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THE AGE OF THE UNTHINKABLE
Why the New Global Order Constantly Surprises Us and What to Do About It
Pub Date: Mar 23, 3009
Think things are weird, dangerous and frightening now? Just wait, counsels Kissinger Associates managing director and former Time editor Ramo (No Visible Horizon: Surviving the World's Most Dangerous Sport, 2003)--the mayhem is only beginning.
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OF AFRICA
Pub Date: Nov 1, 2012
The Nigerian 1986 Nobel Laureate (Literature) offers a slender, hopeful volume about his native continent's potential for healing the world's spiritual ills.
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THE BLACK COUNT
Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
Pub Date: Sep 18, 2012
A compelling new work by literary detective Reiss (The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life, 2005) tracks the wildly improbable career of Alexandre Dumas' mixed-race father.
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SEWARD
Lincoln's Indispensable Man
Pub Date: Sep 11, 2012
A sympathetic, evenhanded reappraisal of President Lincoln's secretary of state as a statesman who practiced effective preventive strategies.
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DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT THE AMERICAN PRESIDENTS
Pub Date: Sep 11, 2012
The author of Don't Know Much About History and similar titles returns with a sometimes-saucy handbook on the American presidency.
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SAVAGE ANXIETIES
The Invention of Western Civilization
Pub Date: Aug 21, 2012
A tidy academic survey of the savage, from the ancient centaurs to today's indigenous tribal peoples.
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