded America's First War on Terror by Lane, Charles
    Charles Lane

    Freedom's Detective: The Secret Service, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Man Who Masterminded America's First War on Terror

    This is a powerful, vitally important story, and Lane brings it to life with not only vast amounts of research but with a remarkable gift for storytelling that makes the pages fly by. -Candice Millard, author of The River of Doubt and Hero of...
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  • The Right Stuff by Wolfe, Tom
    Tom Wolfe

    The Right Stuff

    From "America's nerviest journalist" (Newsweek) - a breathtaking epic, a magnificent adventure story, and an investigation into the true heroism and courage of the first Americans to conquer space. "Tom Wolfe at his very best" (The New York Times Book Review) Millions of words...
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  • This Is Cuba: An American Journalist Under Castro's Shadow by Ariosto, David
    David Ariosto

    This Is Cuba: An American Journalist Under Castro's Shadow

    Fidel Castro is dead. Donald Trump was elected president. And to most outsiders, the fate of Cuba has never seemed more uncertain. Yet those who look close enough may recognize that signs of the next revolution are etched in plain view.This is Cuba is...
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  • Japanese Destroyer Captain: Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, Midway - The Great Naval Battles Seen Through Japanese Eyes by Hara, Tameichi
    Tameichi Hara

    Japanese Destroyer Captain: Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, Midway - The Great Naval Battles Seen Through Japanese Eyes

    This highly regarded war memoir was a best seller in both Japan and the United States during the 1960s and has long been treasured by historians for its insights into the Japanese side of the surface war in the Pacific. The author was a...
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  • Tolstoy by Crankshaw, Edward
    Edward Crankshaw

    Tolstoy

    Tolstoy was not always an old man--not always a bearded patriarch fixing the world with the eye of an angry ancient mariner. He started War and Peace when he was 35, and Anna Karenina was finished before he was 50. By then he had...
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  • Chaos: Charles Manson, the Cia, and the Secret History of the Sixties by Stillwell, Kevin
    Kevin Stillwell

    Chaos: Charles Manson, the Cia, and the Secret History of the Sixties

    A journalist's twenty-year fascination with the Manson murders leads to shocking new revelations about the FBI's involvement in this riveting reassessment of an infamous case in American history.Over two grim nights in Los Angeles, the young followers of Charles Manson murdered seven people, including...
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  • Dragon's Jaw: An Epic Story of Courage and Tenacity in Vietnam by Coonts, Stephen
    Stephen Coonts

    Dragon's Jaw: An Epic Story of Courage and Tenacity in Vietnam

    A riveting Vietnam War story--and one of the most dramatic in aviation history--told by a New York Times bestselling author and a prominent aviation historianEvery war has its bridge--Old North Bridge at Concord, Burnside's Bridge at Antietam, the railway bridge over Burma's River Kwai,...
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  • The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History by Holt, Nathalia
    Nathalia Holt

    The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History

    From the bestselling author of Rise of the Rocket Girls, the untold story of the women of Walt Disney Studios, who shaped the iconic films that have enthralled generationsBehind the beloved animated films of Walt Disney Studios, which have moved and entertained millions of...
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  • Something Beautiful Happened: A Story of Survival and Courage in the Face of Evil by Corporon, Yvette Manessis
    Yvette Manessis Corporon

    Something Beautiful Happened: A Story of Survival and Courage in the Face of Evil

    Seventy years after her grandmother helped hide a Jewish family on a Greek island during World War II, a woman sets out to track down their descendants--and discovers a new way to understand tragedy, forgiveness, and the power of kindness. Yvette Manessis Corporon grew...
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  • A Night to Remember: The Classic Account of the Final Hours of the Titanic by Lord, Walter
    Walter Lord

    A Night to Remember: The Classic Account of the Final Hours of the Titanic

    Over one hundred years ago, the mightiest "unsinkable" ship began her maiden voyage to cross the Atlantic. An engineering feat eleven stories high, the Titanic contained a list of passengers collectively worth $250 million when she left port on April 10, 1912, but she...
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  • Is God a Mathematician? by Livio, Mario
    Mario Livio

    Is God a Mathematician?

