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1918: The Year of Victoriesby Martin Marix EvansISBN 0785816356 (0-7858-1635-6)
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Almost History: Close Calls, Plan B'S, and Twists of Fate in American Historyby Roger BrunsISBN 0786866632 (0-7868-6663-2)
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The Army of the Cumberlandby Henry M. CistISBN 0785815791 (0-7858-1579-1)
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Attack on Pearl Harbor: The True Story of the Day America Entered World War IIby David Craig, Shelley TanakaISBN 0786807369 (0-7868-0736-9)
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The Battle of the Atlantic: September 1939-May 1943by Samuel Eliot MorisonISBN 0785813020 (0-7858-1302-0)
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Beyond Band of Brothersby Cole C. Kingseed, Richard D. WintersISBN 0786290919 (0-7862-9091-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beyond Band of Brothers'Book summary:Now in paperback! The New York Times bestseller and war memoir from the commander of the legendary Band of Brothers??now with a new preface from Dick Winters.[via]
They were called Easy Company?but their mission was never easy. Immortalized as the Band of Brothers, they suffered 150% casualties while liberating Europe?an unparalleled record of bravery under fire. Winner of the Distinguished Service Cross, Dick Winters was their legendary commander. This is his story?told in his own words for the first time.
On D-Day, Winters assumed leadership of the Band of Brothers when its commander was killed and led them through the Battle of the Bulge and into Germany?by which time each member had been wounded. Based on Winters?s wartime diary, Beyond Band of Brothers also includes his comrades? untold stories. This is a moving memoir by the man who earned the love and respect of Easy Company?and who is a hero to new generations worldwide.More editions of Beyond Band of Brothers:
The Bloody Crucible Of Courage: Fighting Methods And Combat Experience Of The Civil Warby Brent NosworthyISBN 0786715634 (0-7867-1563-4)
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Burn Before Reading: Presidents, CIA Directors, And Secret Intelligenceby Stansfield TurnerISBN 0786867825 (0-7868-6782-5)
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By Motor to the Golden Gateby Jane Lancaster, Emily PostISBN 0786419407 (0-7864-1940-7)
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Chronicles: A Bob Dylan Seriesby Bob DylanISBN 0786273410 (0-7862-7341-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chronicles: A Bob Dylan Series'Book summary:One would not anticipate a conventional memoir from Bob Dylan--indeed, one would not have foreseen an autobiography at all from the pen of the notoriously private legend. What Chronicles: Volume 1 delivers is an odd but ultimately illuminating memoir that is as impulsive, eccentric, and inspired as Dylan's greatest music.
Eschewing chronology and skipping over most of the "highlights" that his many biographers have assigned him, Dylan drifts and rambles through his tale, amplifying a series of major and minor epiphanies. If you're interested in a behind-the-scenes look at his encounters with the Beatles, look elsewhere. Dylan describes the sensation of hearing the group's "Do You Want to Know a Secret" on the radio, but devotes far more ink to a Louisiana shopkeeper named Sun Pie, who tells him, "I think all the good in the world might already been done" and sells him a World's Greatest Grandpa bumper sticker. Dylan certainly sticks to his own agenda--a newspaper article about journeymen heavyweights Jerry Quarry and Jimmy Ellis and soul singer Joe Tex's appearance on The Tonight Show inspire heartfelt musings, and yet the 1963 assassination of John Kennedy prompts nary a word from the era's greatest protest singer.
For all the small revelations (it turns out he's been a big fan of Barry Goldwater, Mickey Rourke, and Ice-T), there are eye-opening disclosures, including his confession that a large portion of his recorded output was designed to alienate his audience and free him from the burden of being a "the voice of a generation."
