History and Politics
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John Adams
by David McCullough  
From Powells.com David McCullough is our most dependable presidential biographer. Each of his efforts has been a resounding success, combining popular appeal with literary accolades. Mornings on Horseback, about Teddy Roosevelt, won the National Book Award, his...
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Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt
by David McCullough Publisher Comments Mornings on Horseback is the brilliant biography of the young Theodore Roosevelt. Hailed as "a masterpiece" (John A. Gable, Newsday), it is the winner of the Los Angeles Times 1981 Book Prize for Biography and the National Book Award for Biography...
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Truman
by David McCullough
Publisher Comments The life of Harry S. Truman is one of the greatest of American stories, filled with vivid characters -- Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Wallace Truman, George Marshall, Joe McCarthy, and Dean Acheson -- and dramatic events. In this...
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Paradise & Power
by Robert Kagan Synopsis This title argues that the interests of America and its European allies are diverging sharply. It makes clear how Europe's need to escape a bloody past has led to a new set of beliefs about conflict while at the same time the US has become the guarantor...
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Brave Companions
by David McCullough Publisher Comments The bestselling author of Truman and John Adams, David McCullough has written profiles of exceptional men and women past and present who have not only shaped the course of history or changed how we see the world but whose stories express much that is...
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Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge (Touchstone Books)
by David McCullough
Publisher Comments This monumental book is the enthralling story of one of the greatest events in our nation's history, during the Age of Optimism -- a period when Americans were convinced in their hearts that all things were possible. In the years around 1870, when the...
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Living History
by Hillary Rodham Clinton Publisher Comments The Phenomenal #1 Worldwide Bestseller WITH A NEW AFTERWORD Hillary Rodham Clinton is known to hundreds of millions of people around the world. Yet few beyond her close friends and family have ever heard her account of her extraordinary journey. She...
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The People Speak: American Voices, Some Famous, Some Little Known: Dramatic Readings Celebrating the Enduring Spirit of Dissent
by Howard Zinn Publisher Comments To celebrate the millionth copy sold of Howard Zinn's great People's History of the United States, Zinn drew on the words of Americans -- some famous, some little known -- across the range of American history. These words were read by a remarkable cast...
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Band of Brothers
by Stephen E. Ambrose Publisher Comments As good a rifle company as any in the world, Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, U.S. Army, kept getting the tough assignments -- responsible for everything from parachuting into France early D-Day morning to the capture of Hitler's Eagle's Nest at...
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Generation Kill
by Evan Wright
Publisher Comments A powerhouse work of nonfiction, Generation Kill expands on Evan Wright's acclaimed three-part series that appeared in Rolling Stone during the summer of 2003. His narrative follows the twenty-three marines of First Recon who spearheaded the blitzkrieg...
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Alexander Hamilton: A Life
by Willard Ste Randall Publisher Comments Chapter One The Wish of My Heart Alexander Hamilton realized instantly that he would die. Before he even heard the shot, the oversize lead ball had torn into his right side just above the hip, crashed through a rib, sliced through his liver, shattering a...
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
by Erik Larson
Powells.com Staff Pick "I was mesmerized by this book. It was a deliciously creepy read, made more creepy for being true. Several times in the course of reading it, I had to keep reminding myself that the events really happened." Beth, Powells...
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War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
by Chris Hedges
Publisher Comments General George S. Patton famously said, "Compared to war all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God, I do love it so!" Though Patton was a notoriously single-minded general, it is nonetheless a sad fact that war gives meaning to many...
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Chasing Che a Freewheeling Adventure
by Patrick Symmes Synopsis Nearly half a century after Che Guevara's "Motorcycle Diaries", author Patrick Symmes sets off along the same back roads of South America in search of the Guevara legend. This book gives an insight into the moulding of a great Latin American hero and...
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Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History
by Publisher Comments Charlie Wilson's War was a publishing sensation and a New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times bestseller. In the early 1980s, a Houston socialite turned the attention of maverick Texas congressman Charlie Wilson to the ragged band of...
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46 Pages: Thomas Paine, Common Sense, and the Turning Point to American Independence
by Scott Liell Publisher Comments Thomas Paine, a native of Thetford, England, arrived in America's colonies with little in the way of money, reputation, or prospects, though he did have a letter of recommendation in his pocket from Benjamin Franklin. Paine also had a passion for...
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Rifles Six Years With Wellingtons Legend
by Mark Urban Publisher Comments As part of the Light Division created to act as the advance guard of Wellington's army, the 95th Rifles are the first into battle and the last out. Fighting, thieving and raping their way across Europe, they are clearly no ordinary troops. The 95th are...
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Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
by Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [479]-485) and index....
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The Forgotten Soldier
by Guy Sajer Publisher Comments An international bestseller, this is a German soldier's first-hand account of life on Russian front during the second half of World War II. When Guy Sajer joins the infantry full of ideals in the summer of 1942 the German army is enjoying...
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Bull!: A History of the Boom, 1982-1999: What Drove the Breakneck Market -- and What Every Investor Needs to Know about Financial Cycles
by Maggie Mahar Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [385]-457) and index....
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