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Red Cloud at Dawn
Truman, Stalin, and the End of the Atomic Monopoly
Michael D. Gordin
Picador
“Gordin zeros in on the crucial years from Hiroshima to the first flash of ‘Joe 1’ in 1949, the first Russian bomb and the ninth nuclear explosion. Using a spectacular variety of sources from Soviet and American sources, Gordin gives us a book that must be read to understand how we came to the sprawling nuclear proliferation in which we now live.”—
Peter Galison, Joseph Pellegrino University Professor, Harvard University
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The Shadows of Youth
The Remarkable Journey of the Civil Rights Generation
Andrew B. Lewis
Hill and Wang
“Lewis takes on this tumultuous journey in a fact-based account of the movement’s moral and political dilemmas . . . His view of the student movement working in the shadow of the iconic Martin Luther King is both insightful and alarming . . . The extent of Lewis’s research makes this an excellent tool and especially fertile ground for screenwriters, politicians, and anyone interested in this polarizing period of history.” —
Sheli Ellsworth,
San Francisco Book Review
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Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning
1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City
Jonathan Mahler
Picador
"Entertaining and illuminating . . . Mahler marshals his evidence well . . . By using the Yankees as a central metaphor for the city's fortunes, Mahler is able to draw a nuanced portrait of this wild year."—
Jon Meacham,
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The Other Eighties
A Secret History of America in the Age of Reagan
Bradford Martin
Hill and Wang
“In arguing for a 1980s that not only didn’t uniformly embrace the superficial conformity of the Reagan years but actively laid groundwork for today’s progressive movements, Martin does valuable work.”—
Kate Tuttle,
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“Bradford Martin’s fascinating and extensively researched book will take you on a revelatory trip to the other side of Reagan’s 1980s.”
—Judith E. Smith, Professor of American Studies, University of Massachusetts, Boston
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The Beats
A Graphic History
Text by Harvey Pekar et al.; Art by Ed Piskor et al.
Hill and Wang
“This revelatory and exhilarating and funny book not only tells us of the Beat generation, but of a time when we as individuals felt truly free. It is as fresh and pertinent as the latest scholarly history only far more entertaining.”—
Studs Terkel
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Texas Tough
The Rise of America's Prison Empire
Robert Perkinson
Picador
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Charles J. Ogletree Jr., Jesse Climenko Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, and author of
When Law Fails
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Lyndon B. Johnson
The American Presidents Series: The 36th President, 1963-1969
The American Presidents
Charles Peters; Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., and Sean Wilentz, General Editors
Times Books
The towering figure who sought to transform America into a "Great Society" but whose ambitions and presidency collapsed in the tragedy of the Vietnam War Few...
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The Yugo
The Rise and Fall of the Worst Car in History
Jason Vuic
Hill and Wang
“[A] rollicking chronicle of the rise and fall of the homely little hatchback that couldn’t . . . [Jason Vuic] weaves a tale about crazy socialist factories, just-as-crazy Western financial practices, geopolitics in the days of the Cold War and an American public yearning for affordable cars—all combined with the ‘cutting edge Serbo-Croatian technology,’ as the Yugo was referred to in the spoof movie version of ‘Dragnet’ . . . Mr. Vuic is as hard on the Western capitalism that fleetingly embraced the car as he is on the socialist system that produced it.”—
Dick Teresi,
The Wall Street Journal
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The Long Gray Line
The American Journey of West Point's Class of 1966
Rick Atkinson
Holt Paperbacks
“Enormously rich in detail and written with a novelist’s brilliance . . . A very moving book.” —James Salter, The Washington Post Book World A classic of its...
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The Limits of Power
The End of American Exceptionalism
American Empire Project
Andrew Bacevich
A Metropolitan/Holt Paperbacks Book
“This compact, meaty volume ought to be on the reading list of every candidate for national office in November's elections. In an age of cant and baloney, Andrew Bacevich offers a bracing slap of reality.
The Limits of Power
is gracefully written and easy to read . . . chockablock with provocative ideas and stern judgments. Bacevich's brand of intellectual assuredness is rare in today's public debates. Many of our talking heads and commentators are cocksure, of course, but few combine confidence with knowledge and deep thought the way Bacevich does here. His big argument is elegant and powerful.”—
The Washington Post
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The Coldest War
A Memoir of Korea
James Brady
St. Martin's Griffin
America's "forgotten war" lasted just thirty-seven months, yet 54,246 Americans died in that time -- nearly as many as died in ten years in Vietnam. On the...
