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Herbert P. Bix - Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
This biography of the emperor of Japan examines his formative years and how they shaped his character, his deft grasp of both the imperial system and modernity, his wielding of power and influence within his country, and that country's conflicts with major powers such as China and the United States. ... More
Score: 5.0 2 Reviews
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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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Robert Darnton - The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France
The best-selling books in France during the waning decades of the ancien regime were not the outlawed works of great philosophers such as Voltaire and Rousseau, but other books, also banned by the government, written and sold "under the cloak." These formed a libertine literature that was a crucial ... More
Score: 4.0 1 Review
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John Dower - War Without Mercy
Now in paperback, this monumental history has been hailed by the New York Times as "one of the most important books ever written about World War II in the Pacific". 20 pages of illustrations.
Score: 3.5 4 Reviews
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Jan T. Gross - Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland
Documents the brutal 1941 massacre of 1,600 Jewish men, women, and children by their own neighbors in the Polish town of Jedwabne, offering additional examinations of the period's Jewish-Polish relations, the Holocaust, and human responses to occupation and totalitarianism.
Score: 1.0 1 Review
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Philip F. Gura - American Transcendentalism: A History
A history of the major intellectual movement of 19th-century America, Mark Gura's AMERICAN TRANSCENDENTALISM provides an overview of its major ideas and personalities, while grounding it in a spirit of reform and progressivism. Gura identifies the seeds of this movement in Europe, and shows how (an ... More
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Daniel Walker Howe - What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
A panoramic history of the United States ranges from the 1815 Battle of New Orleans to the end of the Mexican-American War and chronicles the dramatic changes that took place in America during the period, interweaving political and military events with social, economic, and cultural history to addre ... More
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Daniel Mendelsohn - The Lost
Noted critic and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn never knew his uncle Shmiel, who died in the Holocaust, but family members who did never forgot him, and they spoke about him to Daniel, who was moved enough to begin a search to learn of the fate of his uncle, his uncle?s wife, and their four daughters. ... More
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James Tobin - Ernie Pyle's War: America's Eyewitness to World War II
A National Book Critics Circle Award-winning classic documents the career of the World War II combat reporter while describing his coverage of the experiences of everyday soldiers, his receipt of a Pulitzer Prize, and his death during the Okinawa campaign.
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Jacques Barzun - From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life
Barzun unpacks a lifetime of learning in this comprehensive overview of history and culture. The distinguished historian reexamines major themes in Western civilization from the Renaissance through modern times.
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