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Vendor: Hazel V. Carby
Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands
Winner of the British Academy's Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2020Highly commended for PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2020A haunting and evocative history of British empire, told through one woman's family story"Where are you from?" was the question hounding Hazel Carby as a girl...- $29.99
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Vendor: John Gleeson
The Gotti Wars: Taking Down America's Most Notorious Mobster
A riveting, decades-in-the-writing memoir from the determined young prosecutor who, in two of America's most celebrated trials, managed to convict famed mob boss John Gotti--and subsequently took down the Mafia altogether.John Gotti was without a doubt the flashiest and feared Mafioso in American history....- $49.99
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Vendor: Natalie Haynes
Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
Funny, sharp explications of what these sometimes not-very-nice women were up to, and how they sometimes made idiots of . . . but read on!--Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid's TaleThe national bestselling author of A Thousand Ships returns with a fascinating, eye-opening take...- $41.99
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Vendor: Ira Rutkow
Empire of the Scalpel: The History of Surgery
From a renowned surgeon and historian with five decades of experience comes a remarkable history of surgery's development--spanning the Stone Age to the present day--blending meticulous medical studies with lively and skillful storytelling.There are not many events in life that can be as simultaneously...- $49.99
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Vendor: Alicia Puglionesi
In Whose Ruins: Power, Possession, and the Landscapes of American Empire
In this examination of landscape and memory, four sites of American history are revealed as places where historical truth was written over by oppressive fiction--with profound repercussions for politics past and present.The four sections of In Whose Ruins range over the American landscape, from...- $39.99
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Vendor: Gayle Jessup White
Reclamation: Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and a Descendant's Search for Her Family's Lasting Legacy
A Black descendant of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings' family explores America's racial reckoning through the prism of her ancestors--both the enslaver and the enslaved.Gayle Jessup White had long heard the stories passed down from her father's family, that they were direct descendants of...- $41.99
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Vendor: Tim Marshall
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
From the author of the New York Times bestseller Prisoners of Geography, the highly anticipated follow-up that uses ten maps of crucial regions around the globe to explain the geopolitical strategies of today's world powers and what it means for our future.Tim Marshall's global...- $39.99
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Vendor: Paul Gardullo
Make Good the Promises: Reclaiming Reconstruction and Its Legacies
The companion volume to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture exhibit, opening in September 2021With a Foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Eric Foner and a preface by veteran museum director and historian Spencer CrewAn incisive and illuminating analysis...- $34.99
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Vendor: Matthew Stewart
The 9.9 Percent: The New Aristocracy That Is Entrenching Inequality and Warping Our Culture
A scorching, trenchant, analysis of how the wealthiest group in American society is making life miserable for everyone--including themselves.In 21st century America, the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution have walked away with the big prizes even while the bottom 90% have lost ground....- $39.99
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Vendor: Bill Schutt
Pump: A Natural History of the Heart
A journey into the heartbeat of life on Earth. Millennia ago, when we first began puzzling over the mysteries of the human body, one organ stood out as vital. The heart was warm, it was central, and it moved as it pumped blood. The...- $39.99
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Vendor: Ben Shapiro
How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps Low Price CD
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!A growing number of Americans want to tear down what it's taken us 250 years to build--and they'll start by canceling our shared history, ideals, and culture.Traditional areas of civic agreement are vanishing. We can't agree on what makes America...- $19.99
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Vendor: Martin Luther King
Letter from Birmingham Jail
Author: Martin Luther KingISBN-10: 8200521907ISBN-13: 9798200521906Publisher: Mission AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/15/2013Format: CDWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 5.80h x 5.60w x 0.60d- $21.99
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Vendor: Joan Druett
Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
Author: Joan DruettISBN-10: 1799992519ISBN-13: 9781799992516Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/05/2016Format: CD- $13.99
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Vendor: Bill O'Reilly
Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America Forever
A riveting historical narrative of the heart-stopping events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and the first work of history from mega-bestselling author Bill O'Reilly The iconic anchor of The O'Reilly Factor recounts one of the most dramatic stories in American history--how one gunshot...- $29.99
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Vendor: Joyce E. Leader
From Hope to Horror: Diplomacy and the Making of the Rwanda Genocide
2020 Choice Outstanding Academic Title As deputy to the U.S. ambassador in Rwanda, Joyce E. Leader witnessed the tumultuous prelude to genocide--a period of political wrangling, human rights abuses, and many levels of ominous, ever-escalating violence. From Hope to Horror offers her insider's account...- $50.00
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Vendor: Max Hastings
Operation Pedestal: The Fleet That Battled to Malta, 1942
Renowned historian Max Hastings recreates one of the most thrilling events of World War II: Operation Pedestal, the British action to save its troops from starvation on Malta--an action-packed tale of courage, fortitude, loss, and triumph against all odds. In 1940, Hitler had two...- $44.99
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Vendor: Nathan Gorenstein
The Guns of John Moses Browning: The Remarkable Story of the Inventor Whose Firearms Changed the World
The first major biography of "the Thomas Edison of guns," John Moses Browning, a visionary inventor who designed the modern handgun and whose awe-inspiring array of firearms helped ensure victory in numerous American wars and found an important place in American culture. Few people...- $39.99
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Vendor: Robert C. Plumb
The Better Angels: Five Women Who Changed Civil War America
Harriet Tubman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Clara Barton, Julia Ward Howe, and Sarah Josepha Hale came from backgrounds that ranged from abject enslavement to New York City's elite. Surmounting social and political obstacles, they emerged before and during the worst crisis in American history, the...- $32.95
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Vendor: Marcus Brotherton
A Bright and Blinding Sun: A World War II Story of Survival, Love, and Redemption
For fans of The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz and Unbroken comes an incredible true war story of an underage soldier who experiences his first love and loss on the battlefields of Bataan and Corregidor, by New York Times bestseller Marcus Brotherton....- $45.00
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Vendor: Helen Carr
The Red Prince: The Life of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster
Medieval history from a rising star in the field, this is a biography of one of the most important figures of the age, John of Gaunt.John Gaunt was the son of Edward III, brother to the Black Prince, father to Henry IV, and the...- $34.95
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Vendor: Stephen R. Bown
The Company: The Rise and Fall of the Hudson's Bay Empire
A thrilling new telling of the story of modern Canada's originsThe story of the Hudson's Bay Company, dramatic and adventurous and complex, is the story of modern Canada's creation. And yet it hasn't been told in a book for over thirty years and never...- $39.95
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Vendor: Woody Holton
Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution
A sweeping reassessment of the American Revolution, showing how the Founders were influenced by overlooked Americans--women, Native Americans, African Americans, and religious dissenters. Using more than a thousand eyewitness accounts, Liberty Is Sweet explores countless connections between the Patriots of 1776 and other Americans...- $75.00
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Vendor: Edward T. Haslam
Dr. Mary's Monkey: How the Unsolved Murder of a Doctor, a Secret Laboratory in New Orleans and Cancer-Causing Monkey Viruses Are Linked t
The 1964 murder of a nationally known cancer researcher sets the stage for this gripping expos of medical professionals enmeshed in covert government operations over the course of three decades. Following a trail of police records, FBI files, cancer statistics, and medical journals, this...- $44.99
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Vendor: Thomas G. Alexander
Brigham Young and the Expansion of the Mormon Faith: Volume 31
As president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Utah's first territorial governor, Brigham Young (1801-77) shaped a religion, a migration, and the American West. He led the Saints to Utah, guided the establishment of 350 settlements, and inspired the Mormons...- $29.95
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Vendor: Jacques Barzun
From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present