Off the beaten path as it is, Chronicles is nevertheless an astonishing achievement. As revelatory in its own way as Blonde on Blonde or Highway 61 Revisited, it provides ephemeral insights into the mind one of the most significant artistic voices of the 20th century while creating a completely new set of mysteries. --Steven Stolder [via]
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Civil War Extra: A Newspaper History of the Civil War from 1863 to 1866by Eric CarrenISBN 0785811508 (0-7858-1150-8)
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The Civil War Extra: From the Pages of the Charleston Mercury and the New York Timesby Eric CarenISBN 0785811370 (0-7858-1137-0)
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A Civil War Treasury: Being a Miscellany of Arms and Artillery, Facts and Figures, Legends and Lore, Muses and Minstrels, Personalities and Peopleby Alfred A. NofiISBN 0785816860 (0-7858-1686-0)
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The Color of Fireby Ann RinaldiISBN 0786818255 (0-7868-1825-5)
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Custer Victoriousby Gregory I. UrwinISBN 0785807489 (0-7858-0748-9)
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Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogueby Julius LesterISBN 0786804904 (0-7868-0490-4)
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Divided Waters: The Naval History of the Civil Warby Ivan MusicantISBN 0785812105 (0-7858-1210-5)
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Dude, Where's My Country?by Michael MooreISBN 0786263008 (0-7862-6300-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dude, Where's My Country?'Book summary:he people of the United States, according to author and filmmaker Michael Moore (Bowling for Columbine, Stupid White Men), have been hoodwinked. Tricked, he says, by Republican lawmakers and their wealthy corporate pals who use a combination of concocted bogeymen and lies to stay rich and in control. But while plenty of liberal scholars, entertainers, and pundits have made similar arguments in book form, Moore's Dude, Where's My Country? stands out for its thoroughly positive perspective. Granted, Moore is angry and has harsh words for George W. Bush and his fellow conservatives concerning the reasoning behind going to war in Iraq, the collapse of Enron and other companies, and the relationship between the Bushes, the Saudi Arabian government, and Osama bin Laden. But his book is intended to serve as a handbook for how people with liberal opinions (which is most of America, Moore contends, whether they call themselves "liberals" or not) can take back their country from the conservative forces in power. Moore uses his trademark brand of confrontational, exasperated humor skillfully as he offers a primer on how to change the worldview of one's annoying conservative blowhard brother-in-law, and he crafts a surprisingly thorough "Draft Oprah for President" movement. Refreshingly, Dude, Where's My Country? avoids being completely one-sided, offering up areas where Moore believes Republicans get it right as well as some cutting criticisms of his fellow lefties. Such allowances, brief though they may be, make one long for a political climate where the shouting polemicists on both sides would see a few more shades of gray. Dude, Where's My Country? is a little bit scattered, as Moore tries to cram opinions on Iraq, tax cuts, corporate welfare, Wesley Clark, and the Patriot Act into one slim volume--and the penchant to go for a laugh sometimes gets in the way of clear arguments. But such variety also gives the reader more Moore, providing a broader range of his bewildered, enraged, yet stalwartly upbeat point of view. --John Moe [via]
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Edison: Inventing the Centuryby Neil BaldwinISBN 0786881194 (0-7868-8119-4)
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Flight: My Life in Mission Controlby Christopher C. KraftISBN 0786234261 (0-7862-3426-1)
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Freedom Riverby Doreen Rappaport, Bryan CollierISBN 0786803509 (0-7868-0350-9)
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The French and Indian War 1754-1763: The Imperial Struggle for North Americaby Seymour I. SchwartzISBN 0785811656 (0-7858-1165-6)
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From Fort Henry to Corinthby M. F. ForceISBN 0785815740 (0-7858-1574-0)
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From Sea To Shining Sea: From the War of 1812 to the Mexican War, the Saga ofo America's Expansionby Robert LeckieISBN 0785819630 (0-7858-1963-0)
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From The Mixed-up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweilerby E. L. KonigsburgISBN 0786273585 (0-7862-7358-5)
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George Herbert Walker Bushby Tom WickerISBN 0786266775 (0-7862-6677-5)
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Gettysburgby Newt Gingrich, William R. Forstchen, Albert S. HanserISBN 0786259574 (0-7862-5957-4)
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God Among the Shakers: A Search for Stillness and Faith at Sabbathday Lakeby Suzanne SkeesISBN 0786862378 (0-7868-6237-8)
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Grant Moves Southby Bruce CattonISBN 0785812644 (0-7858-1264-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Grant Moves South'Book summary:From The Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and The National Book Award - Part One of the classic Civil War study of Ulysses S. Grant that continues with GRANT TAKES COMMAND
Among the many generals created by the North in the early summer of 1861 was one named Ulysses S. Grant. Some of the other generals were more dashing, some were more learned, but none was a better fighter. It was Grant who in the next two years would move slowly, relentlessly down the Mississippi River, the very lifeline of the South, and would not stop until he had severed its entire length from the domain of his enemy. In GRANT MOVES SOUTH, Bruce Catton renders a dramatic and kaleidoscopic account of these years, during which Grant moved not only against Confederate armies but against obstacles and frustrations imposed by his own superiors.
