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A sweeping and original history of the Anglo-Saxons by national best-selling author Marc Morris.

Learn about all the secrets our government has kept for the past fifty years.

It was the last-chance moment of the war. In January 2007, President George W. Bush announced a new strategy for Iraq. He called it the surge....

From the bestselling author of Nixonland: a dazzling portrait of America on the verge of a nervous breakdown in the tumultuous political and economic times of the 1970s.

When NASA was launched in 1958, 13 women proved they had as much of the right stuff as men to be astronauts, but their way to space was blocked by prejudice, insecurity, and a scrawled note written by one of Washington's most powerful men. This is the true story of the Mercury 13 women.

In this magisterial and acclaimed history, Anne Applebaum offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag....

From its inception, Atlantic City has always been a town dedicated to the fast buck, and this history offers a riveting account of its past 100 years--from the city's heyday as a Prohibition-era mecca of lawlessness to its rebirth as a legitimate casino resort in the modern era.

First published in 1903, this groundbreaking work is a cornerstone of African American literary history and a foundational text in the field of sociology.

Guided only by legendary stories and unfinished 15th-century maps, Henry Hudson set out to search for the sea route through what was thought to be a polar passage to Asia.

For listeners of Jon Krakauer and Susan Orlean, The Coyote's Bicycle brings to life a never-before-told phenomenon at our southern border, and the human drama of those who would cross.