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Red Heat
Conspiracy, Murder, and the Cold War in the Caribbean

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From the New York Times Bestselling Author of Indian Summer During the presidencies of Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson, the Caribbean was in crisis. While...
  
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Poisoning the Press
Richard Nixon, Jack Anderson, and the Rise of Washington's Scandal Culture

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A Washington Post Best Book of 2010 A Denver Post Best Book of 2010 A Kansas City Star Best Book of 2010 Poisoning the Press recounts the bitter...
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Amexica
War Along the Borderline

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With a New Afterword In 2009, Ed Vulliamy traveled two thousand miles along the frontier from the Pacific coast to the Gulf of Mexico, and from Tijuana to...
  
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Franklin and Eleanor
An Extraordinary Marriage

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A Los Angeles Times Bestseller In this groundbreaking account of the marriage, critically acclaimed biographer Hazel Rowley describes the remarkable courage...
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Dark Harbor
The War for the New York Waterfront

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“They’d never kill a reporter....” On the morning of April 29, 1948, a West Side pier hiring boss was shot on his way to work. The murder reminded the New York...
  
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The Arabs and the Holocaust
The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives

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There is no more inflammatory topic than the Arabs and the Holocaust—the phrase alone can occasion outrage. Political scientist Gilbert Achcar analyzes the...
  
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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

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In Fly by Wire, one of America’s greatest journalists takes us on a "fascinating" (The New York Times) and sometimes humorous journey into the rapidly...
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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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An untold chapter in WWII history, the story of the corps of unlikely soldiers who saved Italy's most precious art and architecture from destruction.
  
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Israel Is Real
An Obsessive Quest to Understand the Jewish Nation and Its History

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Praised everywhere from The New York Times to The Jerusalem Post, Cohen returns with an irreverent, erudite, and wildly entertaining history of Zion through...
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The Shock Doctrine
The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

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In this groundbreaking alternative history of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedman's free-market economic revolution, Naomi Klein challenges...
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

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"An American classic" (Newsweek) that defined a generation. “An astonishing book” (The New York Times Book Review) and an unflinching portrait of Ken Kesey,...
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
Stories from Rwanda

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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. In April 1994, the Rwandan government called upon everyone in the Hutu majority to kill...
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The Rest Is Noise
Listening to the Twentieth Century

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Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction...
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Voices from Chernobyl
The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award On April 26, 1986, the worst nuclear reactor accident in history occurred in Chernobyl and contaminated...
  
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A Woman in Berlin
Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary

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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice For eight weeks in 1945, as Berlin fell to the Russian army, a young woman kept a daily record of life in...
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Catfish and Mandala
A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam

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Winner of the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Winner of the Whiting Writers' Award A Seattle Post-Intelligencer...
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Balkan Ghosts
A Journey Through History

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From the assassination that triggered World War I to the ethnic warfare in Serbia, Bosnia, and Croatia, the Balkans have been the crucible of the twentieth...
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A Voyage Long and Strange
On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America

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W hat happened in North America between Columbus's sail in 1492 and the Pilgrims' arrival in 1620? On a visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz realizes he...
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Natasha's Dance
A Cultural History of Russia

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Beginning in the eighteenth century with the building of St. Petersburg and culminating with the Soviet regime, Figes examines how writers, artists, and...
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Blue Latitudes
Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before

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Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before Two centuries after James Cook's epic voyages of discovery, Tony Horwitz takes readers on a wild ride across...
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The Pity of It All
A Portrait of the German-Jewish Epoch, 1743-1933

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In this important work of historical restoration, Amos Elon shows how a persecuted clan of cattle dealers and wandering peddlers was transformed into a...
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Violence
Big Ideas/Small Books

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Philosopher, cultural critic, and agent provocateur Slavoj Žižek constructs a fascinating new framework to look at the forces of violence in our...
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Ivan's War
Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945

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They died in vast numbers, eight million men and women driven forward in suicidal charges, shattered by German shells and tanks. They were the soldiers of the...