Mr. Catton begins with Grant's first real Civil War assignment (he head left the army in disgrace seven years before), the command of the 21st Illinois Volunteers. He shows how Grant's simple, forceful manner made an orderly regiment out of a group of recalcitrant farmboys. During the subsequent move - to Cairo, to Belmont, Missouri and finally to the first major engagements at Fort Henry and Fort Donelson in Kentucky - this West Point officer grew ever more adept at training and leading his increasing forces of Volunteers, until they became "one of the great armies of America's history - the informal, individualistic, occasionally unmanageable, but finally victorious Army of the Tennessee."
Mr. Catton recounts such exciting, blow-by-blow accounts of the great battles at Belmont, Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Corinth, Chickasaw Bayou, Edward's Station and finally Vicksburg, that the reader feels he is participating, now as a member of the staff conferring with the General, now as a soldier on the front lines. And during the lulls between the battles the author describes Grant's often irritating relationships with men like Halleck and McClernand; his solution of the thorny problem posed by Blacks who kept pouring into his camps asking for protection; and his difficulties with Jesse Grant, who often tried to take commercial advantage of his son's power.
GRANT MOVES SOUTH is not only the chronological account of a series of battles which freed the Mississippi for the Union; it is also the story of a man's personal development. It describes Grant's progress from a reluctant but dedicated soldier to a forceful general, conscious of his own worth and confident of his future. [via]
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Great Gambles of the Civil Warby Philip KatcherISBN 0785815902 (0-7858-1590-2)
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Hail to the Chief: The Making and Unmaking of American Presidentsby Robert DallekISBN 078686205X (0-7868-6205-X)
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The Harper Encyclopedia of Military Biographyby Trevor N. Dupuy, David L. Bongard, Curt JohnsonISBN 0785804374 (0-7858-0437-4)
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Selected Poemsby Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Lisa Lipkin, Johanna BrownellISBN 0785812857 (0-7858-1285-7)
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Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappearby Jim Steinmeyer, TellerISBN 0786714018 (0-7867-1401-8)
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High Treason : The Assassination of JFK and the Case for Conspiracyby Harrison Edward Livingstone, Robert J. GrodenISBN 0786705787 (0-7867-0578-7)
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History of Britain: The Wars of the British, 1603 - 1776by Simon SchamaISBN 0786867523 (0-7868-6752-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'History of Britain: The Wars of the British, 1603 - 1776'Book summary:Inside these pages lies the bloody epic of liberty, the British Iliad.
The second volume of Simon Schama's A History of Britain brings the histories of Britain's civil wars -- full of blighted idealism, shocking carnage, and unexpected outcomes -- startlingly to life. These conflicts were fought unsparingly between the nations of the islands -- Ireland, England, and Scotland -- and between parliament and the crown. Shattering the illusion of a "united kingdom," they cost hundreds of thousands of lives: a greater proportion of the population than died in the First World War.
