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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,
The
Boston Globe
“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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Runaway Dream
Born to Run and Bruce Springsteen's American Vision
Louis P. Masur
Bloomsbury Press
“Masur, as his title suggests, has ‘an affinity for the American themes that permeate [Springsteen’s] work,’ and his book is essentially an extended cultural essay about those.”—
Chicago
Tribune
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'What the Heck Are You Up To, Mr. President?'
Jimmy Carter, America's 'Malaise,' and the Speech That Should Have Changed the Country
Kevin Mattson
Bloomsbury USA
"Exactly what political history ought to be—incisive, fast-paced and fun to read."—
Matt Bai,
The New York Times Book Review
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Betsy Ross and the Making of America
Marla R. Miller
St. Martin's Griffin
"In an engaging biography, Miller shows that even though the flag story is riddled with improbabilities, the life of the woman who came to be known as Betsy Ross is worth recovering . . . Through skillful use of small details, Miller sustains her repeated assertion that the future Betsy Ross was often 'only a handshake away' from the men who made the Revolution . . . Miller's admiring biography will warm the hearts of those who love the Betsy Ross legend. It may also convince skeptics (Miller refers to them as 'naysayers') that there is something in the flag stories worth considering."—
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich,
The New York Times
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Why the West Rules--for Now
The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future
Ian Morris
Picador
“Ian Morris is a classical archaeologist, an ancient historian, and a writer whose breathtaking vision and scope make him fit to be ranked alongside the likes of Jared Diamond and David Landes. His magnum opus is a tour not just d’horizon but de force, taking us on a spectacular journey to and from the two nodal cores of the Euramerican West and the Asian East, alighting and reflecting as suggestively upon 10,800 BC as upon AD 2010. The shape of globalizing history may well never be quite the same again.”—
Paul Cartledge, A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture, Clare College
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Tears in the Darkness
The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath
Michael Norman and Elizabeth M. Norman
Picador
"Ben Steele, a young cowboy on his home range in Montana who had enlisted as a soldier in World War II, was caught up in the battle for Bataan in the Philippines, then in the ensuing death march as a prisoner of the Japanese, which he barely survived. Beginning with harrowing sketches of that experience, and in the course of various adventures and misadventures, he continued to draw and paint, and has since become a truly distinguished artist of the West.
Tears in the Darkness
is a well-told, well-researched, and moving narrative."—
Peter Matthiessen, author of
Shadow Country
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Mrs. Adams in Winter
A Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon
Michael O'Brien
Picador
“Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, a woman who spent her life in voyages both literal and metaphorical, above all longed to leave her mark on the landscape of the life she passed through. The noted historian Michael O’Brien gives Louisa her voice, assuring her place in history as a woman ‘who was,’ as she put it. Take these twin journeys, rendered with precision and grace by a master—across the dramatic frozen landscape of Napoleon’s Europe, and deep within the mind and heart of one of the most compelling characters in American history.”—
Catherine Allgor, Presidential Chair and Professor of History, University of California at Riverside
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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
“
Texas Tough
is a raw, compelling assessment of racial disparity and southern culture as they have determined the massive over-incarceration of African Americans. If you want to understand how politics, not crime control, governs today’s prison population, read this book. Anyone concerned with justice and fairness should place this on their must-read list.”—
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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There Is No Freedom Without Bread!
1989 and the Civil War That Brought Down Communism
Constantine Pleshakov
Picador
“Clear and beautifully lyrical . . . Of all the books that mark this anniversary, [
There Is No Freedom Without Bread
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Gerard DeGroot,
The Washington Post
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Murdering McKinley
The Making of Theodore Roosevelt's America
Eric Rauchway
Hill and Wang
"Before Lee Harvey Oswald there was Leon Czlgosz, the anarchist who shot and killed President William McKinley in 1901.
Murdering McKinley
tells the story of this assassin and the push he gave to progressivism by making Teddy Roosevelt president of the United States."—
Bruce Ramsey,
The Seattle Times
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Starving the South
How the North Won the Civil War
Andrew F. Smith
St. Martin's Press
"'An army travels on its stomach,' wrote Napoleon Bonaparte in one of his most astute maxims. That truth certainly applied to Union and Confederate armies in the Civil War, giving a weighty advantage to the normally well fed Federals in their campaigns against enemy armies weakened by hunger. Malnutrition on the home front also sapped the will of Southern people to sustain the war effort, as Andrew Smith demonstrates in this important and readable study."—
James McPherson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
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Galileo's Daughter
A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love
Dava Sobel
Walker & Company
Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters of his daughter Maria Celeste, a cloistered nun, Dava Sobel has crafted a...
