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Released: May 15, 2013
"Robust, memorable reading that will appeal to Civil War buffs, professional historians and general readers alike."
A stirring account of the "greatest and most violent collision the North American continent [has] ever seen," just in time for the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg.
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Released: May 14, 2013
"Even at the time, many counseled patience and denounced government aid as socialistic, but few readers of this gripping, painful account of third-world–level poverty and despair will agree that it is the natural order."
Historian Golay (
The Tide of Empire: America's March to the Pacific, 2003, etc.) has mined the thousands of letters between Associated Press reporter Lorena Hickock (1893–1968) and Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962), as well as Hickok's reports, to present an unexpectedly horrific picture of America during a terrible time.
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Released: May 14, 2013
"An absorbing, persuasive reminder that science is not a direct march to the truth."
Astrophysicist and popular science writer Livio (
Is God a Mathematician?, 2009, etc.) delivers entertaining accounts of how five celebrated scientists went wrong.
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Released: May 7, 2013
A charming series of letters from a young Walter Cronkite (1916–2009) to his wife, Betsy, chronicles his rising star as a war correspondent.
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Released: May 7, 2013
"An astute assessment of the efforts of a group of historic newsmakers."
In a highly focused work,
Foreign Affairs deputy editor Caryl finds that the year 1979 engendered a remarkable crop of history-changing leaders.
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Released: May 7, 2013
"Fraser's study of the "reasonable" confrontation between Commons, Lords and Crown is engaging, elaborate and elegantly wrought."
The dame of British historical biography picks her way gingerly through the cluttered details of Parliamentary reform.
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Released: May 7, 2013
"A swift, vibrant account of the accidents, intricacies and insanities of war."
Veteran
Washington Post military reporter Vogel (
The Pentagon, 2007), returns with a brisk chronicle of the critical closing months of the War of 1812--specifically, the British attacks on Washington and Baltimore.
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Released: May 7, 2013
"Remember that old saw about making sausages and making laws--that you don't want to know too much about either one? Kaiser disproves it with this lucid if sometimes numbing book."
A painstaking, richly detailed look at how the suite of financial reforms that followed the bank near-collapse of 2008 came to be--and nearly didn't come to be, even as they were defanged.
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Released: May 7, 2013
"A well-focused cautionary tale about the checks and balances of power."
Versatile military historian Alexander (
Sun Tzu at Gettysburg: Ancient Military Wisdom in the Modern World, 2011, etc.), a Korean War veteran, takes on the perilous confrontation between the U.S. military and the civilian command during that war.
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Released: May 7, 2013
"A well-researched treatment of two interesting figures in one of the most eventful times in world history. Though a bit plodding at first, it's well worth sticking with it."
John Quincy Adams spent several years as the American diplomatic representative in Russia, at the height of the Napoleonic wars. Here's the story.
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Released: May 7, 2013
"An eye-opening story about the relations among politics, business and justice."
A well-constructed nonfiction legal thriller from prizewinning journalist Leamer (
Madness Under the Royal Palms: Love and Death Behind the Gates of Palm Beach, 2009, etc.).
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Released: May 7, 2013
"A careful, informed analysis of the origins, progress and disposition of the complex, high-stakes legal disputes that find their way to the court."
In her first book, the
National Law Journal's longtime chief Washington correspondent examines the jurisprudence of the Supreme Court, seven years after the appointment of the youngest chief justice since John Marshall.
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