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Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
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 For the last sixty years, the CIA has managed to maintain a formidable reputation in spite of its terrible record, burying its blunders in top-secret archives. Its mission was to know the world. When it did not succeed, it set out to change the world. Its failures have handed us, in the words of President Eisenhower, "a legacy of ashes." Now Pulitzer Prize�winning author Tim Weiner offers the first definitive history of the CIA--and everything is on the record. LEGACY OF ASHES is based on more... more info>> National Book Critics Circle Finalist
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No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
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No Ordinary Time is a monumental work, a brilliantly conceived chronicle of one of the most vibrant and revolutionary periods in the history of the United States. With an extraordinary collection of details, Goodwin masterfully weaves together a striking number of story lines--Eleanor and Franklin's marriage and remarkable partnership, Eleanor's life as First Lady, and FDR's White House and its impact on America as well as on a world at war. Goodwin effectively melds these details and stories in... more info>>
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Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant: Volume 2 [MultiFormat]
by Ulysses S. Grant
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 Volume 2 begins with Grant's elevation to commander of all armies in the West, and later to General-in-Chief of all National armies, and continues through the last two years of war to Robert E. Lee's ultimate surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia during the famous meeting between the two great commanders at Appomattox Court House, Virginia in April 1865. No student of history will want to miss this well-written and warmly human memoir--the greatest first-hand Civil War account ever written. (Published: 1889)
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Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Robert Kurson
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In the tradition of Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air and Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm comes a true tale of riveting adventure in which two weekend scuba divers risk everything to solve a great historical mystery--and make history themselves. For John Chatterton and Richie Kohler, deep wreck diving was more than a sport. Testing themselves against treacherous currents, braving depths that induced hallucinatory effects, navigating through wreckage as perilous as a minefield, they pushed themse... more info>>
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The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Niall Ferguson
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Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals on what he calls Planet Finance. Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot, lucre, moolah, readies, the wherewithal: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it's the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, it's the chains of labor. But in The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson shows that finance is in fac... more info>>
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The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Taylor Branch
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A GROUNDBREAKING BOOK about the modern presidency, The Clinton Tapes invites readers into private dialogue with a gifted, tormented, resilient President of the United States. Here is what President Clinton thought and felt but could not say in public. This book rests upon a secret project, initiated by Clinton, to preserve for future historians an unfiltered record of presidential experience. During his eight years in office, between 1993 and 2001, Clinton answered questions and told stories in ... more info>>
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The Darkest Summer: Pusan and Inchon 1950: The Battles That Saved South Korea--and the Marines--from Extinction [PRE-ORDER ONLY: Available: Nov 17, 2009] [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Bill Sloan
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  The dramatic first three months of the Korean War, when South Korea was saved from Communists conquest, told in Band of Brothers style.
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Erik Larson
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Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America's rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair's brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country's most important structures, including the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in Washington, D.C. The murderer was Henry H. Holmes, a young doctor who, in a malign parody of the White City, built his ... more info>> (Published: 2004)
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The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Birth of Modern China [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Hannah Pakula
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With the beautiful, powerful, and sexy Madame Chiang Kai-shek at the center of one of the great dramas of the twentieth century, this is the story of the founding of modern China, starting with a revolution that swept away more than 2,000 years of monarchy, followed by World War II, and ending in the eventual loss to the Communists and exile in Taiwan. An epic historical tapestry, this wonderfully wrought narrative brings to life what Americans should know about China--the superpower we are inex... more info>>
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The Second World War: Volume 4: The Hinge of Fate [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Winston Churchill
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One of the most fascinating works of history ever written, Winston's Churchill's monumental The Second World War is a six-volume account of the struggle of the Allied powers in Europe against Germany and the Axis. Told through the eyes of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, The Second World War is also the story of one nation's singular, heroic role in the fight against tyranny. Pride and patriotism are evident everywhere in Churchill's dramatic account and for good reason. Having learned ... more info>> (Published: 2002)
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The Wordy Shipmates [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Sarah Vowell
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 From the New York Times' bestselling author of Assassination Vacation and The Partly Cloudy Patriot, an examination of the Puritans, their covenant communities, their deep-rooted idealism, their political and cultural relevance in today's world, and their myriad oddities. In The Wordy Shipmates, Sarah Vowell travels once again through America's past, this time to seventeenth-century New England. From the British Library to the Mohegan Sun casino, from the nation's first synagogue to a Mayflower ... more info>>
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When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Gail Collins
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Picking up where her previous successful, and highly lauded book, America's Women, left off, Gail Collins recounts the sea change women have experienced since 1960. A comprehensive mix of oral history and Collins's keen research, this is the definitive book about five crucial decades of progress, told with the down-to-earth, amusing, and agenda-free tone this beloved New York Times columnist is known for. The interviews with women who have lived through these transformative years include an adve... more info>>
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1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ingnited the Renaissance [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Gavin Menzies
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The New York Times bestselling author of 1421 offers another stunning reappraisal of history, presenting compelling new evidence that traces the roots of the European Renaissance to Chinese exploration in the fifteenth century. The brilliance of the Renaissance laid the foundation of the modern world. Textbooks tell us that it came about as a result of a rediscovery of the ideas and ideals of classical Greece and Rome. But now bestselling historian Gavin Menzies makes the startling argument that... more info>>
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Charles C. Mann
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In this groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology, Charles C. Mann radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492. Contrary to what so many Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine wilderness; rather, there were huge numbers of Indians who actively molded and influenced the land around them. From the astonishing Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, which had running water, immaculately clean s... more info>>
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A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America [Secure eReader (recommended)]
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A dramatic new retelling of our nation's past by today's preeminent multiculturalism scholar, Ronald Takaki, this book examines America's history in "a different mirror"--from the perspective of the minority peoples themselves. Beginning with the colonization of the "New World" and ending with the Los Angeles riots of 1992, this book recounts the history of America in the voices of the non-Anglo peoples of the United States--Native Americans, African Americans, Jews, Irish Americans, Asian Ameri... more info>>
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A Fiery Peace in a Cold War [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Neil Sheehan
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Neil Sheehan is the author of A Bright Shining Lie, which won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction in 1989. He spent three years in Vietnam as a war correspondent for United Press International and The New York Times and won numerous awards for his reporting. In 1971, he obtained the Pentagon Papers, which brought the Times the Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal for meritorious public service. Sheehan lives in Washington, D.C. He is married to the writer Susan Sheehan.