Drawing on a lifetime of studies across a broad territory, highly regarded cultural historian and critic Jacques Barzun here synthesizes the sum of his discoveries and conclusions about the whole of Western culture since 1500. The triumphs and defeats of five hundred years form...- $39.95
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Vendor: Ada Ferrer
Cuba: An American History
An epic, sweeping history of Cuba and its complex ties to the United States--from before the arrival of Columbus to the present day--written by one of the world's leading historians of Cuba. In 1961, at the height of the Cold War, the United States...- $39.99
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Vendor: Tim Brady
Three Ordinary Girls Lib/E: The Remarkable Story of Three Dutch Teenagers Who Became Spies, Saboteurs, Nazi Assassins-And WWII Heroes
May 10, 1940. The Netherlands was swarming with Third Reich troops. In seven days it's entirely occupied by Nazi Germany. Joining a small resistance cell in the Dutch city of Haarlem were three teenage girls: Hannie Schaft, and sisters Truus and Freddie Oversteegen, who...- $66.99
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Vendor: Annalee Newitz
Four Lost Cities Lib/E: A Secret History of the Urban Age
Author: Annalee NewitzISBN-10: 1665115610ISBN-13: 9781665115612Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/09/2021Format: CDWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 6.30h x 5.90w x 1.20d- $64.99
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Vendor: Christopher M. Rein
The Second Colorado Cavalry: A Civil War Regiment on the Great Plains Volume 69
During the Civil War, the Second Colorado Volunteer Regiment played a vital and often decisive role in the fight for the Union on the Great Plains--and in the westward expansion of the American empire. Christopher M. Rein's The Second Colorado Cavalry is the first...- $34.95
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Vendor: Michael K. Brantley
Galvanized: The Odyssey of a Reluctant Carolina Confederate
Galvanized is a thought-provoking work well suited to the contemplative general reader.--Kathryn A. McKee, North Carolina Historical ReviewEvery Civil War veteran had a story to tell. But few stories top the one lived by Wright Stephen Batchelor. Like most North Carolina farmers, Batchelor eschewed...- $28.95
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Vendor: Erik Larson
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers an intimate chronicle of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz--an inspiring portrait of courage and leadership in a time of unprecedented crisis "One of...- $45.00
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Vendor: John Feinstein
Raise a Fist, Take a Knee: Race and the Illusion of Progress in Modern Sports
Based on dozens of shocking interviews with some of the most influential names in sports, this is the urgent and revelatory examination of racial inequality in professional athletics America has been waiting forCommentators, coaches, and fans alike have long touted the diverse rosters of...- $40.00
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Vendor: Patrice Gaines
Say Their Names: How Black Lives Came to Matter in America
An incisive, gripping exploration of the forces that pushed our unjust system to its breaking point after the death of George Floyd and a definitive guide to America's present-day racial reckoning. For many, the story of the weeks of protests in the summer of...- $40.00
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Vendor: Erin K. Vearncombe
After Jesus Before Christianity: A Historical Exploration of the First Two Centuries of Jesus Movements
From the creative minds of the scholarly group behind the groundbreaking Jesus Seminar comes this provocative and eye-opening look at the roots of Christianity that offers a thoughtful reconsideration of the first two centuries of the Jesus movement, transforming our understanding of the religion...- $46.99
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Vendor: Ruben Gallego
They Called Us Lucky: The Life and Afterlife of the Iraq War's Hardest Hit Unit
From the Arizona Congressman, a 21st-century Band of Brothers chronicling the eternal bonds forged between the Marines of Lima Company, the hardest-hit unit of the Iraq WarAt first, they were Lucky Lima. Infantryman Ruben Gallego and his brothers in Lima Company--3rd Battalion, 25th Marines,...- $41.99
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Vendor: Patrick Wyman
The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years That Shook the World
The creator of the hit podcast series Tides of History and Fall of Rome explores the four explosive decades between 1490 and 1530, bringing to life the dramatic and deeply human story of how the West was reborn.In the bestselling tradition of The Swerve...- $40.00
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Vendor: Walter Isaacson
Einstein: His Life and Universe
Winner of the 2008 Audie Award for Biography/Memoir The definitive, internationally bestselling biography of Albert Einstein. Now the basis of Genius, the ten-part National Geographic series on the life of Albert Einstein, starring the Oscar, Emmy, and Tony Award-winning actor Geoffrey Rush as Einstein....- $14.99