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An Edible History of Humanity
Tom Standage
Walker & Company
"A fascinating history of the role of food in causing, enabling and influencing successive transformations of human society. This is an extraordinary and well-told story, a much neglected dimension of history."—
Financial Times
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Understanding China [3rd Edition]
A Guide to China's Economy, History, and Political Culture
John Bryan Starr; 3rd Edition
Hill and Wang
"An excellent introduction to China for anyone in search of solid but concise information about that complicated country. Packed with facts and figures, but enlivened with firsthand observations."—
Lucian W. Pye,
The New York Times
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Red Heat
Conspiracy, Murder, and the Cold War in the Caribbean
Alex von Tunzelmann
Henry Holt and Co.
"…a mesmerizing, Conradian tale where the truth is almost too dark to bear. A remarkably gripping popular history."—
Kirkus Reviews
"Von Tunzelmann’s diligent work will widen the eyes of Cold War buffs."—
Booklist
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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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Slavery's Constitution
From Revolution to Ratification
David Waldstreicher
Hill and Wang
"Was the American Constitution as originally ratified a proslavery document? In this unflinching, deeply intelligent, and persuasive work, David Waldstreicher answers yes. Sure to spark interest and debate,
Slavery's Constitution
is an immensely engaging and valuable contribution to the literature on the founding of the American nation."—
Annette Gordon-Reed, professor of law at New York Law School and winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in History
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Ark of the Liberties
Why American Freedom Matters to the World
Ted Widmer
Hill and Wang
“[An] elegant history of the ideas that shape American foreign policy. And no idea has influenced America’s understanding of its role in the world as decisively as the concept of liberty. Widmer meticulously traces the contradictions, triumphs, and betrayals of liberty that have unfolded across the centuries of the American experience.”—
Evan R. Goldstein,
The Chronicle of Higher Education
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Andrew Jackson
The American Presidents Series: The 7th President, 1829-1837
The American Presidents
Sean Wilentz; Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., General Editor
Times Books
"Wilentz's concise and clear short biography (part of the remarkable and useful series of short presidential biographies under the editorship of Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.) reflects the research behind his accomplished
Rise of American Democracy
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Walter Russell Mead,
Foreign Affairs
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Our Times
The Age of Elizabeth II
A. N. Wilson
Picador
“The author’s often unconventional and funny takes on even the most familiar of subjects keep the pages turning.”—
Stephen Lowman,
The Washington Post
“[An] idiosyncratic history of modern Britain . . . In
The Victorians
and
After the Victorians
, Mr. Wilson showed an uncanny capacity for getting at the heart of past ages. In
Our Times
, the trilogy’s concluding volume . . . The author once again gives us a multifaceted portrait of an era. Like its predecessors, the book is enlivened by Mr. Wilson’s gift for anecdote [and] character analysis . . . His discussion of the time is infused with a directly personal memory of people, places and events. The result is a piquant refraction of an era of enormous change through a prism that is highly individualistic, even at times eccentric, but in the end deeply rooted and fundamentally true . . . The enthusiasms expressed in
Our Times
are enjoyable to encounter, but it is Mr. Wilson’s wicked wit that carries the reader along.”—
Martin Rubin,
The Wall Street Journal
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Hoboes
Bindlestiffs, Fruit Tramps, and the Harvesting of the West
Mark Wyman
Hill and Wang
“Vivid, accessible prose . . . Wyman colorfully describes the rough camaraderie among hobos riding the rails and sharing their scant food in outdoor ‘jungles,’ the only accommodations available to transients so distrusted by settled folks that any hobo venturing into a town was likely to be jailed as a vagrant. Later chapters stirringly cover the battles fought by the radical Industrial Workers of the World, the only group willing to represent migrant workers viewed by other labor unions as unskilled and impossible to organize.”—
Wendy Smith,
Los Angeles
Times
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Critical Companion to the Russian Revolution 1914-1921
Edited by Edward Acton, Vladimir Cherniaev, and William Rosenberg
Bloomsbury USA
"[This] truly impressive work is an invaluable addition to studies of the Russian Revolution, a book one hopes will find its way into all college and university libraries as well as into public libraries and personal collections."—
Slavic Review
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