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An absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Secret War. Vietnam became the Western world’s most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for the...

A New York Times Notable Book A deeply textured dual biography and fascinating intellectual history that examines two of the greatest minds of European history—Desiderius Erasmus and Martin Luther—whose heated rivalry gave rise to two enduring, fundamental, and often colliding traditions of...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "The most comprehensive and detailed account of the Trump presidency yet published."—The Washington Post A Best Book of the Year: The New Yorker and Financial Times "The book everyone is talking about."—Politico The inside story of the four years when...

From the best-selling author of Gettysburg, a multilayered group biography of the commanders who led the Army of the Potomac “A masterful synthesis . . . A narrative about amazing courage and astonishing gutlessness . . . It explains why Union movements worked and, more often, didn’t work...

Uncover the intriguing legal conundrums that have shaped American history, as we delve into gripping Supreme Court cases from 1803 to 2018. Well explore everything from the limits of Congressional power and the infamous international slave trade, to the legal nuances of property rights and the impeachment process. Well also shed light on the fight for womens suffrage, the curious case of the tomato, and the legal implications of double jeopardy. Well tackle questions about citizenship, the legality of lotteries, film censorship, and the First Amendments roles during war and in defamation cases...

Burned Ambition is a State of Mind. It’s the term our host, Tonya Meisenbach, uses to describe the calling she has to help others and to create platforms that help others others to help themselves. She’s created these things since being severely burned in an act of domestic violence and she, therefore, calls it her Burned Ambition.She works daily to inspire OTHERS as @BurnedBeauty2018 on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube & TikTok.Please remember to SUBSCRIBE, COMMENT, LIKE & SHARE, so that survivors in need know where to go to find solace.#burnsurvivors #burnsurvivor #tonyameisenbach #...

¿Fue el siglo xx de España una excepción entre las naciones europeas? Con esta pregunta, y un intento de respuesta, comienza esta colección de ensayos que abarca desde el desastre del 98 a los sucesivos momentos de la profunda crisis de Estado en la que todavía andamos inmersos. Santos Juliá traza aquí un recorrido por cien años y algo más de nuestra historia en busca de la diferencia española, las propuestas de europeización, el momento en que se torció una posible transición del liberalismo a la democracia...

Los nuevos herederos de Zapata: Campesinos en movimiento, 1920-2012, abarca la historia del movimiento campesino en México desde poco antes de la Revolución hasta la primera mitad del sexenio de Enrique Peña Nieto. Traza un mapa del recorrido del movimiento social y registra el resurgimiento del movimiento indígena en el país.

With rich detail, compelling honesty, and a storyteller’s gift, RFK Jr. describes growing up Kennedy in a tumultuous time in history that eerily echoes the issues of nuclear confrontation, religion, race, and inequality that we confront today. This powerful book combines the best aspects of...

Joining the bestsellers Longitude and Galileo’s Daughter, a lively and intriguing tale of two artists whose competitive spirit brought to life one of the world’s most magnificent structures and ignited the Renaissance The dome of the Santa Maria del Fiore, the great cathedral of Florence, is...

Who is Donald J. Trump? To truly understand America’s forty-fifth president, argues Vanity Fair journalist Emily Jane Fox, you must know his children, whose own stories provide the key to unlocking what makes him tick. Born Trump is Fox’s dishy, deeply reported, and richly detailed look at...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Called ""Disgraceful,"" ""third-rate,"" and ""not nice"" by Donald Trump, NBC News correspondent Katy Tur reported on—and took flak from—the most captivating and volatile presidential candidate in American history. Tur lived out of a suitcase for a year and a half...

This timeless memoir documents two sisters’ bravery leading up to WWII—a singular historical account that shines a light on one of humanity’s darkest hours. Ida and Louise Cook are two ordinary Englishwomen, seemingly destined never to stray from their quiet London suburb and comfortable...

An audiobook for the ages featuring the voices of Women's March Organizers, as well as Ashley Judd, Jia Tolentino, Cindi Leive, Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, Sister Aisha Al-Adawiya, Melanie Campbell, Judith LeBlanc, Ai-Jen Poo, Robin Miles, January LaVoy, Thérèse Plummer, and James Fouhey. In...

From New York Times bestselling author John U. Bacon, a gripping narrative history of the largest manmade detonation prior to Hiroshima: in 1917 a ship laden with the most explosives ever packed on a vessel sailed out of Brooklyn’s harbor for the battlegrounds of World War I; when it stopped...

Modern humans have come a long way in the seventy thousand years they’ve walked the earth. Art, science, culture, trade—on the evolutionary food chain, we’re true winners. But it hasn’t always been smooth sailing, and sometimes—just occasionally—we’ve managed to truly f*ck things...

In November 2018, the greatest number of women in American history entered Congress. From Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and "the Squad" to "the Badasses" with national security backgrounds, from the first two Native Americans in Congress to the first two Muslim women, all were swept into office on a wave of grassroots support, diverse in background, age, professional experience, and ideology. In The Firsts, New York Times reporter Jennifer Steinhauer follows these women's first year in the 116th Congress.

The people of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania voted Democratic for decades, until Donald Trump flipped it in 2016. What happened? Named one of the "juiciest political books to come in 2018" by Entertainment Weekly. In The Forgotten, Ben Bradlee Jr. reports on how voters in Luzerne County, a pivotal...