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In "an enthralling story, full of fascinating characters, intense drama, high adventure, deceitful manipulation, courageous truth-telling, and splendid moral fervor" ("Christian Science Monitor"), Hochschild tells the story of King Leopold of Belgium, a... [ More...]
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The epic scope of historian Nasaw's award winning biography matches the titanic personality and achievements of William Randolph Hearst (1862-1951), who built the nation's first media conglomerate from a single San Francisco newspaper.
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Winner of the the 1998 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award of the Phi Beta Kappa Society King Philip's War, the excruciating racial war--colonists against Indians--that erupted in New England in 1675, was, in proportion to population, the bloodiest in... [ More...]
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From an award-winning New York Times investigative reporter comes an outrageous story of greed, corruption, and conspiracy—which left the FBI and Justice Department counting on the cooperation of one man . . . It was one of the FBI's biggest... [ More...]
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In 1836, the murder of a young prostitute made headlines in New York City and around the country, inaugurating a sex-and-death sensationalism in news reporting that haunts us today. Patricia Cline Cohen goes behind these first lurid accounts to reconstruct... [ More...]
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A world-renowned authority on Vietnam delivers an immensely captivating portrayal of Ho. Riveting and impeccably researched, "Ho Chi Minh" is a stunning and revelatory portrait of an extraordinary man whose life holds the keys to understanding a conflict... [ More...]
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A definitive history of the transformation of Japanese society under American occupation after World War II. 40 photos.
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This fascinating portrait of landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted transcends biography and makes American history an intellectual adventure story. of photos.
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List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsPrologue: Devils or AngelsPart One: Romances of Creation1. A Great Sensation2. Steam Reading3. Evolution for the People4. Marketing SpeculationPart Two: Geographies of Reading5. Conversations on... [ More...]
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A groundbreaking historical study based on documents previously locked in the Vatican's secret archives: The Popes Against the Jews graphically shows how the Catholic Church helped make the Holocaust possible. Pope John Paul II, as part of his effort to... [ More...]
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