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The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation
by Philip Shenon  Synopsis In a work of history that will make headlines, New York Times reporter Philip Shenon investigates the investigation of 9/11 and tells the inside story of most important federal commission since the the Warren Commission. Shenon uncovers startling new...
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Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire
by Niall Ferguson Publisher Comments Is America an empire? Certainly not, according to our government. Despite the conquest of two sovereign states in as many years, despite the presence of more than 750 military installations in two thirds of the world's countries and despite his stated...
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1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina
by Chris Rose 
Publisher Comments 1 Dead in Attic is a collection of stories by Times-Picayune columnist Chris Rose, recounting the first harrowing year and a half of life in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Celebrated as a local treasure and heaped with national praise, Rose...
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The Greatest Generation
by Tom Brokaw Publisher Comments "In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the fortieth anniversary of D-Day, the massive and daring Allied invasion of Europe that marked the beginning of the end of Adolf Hitler's Third...
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Time 1968: The Year That Changed America with CDROM
by Time Magazine Synopsis Forty years later, America is still feeling the aftershocks of the year 1968. Assassinations, war, and riots gave way to a final blessing, when three U.S. astronauts--the first men to orbit the moon--read from the book of Genesis on Christmas Eve...
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Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Troubled Times
by Studs Terkel Publisher Comments Hope Dies Last is Studs Terkel's inspiring new oral history of social action in America. An alternative, more personal history of the "American century," Hope Dies Last forms a legacy of the indefatigable spirit that Studs has always embodied, and an...
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In Nixon's Web: A Year in the Crosshairs of Watergate
by L Patrick Gray Publisher Comments The last untold story of Watergate—by the FBI director who maintained his silence for more than thirty years L.Patrick Gray III was the man caught in the middle of the Watergate scandal. He was a lifelong Republican, but Richard Nixon...
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Devil We Knew: Americans and the Cold War
by H W Brands Publisher Comments In the late 1950s, Washington was driven by its fear of communist subversion: it saw the hand of Kremlin behind developments at home and across the globe. The FBI was obsessed with the threat posed by American communist party--yet party membership had...
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Greatest Generation
by Tom Brokaw Publisher Comments "They came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War and went on to build modern America -- men and women whose everyday lives of duty, honor, achievement, and courage gave us the world we have today." In this magnificent...
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Boom!: Voices of the Sixties: Personal Reflections on the '60s and Today
by Tom Brokaw Publisher Comments In The Greatest Generation, his landmark bestseller, Tom Brokaw eloquently evoked for America what it meant to come of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War. Now, in Boom!, one of America's premier journalists gives us an epic portrait...
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The Age of Anxiety: McCarthyism to Terrorism
by Haynes Johnson Publisher Comments For five long years in the 1950s, Senator Joseph McCarthy and his anti-Communist crusade dominated the American scene, terrified politicians, and destroyed the lives of thousands of our citizens. In this masterful history, Haynes Johnson re-creates that...
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America's Uncivil Wars: The Sixties Era from Elvis to the Fall of Richard Nixon
by Mark Hamilton Lytle Publisher Comments Here is a panoramic history of America from 1954 to 1973, ranging from the buoyant teen-age rebellion first captured by rock and roll, to the drawn-out and dispiriting endgame of Watergate. In America's Uncivil Wars, Mark Hamilton Lytle illuminates the...
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Death of a Generation: How the Assassinations of Diem and JFK Prolonged the Vietnam War
by Howard Jones Publisher Comments When John F. Kennedy was shot, millions were left to wonder how America, and the world, would have been different had he lived to fulfill the enormous promise of his presidency. For many historians and political observers, what Kennedy would and would...
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The Greatest Generation Speaks: Letters and Reflections
by Tom Brokaw Publisher Comments "I first began to appreciate fully all we owed the World War II generation while I was covering the fortieth and fiftieth anniversaries of D-Day for NBC News. When I wrote in The Greatest Generation about the men and women who came out of the...
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The United States and the End of the Cold War: Implications, Reconsiderations, Provocations
by John Lewis Gaddis Publisher Comments The Cold War ended with an exhilarating wave of events: the toppling of the Berlin Wall, the rise of the dissident poet Vaclav Havel, the revolution in Romania. Americans rejoiced at the dramatic conclusion of the long struggle. "But victories in wars...
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Reds : Mccarthyism in Twentieth-century America (03 Edition)
by Ted Morgan Synopsis In this landmark work, Pulitzer Prize- winning author Ted Morgan examines the McCarthyite strain in American politics, from its origins in the period that followed the Bolshevik Revolution to the present. Morgan argues that Senator Joseph McCarthy did...
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Berkeley at War: The 1960s
by W J Rorabaugh Publisher Comments Berkeley, California stood at the center of the political, social, and cultural upheaval that made the 1960s a unique period in American history. In Berkeley at War, W.J. Rorabaugh, who attended the graduate school of the University of California at...
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109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos
by Jennet Conant Publisher Comments They were told as little as possible. Their orders were to go to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and report for work at a classified Manhattan Project site, a location so covert it was known to them only by the mysterious address: 109 East Palace. There...
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Marching Home: To War and Back with the Men of One American Town
by Kevin Coyne Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [381]-398) and index....
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The Sixties Papers: Documents of a Rebellious Decade
by Judith Clavi Albert Publisher Comments "...[P]rovides a view straight from the source. This weighty anthology gives a year-by-year synopsis and presents dozens of articles penned during the era, ranging from Malcolm X's `The Ballot or the Bullet' to Kate Millett's `Sexual Politics: A...
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