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Gerald R. Ford
The American Presidents Series: The 38th President, 1974-1977
The American Presidents
Douglas Brinkley; Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., General Editor
Times Books
"Although Brinkley calls the pardon and its 'healing' effect on America Ford's most enduring legacy, he deftly describes other achievements. These including ending the divisive Vietnam War while doing his best to aid South Vietnam's refugees; helping to forge the 1975 Helsinki Accords that led the Soviet Union to acknowledge basic human rights and opened the way for its collapse, and fiscal policies that cut inflation in half and, according to Brinkley, boosted the U.S. economy out of its lowest trough since the Great Depression."—
Jack Nelson,
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John F. Kennedy
The American Presidents Series: The 35th President, 1961-1963
The American Presidents
Alan Brinkley; Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., and Sean Wilentz, General Editors
Times Books
The young president who brought vigor and glamour to the White House while he confronted cold war crises abroad and calls for social change at home John...
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Red Moon Rising
Sputnik and the Hidden Rivalries that Ignited the Space Age
Matthew Brzezinski
Holt Paperbacks
“In his exuberant narrative of the superpower space race . . . [Brzezinski] tells the story of American and Soviet decisions with remarkable dramatic—even...
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A Short History of Rudeness
Manners, Morals, and Misbehavior in Modern America
Mark Caldwell
Picador
The perceived breakdown of civility has in recent years become a national obsession, and our modern climate of boorishness has cultivated a host of etiquette...
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A Rumor of War
Philip Caputo
Holt Paperbacks
The classic Vietnam memoir, as relevant today as it was almost thirty years ago. In March of 1965, Marine Lieutenent Philip J. Caputo landed at Da Nang...
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Can't Stop Won't Stop
A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
Jeff Chang; Introduction by DJ Kool Herc
Picador
"The birth of hip-hop out of the ruin of the South Bronx is a story that has been told many times, but never with the cinematic scope and the analytic force that Chang brings to it. Robert Moses unleashes the destructive juggernaut of the Cross-Bronx Expressway; landlords set fire to worthless tenements; police stand by and do nothing; and, against a backdrop of gang warfare, peacemaking d.j.s lay down the heavy beats and spidery loops around which a rapping, dancing, graffiti-painting culture grows. This is one of the most urgent and passionate histories of popular music ever written. Chang is blind to no one's greed or viciousness, but he retains an idealistic view of a music that speaks the truth about the alternately stultifying and horrifying urban landscapes that the parents who hate hip-hop have made."—
The New Yorker
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Hegemony or Survival
America's Quest for Global Dominance
American Empire Project
Noam Chomsky; With a New Afterword by the Author
Holt Paperbacks
"Reading Chomsky today is sobering and instructive . . . He is a global phenomenon . . . perhaps the most widely read voice on foreign policy on the planet."...
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Sweet and Low
A Family Story
Rich Cohen
Picador
Sweet and Low is the bittersweet, hilarious story of Ben Eisenstadt, who invented sugar packets and Sweet'N Low, and amassed the great fortune that would later...
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How Race Is Lived in America
Pulling Together, Pulling Apart
Correspondents of The New York Times, Introduction by Joseph Lelyveld
Times Books
"This is reporting at its best. This is how sociology should be, a comprehensive view in depth on a major social problem in America. This will be a benchmark for all future inquiries."—
Daniel Bell, professor emeritus, Harvard University
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Eisenhower
A Soldier's Life
Carlo D'Este
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“An excellent book . . . D’Este’s masterly account comes into its own.” —The Washington Post Book World Born into hardscrabble...
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Harry S. Truman
The American Presidents Series: The 33rd President, 1945-1953
The American Presidents
Robert Dallek; Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., and Sean Wilentz, General Editors
Times Books
The plainspoken man from Missouri who never expected to be president yet rose to become one of the greatest leaders of the twentieth century In April 1945,...
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Guarding the Golden Door
American Immigration Policy and Immigrants since 1882
Roger Daniels
Hill and Wang
"Ambitious . . . Both an introductory survey of immigration policy and a masterful assessment of the state of the field by one of its founders . . . [Daniels] provides a much-needed perspective on both the continuities and changes in the United States' efforts to regulate immigration . . .
Guarding the Golden Door
is rich with details, statistics, and the author's own unique viewpoint. The book is exemplary."—
Erika Lee,
Reviews in American History
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Essays
Joan Didion
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
"A slant vision that is arresting and unique . . . Didion might be an observer from another planet—one so edgy and alert that she ends up knowing more about our own world than we know ourselves."—
Anne Tyler
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