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These Truths

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These Truths: A History of the United States (Hardcover)

By Jill Lepore
$39.95
ISBN: 9780393635249
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - September 18th, 2018

 

With a country large and varied as the United States there likely will never be a definitive single-volume history. With These Truths Lepore gives us a largely political history though one informed by the many insights produced by changes in historical methodology over the last few decades. Lepore is always a joy to read. She keeps this book lively and entertaining by focusing on individual lives involved in some of the key dramas that illuminate the how and why of our past.

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These Truths

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These Truths: A History of the United States (Hardcover)

By Jill Lepore
$39.95
ISBN: 9780393635249
Availability: Available to Order from Supplier: Arrives at Store in a Week(ish)
Published: W. W. Norton & Company - September 18th, 2018

 

With a country large and varied as the United States there likely will never be a definitive single-volume history. With These Truths Lepore gives us a largely political history though one informed by the many insights produced by changes in historical methodology over the last few decades. Lepore is always a joy to read. She keeps this book lively and entertaining by focusing on individual lives involved in some of the key dramas that illuminate the how and why of our past.

Dale

Letters to Memory

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Letters to Memory (Paperback)

By Karen Tei Yamashita
$19.95
ISBN: 9781566894876
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Published: Coffee House Press - September 5th, 2017

Through exploring her family's archive of letters and other documents, Yamashita creates a powerful dialog between herself and her past, including her family's experience in the WWII Japanese internment camps, how they reacted, how they coped, and how they moved on when they got home. More than just a memoir, this book teaches by example a new kind of relationship you can have with your familial, national, and cultural story. This is an important book.

Josh

Alone

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Alone: Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk: Defeat Into Victory (Hardcover)

By Michael Korda
$29.95
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ISBN: 9781631491320
Published: Liveright - September 19th, 2017

If you’ve seen Christopher Nolan’s film, Dunkirk, and want to learn more, try Alone. Korda’s book is a compelling and detailed examination of the events leading up to the beginning of World War II through the evacuation of Allied troops at Dunkirk interspersed with Korda’s own memoir of his illustrious, movie-making, emigre family.

Dale

Protestantism After 500 Years

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Protestantism After 500 Years (Paperback)

By Thomas Albert Howard (Editor), Mark A. Noll (Editor)
$49.95
ISBN: 9780190264796
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Published: Oxford University Press, USA - August 1st, 2016

There is no overstating the significance of the Protestant Reformation, and so its 500th anniversary is an event deserving reflection. In Protestantism After 500 Years, two leading Reformation scholars compile essays devoted to how events of 1517 kick-started history's greatest revolution. A must-read for understanding religion's role in the development of modernity.

Matthew

Apollo 8

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Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon (Hardcover)

By Jeffrey Kluger
$32.00
ISBN: 9781627798327
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Published: Henry Holt and Co. - May 16th, 2017

Going to the moon is not a small undertaking. Imagine, it had never been done before, and the mission was planned & executed in sixteen weeks! Apollo 8 is the story of a “wild crapshoot” that will bring you back to that time or open the door to an accomplishment that included a TV broadcast from the moon on Christmas Eve 1968.  

Robert

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