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Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63
by Taylor Branch  
Publisher Comments Hailed as the most masterful story ever told of the American civil rights movement, Parting the Waters is destined to endure for generations. Moving from the fiery political baptism of Martin Luther King, Jr., to the corridors of Camelot where the...
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Best & the Brightest 20TH Anniversary Edition
by David Halberstam Publisher Comments "A rich, entertaining, and profound reading experience." -- The New York Times "[The] most comprehensive saga of how America became involved in Vietnam. It is also the Iliad of the American empire and the Odyssey of this nation's search...
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Write It When I'm Gone: Remarkable Off-the-Record Conversations with Gerald Ford
by Thomas M. DeFrank Publisher Comments In an extraordinary series of private interviews, conducted over sixteen years with the stipulation that they not be released until after Ford's death, the thirty-eighth president of the United States reveals a profoundly different side of himself: funny,...
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At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 (America in the King Years)
by Taylor Branch Publisher Comments At Canaan's Edge concludes America in the King Years, a three-volume history that will endure as a masterpiece of storytelling on American race, violence, and democracy. Pulitzer Prize-winner and bestselling author Taylor Branch makes clear in this...
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Pillar of Fire : America in the King Years 1963-64 (98 Edition)
by Taylor Branch Publisher Comments In the second volume of his three-part history, a monumental trilogy that began with Parting the Waters, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, Taylor Branch portrays the Civil Rights Movement at its zenith, recounting...
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An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King
by William F. Pepper Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-324) and index....
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Battleground Chicago: The Police and the 1968 Democratic National Convention
by Frank Kusch Publisher Comments The 1968 Democratic Convention, best known for police brutality against demonstrators, has been relegated to a dark place in American historical memory. Battleground Chicago ventures beyond the stereotypical image of rioting protestors and violent cops...
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Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-64
by Taylor Branch
Publisher Comments In Pillar of Fire, the second volume of his America in the King Years trilogy, Taylor Branch portrays the civil rights era at its zenith. The first volume, Parting the Waters, won the Pulitzer Prize for History. It is a monumental chronicle of a movement...
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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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Support Any Friend: Kennedy's Middle East and the Making of the U.S.-Israel Alliance
by Warren Bass Publisher Comments They were three of the most memorable figures of the twentieth century: David Ben-Gurion, Israel's indomitable founding father; Egyptian President Gamal Abdul Nasser, the charismatic Arab nationalist; and the young and dynamic John F. Kennedy. Now Warren...
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Years of Renewal
by Henry Kissinger About the Author Henry A. Kissinger was sworn in on September 22, 1973, as the fifty-sixth Secretary of State, a position he held until January 20, 1977. He also served as Assistant to President for National Security Affairs from January 20, 1969, until November 3, 1975....
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Flying High: Remembering Barry Goldwater
by William Buckley Publisher Comments If any two people can be called indispensable in launching the conservative movement in American politics, they are William F. Buckley Jr. and Barry Goldwater. Buckley’s National Review was at the center of conservative political analysis from the...
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Peace Now!: American Society and the Ending of the Vietnam War
by Rhod Jeffreys Jones Synopsis Looking at American society and the ending of the Vietnam War, this book focuses on four social groups--students, African Americans, women and labor--and investigates their impacts on American foreign policy. 11 illustrations....
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The Movement and the Sixties
by Terry Anderson Publisher Comments It began in 1960 with the Greensboro sit-ins. By 1973, when a few Native Americans rebelled at Wounded Knee and the U.S. Army came home from Vietnam, it was over. In between came Freedom Rides, Port Huron, the Mississippi Summer, Berkeley, Selma, Vietnam,...
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Coming Apart: An Informal History of America in the 1960's
by William L Oneill Publisher Comments A chronicle of the century's most confounding decade is an immensely readable book that combines wit with learning and seriousness with entertainment....
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The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House During the Cuban Missile Crisis
by Ernest R May Publisher Comments October 1962: the United States and the Soviet Union stood eyeball to eyeball, each brandishing enough nuclear weapons to obliterate civilization in the Northern Hemisphere. It was one of the mostdangerous moments in world history. Day by day, for two...
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Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years
by David Talbot Publisher Comments For decades, books about John or Robert Kennedy have woven either a shimmering tale of Camelot gallantry or a tawdry story of runaway ambition and reckless personal behavior. But the real story of the Kennedys in the 1960s has long been submerged —...
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The Flawed Architect: Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy
by Jussi M. Hanhimaki Publisher Comments Henry Kissinger dominated American foreign relations like no other figure in recent history. He negotiated an end to American involvement in the Vietnam War, opened relations with Communist China, and orchestrated detente with the Soviet Union. Yet he is...
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Gerald R. Ford: The 38th President, 1974-1977 (American Presidents)
by Douglas Brinkley Publisher Comments When Gerald R. Ford entered the White House in August 1974, he inherited a presidency tarnished by the Watergate scandal, the economy was in a recession, the Vietnam War was drawing to a close, and he had taken office without having been elected. Most...
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