When religious passion gave way to the equally consuming passion for profits, it became possible for the pieces of Britain to come together as the spectacularly successful business enterprise of "Britannia Incorporated." And in a few generations that business state expanded in a dizzying process that transformed what had been an obscure, off-shore footnote to Europe's great powers into the main event -- the most powerful empire in the world.
Yet somehow, it was the "wrong empire." The British considered it a bastion of liberty, yet it was based on military force and the enslavement of hundreds of thousands of Africans. In America, the emptiness of British claims to protect "freedom" was thrown back into the teeth of colonial governors and redcoat soldiers, while the likes of Sam Adams and George Washington inherited the mantle of Cromwell.
Simon Schama grippingly evokes the horror of the battle, famine, and plague; the flames of burning cities; the pathos of broken families, with fathers and sons forced to choose opposing sides. But he also captures the intimacies of palace and parliament and the seductions of profit and pleasure. Geniuses like John Milton, Thomas Hobbes, and Benjamin Franklin stalk vividly through his pages, but so do Scottish clansmen, women pamphleteers, and literate, eloquent African slaves like Olaudah Equiano. [via]
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The History of the Blues: The Roots, the Music, the Peopleby Francis DavisISBN 0786881240 (0-7868-8124-0)
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History of United States Naval Operations in World War II Vol. 3: The Rising Sun in the Pacific, 1931 - April 1942by Samuel Eliot MorisonISBN 0785813047 (0-7858-1304-7)
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History of United States Naval Operations in World War II Vol. 7: Aleutians, Gilberts and Marshalls, June 1942 - April 1944by Samuel Eliot MorisonISBN 078581308X (0-7858-1308-X)
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The House of the Seven Gablesby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 0786280425 (0-7862-8042-5)
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The Ice Masterby Jennifer NivenISBN 0786865296 (0-7868-6529-6)
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The Invasion of France and Germany 1944 - 1945by Samuel Eliot MorisonISBN 0785813128 (0-7858-1312-8)
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Inventing Wyatt Earp: His Life and Many Legendsby Allen BarraISBN 0786706856 (0-7867-0685-6)
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The central event of the Earp story is the fabled gunfight near Tombstone's O.K. Corral, a violent eruption in a simmering feud between, believe it or not, frontier Democrats and Republicans. Barra delves deeply into the motivations of all the participants and those who would later tell their stories, and he deserves credit for conducting his prodigious research with skepticism. However, the thoroughness of Barra's approach is a double-edged sword: his relentless examination of Earp's life and the various accounts of it can at times lead the narrative into a blinding sandstorm of minor details. Nonetheless, for those with a strong interest in sorting out the truth about the legends of Tombstone, this book is a valuable source. --Robert McNamara [via]
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Jackson's Way: Andrew Jackson And the People Of The Western Watersby John BuchananISBN 0785820604 (0-7858-2060-4)
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Jefferson's Vendetta: The Pursuit Of Aaron Burr And The Judiciaryby Joseph WheelanISBN 0786716894 (0-7867-1689-4)
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Jefferson's War: America's First War On Terror 1801-1805by Joseph WheelanISBN 0786714042 (0-7867-1404-2)
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John DOS Passos: A Twentieth-Century Odysseyby Townsend LudingtonISBN 0786705272 (0-7867-0527-2)
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The Know-it-all: One Man's Humble Quest To Become The Smartest Person In The Worldby A. J. JacobsISBN 0786271310 (0-7862-7131-0)
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Koppett's Concise History of Major League Baseballby Leonard KoppettISBN 0786712864 (0-7867-1286-4)
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Library: An Unquiet Historyby Matthew BattlesISBN 0786268506 (0-7862-6850-6)
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Lincoln's Admiral: The Civil War Campaigns of David Farragutby James P. DuffyISBN 0785820965 (0-7858-2096-5)
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Lost Victories: The Military Genius of Stonewall Jacksonby B. AlexanderISBN 0785807225 (0-7858-0722-5)
