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  • The CIA's Greatest Hits

    A revised and updated edition of the explosive book that blows the lid off the Central Intelligence Agency.The CIA’s Greatest Hits details how the CIA:• hired top Nazi war criminals, shielded them from justice and learned—and used—their techniques• has been involved in assassinations, bombings, massacres, wars, death squads, drug trafficking, and rigged elections all over the world• tortures ... Leer más

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  • A Secret Life

    The Lies and Scandals of President Grover Cleveland

    The child was born on September 14, 1874, at the only hospital in Buffalo, New York, that offered maternity services for unwed mothers. It was a boy, and though he entered the world in a state of illegitimacy, a distinguished name was given to this newborn: Oscar Folsom Cleveland. The son of the future president of the United States—Grover Cleveland. The story of how the man who held the nation’s ... Leer más

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  • Bullwhip Days

    The Slaves Remember

    Edición de James Mellon ...
    "Twenty-nine oral histories and additional excerpts, selected from 2000 interviews with former slaves conducted in the 1930s for a WPA Federal Writers Project, document the conditions of slavery that . . . lie at the root of today's racism." — Publishers WeeklyIn the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration commissioned an oral history of the remaining former slaves. Bullwhip Days is a remarkable ... Leer más

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  • Liberty's First Crisis

    Adams, Jefferson, and the Misfits Who Saved Free Speech

    de Charles Slack ...
    "Slack engagingly reveals how the Federalist attack on the First Amendment almost brought down the Republic . . . An illuminating book of American history." — Kirkus Reviews , starred reviewIn 1798, with the United States in crisis, President John Adams and the Federalists in control of Congress passed an extreme piece of legislation that made criticism of the government and its leaders a crime ... Leer más

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  • The Last Lynching

    How a Gruesome Mass Murder Rocked a Small Georgia Town

    Nothing casts a more sinister shadow over our nation’s history than the gruesome lynchings that happened between 1882 and 1937, claiming 4,680 victims. Often, in a show of racist violence, the lynchers tortured their victims before murdering them. Most killers were never brought to justice; some were instead celebrated as heroes, their victims’ bodies displayed, or even cut up and distributed, as ... Leer más

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  • The Sons of Molly Maguire

    The Irish Roots of America's First Labor War

    de Mark Bulik ...
    An "incisive and original" history of the 19th-century Irish secret society that instigated America's first labor wars in Pennsylvania Coal Country (Peter Quinn, author of Looking for Jimmy).A secret society of Irish peasant assassins, the Molly Maguires reemerged in Pennsylvania's hard-coal region, organizing strikes, murdering mine bosses, and fighting the Civil War draft. Their shadowy twelve ... Leer más

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  • The Coup

    1953, the CIA, and the Roots of Modern U.S.-Iranian Relations

    An "absorbing" account of the CIA's 1953 coup in Iran—essential reading for anyone concerned about Iran's role in the world today ( Harper's Magazine).In August 1953, the Central Intelligence Agency orchestrated the swift overthrow of Iran's democratically elected leader and installed Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlavi in his place. When the 1979 Iranian Revolution deposed the shah and replaced his puppet ... Leer más

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  • Naming Names

    Winner of the National Book Award: The definitive history of Joe McCarthy, the Hollywood blacklist, and HUAC from a longtime editor of The Nation and former Chair of the Columbia Journalism Review .Drawing on interviews with over one hundred and fifty people who were called to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee—including Elia Kazan, Ring Lardner Jr., and A... ... Leer más

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  • Madness and Memory

    The Discovery of Prions—A New Biological Principle of Disease

    In this "utterly fascinating" science memoir, the Nobel Prize–winning author chronicles his revolutionary discovery of a major cause of brain diseases ( The New York Times).In 1997, Stanley B. Prusiner received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research on devastating brain diseases. That he was the award's sole recipient was entirely appropriate. His struggle to identify the agent ... Leer más

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  • 1616

    The World in Motion

    A PIVOTAL MOMENT IN TIME: Discover surprising stories of the pioneering men and women who ushered the world toward modernity in this continent-spanning slice of world history.Features 140 full-color reproductions of period artwork, engravings, maps, and drawings, with fascinating sidebars throughout.The early 17th century was a time of enormous change in most regions of the world. The advent of ... Leer más

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  • The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler

    A concise and timely account of Hitler's—and fascism's—rise to power and ultimate defeat, from one of America's most famous journalists.American journalist and author William L. Shirer was a correspondent for six years in Nazi Germany—and had a front-row seat to Hitler's mounting influence. His most definitive work on the subject, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, is a riveting account defined ... Leer más

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  • Revolutionaries

    A New History of the Invention of America

    de Jack Rakove ...
    "[A] wide-ranging and nuanced group portrait of the Founding Fathers" by a Pulitzer Prize winner ( The New Yorker).In the early 1770s, the men who invented America were living quiet, provincial lives in the rustic backwaters of the New World, devoted to family and the private pursuit of wealth and happiness. None set out to become "revolutionary." But when events in Boston escalated, they found ... Leer más

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