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True Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Investigation of Donald Trump

Jeffrey Toobin

New York Times Bestseller “Authoritative...xa0A smart recap of the past four years, punctuated by insider details...

Sacred Duty: A Soldier's Tour at Arlington National Cemetery

Tom Cotton

“A moving, reverent history--a tribute, really--to ‘The Old Guard’ … An ode to excellence and caring in service...

Sog: The Secret Wars of America's Commandos in Vietnam

John L. Plaster

Praise for SOG “Exciting [and] hair-raising...a detailed history of this little-known aspect of the Vietnam...

Conquistador: Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs

Buddy Levy

In Buddy Levy's finely wrought and definitive Conquistador, the worlds of Cortes and Montezuma collide and come to...

By Chance Alone: A Remarkable True Story of Courage and Survival at Auschwitz

Max Eisen

About the Author MAX EISEN is a Hungarian Jew who was deported to Auschwitz in the spring of 1944. He is a passionate...

Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition

Buddy Levy

An Amazon Best Book of December 2019: In 1881, American Army officer Lieutenant Adolphus W. Greely and his crew of...

The Frederick Douglass Papers: Series Two: Autobiographical Writings, Volume 2: My Bondage and My Freedom

John Stauffer

The late John W. Blassingame was professor of history and African and African-American studies at Yale University. John...

Liberalism or How to Turn Good Men into Whiners, Weenies and Wimps

Burgess Owens

About the Author A former Super Bowl champion, Burgess spent his childhood growing up in the Deep South during a time...

Annals of the Former World

John McPhee

“Tripling as a geology primer, an autobiography and a panorama of the nation, bejeweled with splendid vignettes and...

Black Noon: The Year They Stopped the Indy 500

Art Garner

From Booklist Using hundreds of sources, including books, newspaper articles, and personal interviews, Garner...

What Stands in a Storm: A True Story of Love and Resilience in the Worst Superstorm in History

Kim Cross

“The writerly brilliance—the terse dark poetry—of this debut book explodes from every page. Yet Kim Cross is too...

Uncovering Norse Mythology: A Guide Into Norse Gods and Goddesses, Viking Warriors and Magical Creatures (Mythology Collection)

Lucas Russo

⭐ xa0Lucas Russo brings that same level of interest into his writing, making the worlds described feel alive and...

The Unknowns: The Untold Story of America’s Unknown Soldier and WWI’s Most Decorated Heroes Who Brought Him Home

Patrick K. O'Donnell

Praise for The Unknowns : Recipient of the Military Order of St. Louis “With exhaustive research and fluid prose, Mr....

The Odyssey of Echo Company: The 1968 Tet Offensive and the Epic Battle to Survive the Vietnam War

Doug Stanton

About the Author Doug Stanton is the author of the New York Times bestsellers In Harm’s Way: The Sinking of the USS...

The Night Stalkers: Top Secret Missions of the U.S. Army's Special Operations Aviation Regiment

Steven Hartov

About the Author Michael J. Durant retired from the army as a Chief Warrant Officer 4. In addition to participating in...

The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America

Michael Eric Dyson

A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choicexa0xa0 ?“It’s a brilliant and complicated portrait of a brilliant and...

Driven: From Homeless to Hero, My Journeys On and Off Lambeau Field

Peter Golenbock

“Donald’s contribution to the history of the Packers has been extraordinary, exceeded only by his personal...

The Perfect Pass: American Genius and the Reinvention of Football

S. C. Gwynne

The most entertaining book on football this decade." —Allen Barra, The Dallas Morning News “Excellent sports...

Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 (Oxford History of the United States)

Gordon S. Wood

Take a Look Inside the Empire of Liberty [Click on Images to Enlarge] George Washington (1732–1799) : This portrait...

A Queer History of the United States (REVISIONING HISTORY)

Michael Bronski

“Bronski does a stunning job of sweeping across five hundred years and weaving ‘queer’ through the history of...

Earnhardt Nation: The Full-Throttle Saga of NASCAR's First Family

Jay Busbee

“A complicated family. A Paul Bunyan-like legend. A nation in mourning. A sport in transition. Chronicling any one of...

Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts

Rebecca Hall

A Best Book of 2021 by Forbes, and Ms. Magazine 2022 PEN Open Book Award Finalist 2022 NAACP Image Award for...

Molina: The Story of the Father Who Raised an Unlikely Baseball Dynasty

Joan Ryan

For three brothers to make it to the big leagues, to all play the same demanding position, and to appear, between them,...

The New Dictionary Of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know

James S. Trefil

From Publishers Weekly This third edition of the 1988 reference, full of the same back-to-basics philosophy of the...