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Vendor: Gary E. Moulton
The Lewis and Clark Journals: An American Epic of Discovery: The Abridgement of the Definitive Nebraska Edition
Following orders from President Thomas Jefferson, Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set out from their wintering camp in Illinois in 1804 to search for a river passage to the Pacific Ocean. This is the riveting account of their journey. In their own words,...- $39.95
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Vendor: Victor Herman
Coming Out of the Ice: An Unexpected Life
In 1931, a young American named Victor Herman accompanied his parents to the Soviet Union, where his father was to set up a Ford Motor Company plant. In 1938, he was inexplicably thrown into a Soviet prison. It was forty-five years before he was...- $32.95
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Vendor: David McCullough
Truman
The Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Harry S. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events from the atomic bombing of Japan to the outbreak of the Cold War and the Korean War, told by America's beloved and distinguished historian. The life of Harry S. Truman is...- $14.99
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Vendor: David McCullough
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
The dramatic and enthralling story of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge, the world's longest suspension bridge at the time, a tale of greed, corruption, and obstruction but also of optimism, heroism, and determination, told by master historian David McCullough. This monumental book is...- $39.95
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Vendor: Judy Batalion
The Light of Days CD: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos
One of the most important stories of World War II, already optioned by Steven Spielberg for a major motion picture: a spectacular, searing history that brings to light the extraordinary accomplishments of brave Jewish women who became resistance fighters--a group of unknown heroes whose...- $44.99
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Vendor: Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
Winner of the 2015 Audie Award for History/Biography and Finalist for Audiobook of the Year Pulitzer Prize-winning author and presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin's dynamic history of Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft and the first decade of the Progressive era, that tumultuous time when...- $75.00
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Vendor: 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....- $49.99
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Vendor: Alfred Lansing
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
This is a new reading of the thrilling account of one of the most astonishing feats of exploration and human courage ever recorded.In August of 1914, the British ship Endurance set sail for the South Atlantic. In October, 1915, still half a continent away...- $19.95
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Vendor: Bill O'Reilly
Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General
Listeners around the world have been enthralled by Killing Lincoln, Killing Kennedy, and Killing Jesus--riveting works of nonfiction that journey into the heart of the most famous murders in history. Now from Bill O'Reilly, iconic anchor of The O'Reilly Factor, comes the most epic...- $34.99
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Vendor: Heather Greene
Whiskey Distilled: A Populist Guide to the Water of Life
In the populist tradition of Andrea Immer, New York City's first female whiskey sommelier translates today's hottest spirit for a new generation of imbibers Whiskey is in the midst of a huge renaissance. Ten years ago, the United States housed sixty-nine craft distillers; today,...- $36.99
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Vendor: David McCullough
The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand for
A New York Times Bestseller A timely collection of speeches by David McCullough, the most honored historian in the United States--winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Book Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among many others--that reminds us of fundamental American principles....- $24.99
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Vendor: Doris Kearns Goodwin
Leadership: In Turbulent Times
From Pulitzer Prize-winning author and esteemed presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, an invaluable guide to the development and exercise of leadership from Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. The inspiration for the multipart HISTORY Channel series Abraham Lincoln and...- $49.99
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Vendor: Timothy Snyder
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
From the bestselling author of On Tyranny, the definitive history of Hitler's and Stalin's wars against the civilians of Europe in World War TwoAmericans call the Second World War The Good War.But before it even began, America's wartime ally Josef Stalin had killed millions...- $55.00
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