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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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Carl Sagan - The Demon-Haunted World: Science As a Candle in the Dark
Disturbingly, in our so-called information age, pseudoscience is burgeoning, with alien abduction, "channeling" past lives, and communal hallucinations commanding growing attention and respect. In this compellingly brilliant new book, Carl Sagan argues that this is not just a cultural wrong turn, bu ... More
Score: 4.8 13 Reviews
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Anne Fadiman - The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors and the Collision of Two Cultures
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, this brilliantly reported and beautifully crafted book explores the clash between a medical center in California and a Laotian refugee family over their care of a child--and the lack of understanding that led to tragedy.
Score: 3.8 6 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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Rohinton Mistry - A Fine Balance
In India during the mid-1970s, after a "state of internal emergency" is declared, four very different people--a widowed seamstress, a student, and a man and his nephew who have fled their village's caste violence--find their lives becoming inextricably intertwined.
Score: 4.8 14 Reviews
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Thomas Keneally - Schindler's List
Recreates the remarkable activities and courage of Oskar Schindler, a Catholic German industrialist who gambled everything to save as many Jews as possible from the Nazi death camps.
Score: 4.6 9 Reviews
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David G. McCullough - Mornings on Horseback
Noted historian McCullough examines the formative years of Theodore Roosevelt, providing a portrait of his family and a social history of a time period. Winner of the National Book Award for Biography.
Score: 4.0 1 Review
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Edmund Morris and Jonathan Marosz - Theodore Rex
This is the second volume of Edmund Morris's biography of Theodore Roosevelt. Here, he covers Roosevelt's presidency and its achievements in conservation, international relations, and domestic issues such as big business and labor. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002.
Score: 4.8 6 Reviews
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William Greider - Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country
This ground-breaking bestseller reveals for the first time how the mighty and mysterious Federal Reserve actually operates--and how it manipulated and transformed both America's economy and the world's during eight crucial years.
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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James Welch - Fools Crow
The year is 1870, and Fool's Crow, so called after he killed the chief of the Crows during a raid, has a vision at the annual Sun Dance ceremony. The young warrior sees the end of the Indian way of life and the choice that must be made: resistance or humiliating accommodation. "A major contibution t ... More
Score: 4.5 2 Reviews
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Dennis Overbye - Einstein in Love: A Scientific Romance
In lush and accessible prose, this popular science work traces the early days of Albert Einstein and examines the powerful synergy of scientific and romantic discovery. A New York Times Notable Book for 2000.
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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W. G. Sebald - The Rings of Saturn
This novel, which has secured W. G. Sebald a reputation as one of the most original literary figures of his time, combines historical fact with fiction as the narrator, who has recently suffered a mysterious and paralyzing breakdown, travels backward in time while he wanders through Suffolk, England ... More
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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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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Michael Chabon - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay: A Novel
In 1939 New York City, Joe Kavalier, a refugee from Hitler's Prague, joins forces with his Brooklyn-born cousin, Sammy Clay, to create comic-book superheroes inspired by their own fantasies, fears, and dreams. By the author of Wonder Boys and The Mysteries of Pittsburgh.
Score: 4.7 11 Reviews
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Pankaj Mishra - The Romantics: A Novel
In a novel set in both modern-day India and Europe, a young Brahmin intellectual finds himself caught between two cultures as he seeks to find his true identity.
Score: 4.0 1 Review
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Barbara Kingsolver - Pigs in Heaven
In Heaven, Oklahoma, pigs are both edible and inspirational! The story begins when a 6-year-old named Turtle is the sole witness to a freak accident. As a result she and her adoptive mother, Taylor, have a moment of celebrity that changes their lives forever. After seeing them on television, Annawak ... More
Score: 4.4 5 Reviews
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Walker Percy - The Second Coming
Will Barrett is a lonely widower suffering from a depression so severe that he decides he doesn't want to continue living. But then he meets Allison, a mental hospital escapee making a new life for herself in a greenhouse.
Score: 4.0 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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George Chauncey - Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940
Winner of the 1994 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History, Chauncey's brilliant work challenges the conventional wisdom that before the 1960s gay life existed only in the closet. "Chauncey's genius here is the way he combines real lives and theory".--Out. Illustrations.
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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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Walker Percy - Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book
A satirical book illustrating Percy's unique humorous, ironical, and Christian attitudes. Contents include a mock self-help quiz, a script for "The Last Donahue Show", letters to "Dear Abby", essays, and other pieces of humor and criticism.
Score: 4.0 1 Review
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Doris May Lessing - Under My Skin: My Autobiography to 1949
Doris Lessing offers her autobiography up to the year 1949, from her childhood and adolescence in Rhodesia, to her first marriage and abandonment of her two children, her jettisoning of religion and adopting of political activism. Though autobiographical elements have always found a way into her fic ... More
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Rachel Seiffert - The Dark Room
Rachel Seiffert&#8217;s absorbing, internationally acclaimed debut explores the modern German psyche through the experiences of three ordinary people.<br><br>At the onset of World War II, a young photographer&#8217;s assistant is kept out of the war due to a physical disability, and instead spends h ... More
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Jackson Lears - Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in America
A "highly illuminating" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) book that fundamentally transforms the whole debate about the cultural significance of advertising.
Score: 2.0 1 Review
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David Willis McCullough - Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life, and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt
A new edition of the classic, National Book Award-winning biography examines the life of Theodore Roosevelt from age ten to twenty-seven, focusing on the influence of his family relationships and experiences on his growth to manhood.
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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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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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Sherwin B. Nuland M.D. - The Mysteries Within: A Surgeon Explores Myth, Medicine, and the Human Body
A respected doctor offers a discussion of the traditions and folklore of medicine, focusing on the effort to understand the human body, and including anecdotes from his own medical career.
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S. L. Price - Pitching Around Fidel: A Journey into the Heart of Cuban Sports
<P>In an artful pastiche of observation, personal narrative, interviews, and investigative reporting, S.L. Price, a senior writer for <I>Sports Illustrated,</i> describes sports and athletes in today's Cuba. On his journeys to the island, Price finds a country that celebrates sports like no other an ... More
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E. J. Dionne - Why Americans Hate Politics
Release Date: June 01, 2004
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