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The Mapping of Americaby Seymour I. Schwartz, Ralph E. EhrenbergISBN 0785813195 (0-7858-1319-5)
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The Mauve Decade: American Life at the End of the Nineteenth Centuryby Thomas BeerISBN 0786705019 (0-7867-0501-9)
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Medal of Honor: Profiles of America's Military Heroes from the Civil War to the Presentby Mike Wallace, Allen MikaelianISBN 0786866624 (0-7868-6662-4)
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Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Gameby Michael LewisISBN 078625968X (0-7862-5968-X)
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The Mutinous Regiment: The Thirty-third New Jersey In The Civil Warby JOHN G. ZINNISBN 078642141X (0-7864-2141-X)
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New York Extra: A Newspaper History of the Greatest City in the World from 1671 to the 1939 World's FairISBN 0785811389 (0-7858-1138-9)
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Mealsby Michael PollanISBN 078628952X (0-7862-8952-X)
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Winner of the James Beard Award
Author of #1 New York Times Bestsellers In Defense of Food and Food Rules
Today, buffeted by one food fad after another, America is suffering from what can only be described as a national eating disorder. Will it be fast food tonight, or something organic? Or perhaps something we grew ourselves? The question of what to have for dinner has confronted us since man discovered fire. But as Michael Pollan explains in this revolutionary book, how we answer it now, as the dawn of the twenty-first century, may determine our survival as a species. Packed with profound surprises, The Omnivore's Dilemma is changing the way Americans thing about the politics, perils, and pleasures of eating.
Coming from The Penguin Press in 2013, Michael Pollans newest book Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation--the story of our most trusted food experts culinary education
"Thoughtful, engrossing ... You're not likely to get a better explanation of exactly where your food comes from."
-The New York Times Book Review
"An eater's manifesto ... [Pollan's] cause is just, his thinking is clear, and his writing is compelling. Be careful of your dinner!"
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"Outstanding... a wide-ranging invitation to think through the moral ramifications of our eating habits."
--The New Yorker
"If you ever thought 'what's for dinner' was a simple question, you'll change your mind after reading Pollan's searing indictment of today's food industry-and his glimpse of some inspiring alternatives.... I just loved this book so much I didn't want it to end."
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On Board the Titanicby Shelley Tanaka, Ken MarschallISBN 0786813180 (0-7868-1318-0)
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Papa La-Basby John Dickson CarrISBN 0786705027 (0-7867-0502-7)
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Paved With Good Intentions: The Failure of Race Relations in Contemporary Americaby Jared TaylorISBN 0786700254 (0-7867-0025-4)
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Peacemakers: Arms And Adventure In The American Westby R.L. Wilson, Peter Beard, Susan Einstein, Douglas SandbergISBN 0785818928 (0-7858-1892-8)
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Pearl Harbor Extra: A Newspaper Account of the United States' Entry into World War IIby Eric C. CarenISBN 0785813411 (0-7858-1341-1)
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Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Seaby Sebastian JungerISBN 0786212179 (0-7862-1217-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea'Book summary:Meteorologists called the storm that hit North America's eastern seaboard in October 1991 a "perfect storm" because of the rare combination of factors that created it. For everyone else, it was perfect hell. In The Perfect Storm, author Sebastian Junger conjures for the reader the meteorological conditions that created the "storm of the century" and the impact the storm had on many of the people caught in it. Chief among these are the six crew members of the swordfish boat the Andrea Gail, all of whom were lost 500 miles from home beneath roiling seas and high waves. Working from published material, radio dialogues, eyewitness accounts, and the experiences of people who have survived similar events, Junger attempts to re-create the last moments of the Andrea Gail as well as the perilous high-seas rescues of other victims of the storm.
