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Facts the Historians Leave Out: A Confederate Primer

John Tilley

About the Author John Shipley Tilley was born in Conyers, Georgia in 1880. He earned his M.A. at Harvard and went on to...

Wish It Lasted Forever: Life with the Larry Bird Celtics

Dan Shaughnessy

Boston Globe Bestseller “Colorful, fast-paced . . . Wish It Lasted Forever packs the stat sheet with entertainment...

A History of the American People

Paul Johnson

Paul Johnson's A History of the American People is as majestic in its scope as the country it celebrates. His theme is...

One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War

Michael Dobbs

From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Washington Post reporter Dobbs ( Saboteurs ) is a master at telling stories as...

The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb

Sam Kean

NPR Science Friday's Best Science Book of 2019 "A thrilling tale of wartime derring-do meets a richly researched story...

Trumpocalypse: The End-Times President, a Battle Against the Globalist Elite, and the Countdown to Armageddon (The Babylon Code)

Troy Anderson

About the Author Paul McGuire is an internationally recognized Bible prophecy expert and regular commentator on Fox...

A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide

Samantha Power

During the three years (1993-1996) Samantha Power spent covering the grisly events in Bosnia and Srebrenica, she became...

Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx

Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

From Publishers Weekly Politicians rail about welfare queens, crack babies and deadbeat dads, but what do they know...

Don't Know Much About History: Everything You Need to Know About American History but Never Learned (Don't Know Much About Series)

Kenneth C. Davis

From Publishers Weekly Davis, author of the trademarked series of Don't Know Much About primers, seeks to dispel public...

Revolution: The History of England from the Battle of the Boyne to the Battle of Waterloo (The History of England, 4)

Peter Ackroyd

Through it all, the author is a delightful guide. All chroniclers of popular history should be required to study...

Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World

Lesley M. M. Blume

About the Author Lesley M.M. Blume is a Los Angeles-based journalist, author, and biographer. Her work has appeared in...

Ruby Ridge: The Truth and Tragedy of the Randy Weaver Family

Jess Walter

“A stunning job of reporting.” — New York Times Book Review “A brilliant, cautionary tale of the dangers of...

The Crusades Through Arab Eyes (Saqi Essentials)

Amin Maalouf

The Crusades Through Arab Eyes may be warmly recommended to lay-readers and students alike."— The Times Literary...

The Gambler: How Penniless Dropout Kirk Kerkorian Became the Greatest Deal Maker in Capitalist History

William C. Rempel

From the Inside Flap Kirk Kerkorian was a pioneering American aviator, movie mogul, risk taker, and business tycoon who...

"I'm Staying with My Boys..." The Heroic Life of Sgt. John Basilone, USMC

Jim Proser

Jim Proser began his career as a photojournalist for regional newspapers in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. He has written...

Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War

Tony Horwitz

“A hard-driving narrative of one of America's most troubling figures… Horwitz describes the disaster in riveting...

The Pagan Book of Days: A Guide to the Festivals, Traditions, and Sacred Days of the Year

Nigel Pennick

Month by month, Pennick lists and elucidates festivals, traditions, and sacred days from the 'pagan' calendar. Includes...

I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala

Rigoberta Menchu

Review “A moving account of gruesome repression, gut-wrenching poverty and vicious racism ... A call to...

The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise

Michael Grunwald

This is a wonderfully written, provocative, and important book. It combines history and investigative journalism to...

Faith: A Journey For All

Jimmy Carter

About the Author Jimmy Carter was the thirty-ninth President of the United States, serving from 1977 to 1981. In 1982,...

Act of War: Lyndon Johnson, North Korea, and the Capture of the Spy Ship Pueblo

Jack Cheevers

WINNER OF THE SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON AWARD FOR NAVAL LITERATURE “Sweeping in its power and importance as a historical...

The Civil War: The complete text of the bestselling narrative history of the Civil War--based on the celebrated PBS television series

Bruce Catton

An absorbing experience ... A fine work of scholarship."xa0— Boston Globe "Succeeds in evoking both the grandeur of...

In Broad Daylight: The Secret Procedures behind the Holocaust by Bullets

Patrick Desbois

“What Father Desbois is doing is tremendous. . . . No one else is doing the original groundwork. The evidence he has...

This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America

Morgan Jerkins

From one of the fiercest critics writing today, a compelling and revelatory collection of linked essays that...