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The Elizabethans

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A time of exceptional creativity, wealth creation, and political expansion, the Elizabethan age was also more remarkable than any other for the Technicolor...
  
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Franklin and Eleanor
An Extraordinary Marriage

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Franklin Delano and Eleanor Roosevelt’s marriage is one of the most celebrated and scrutinized partnerships in presidential history. It raised eyebrows in...
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Amexica
War Along the Borderline

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Amexica is the harrowing story of the extraordinary terror unfolding along the U.S.-Mexico border—“a country in its own right, which belongs to both the United...
  
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Poisoning the Press
Richard Nixon, Jack Anderson, and the Rise of Washington's Scandal Culture

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It is March 1972, and the Nixon White House wants Jack Anderson dead. The syndicated columnist Jack Anderson, the most famous and feared investigative...
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The Subtle Body
The Story of Yoga in America

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In The Subtle Body, Stefanie Syman tells the surprising story of yoga’s transformation from a centuries-old spiritual discipline to a multibillion-dollar...
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The River of Lost Footsteps
Histories of Burma

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For nearly two decades Western governments and a growing activist community have been frustrated in their attempts to bring about a freer and more democratic ...
  
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Doing Nothing
A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums

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From the author of Crying, a witty, wide-ranging cultural history of our attitudes toward work—and getting out of it Couch potatoes, goof-offs,...
  
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Our Times
The Age of Elizabeth II

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When Queen Elizabeth II was crowned in 1953, many proclaimed the start of a new Elizabethan Age. Few had any inkling, however, of the stupendous changes that...
  
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Fly by Wire
The Geese, the Glide, the Miracle on the Hudson

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On January 15, 2009, a US Airways Airbus A320 had just taken off from LaGuardia Airport in New York when a flock of Canada geese collided with it, destroying...
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The Venus Fixers
The Remarkable Story of the Allied Soldiers Who Saved Italy's Art During World War II

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In 1943, with the world convulsed by war and a Fascist defeat in Europe far from certain, a few visionaries—civilians and soldiers alike—saw past questions of...

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Longitudes and Attitudes
Exploring the World After September 11

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America's leading observer of the international scene on the minute-by-minute events of September 11th--before, during and after As the Foreign Affairs...
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Subversives
The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan’s Rise to Power

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Subversives traces the FBI’s secret involvement with three iconic figures at Berkeley during the 1960s: the ambitious neophyte politician Ronald Reagan,...