    Bestselling author and astrophysicist Mario Livio examines the lives and theories of history's greatest mathematicians to ask how--if mathematics is an abstract construction of the human mind--it can so perfectly explain the physical world. Nobel Laureate Eugene Wigner once wondered about "the unreasonable effectiveness...
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  • Barracoon Lib/E: The Story of the Last \Black Cargo\ by Hurston, Zora Neale
    Zora Neale Hurston

    Barracoon Lib/E: The Story of the Last \Black Cargo\

    A major literary event: a never-before-published work from the author of the American classic Their Eyes Were Watching God that brilliantly illuminates the horror and injustices of slavery as it tells the true story of one of the last known survivors of the Atlantic...
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  • Those Who Fall by Muirhead, John
    John Muirhead

    Those Who Fall

    As a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber pilot, John Muirhead led missions into northern Italy, Germany, and Bulgaria during World War II. Ultimately, he was shot down and taken prisoner.John Muirhead's re-creation of those years is a breathtaking mingling of ravaging horrors and silent, surreal...
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  • The Lincoln Ideals: His Personality and Principles as Reflected in His Own Words [With Booklet] by Lincoln, Abraham
    Abraham Lincoln

    The Lincoln Ideals: His Personality and Principles as Reflected in His Own Words [With Booklet]

    This remarkable, pocket-sized collection of excerpts and quotes in Lincoln's own words provides an inspiring insight into the mind of our greatest president.Author: Abraham LincolnISBN-10: 1933715944ISBN-13: 9781933715940Publisher: Tremendous Life BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2010Format: CDWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 7.50h x 5.30w x 0.60d
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  • Lost in the Pacific, 1942: Not a Drop to Drink by Olson, Tod
    Tod Olson

    Lost in the Pacific, 1942: Not a Drop to Drink

    Lost in the Pacific is the first book in a narrative nonfiction series that tells the true story of a band of World War II soldiers who became stranded at sea and had to fight for survival. World War II, October 1942: a plane...
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  • Lost in Outer Space: The Incredible Journey of Apollo 13 by Olson, Tod
    Tod Olson

    Lost in Outer Space: The Incredible Journey of Apollo 13

    This exciting second book in the Lost series tells the incredible true story of the doomed Apollo 13 moon mission that nearly ended in disaster. On April 11, 1970, the Apollo 13 space shuttle set off for the third intended American moon landing. Two...
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  • Risotto with Nettles: A Memoir with Food by Del Conte, Anna
    Anna Del Conte

    Risotto with Nettles: A Memoir with Food

    Anna Del Conte brought Italian cooking to Britain at a time when the nearest most of us came to pasta was a Heinz spaghetti hoop. Sharply observant, evocative, full of tastes and talk of food, hers is a delicious, poignant memoir of an unusual...
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  • The Original Watergate Stories by The Washington Post
    The Washington Post

    The Original Watergate Stories

    To mark the 40th anniversary of the Watergate scandal, The Washington Post's seminal Watergate stories have been gathered together for the first time as an audiobook, including a foreword by journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein assessing the impact of their stories 40 years...
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  • The Story of English in 100 Words by Crystal, David
    David Crystal

    The Story of English in 100 Words

    In this unique new history of the world's most ubiquitous language, linguistics expert David Crystal draws on words that best illustrate the huge variety of sources, influences, and events that have helped to shape our vernacular since the first definitively English word was written...
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  • Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters; From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima by Mahaffey, James
    James Mahaffey

    Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters; From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima

