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Adrienne Mayor - The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy

Machiavelli praised his military genius. European royalty sought out his secret elixir against poison. His life inspired Mozart's first opera, while for centuries poets and playwrights recited bloody, romantic tales of his victories, defeats, intrigues, concubines, and mysterious death. But until no... Read more

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$14.00 - $22.00

Mark Bowden - Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War

A searing portrayal of modern warfare recounts a 1993 firefight in Mogadishu, Somalia, that resulted in the deaths of eighteen Americans and more than five hundred Somalis, examining the rationales behind the disastrous raid. Reprint. ... Read more

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$.25 - $10.04

Tim Egan - The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist brings together an oral history of the American Dust Bowl that devastated the Great Plains during the Great Depression, following several families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region and their desperate struggle to persevere despite the... Read more

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$4.60 - $10.76

Jane Mayer - The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals

In her investigation into the George W. Bush administration's War on Terror and the War in Iraq, journalist Jane Mayer provides stunning behind-the-scenes accounts of the decision-making process at the White House and the effects on those caught up in the conflicts. Mayer reveals how the White House... Read more

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$5.24 - $11.48

Drew Gilpin Faust - This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War

In this illuminating Civil War history, Drew Gilpin Faust examines a little-studied aspect of the war: the effects that death and dying (and killing) had on soldiers, their kin, and society as a whole. The visible presence of the dead bodies (often in damaged or mangled form, gravely wounded or deco... Read more

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$5.24 - $11.48

Tim Weiner - Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

This comprehensive history of the Central Intelligence Agency, from the Cold War through the War on Terror, is written by a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the New York Times, who interviewed hundreds of former CIA employees (including several directors), and who pored through "the Company'... Read more

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$17.00 - $23.00

Annette Gordon-Reed - The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

Traces the history of the Hemings family from its origins in early eighteenth-century Virginia to its dispersal after Jefferson's death in 1826, in an account that describes their family ties to the third president. Reprint. A best-selling National Book Award winner and New York Times and Publisher... Read more

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$11.00 - $14.00

Annette Gordon-Reed - The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

Historian Annette Gordon-Reed continues the meticulous and eye-opening investigation of the relationship between Thomas Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemings she began in her previous book (THOMAS JEFFERSON AND SALLY HEMINGS) by tracking the lives of the Hemings family in a variety of locations, bot... Read more

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$20.00 - $25.00

Tim Weiner - Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

A New York Times reporter offers a powerful indictment of the CIA and its intelligence-gathering capabilities as he traces the history of the organization from the end of World War II to Iraq, in a study that condemns the CIA for its record, its inability to understand world affairs, the violence it... Read more

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$10.00 - $12.00

Drew Gilpin Faust - This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War

In this illuminating Civil War history, Drew Gilpin Faust examines a little-studied aspect of the war: the effects that death and dying (and killing) had on soldiers, their kin, and society as a whole. The visible presence of the dead bodies (often in damaged or mangled form, gravely wounded or deco... Read more

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$13.00 - $18.00

Frances Fitzgerald - Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam

A new edition of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning portrait of Vietnam seeks to inform readers on its cultural traditions, political and religious conflicts, and historical events as experienced by its citizens, what the author believes to be American missteps that contributed to cu... Read more

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$6.55 - $12.23

James Carroll - An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War That Came Between Us

Joe Carroll was an Air Force lieutenant general who chose Vietnamese targets for American bombs. Joe's son James began adulthood by fulfilling his father's abandoned dream of joining the priesthood. But soon a father's hopes for his son--and a son's peace with his father--were ruined, yet another ca... Read more

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$9.00 - $12.00

Alan Brinkley - Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Couglin and the Great Depression

The study of two demagogues, whose vast popularity explains much about Depression-era America. ... Read more

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$8.40 - $9.51

Greg Grandin - Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City

In this insightful examination of a neglected historical episode, Greg Grandin depicts Henry Ford's disastrous attempt to establish a rubber-producing settlement in the jungles of Brazil. While Ford's plan was initially motivated by purely economic reasons, it eventually swelled into an attempt to c... Read more

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$17.00 - $20.00

Sean B. Carroll - Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species

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$9.27 - $10.17

Barbara Tuchman - Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century

"Wise, witty, and wonderful . . . A great book, in a great historical tradition." CommentaryThe 14th century gives us back two contradictory images: a glittering time of crusades and castles, cathedrals and chivalry, and a dark time of ferocity and spiritual agony, a world plunged into a c... Read more

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$11.00 - $13.00

John W. Dower - Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II

Winner of the 1999 National Book Award for Non-Fiction, finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, Embracing Defeat is John W. Dower's brilliant examination of Japan in the immediate, shattering aftermath of World War II. Drawing on a vast range of Japanese sources... Read more

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$11.00 - $14.00

Timothy Egan - The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

Many Americans know about "the Dustbowl" from the songs of Woody Guthrie (who experienced it) or from the famous book and film of Steinbeck's THE GRAPES OF WRATH. In THE WORST HARD TIME, Timothy Egan reminds us that, while many left the Dustbowl to start a new life out West, others chose t... Read more

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$21.00 - $23.00

Phillip M. Hoose - We Were There, Too: Young People in Us History

Biographies of dozens of young people who made a mark in American history, including explorers, planters, spies, cowpunchers, sweatshop workers, and civil rights workers. ... Read more

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$18.00 - $19.00

Robert A. Caro - The Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson

Book Three of Robert A. Caro’s monumental work, The Years of Lyndon Johnson—the most admired and riveting political biography of our era—which began with the best-selling and prizewinning The Path to Power and Means of Ascent.Master of the Senate carries Lyndon Johnson&... Read more

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$22.00 - $23.00

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