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Sister Revolutions
French Lightning, American Light
Susan Dunn
Faber and Faber, Inc.
What the two great modern revolutions can teach us about democracy today The American and French revolutions presented the world with two very different...
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102 Minutes
The Unforgettable Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers
Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn
Times Books
"102 Minutes does for the September 11 catastrophe what Walter Lord did for the Titanic in his masterpiece, A Night to Remember . . . Searing, poignant, and...
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The Pirate Wars
Peter Earle
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The Pirate Wars takes the romantic fable of oceangoing Robin Hoods sailing under the “banner of King Death” and contrasts it with the murderous reality of...
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The Day Dixie Died
The Battle of Atlanta
Gary Ecelbarger
Thomas Dunne Books
The only book dedicated to the day-long Battle of Atlanta, the most decisive battle in the most decisive campaign of the Civil War The Battle of Atlanta,...
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Scars of Sweet Paradise
The Life and Times of Janis Joplin
Alice Echols
Picador
Janis Joplin was the skyrocket chick of the sixties, the woman who broke into the boys' club of rock and out of the stifling good-girl femininity of postwar...
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Year of Meteors
Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and the Election that Brought on the Civil War
Douglas R. Egerton
Bloomsbury Press
In early 1860, pundits across America confidently predicted the election of Illinois senator Stephen A. Douglas in the coming presidential race. Douglas, after...
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Clash of Extremes
The Economic Origins of the Civil War
Marc Egnal
Hill and Wang
“Challenging a great deal of modern scholarship,
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Daniel W. Crofts, The College of New Jersey
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Blood Rites
Origins and History of the Passions of War
Barbara Ehrenreich
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An ALA Notable Book A New York Times Notable Book In Blood Rites, Barbara Ehrenreich confronts the mystery of the human attraction to violence: What draws...
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Dancing in the Streets
A History of Collective Joy
Barbara Ehrenreich
A Metropolitan/Holt Paperbacks Book
"[Ehrenreich's] history of collective joy . . . is lurid and alluring . . . Combining thorough research with her tart, skeptical eye, Ehrenreich constructs a vivid narrative of early Christianity and 'deliberately nurtured
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Mark Coleman,
Los Angeles Times Book Review
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This Land Is Their Land
Reports from a Divided Nation
Barbara Ehrenreich
A Metropolitan/Holt Paperbacks Book
"Ehrenreich is at her best (and she’s very, very good) when chronicling the outrageous human downside of our economy, the costs it imposes on people who can’t afford a bacon-infused old-fashioned. There’s the hospital worker whose employer garnished her paycheck for an emergency room visit, 'a condition of debt servitude reminiscent of early-20th-century company towns.' There’s the poor man who got himself arrested in order to live more comfortably in prison, because 'we are reaching the point . . . where the largest public housing program in America will be our penitentiary system' . . . A tight and chilling companion volume to
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Eve Fairbanks,
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Zachary Taylor
The American Presidents Series: The 12th President, 1849-1850
The American Presidents
John S. D. Eisenhower; Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., and Sean Wilentz, General Editors
Times Books
The rough-hewn general who rose to the nation’s highest office, and whose presidency witnessed the first political skirmishes that would lead to the Civil...
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Imperial Reckoning
The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya
Caroline Elkins
Holt Paperbacks
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
"When the British left Kenya in 1963, they built bonfires and burned the meticulous records they kept. Most of these dealt with a period known as 'the Emergency,' when the colonial government attempted to stamp out the Mau Mau movement . . . that arose among the Kikuyu, a hill-dwelling farming tribe and Kenya's largest ethnic group. Elkins, working in archives and traveling throughout Kenya, has undertaken an extraordinary act of historical recovery, to find out what the burned documents would have told us: the British, in their 'civilizing mission' to pacify the colony, created a cruel system of detention centers, where interrogations often ended in death. With the moral fervor [of] a prosecutor, Elkins provides potent evidence of how a society warped by racism can descend into an almost casual inhumanity."—
The New Yorker
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An Unexpected Light
Travels in Afghanistan
Jason Elliot
Picador
"The most sustained firsthand description of life in Afghanistan to be produced by a foreign observer in recent years . . . Exciting."—
Richard Bernstein,
The New York Times
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Mirrors of the Unseen
Journeys in Iran
Jason Elliot
Picador
"Elliot reports on the 'double life' of the Persians he meets, who unanimously denounce the ruling mullahs. One insists that you're nobody in Iran if you haven't been imprisoned; another rolls his eyes at the author's obsessive trawling of mosques, protesting, 'People will think I'm with a fanatic.' The book is replete with historical arcana . . . ruminations on the 'turbulent calligraphies' of Islamic architecture, and labyrinthine footnotes . . . Elliot is a travel writer of the old school: untethered to an itinerary, eager to be led astray, and as ardent an observer of the experience of traveling as of his destination."—
The New Yorker
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The Pity of It All
A Portrait of the German-Jewish Epoch, 1743-1933
Amos Elon
Picador
"If there is one book Americans should read this winter, it is Amos Elon's
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Joan Didion
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The Westies
Inside New York's Irish Mob
T. J. English
St. Martin's Griffin
Even among the Mob, the Westies were feared. Starting with a partnership between two sadistic thugs, Jimmy Coonan and Mickey Featherstone, the gang rose out of...
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Democracy Reborn
The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Equal Rights in Post-Civil War America
Garrett Epps
Holt Paperbacks
"The 14th Amendment was 'by far the most sweeping and complex change ever made in the original Constitution,' argues Garrett Epps in this valuable history of the amendment's adoption. Over time, he writes, it has 'changed almost every detail of our national life.' A University of Oregon law professor and former
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reporter who has published two novels, Epps brings crisp writing to a story whose political complexities and obscure cast of characters pose tall hurdles for any popular history."—
David Garrow,
The Washington Post
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Bloody Mary
Carolly Erickson
St. Martin's Griffin
Here is the tragic, stormy life of Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon. Her story is a chronicle of courage and faith, betrayal and...
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Mistress Anne
Carolly Erickson
St. Martin's Griffin
As Maureen Quilligan wrote in the New York Times Book Review of The First Elizabeth, Anne Boleyn "was a real victim of the sexual scandals her brilliant...
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Great Harry
Carolly Erickson
St. Martin's Griffin
St. Martin's Griffin is proud to reissue acclaimed biographer Carolly Erickson's lives of the Tudor monarchs. In this full-scale popular biography of Henry...
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Great Catherine
The Life of Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia
Carolly Erickson
St. Martin's Griffin
From the moment the fourteen-year-old Princess Sophia of Anhalt-Zerbst agreed to marry the heir to the Russian throne, she was mired in a quicksand of...
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The First Elizabeth
Carolly Erickson
St. Martin's Griffin
In this remarkable biography, Carolly Erickson brings Elizabeth I to life and allows us to see her as a living, breathing, elegant, flirtatious, diplomatic,...
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Alexandra
The Last Tsarina
Carolly Erickson
St. Martin's Griffin
Tsarina Alexandra-hauntingly beautiful, melancholy, obsessed with the occult-was blamed by her contemporaries for the downfall of the Romanovs. But her true...
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To the Scaffold
The Life of Marie Antoinette
Carolly Erickson
St. Martin's Griffin
"An extraordinary life...Erickson gives us a likable, empathetic woman and broadens our understanding of her."- The New York Times Book Review
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