    A gripping narrative of nuclear mishaps and meltdowns around the globe, all of which have proven pivotal to the advancement of nuclear science From the moment radiation was discovered in the late nineteenth century, nuclear science has had a rich history of innovative scientific...
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  • Heir to the Empire City: New York and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt by Kohn, Edward P.
    Edward P. Kohn

    Heir to the Empire City: New York and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt

    Theodore Roosevelt is best remembered as America's prototypical "cowboy" president--a Rough Rider who derived his political wisdom from a youth spent in the untamed American West. But while the great outdoors certainly shaped Roosevelt's identity, historian Edward P. Kohn argues that it was his...
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  • Conquistadors by Wood, Michael
    Michael Wood

    Conquistadors

    Following in the footsteps of the greatest Spanish adventurers, Michael Wood retraces the path of the conquistadors from Amazonia to Lake Titicaca, and from the deserts of North Mexico to the heights of Machu Picchu. As he travels the same routes as Hernan Cortes,...
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  • A Bit of Brontës, a Dollop of Dickinson, an Offering of Austen: A Dab of Dickens, Vol. 2; Selections from a Dab of Dickens & a Touch of Twain, Literar by Engel, Elliot
    Elliot Engel

    A Bit of Bront?, a Dollop of Dickinson, an Offering of Austen: A Dab of Dickens, Vol. 2; Selections from a Dab of Dickens & a Touch of Twain, Literar

    They are icons of the literary world whose soaring works have been discussed and analyzed in countless classrooms, homes, and pubs. Yet for most readers, the living, breathing human beings behind the classics have remained unknown--until now. In this utterly captivating book, Dr. Elliot...
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  • Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins by Jacobsen, Annie
    Annie Jacobsen

    Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins

    From Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen comes the untold USA Today bestselling story of the CIA's secret paramilitary units. Surprise . . . your target. Kill . . . your enemy. Vanish . . . without a trace. When diplomacy fails, and war is...
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  • The Life of Robert E. Lee by Williamson, Mary L.
    Mary L. Williamson

    The Life of Robert E. Lee

    "I urge the need of interesting our children in history at an early age. From observation I find that the minds of children who study history early expand more rapidly than those who are restricted to the limits of stories in readers. While teaching...
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  • Lara: The Untold Love Story and the Inspiration for Doctor Zhivago by Pasternak, Anna
    Anna Pasternak

    Lara: The Untold Love Story and the Inspiration for Doctor Zhivago

    The heartbreaking story of the love affair between Boris Pasternak, the author of Doctor Zhivago, and Olga Ivinskaya--the true tragedy behind the timeless classic.When Stalin came into power in 1924, the Communist government began persecuting dissident writers. Though Stalin spared the life of Boris...
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  • Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control by Benjamin, Medea
    Medea Benjamin

    Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control

    Weeks after America invaded Afghanistan in 2002, Medea Benjamin visited that country. There, talking with victims of the strikes, she learned the reality behind the "precision bombs" on which US forces were becoming reliant. Now, with the use of drones escalating at a meteoric...
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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 Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Vol. 1: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932 by Manchester, William
    William Manchester

    The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Vol. 1: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932

    Winston Churchill is perhaps the most important political figure of the twentieth century. His great oratory and leadership during the Second World War were only part of his huge breadth of experience and achievement. Studying his life is a fascinating way to imbibe the...
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  • Checkpoint Charlie: The Cold War, the Berlin Wall, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth by MacGregor, Iain
    Iain MacGregor

    Checkpoint Charlie: The Cold War, the Berlin Wall, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth

    A powerful, fascinating, and groundbreaking history of Checkpoint Charlie, the famous military gate on the border of East and West Berlin where the United States confronted the USSR during the Cold War.East Germany committed a billion dollars to the creation of the Berlin Wall...
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  • Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge by Dunbar, Erica Armstrong
    Erica Armstrong Dunbar

    Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge

    A startling and eye-opening look into America's First Family, Never Caught is the powerful narrative of Ona Judge, George and Martha Washington's runaway slave who risked it all to escape the nation's capital and reach freedom. When George Washington was elected president, he reluctantly...
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  • All the President's Men by Bernstein, Carl
    Carl Bernstein

