History

1941: Fighting the Shadow War

It's always fascinating to see an in-depth and somewhat alternative view of a history we think we know about. 1941 saw a sharply divided American public arguing about whether to get into the war or not, with Teddy Roosevelt Jr. and the rabidly anti-Semitic Charles Lindbergh leading the isolationist camp and Roosevelt trying to help Churchill and Europe while not breaking promises he had been forced to make in the 1940 presidential campaign. Deeply researched and engagingly written. Wortman will be at PSB on May 10.

1941: Fighting the Shadow War: A Divided America in a World at War (Hardcover)

By Marc Wortman

$27.00

ISBN: 9780802125118

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Published: Atlantic Monthly Press - April 19th, 2016

For the Glory

Remember Chariots of Fire? Eric Liddell was even more driven and amazing than the movie version. After the Olympics, he went back to China as a missionary, but ended up in a prison camp during World War II.

For the Glory: Eric Liddell's Journey from Olympic Champion to Modern Martyr (Hardcover)

By Duncan Hamilton

$28.00

ISBN: 9781594206207

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Published: Penguin Press - May 10th, 2016

West of Eden: An American Place

West of Eden: An American Place (Hardcover)

By Jean Stein

$30.00

ISBN: 9780812998405

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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

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

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

SPQR

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Hardcover)

By Mary Beard

$35.00

ISBN: 9780871404237

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Published: Liveright - November 9th, 2015

Informed by the many new discoveries and interpretations of contemporary scholarship, yet eminently readable and conversational in tone, Beard engagingly reexamines what we know of ancient Roman history, in process revising many myths of its thousand year span.

Dale

Map: Exploring the World

Map: Exploring the World (Hardcover)

By Phaidon Editors, John Hessler

$59.95

ISBN: 9780714869445

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Published: Phaidon Press - September 28th, 2015

More than just a collection of beautiful maps from around the world and throughout history, this book uses critical juxtaposition to create new perspectives on history, politics, and geography. Easily the most interesting coffee table book this year.

Josh

Lafayette In the Somewhat United States

Lafayette in the Somewhat United States (Hardcover)

By Sarah Vowell

$27.95

ISBN: 9781594631740

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Published: Riverhead Books - October 20th, 2015

Sarah Vowell is certainly not your typical historian. There's been some great colonial history published in the past few years, but hers is chatty, sassy, snarky, and hilarious and thus eminently readable. Lafayette really was as great a friend of the United States as he's chalked up to be, and this unconventional and insightful recounting of his adventures is combined with a larger view of the dysfunction of the early US government and its often inept political and military establishments.

David

DROWNED CITY: Hurricane Katrina & New Orleans

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Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans (Hardcover)

By Don Brown

$18.99

ISBN: 9780544157774

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Published: HMH Books for Young Readers - August 4th, 2015

This remembrance of the events in New Orleans ten years ago is a very powerful and straightforward portrayal of the tragedy. The graphic novel format helps the reader feel the desperation,despair and hopelessness of the terrible circumstances and the spirit of those who lived through it.Recommended for kids and adults 12 and up.

Carol

ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Alexander Hamilton (Paperback)

By Ron Chernow

$22.00

ISBN: 9780143034759

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Published: Penguin Books - March 29th, 2005

With megahit Hamilton taking Broadway by storm, learn about the man himself in this captivating biography. Alexander Hamilton, a biracial illegitimate child, raised in St. Croix by a single mother before becoming George Washington's aide-de-camp and eventually the first Secretary of the Treasury, is a fascinating figure, and Chernow paints a vivid picture of his astounding life.

MACKENZIE

NAGASAKI: LIFE AFTER NUCLEAR WAR

Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War (Hardcover)

By Susan Southard

$28.95

ISBN: 9780670025626

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Published: Viking - July 28th, 2015

Published to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the bombing, like John

Hershey’s much earlier book, Hiroshima, Southard brings us the horrific

story of that day and the years that followed through the detailed, first-person

accounts of five survivors.

DALE

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