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Ardizzone, Heidi: An Illuminated Life: Belle Da Costa Greene's Journey From Prejudice to Privilage, Norton, 2007 - As a black woman who passed as white, Ardizzone details the secret life of Belle da Costa Greene, the sensational woman behind the J.P. Morgan masterpieces who lit up New York society. It is the story of what it means to give up who you are in order to gain the world. |
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Gerard, Philip: Secret Soldiers: How a Troupe of American Artists, Designers and Sonic Wizards Won World War II's Battles of Deception Against the Germans, Dutton, 2002; Plume, 2003 - Drawing on recently declassified records, interviews, diaries, and letters, Secret Soldiers provides a fascinating and long-overdue tribute to the men who executed one of the greatest military deceptions of all time. |
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Holland, Barbara: Gentleman's Blood: A History of Dueling, Bloomsbury, 2003 & 2004 - An examination of the history of the duel, from the origins of the joust to the legacy left behind in today’s sports. Famous duels involving figures such as Sam Adams, Alexander Hamilton, Pushkin, Caravaggio, and Jim Bowie, are examined, peppered with Holland’s wit and insights. |
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Jacobs, Katherine : Inside Washington in the Gilded Age, John Hopkins University Press, 2009 - An examination of the larger-than-life personalities in 19thCentury Washington, using as its focus Sam Ward, the extraordinary man who created the lobbying industry. |
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Landas, Marc: The Fallen: A True Story of American POWs and Japanese Wartime Atrocities, Wiley, 2004 - When a rumor first crossed Special Agent Philip Cheles’s desk in November 1945, there was no way to imagine the horror he would soon discover. A benign investigation eventually exploded into the most sensational war crimes trial to come out of Japan. Debut Author |
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Masterson, Karen: Bad Air, Palgrave, 2010 - The Desperate Hunt to Cure the World's Great Scourge in WWII, a gripping account of the use and effects of malaria during World War II and the shocking truth behind the US military's experiments in search of a cure. World English rights sold. |
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Raphael, Ray: Founding Myths, New Press, 2005 & 2006 - Raphael deconstructs thirteen stories from the Revolutionary War, such as Paul Revere’s Ride, and the “Shot Heard Round the World,” and shows that any honest history of our nation’s founding must come to grips with the many distortions that still anchor our core narrative. |
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Raphael, Ray: Founders, New Press, 2008 & 2009 - A popular narrative of our nation’s birth, casting people from diverse levels of the social hierarchy, this book spotlights life-sized people from all walks of life and lets the reality of what they did stand, without distortion or mythology. |
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Steelwater, Eliza: The Hangman's Knot: Lynching, Legal Execution, and America's Struggle with the Death Penalty, Westview, 2003 - How did the United States come to be the only independent Western democracy still applying the death penalty today? That's the central question in this book about punishment, politics, and how they worked together over some 300 years to create a unique history of death penalty use. Foliospeak Author |
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Trento, Joseph J.: The Secret History of the CIA, Carroll and Graf, 2004 - Investigative reporter Trento depicts the CIA as stunningly incompetent and shows how the agency's culture of arrogance led to the waste of superior intellects and hundreds of millions of dollars. |
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Watson, Bruce: Bread and Roses: Mills, Migrants, and the Struggle for the American Dream, Viking, 2005 & 2006 - Watson tells the story of the textile strike in 1912 that catapulted the labor movement. What started as a spontaneous protest against a reduction in pay rapidly escalated into a battle between labor and capital. |
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Watson, Bruce: Sacco & Vanzetti: The Men, the Murders, and the Judgment of Mankind, Viking, 2007 & 2008 - Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are among the most famous political martyrs of 20th-century America, convicted of murder by a Massachusetts jury and executed in 1929. Watson runs through the facts of the case and the basic legal injustices perpetrated against the two men. Chosen by Jonathan Yardley (Washington Post's chief book critic) as one of his personal 10 best books of 2007. |
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Watson, Bruce: , Viking, 2009 & 2010 - 1964, hundreds of idealistic young men and women helped thousands of blacks in Mississippi re-define "Freedom". That Freedom Summer inspires awe, terror, and hope for all that is good in America. |
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