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Alexander II

The Last Great Tsar

by Edvard Radzinsky
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2005

Alexander II was Russia's Lincoln, and the greatest reformer tsar since Peter the Great. He was also one of the most contradictory, and fascinating, of history's supreme leaders. He freed the serfs, yet launched vicious wars. He engaged in the sexual exploits of a royal Don Juan, yet fell profoundly...
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Civil War Command And Strategy

The Process Of Victory And Defeat

by Jones Archer
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010

In this comparative history of Union & Confederate command & strategy, Jones shows us how the Civil War was actually conducted. Looking at decision-making at the highest levels, Jones argues that President Lincoln & Davis & most of their senior generals brought to the context of the Civil War a broad...
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by Joseph Glatthaar
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998

Explores the productive friendships of such contrasting personalities as Grant and Sherman and Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, bringing to life the struggle between McClellan and Lincoln and Jefferson Davis and Joseph E. Johnston.
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General Lee's Army

From Victory to Collapse

by Joseph Glatthaar
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2008

"You would be surprised to see what men we have in the ranks," Virginia cavalryman Thomas Rowland informed his mother in May 1861, just after joining the Army of Northern Virginia. His army -- General Robert E. Lee's army -- was a surprise to almost everyone: With daring early victories and an invasion...
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Lincoln's Code

The Laws of War in American History

by John Fabian Witt
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012

Pulitzer Prize Finalist Bancroft Prize Winner ABA Silver Gavel Award Winner A New York Times Notable Book of the Year In the closing days of 1862, just three weeks before Emancipation, the administration of Abraham Lincoln commissioned a code setting forth the laws of war for US armies. It...
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by Gil Troy
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012

See How They Ran explores why candidates campaign as they do, why Americans complain about it, and what these evolving patterns and changing images tell us about American democracy itself. On the eve of every election, many Americans become convinced that this presidential campaign is worse...
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Wisenheimer

A Childhood Subject to Debate

by Mark Oppenheimer
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010

Have you ever met a child who talked like an adult? Who knew big words and how to use them? Was he a charmer or an insufferable smart aleck—or maybe both? Mark Oppenheimer was just such a boy, his talent for language a curse as much as a blessing. But when he got to junior high, Oppenheimer discovered...
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by Rickie Solinger
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 1995

Prior to Roe v. Wade, hundreds of thousands of illegal abortions occurred in the United States every year. Rickie Solinger uses the story of Ruth Barnett, an abortionist in Portland, Oregon, between 1918 and 1968 to demonstrate that it was the law, not so-called back-alley practitioners, that most...
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How to Break a Terrorist

The U.S. Interrogators Who Used Brains, Not Brutality, to Take Down the Deadliest Man in Iraq

by Matthew Alexander, John Bruning
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2008

Finding Abu Musab al Zarqawi, the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, had long been the U.S. military's top priority -- trumping even the search for Osama bin Laden. No brutality was spared in trying to squeeze intelligence from Zarqawi's suspected associates. But these "force on force" techniques yielded...
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The Longest War

The Enduring Conflict between America and Al-Qaeda

by Peter L. Bergen
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011

TEN YEARS HAVE PASSED since the shocking attacks on the World Trade Center, and after seven years of conflict, the last U.S. combat troops left Iraq—only to move into Afghanistan, where the ten-year-old fight continues: the war on terror rages with no clear end in sight. In The Longest War Peter...
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American Chinatown

A People's History of Five Neighborhoods

by Bonnie Tsui
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009

CHINATOWN, U.S.A.: a state of mind, a world within a world, a neighborhood that exists in more cities than you might imagine. Every day, Americans find "something different" in Chinatown's narrow lanes and overflowing markets, tasting exotic delicacies from a world apart or bartering for a trinket...
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Tear Down This Myth

How the Reagan Legacy Has Distorted Our Politics and Haunts Our Future

by Will Bunch
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2009

In this provocative new book, award-winning political journalist Will Bunch unravels the story of how a right-wing cabal hijacked the mixed legacy of Ronald Reagan, a personally popular but hugely divisive 1980s president, and turned him into a bronze icon to revive their fading ideology. They succeeded...
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Reagan

A Life In Letters

by Kiron K. Skinner, Annelise Anderson, Martin Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2004

Ronald Reagan may have been the most prolific correspondent of any American president since Thomas Jefferson. The total number of letters written over his lifetime probably exceeds 10,000. Their breadth is equally astonishing -- with friends and family, with politicians, children, and other private...
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Conquered into Liberty

Two Centuries of Battles along the Great Warpath that Made the American Way of War

by Eliot A. Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011

Americans often think of the Civil War as the conflict that consolidated the United States, including its military values and practices. But there was another, earlier, and more protracted struggle between “North” and “South,” beginning in the 1600s and lasting for more than two centuries,...
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