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Released: March 12, 2013
"The maundering rhetoric, all "dudes" and "balls-out" and "badass," gets old fast, but Thompson's grasp of history is solid. Think of it as Thucydides for video gamers."
History for the Ted Nugent set--a follow-up to
Badass: A Relentless Onslaught of the Toughest Warlords, Vikings, Samurai, Pirates, Gunfighters, and Military Commanders to Ever Live (2009).
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Released: March 12, 2013
"Superficial analysis and a rash of factual errors combine to drain this volume of any value it might otherwise have had."
In this search for guidance from the past, pop historian Fawcett (
Trust Me, I Know What I'm Doing: 100 More Mistakes that Lost Elections, Ended Empires, and Made the World What It Is Today, 2012, etc.) surveys disparate issues ranging from terrorism and pandemics to unemployment and recessions. However, any book that attempts to derive lessons from history must first get the facts right.
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Released: March 12, 2013
"A fascinating foray into the way of all flesh."
Death is only the beginning in
Schott's Almanac writer and researcher Lovejoy's marvelously macabre chronicle of some of history's most well-traveled cadavers.
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Released: March 7, 2013
""Utopia is realizable," insists Chávez. It may not have arrived yet in Venezuela, but it's interesting to watch from afar. Carroll provides a useful primer on a little-known regime."
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Released: March 5, 2013
"An inspiring account of how people can respond with their best when called upon."
A fresh take on the secret city built in the mountains of Tennessee as part of the Manhattan Project during World War II.
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Released: March 5, 2013
"Tragedy, adventure, romance and scholarly investigation come together like pioneers to a boomtown, with something for Earp worshipers and casual readers alike."
From the dusty trails of the Old West emerges the story that Wyatt Earp's wife never wanted told: her own.
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Released: March 5, 2013
"A lively footnote to the debate between science and religion and the exploration of the African jungle in the Victorian era."
Former
Washington Post reporter Reel (
The Last of the Tribe: The Epic Quest to Save a Lone Man in the Amazon, 2010) offers a fascinating sidelight on the perennial debate of man's origins.
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Released: March 5, 2013
"A strongly worded polemic on the dangers of defensive exceptionalism."
A prickly, uneven survey of Christian persecution that delves into modern-day fundamentalist intolerance.
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Released: March 5, 2013
"Indeed, there are plenty of books about Churchill, period. Shelden isn't of the first rank, but the book holds up well against the competition."
Solid biography covering the first four decades of Winston Churchill's life, marked by both ambition and heartbreak.
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Released: March 5, 2013
"A double-time march through 300 years of Irish soldiering."
From the 1690s Battle of the Boyne to today's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, a military historian clocks the various incarnations of the Irish soldier.
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Released: March 5, 2013
"Gellately makes a good case for his thesis, but this will be beside the point for many readers who will conclude that Stalin was simply an evil megalomaniac."
What did Stalin want? As the Red Army bestrode Europe in 1945, many Western leaders believed he intended to spread communism across the world. After his death, historians began to doubt this idea, and revisionists even blamed American aggression for the Cold War.
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Released: March 5, 2013
"A first-rate chronicle of an unexamined subculture."
