One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
Michael Dobbs Knopf Knopf
In October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union appeared to be sliding inexorably toward a nuclear conflict over the placement of missiles in Cuba. Veteran Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs has pored...
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Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation
John Carlin Penguin Press HC, The Penguin Press HC, The
A thrilling, inspiring account of one of the greatest charm offensives in history—Nelson Mandela’s decade-long campaign to unite his country, beginning in his jail cell and ending with a rugby tournament In 1985, Nelson Mandela, then in prison...
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Mohsin Hamid Harvest Books Harvest Books
Mohsin Hamid's first novel, Moth Smoke , dealt with the confluence of personal and political themes, and his second, The Reluctant Fundamentalist , revisits that territory in the person of Changez, a young Pakistani. Told in a single...
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The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America
Thurston Clarke Henry Holt and Co. Henry Holt and Co.
Amazon Best of the Month, June 2008 : When Senator Robert F. Kennedy entered the presidential race during the chaotic year of 1968, anarchy appeared to be gathering on the horizon. America was coming to grips with an unwinnable war in Vietnam and...
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Sunday Afternoon on the Porch: Reflections of a Small Town in Iowa, 1939-1942 (Bur Oak Book)
Jim Heynen University Of Iowa Press University Of Iowa Press
In 1939, just before graduating from high school in the small town of Ridgeway in northeast Iowa, Everett Kuntz spent his entire savings of $12.50 on a 35mm Argus AF camera. He made a camera case from a worn-out boot, scraps from a tin can, and a...
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Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt
David McCullough Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster
Mornings on Horseback is the brilliant biography of the young Theodore Roosevelt. Hailed as "a masterpiece" (John A. Gable, Newsday), it is the winner of the Los Angeles Times 1981 Book Prize for Biography and the National Book Award for...
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Bowling Alone : The Collapse and Revival of American Community
Robert D. Putnam Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster
Few people outside certain scholarly circles had heard the name Robert D. Putnam before 1995. But then this self-described "obscure academic" hit a nerve with a journal article called "Bowling Alone." Suddenly he found himself invited to Camp David,...
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The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale
Art Spiegelman Pantheon Pantheon
At last! Here is the definitive edition of the book acclaimed as “the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust” ( Wall Street Journal ) and “the first masterpiece in comic book history” ( The New...
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Alexander Hamilton
Ron Chernow Penguin Press Penguin Press
Building on biographies by Richard Brookhiser and Willard Sterne Randall , Ron Chernow’s Alexander Hamilton provides what may be the most comprehensive modern examination of the often overlooked Founding Father. From the start, Chernow argues...
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A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World
William J. Bernstein Atlantic Monthly Press Atlantic Monthly Press
Adam Smith wrote that man has an intrinsic “propensity to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another.” But how did trade evolve to the point where we don’t think twice about biting into an apple from the other side of the...
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