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Joseph J. Ellis and Runger Nelson - Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
In a landmark work of history, the National Book Award&#8212;winning author of <b>American Sphinx</b><i> </i>explores how a group of greatly gifted but deeply flawed men&#8211;Hamilton, Burr, Jefferson, Franklin, Washington, Adams, and Madison&#8211;set the course for our nation.<br><br>Joseph Ellis ... More
Score: 4.6 10 Reviews
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Joseph J. Ellis - Founding Brothers
This group portrait of the Founding Fathers emphasizes the sometimes intense associations and rivalries among Jefferson, Hamilton, Burr, Adams, Franklin, Madison, and Washington.The author examines six defining moments when the personal and the political collided, and shows how their distinctive sty ... More
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Philip Gourevitch - We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
Decimation means the killing of every tenth person in a population, and in the spring and early summer of 1994 a program of massacres decimated the Republic of Rwanda. Although the killing was low-tech--performed largely by machete--it was carried out at dazzling speed: of an original population of ... More
Score: 4.8 4 Reviews
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H. W. Brands - The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
This biography of Ben Franklin sees him as both a representative of the new man--the American--and an agent of historical change, whose participation was central to the debates that shaped the new nation. This book was a finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize.
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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Alice Yaeger Kaplan - The Collaborator: The Trial & Execution of Robert Brasillach
Relates the story of the only French writer to be executed for treason during World War II, from his rise during the 1930s to his trial and death in front of a firing squad.
Score: 4.0 1 Review
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Patrick Tierney - Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon
Examines the destructive impact of journalists, anthropologists, and scientists on the Yamomami Indians, one of the Amazon basin's oldest tribes, whose internecine warfare was triggered by repeated visits by the world's leading anthropologists and by the Atomic Energy Commission's plans to use the ... More
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Ian Buruma - The Missionary and the Libertine
From Naipaul&#8217;s India to the last days of Hong Kong, and from the ghosts of Pearl Harbor to Benazir Bhutto, Buruma delivers an engaging and incisive look at the ways East and West understand&#8211;and misunderstand&#8211;each other. <br><br>At home in both worlds, Buruma traverses the realms of ... More
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Eric Foner - Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
<p align="left">This "masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history" (<i>New Republic</i>) made history when it was originally published in 1988. It redefined how Reconstruction was viewed by historians and people everywhere in its chronicling of how Americans -- black a ... More
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Richard Fletcher - The Quest for El Cid
Release Date: June 20, 1991
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Karl Sabbagh - A Rum Affair: A True Story of Botanical Fraud
Examines the discovery of several species of rare plants a by British scientist on the Isle of Rum, and questions the veracity of whether or not these plants were actually indigenous to the island.
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Geoffrey Hosking - The First Socialist Society: A History of the Soviet Union from Within
Release Date: March 01, 1993
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Francis Fukuyama - The End of History And the Last Man
Both influential and controversial, Francis Fukuyama?s 1992 analysis of the political and economic prospects following the fall of Communism is an essential text for debates on globalization and the post-9/11 world order. Fukuyama champions liberal democracy as the end result of the long march of hi ... More
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Jacobo Timerman, Toby Talbot, Arthur Miller, Ilan Stavans - Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number
This prison memoir is by the outspoken Argentine newspaper editor who, because of his politics and because he was a Jew, was imprisoned and tortured following a coup by that country's military. It was originally published in 1981 and became a bestseller.
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Jonathan D. Spence - The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution 1895-1980
This modern history of China is told through the eyes of a few Chinese intellectuals. A scholar, a doctor, and a writer/political activist are the three major figures whose "lives will serve to introduce the reader to the extraordinary sequence of events that are often loosely dumped together as con ... More
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Frances Fitzgerald - Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War
An examination of the presidency of Ronald Reagan explores his "Star Wars" program, showing how Reagan used his acting skills and public image to drive a program derided by scientists.
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John MacK Faragher - Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer
An award-winning historian portrays America's most famous frontier hero. From Boone's extraordinary accomplishments and from the conflicting accounts of his life and character, Faragher depicts not only the hero but the uniquely American hero-making process. Photos.
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Anthony Grafton, Nancy Siraisi, April Shelford - New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and the Shock of Discovery
On encountering what he called "the Indies", the Jesuit Jose de Acosta wrote, "Having read what poets and philosophers write of the Torrid Zone, I persuaded myself that when I came to the Equator, I would not be able to endure the violent heat, but it turned out otherwise... What could I do then but ... More
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Alexander Keyssar - The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States
A distinguished historian traces the history of American suffrage from an ethnic, gender, religious, and age perspective and documents the expansion and contraction of American democracy through the years, arguing that the primary impetus for promoting voting rights has been war and that the primary ... More
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Neal Ascherson - Black Sea
This strikingly original book is about place and history - about the universe of the Black Sea, from Jason and the Golden Fleece to the fall of Communism and the new world disorder. As Neal Ascherson shows in a colorful, learned, and surprising chronicle, the Black Sea has been a decisive "personali ... More
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Douglas A. Starr - Blood: An Epic History Of Medicine And Commerce
A chronological history of the essence of life, blood; from transfusions to clotting, bloodletting to the tragic spread of AIDS.
Score: 4.0 1 Review
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Robert Jay Lifton - The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide
This powerful study, the result of ten years of painstaking research and extensive interviews, casts new light not only on the origins of the Holocaust, but explains how physicians, sworn by oath and conviction to ease suffering, were transformed from healers to systematic killers.
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Shareen Blair Brysac - Resisting Hitler: Mildred Harnack and the Red Orchestra
In this biography of Mildred Harnack, an American who married a German professor and moved with him to Berlin in the 1920s, the author conveys the intellectual milieu of Berlin in the '20s as well as the brave exploits and valuable intelligence provided by the Red Orchestra, the name of the resistan ... More
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Orlando Figes - A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924
An account of the Russian Revolution, written by a distinguished historian and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Figes emphasizes the real cost of the Bolshevik coup d'etat--in lives, material progress, and moral decency--for the people of the former Soviet Union. In direct opposition to more th ... More
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