    All the President's Men

    The most devastating political detective story of the century: the inside account of the two Washington Post reporters who broke the Watergate scandal.This is the book that changed America. Published just months before President Nixon's resignation, All the President's Men revealed the full scope...
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  • Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Spy Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Woman by Reading, Kate
    Kate Reading

    Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Spy Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Woman

    From internationally bestselling author of the "gripping" (Michael Connelly, #1 New York Times bestselling author) Into the Lion's Mouth comes the extraordinary true story of Odette Sansom, the British spy who operated in occupied France and fell in love with her commanding officer during...
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  • The Library Book by Orlean, Susan
    Susan Orlean

    The Library Book

    A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICK A WASHINGTON POST TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR * A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER and NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018 "A constant pleasure to read...Everybody who loves books should check out The...
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  • The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey by Buck, Rinker
    Rinker Buck

    The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - #1 Indie Next Pick - Winner of the PEN New England Award "Enchanting...A book filled with so much love...Long before Oregon, Rinker Buck has convinced us that the best way to see America is from the seat of...
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  • The Operator: Firing the Shots That Killed Osama Bin Laden and My Years as a Seal Team Warrior by O'Neill, Robert
    Robert O'Neill

    The Operator: Firing the Shots That Killed Osama Bin Laden and My Years as a Seal Team Warrior

    This instant New York Times bestseller--"a jaw-dropping, fast-paced account" (New York Post) recounts SEAL Team Operator Robert O'Neill's incredible four-hundred-mission career, including the attempts to rescue "Lone Survivor" Marcus Luttrell and abducted-by-Somali-pirates Captain Richard Phillips, and which culminated in the death of the world's...
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  • Old Path White Clouds: Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha by Hanh, Thich Nhat
    Thich Nhat Hanh

    Old Path White Clouds: Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha

    Old Path White Clouds presents the life and teachings of Gautama Buddha. Drawn directly from twenty-four Pali, Sanskrit, and Chinese sources, and retold by Thich Nhat Hanh in his inimitably beautiful style, this book traces the Buddha's life slowly and gently over the course...
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  • Kill Chain: The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins by Cockburn, Andrew
    Andrew Cockburn

    Kill Chain: The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins

    This essential, page-turning narrative on the history of drone warfare by the acclaimed author of Rumsfeld explores how this practice emerged, who made it happen, and the real consequences of targeted killing.Assassination by drone is a subject of deep and enduring fascination, yet few...
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  • Picky Eagle: How Democracy and Xenophobia Limited U.S. Territorial Expansion by Maass, Richard W.
    Richard W. Maass

    Picky Eagle: How Democracy and Xenophobia Limited U.S. Territorial Expansion

    The Picky Eagle explains why the United States stopped annexing territory by focusing on annexation's domestic consequences, both political and normative. It describes how the US rejection of further annexations, despite its rising power, set the stage for twentieth-century efforts to outlaw conquest. In...
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  • The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris by McCullough, David
    David McCullough

    The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris

    The #1 bestseller that tells the remarkable story of the generations of American artists, writers, and doctors who traveled to Paris, fell in love with the city and its people, and changed America through what they learned, told by America's master historian, David McCullough....
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  • Five Days in November by Hill, Clint
    Clint Hill

    Five Days in November

    Secret Service agent Clint Hill reveals the stories behind the iconic images of the five tragic days surrounding President John F. Kennedy's assassination in this 60th anniversary edition of the New York Times bestseller. On November 22, 1963, three shots were fired in Dallas,...
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  • Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson by Gwynne, S. C.
    S. C. Gwynne

    Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson

    Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the epic New York Times bestselling account of how Civil War general Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson became a great and tragic national hero. Stonewall Jackson has long been a figure of legend and romance. As much as...
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