Like a Greek drama, The Perfect Storm builds slowly and inexorably to its tragic climax. The book weaves the history of the fishing industry and the science of predicting storms into the quotidian lives of those aboard the Andrea Gail and of others who would soon find themselves in the fury of the storm. Junger does a remarkable job of explaining a convergence of meteorological and human events in terms that make them both comprehensible and unforgettable. [via]
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The Politics Of Truth: A Diplomat's Memoir Inside The Lies That Put The White House On Trial and Betrayed My Wife's Cia Identityby Joseph WilsonISBN 0786715510 (0-7867-1551-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Politics Of Truth: A Diplomat's Memoir Inside The Lies That Put The White House On Trial and Betrayed My Wife's Cia Identity'Book summary:While many former Bush administration officials published books airing their gripes and concerns in advance of the 2004 election, few were in a situation as personal as Joseph Wilson's. A career diplomat, he found himself working for an administration that apparently leaked information revealing his wife, Valerie Plame, to be a CIA operative soon after Wilson cast doubt on Bush's claims of Iraq trying to buy uranium from Niger. When columnist Robert Novak named Plame, there was widespread speculation about who leaked the information. In The Politics of Truth, Wilson points a finger at Dick Cheneys chief-of-staff I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby and national security aide Eliot Abrams although Wilson never really presents smoking gun evidence against them. There is little here that breaks new ground in terms of hard facts being revealed, nonetheless, Wilson's account, personal and well written, maps out the human impact of the situation in ways that major newspapers never could. Wilson's animus toward the administration is made stronger by his support of the president in the 2000 election and he held out hope that a centrist conservative approach would help America's position in the world. That scenario withered, in Wilson's mind, when the plan to invade Iraq became increasingly inevitable and, like many traditional conservatives, Wilson mourns the rise of the ideological "neo-conservatives" who shaped foreign policy. But while a true-life secret identity/betrayal story is inherently fascinating, and Wilson's indignation and scorn is powerfully delivered, there is more to recommend his book. Wilson tells of being stationed in the Persian Gulf in the days leading up to the first Gulf War, a haunting encounter with Saddam Hussein, and years of efforts to establish democracy in Africa. The Politics of Truth provides a glimpse inside the high stakes world of international intelligence and, Joseph Wilson says, that world can be vicious. --John Moe [via]
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The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies That Led to War and Exposed My Wife's CIA Identityby Joseph WilsonISBN 078671378X (0-7867-1378-X)
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Prelude To Terror: The Rogue Cia and The Legacy of America's Private Intelligence Networkby Trento, Joseph, J.ISBN 0786714646 (0-7867-1464-6)
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Red Lobster, White Trash, and the Blue Lagoon: Joe Queenan's Americaby Joe QueenanISBN 0786863323 (0-7868-6332-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Red Lobster, White Trash, and the Blue Lagoon: Joe Queenan's America'Book summary:"How bad could it be?" With this simple question, Joe Queenan embarks on a nightmare journey through the depths of American pop culture, subjecting himself to Broadway musicals, Red Lobster Captains' Feasts, and John Tesh concerts: "With his shopworn, lounge-lizard stage gestures, eviscerated salsa compositions, and studied reveries, Tesh was a human Cuisinart of every hack musical stunt, effecting a strange synthesis of various mongrel styles where half the songs sounded like generic background music for promotional videos ... and the other half sounded like retreads of Mason Williams's sixties hit Classical Gas."
Queenan sets out to find music, movies, books, and TV that transcend awful, and the most remarkable thing about this book is that one never doubts for a moment that he actually subjected himself to all of the horrors he describes (including the literary efforts of Joan Collins). In an era where references to Burt Reynolds movies are used as hipster currency by people who have never endured Cannonball Run II, Queenan mocks nothing without experiencing it first. His odyssey throws up a few surprises--including the discovery that Barry Manilow is actually pretty good, and that most of the junk that clogs the arteries of popular culture never reaches the stratospheric level of badness achieved by someone like Michael Bolton. This leads Queenan to coin the term scheissenbedauern ("shit regret") to describe "the disappointment one feels when exposed to something that is not nearly as bad as one hoped it would be."