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A History of the Jews [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Paul M. Johnson
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A national bestseller, this brilliant 4000 year survey covers not only Jewish history but he impact of Jewish genius and imagination on the world. By the author of Modern Times: The World From the Twenties to the Eighties. (Published: 2006)
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A Short History of World War I [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by James L. Stokesbury
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World War I was a bloodletting so vast and unprecedented that for a generation it was known simply as the Great War. Casualty lists reached unimagined proportions as the same ground--places like Ypres and the Somme--was fought over again and again. Other major bloody battles remain vivid in memory to this day: Gallipoli and the Battle of Jutland are but two examples. Europe was at war with itself, and the effect on Western civilization was profound, its repercussions felt even today. World War I... more info>>
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A Short History of World War II [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by James L. Stokesbury
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Despite the numerous books on World War II, until now there has been no one-volume survey that was both objective and comprehensive. Previous volumes have usually been written from an exclusively British or American point of view, or have ignored the important causes and consequences of the War. A Short History of World War II is essentially a military history, but it reaches from the peace settlements of World War I to the drastically altered postwar world of the late 1940's. Lucidly written an... more info>>
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A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance--Portrait of an Age [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by William Manchester
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William Manchester's A World Lit Only by Fire is the preeminent popular history of civilization's rebirth after the Dark Ages.
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Alexander Hamilton [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Ron Chernow
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Ron Chernow, the renowned author of Titan whom the New York Times has called "as elegant an architect of monumental histories as we've seen in decades," vividly re-creates the whole sweep of Alexander Hamilton's turbulent life--his exotic, brutal upbringing; his titanic feuds with celebrated rivals; his pivotal role in defining the shape of the federal government and the American economy; his shocking illicit romances; his enlightened abolitionism; and his famous death in a duel with Aaron Burr ... more info>>
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Badass: A Relentless Onslaught of the Toughest Warlords, Vikings, Samurai, Pirates, Gunfighters, and Military Commanders to Ever Live [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Ben Thompson
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An unstoppable collection of the most hardcore figures who ever strapped on chain mail and ran screaming into battle. Throughout history--from the bone-crushing age of antiquity to the sack-tearing modern era--there have been larger-than-life ass-kickers with a natural talent for unleashing their epic bloodlust on anyone who crossed them. They built empires, smashed armies, and ravaged civilizations for wealth, glory, and ultimate supremacy. Sometimes villains, sometimes heroes, sometimes crimin... more info>>
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Biggest Brother: The Life Of Major Dick Winters, The Man Who Led The Band of Brothers [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Larry Alexander
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They were Easy Company, 101st Army Airborne-the World War II fighting unit legendary for their bravery against nearly insurmountable odds and their loyalty to one another in the face of death. Every soldier in this band of brothers looked to one man for leadership: Major Dick Winters. This is the riveting story of an ordinary man who became an extraordinary hero. After he enlisted in the army's arduous new Airborne division, Winters's natural combat leadership helped him climb the ranks, but he ... more info>>
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Class-29: The Making of US Navy SEALs [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by John Carl Roat
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"Throughout training I kept having the thought,WELL, ALL THEY CAN DO IS KILL ME. It seemed to help." SEALs are the world's toughest soldiers. Working in squads and platoons that make up SEAL teams, they are trained in everything from underwater demolition to high-altitude parachute drops. Now John Carl Roat, graduate of Class-29, one of the earliest SEAL training classes, has written the only book devoted to the training of that exclusive warrior force. With unflinching honesty, Roat describes t... more info>>
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Crisis Among The Stars: Dawning Revolution in Cosmology [MultiFormat]
by John T. Cullen
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The author proposes a dramatic new conjecture to explain dark matter, dark energy, and the accelerating expansion of the universe. These three baffling mysteries are signaling the need for a new revolution in cosmology. Only a century ago, the great debate was whether the sun was the center of the universe, and if the Milky Way was the entire universe. Edwin Hubble helped confirm, only in the 1920s, that our galaxy is one of many, and that the universe is expanding. This article traces the histo... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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