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1864: Lincoln at the Gates of History
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Charles Bracelen Flood
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At the beginning of 1864, the Civil War was far from won; terrible and bloody Union setbacks and casualties lay ahead. Abraham Lincoln was facing a re-election battle as some northern Democrats were ready to start peace talks that could leave the Confederacy a separate slaveholding American nation and as his secretary of the treasury, Salmon P. Chase, challenged him for the Republican nomination.
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40 More Years: How the Democrats Will Rule the Next Generation
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James Carville
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The number-one New York Times bestselling author and political strategist James Carville offers a rousing call-to-arms to Democrats, whose reclaiming of the White House in 2008 points to the emergence of a Democratic majority that will last for years to come.
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5 Principles for a Successful Life
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Newt Gingrich
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n this book, Newt Gingrich and his daughter Jackie Gingrich Cushman---with the help of prominent people they know and admire, such as Bill Clinton, Rush Limbaugh, Mary Matalin, and David Petraeus---show how, by following just five principles, you can live life to its fullest.
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A Bound Man
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Shelby Steele
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From the New York Times bestselling and controversial author Shelby Steele comes an illuminating examination of the complex racial issues surrounding presidential candidate Barack Obama.
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A Contract with the Earth
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Newt Gingrich
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Focusing the environmental debate on the principle of common commitment, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and eminent conservationist Terry L. Maple present A Contract with the Earth.
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the White House
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Charles Osgood
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As Charles Osgood showed in his popular book Kilroy Was Here: The Best American Humor from World War II, sometimes the most intense situations yield the most unexpectedly funny stories. And few situations are more intense than a presidential campaign.
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A G-Man's Life: The FBI, Being 'Deep Throat', and the Struggle for Honor in Washington
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Mark Felt
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Mark Felt's role in history was secured when he decided to share his views on the Watergate break-in with a young reporter on the Washington Post named Bob Woodward.
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A Hundred and One Days: A Baghdad Journal
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Asne Seierstad
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The New York Times best-selling author of The Bookseller of Kabul paints a stunning and intimate portrait of Baghdad under siege.
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A Slobbering Love Affair
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Bernard Goldberg
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Do the mainstream media have a liberal bias? Sure they do, says CBS veteran and New York Times best-selling author Bernard Goldberg. But the media crossed an important line in the 2008 presidential race...
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A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It
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Stephen Kinzer
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The bestselling author of All the Shah's Men profiles one of the most successful revolutionaries of the modern era, telling the dramatic story of how he seized power in Rwanda and led this shattered country's astonishing recovery.
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A World of Trouble: The White House and the Middle East
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Patrick Tyler
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The Middle East is the beginning and the end of U.S. foreign policy: events there influence our alliances, make or break presidencies, govern the price of oil, and draw us into war.
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Alger Hiss and the Battle for History
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Susan Jacoby
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Books on Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss abound, as countless scholars have labored to uncover the facts behind Chambers's shocking accusation before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in the summer of 1948---that Alger Hiss, a former rising star in the State Department, had been a Communist and engaged in espionage.
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All The Shah's Men
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Stephen Kinzer
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Half a century ago, the United States overthrew the democratically elected prime minister of Iran, Mohammad Mossadegh, whose "crime" was nationalizing the country's oil industry.
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American Fascists
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Chris Hedges
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Twenty-five years ago, when Pat Robertson and other radio and televangelists first spoke of the United States becoming a Christian nation that would build a global Christian empire, it was hard to take such hyperbolic rhetoric seriously.
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Blood, Money, and Power
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Barr McClellan
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L.B.J.'s personal attorney reveals the secret conspiracy about the J.F.K. assassination in a new book that all America is talking about....
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Burn Before Reading: Presidents, CIA Directors, and Secret Intelligence
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Stansfield Turner
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As never before, the American public is fascinated by how the United States government gathers intelligence.
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Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
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Stephen F. Hayes
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During a forty-year career in politics, Vice President Dick Cheney has been involved in some of the most consequential decisions in recent American history. He was one of a few select advisers in the room when President Gerald Ford decided to declare an end to the Vietnam War.
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Churchill and America
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Martin Gilbert
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In this stirring book, Martin Gilbert tells the intensely human story of Winston Churchill's profound connection to America, a relationship that resulted in an Anglo-American alliance that has stood at the center of international relations for more than a century.
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Class 11: Inside the CIA's First Post-9/11 Spy Class
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T.J. Waters
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Offering a gripping insider's look at the first post-9/11 CIA training class--the most elite and secretive espionage training program in the country…
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Collateral Damage: America's War Against Iraqi Civilians
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Chris Hedges
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Best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges and journalist Laila Al-Arian spent several months interviewing Iraqi war veterans to expose the patterns of the occupation and how it affects Iraqi civilians.
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Crush the Cell: How to Defeat Terrorism Without Terrorizing Ourselves
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Michael A. Sheehan
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Written by a man who is arguably the country's most authoritative voice on counterterrorism, Crush the Cell demolishes, with simple logic, the edifice of false "terror punditry" that has been laid, brick by brick, since 9/11.
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Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East
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Robin Wright
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Robin Wright first landed in the Middle East on October 6, 1973, the day the fourth Middle East war erupted. She has covered every country and most major crises in the region since then, through to the rise of al Qaeda and the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
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Facing Down Evil
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Clint Van Zandt
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No ordinary Washington memoir, "Facing Down Evil" is an unprecedented look behind the scenes of our nation's most powerful law enforcement agency.
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Failing America's Faithful
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Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
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For too long the subject of religion has been politicized by the right and largely ignored by the left, as American churches have become increasingly more concerned with what people do with their bodies than with their souls.
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Fleeced
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Dick Morris
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In this hard-hitting call to arms, Dick Morris and Eileen McGann reveal the hundreds of ways American taxpayers are routinely fleeced - by our own government…
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