But generally, the answer to the question posed at the beginning of the book is "Really, really bad." Making fun of bad middlebrow entertainment may seem like a no-brainer, but when a writer as sharp as Queenan gets his claws into something like the collected works of Billy Joel, the results are hilarious. Like Jonathan Swift with a remote control, he gleefully shoots every fish in the pop-culture barrel. --Simon Leake [via]
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Roadsby Larry McMurtryISBN 0786229691 (0-7862-2969-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Roads'Book summary:You couldn't find a blunter or more accurate title for Larry McMurtry's third work of nonfiction. Roads is indeed an automotive odyssey, in which the author traverses America on one highway after another. As such, the book has a long and honorable pedigree, stretching back to Tocqueville by way of Kerouac, and many readers will compare it to William Least Heat-Moon's bucolic ramble, Blue Highways. That, however, would be a mistake. The last thing McMurtry has in mind is a leisurely tour of small-town America--he's interested in the interstates themselves, "the great roads, the major migration routes that carry Americans long distances quickly." No wonder the speedometer seldom dips below 65 mph throughout the entire narrative. McMurtry is a man on the move, and even his meditative moments fly by in the linguistic equivalent of fourth gear.
Actually, there may be another reason the author is reluctant to apply the brakes: his distaste for various towns, villages, counties, and entire states. Planning a trip to the Texas hill country? McMurtry notes that "the soil is too stoney to farm or ranch, the hills are just sort of forested speed bumps, and the people, mostly of stern Teutonic stock, are suspicious, tightfisted, unfriendly, and mean." Missouri is "a place to get through as rapidly as possible," Ohio and Georgia "really aren't pleasant," and woe to the traveler who lingers in the one-horse towns of the West, "where it's not even wise to roll down one's windows--if you avoid getting murdered you might still breathe in some deadly desert germ."
This crankiness does have an undeniable comic appeal. Yet Roads turns out to be a sentimental journey after all, in the course of which McMurtry hopes to resurrect some of the élan vital he lost in the wake of his 1991 heart surgery. Driving, like reading itself, just may prompt some remembrance of things past:
As I prepared to drive those same overfamiliar roads again it occurred to me that my effort was obliquely Proustian, a retracing of my past that is analogous to the many rereadings I've done in the last few years, always of books I read before the surgery. In these rereadings and redrivings I'm searching, not for lost time, but for lost feelings, for the elements of my old personality that are still unaccounted for. I'm not anguished about these absentees, just curious and somewhat wistful.
Indeed, anguish is largely absent from McMurtry's account, and he doesn't dwell often on this scenario of loss and recovery. Still, it comes through particularly strongly at the end, when he compares his own, transient experience of place to his father's. These final chapters cast a sadder and more substantial light on the preceding ones--and make this circuitous, sometimes tetchy book a trip worth taking. --James Marcus [via]More editions of Roads:
Robbing Banks: An American History 1831-1999by L.R. KirchnerISBN 0785817093 (0-7858-1709-3)
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Secret of the Andesby Ann Nolan ClarkISBN 0785772456 (0-7857-7245-6)
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Silent Running: My Years on a World War II Attack Submarineby James F. CalvertISBN 0785822623 (0-7858-2262-3)
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Skullduggeryby Kathleen KarrISBN 0786816988 (0-7868-1698-8)
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Some Times in America: And a Life in a Year at the New Yorkerby Alexander ChancellorISBN 0786707100 (0-7867-0710-0)
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Sounderby William Armstrong, James BarkleyISBN 078627915X (0-7862-7915-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sounder'Book summary:Sounder is no beauty. But as a coon dog, this loyal mongrel with his cavernous bark is unmatched. When the African American sharecropper who has raised Sounder from a pup is hauled off to jail for stealing a hog, his family must suffer their humiliation and crushing loss with no recourse. To make matters worse, in the fracas, Sounder is shot and disappears. The eventual return of a tattered and emaciated Sounder doesn't change the fact that the sharecropper's oldest son is forced to take on man's work to help support the family. His transition to adulthood is paved by the rocks and taunts hurled at him by convicts and guards as he searches for his father. But along this rough road he ultimately finds salvation as well.
