History

Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill (Hardcover)

By Candice Millard

$30.00
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ISBN: 9780385535731

Published: Doubleday - September 20th, 2016

Maybe it's learning about an event in history that (In America at least) is not well known, maybe it's being told from the perspective of a man determined to make his mark on history or die trying, but Millard has released a history book that goes toe to toe with the best thrillers out there.

 

John

Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race (Hardcover)

By Margot Lee Shetterly

$27.99

ISBN: 9780062363596

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Published: William Morrow - September 6th, 2016

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The movie's not out until January, but you can read now about the black female engineers and mathematicians who were the unseen contributors to the space program.

Sarah

The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government (Paperback)

By David Talbot

$19.99

ISBN: 9780062276179

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Published: Harper Perennial - September 6th, 2016

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Allen Dulles, avuncular pipe-smoking intelligence mandarin, turns out to have been a shocking figure with admiration for major Nazis,no patience with American democracy, suspiciously peripheral to the Kennedy assassination and on and on. Devil indeed!

Gary

Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon (Hardcover)

By Larry Tye

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ISBN: 9780812993349

Published: Random House - July 5th, 2016

With access to many key figures and documents as well as members of the Kennedy family, Larry Tye has brilliantly captured the complex personality of one of the most charismatic public figures of the 1960’s. Tye explores the seeming contradictions in Kennedy’s life, a man who first came to Washington as an ardent anti-communist staffer for McCarthy and who became a generation’s best hope for creating a more just, more compassionate, more peaceful world.

Dale

The History of White People (Paperback)

By Nell Irvin Painter

$18.95

ISBN: 9780393339741

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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - April 18th, 2011

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A wide-ranging look at how whiteness has been defined throughout history, from the marble statues of ancient Greece and Rome (back in the day, they were colorful) to how "Caucasian" became part of the language (you can thank Ottoman harems for that).

Sarah

Commander in Chief: FDR's Battle with Churchill, 1943 (FDR at War #2) (Hardcover)

By Nigel Hamilton

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ISBN: 9780544279117

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Published: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt - June 7th, 2016

Commander in Chief is the second volume of Nigel Hamilton’s masterful reexamination of FDR’s crucial role in the planning and execution of the Allied war strategy during World War II. This volume centers on the decision making process after the North African invasion beginning  with Roosevelt’s summit with Churchill in Casablanca in 1943 and how it took all of Roosevelt’s diplomatic skill and resolve to set the course for ultimate victory.

Dale

 

West of Eden: An American Place (Hardcover)

By Jean Stein

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ISBN: 9780812998405

Published: Random House - February 9th, 2016

This oral history of Hollywood and Los Angeles, looks at five different  families/individuals who lived, struggled, worked, and played there - the actress Jennifer Jones, movie mogul Jack Warner, tycoon Edward Doheny, troubled Jane Garland and Stein's own fascinating family.  Their stories are woven into an intense, illuminating and sometimes tragic tapestry.

 

Nathan

 

A History of the Twentieth Century in 100 Maps (Hardcover)

By Tim Bryars, Tom Harper

$45.00

ISBN: 9780226202471

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Published: University of Chicago Press - October 22nd, 2014

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Whether or not you're a map geek, you will want to buy this book as a gift and then keep it for yourself and not give it away.  Maps are much more than geography - 20th century history and culture can be viewed through its maps, and this is an eclectic, diverse and beautiful collection.  A 1901 map of Jewish East London, the world map of Orwell's 1984, a trench map used by soldiers

in the Somme offensive - and 97 more.    

David