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From the New York Times best-selling author of The Accidental President comes the thrilling story of the 1948 presidential election, one of the greatest election stories of all time, as Truman mounted a history-making comeback and staked a claim for a new course for America.
On the eve of the 1948 election, America was a fractured country.$28.95ISBN: 9780385521314Availability: BackorderedPublished: Doubleday - February 26th, 2019One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year
BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR - TIME MAGAZINE
ONE OF THE BEST 10 BOOKS OF THE YEAR - WASHINGTON POST
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST
WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD$28.95ISBN: 9781631496103Availability: Click Title for IN STOCK LocationPublished: Liveright - September 15th, 2020Longlisted • National Book Award (Nonfiction)
Best Books of 2020 • Financial Times
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Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2020: TIMEThe Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War--a Tragedy in Three Acts (Hardcover)
$30.00ISBN: 9780385540452Availability: Click Title for IN STOCK LocationPublished: Doubleday - September 1st, 2020A gripping account of four American spies at the dawn of the Cold War and the CIA's covert battles against communism, from the bestselling author of Lawrence in Arabia.
$30.00ISBN: 9780385544009Availability: Click Title for IN STOCK LocationPublished: Doubleday - October 6th, 2020Gifted storyteller and bestselling historian H. W. Brands narrates the epic struggle over slavery as embodied by John Brown and Abraham Lincoln—two men moved to radically different acts to confront our nation’s gravest sin.
$20.00ISBN: 9781501116230Availability: Click Title for IN STOCK LocationPublished: Scribner - October 6th, 2020From the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of Empire of the Summer Moon and Rebel Yell comes “a masterwork of history” (Lawrence Wright, author of God Save Texas), the spellbinding, epic account of the last year of the Civil War.
The fourth and final year of the Civil War offers one of the most compelling narratives and one of$18.95ISBN: 9781643132396Availability: Click Title for IN STOCK LocationPublished: Pegasus Books - November 12th, 2019A vivid and timely re-examination of one of young America’s most complicated figures: the war hero turned infamous traitor, Benedict Arnold.
History remembers this proud, talented, and conflicted man solely through the lens of his last desperate act of treason. Yet the fall of Benedict Arnold remains one of the Revolutionary period’s great puzzles.The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found (Paperback)
$17.95ISBN: 9781101974063Availability: Click Title for IN STOCK LocationPublished: Anchor - April 14th, 2020After the fall of Rome, as civilizations collapsed and libraries burned, ancient knowledge that would eventually fuel the Renaissance was at risk of being lost. This thrilling history tracks three crucial books as they were passed hand to hand through seven cities during a perilous thousand-year journey of survival.
$28.00ISBN: 9781982114732Availability: Click Title for IN STOCK LocationPublished: Scribner - December 1st, 2020A groundbreaking examination of the role that wood and trees have played in our global ecosystem—including human evolution and the rise and fall of empires—in the bestselling tradition of Yuval Harari’s Sapiens and Mark Kurlansky’s Salt.
As the dominant species on Earth, humans have made astonishing progress since our ancestors came down from the$16.99ISBN: 9780062238474Availability: Click Title for IN STOCK LocationPublished: Harper Perennial - September 6th, 2016NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER
The author of the celebrated Victory tells the fascinating story of the intertwined lives of Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the first and second women to serve as Supreme Court justices.
$18.00ISBN: 9780451490070Availability: Click Title for IN STOCK LocationPublished: Dutton Caliber - May 5th, 2020NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Alex Kershaw, author of The Longest Winter and The Liberator, returns with an utterly immersive, adrenaline-driven account of D-Day combat.
$19.99ISBN: 9780062561534Availability: Click Title for IN STOCK LocationPublished: Custom House - June 23rd, 2020COSTA BOOK AWARD WINNER: BOOK OF THE YEAR • #1 SUNDAY TIMES (UK) BESTSELLER