William H. Armstrong's Newbery Award-winning novel quickly became a classic as a moving portrayal of resilience and hope in the face of profound human tragedy. Decades later, the bittersweet story still rings true, as strong-spirited individuals continue to battle the evil of prejudice. (Ages 9 to 12) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Story of the Wreck of the Titanicby Marshall EverettISBN 0785810110 (0-7858-1011-0)
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Supplement and General Indexby Samuel Eliot MorisonISBN 0785813160 (0-7858-1316-0)
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Teacher's Funeral: A Comedy in Three Partsby Richard PeckISBN 0786277505 (0-7862-7750-5)
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The Timechart History of Americaby Not AvailableISBN 078582135X (0-7858-2135-X)
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Tuck Everlastingby Natalie BabbittISBN 0786263229 (0-7862-6322-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tuck Everlasting'Book summary:Imagine coming upon a fountain of youth in a forest. To live forever--isn't that everyone's ideal? For the Tuck family, eternal life is a reality, but their reaction to their fate is surprising. Award winner Natalie Babbitt (Knee-Knock Rise, The Search for Delicious) outdoes herself in this sensitive, moving adventure in which 10-year-old Winnie Foster is kidnapped, finds herself helping a murderer out of jail, and is eventually offered the ultimate gift--but doesn't know whether to accept it. Babbitt asks profound questions about the meaning of life and death, and leaves the reader with a greater appreciation for the perfect cycle of nature. Intense and powerful, exciting and poignant, Tuck Everlasting will last forever--in the reader's imagination. An ALA Notable Book. (Ages 9 to 12) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Ultimate Sacrifice: John and Robert Kennedy, the Plan for a Coup in Cuba, and the Murder of JFKby Thom Hartmann, Lamar WaldronISBN 0786718323 (0-7867-1832-3)
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The Mafia had managed to infiltrate the Kennedys' intended coup. Ultimate Sacrifice describes and documents an attempt they made to kill JFK in a motorcade several days prior to Dallas. This attempt had more than a dozen parallels to Dallas.
Building on the work of the seven governmental committees that investigated aspects of JFK's assassination, the four million documents that were declassified in the 1990s, and exclusive interviews with many Kennedy insiders, the authors are able to tell the full story of these incidents.
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Villa and Zapata: A History of the Mexican Revolutionby Frank McLynnISBN 0786710888 (0-7867-1088-8)
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The Watsons Go To Birmingham--1963by Christopher Paul CurtisISBN 0786264063 (0-7862-6406-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Watsons Go To Birmingham--1963'Book summary:The year is 1963, and self-important Byron Watson is the bane of his younger brother Kenny's existence. Constantly in trouble for one thing or another, from straightening his hair into a "conk" to lighting fires to freezing his lips to the mirror of the new family car, Byron finally pushes his family too far. Before this "official juvenile delinquent" can cut school or steal change one more time, Momma and Dad finally make good on their threat to send him to the deep south to spend the summer with his tiny, strict grandmother. Soon the whole family is packed up, ready to make the drive from Flint, Michigan, straight into one of the most chilling moments in America's history: the burning of the Sixteenth Avenue Baptist Church with four little girls inside.
Christopher Paul Curtis's alternately hilarious and deeply moving novel, winner of the Newbery Honor and the Coretta Scott King Honor, blends the fictional account of an African American family with the factual events of the violent summer of 1963. Fourth grader Kenny is an innocent and sincere narrator; his ingenuousness lends authenticity to the story and invites readers of all ages into his world, even as it changes before his eyes. Curtis is also the acclaimed author of Bud, Not Buddy, winner of the Newbery Medal. (Ages 9 to 12) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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White Fangby Jack LondonISBN 0785788891 (0-7857-8889-1)
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Witch Hunt: History of a Persecutionby Nigel CawthorneISBN 0785818588 (0-7858-1858-8)
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