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Released: March 5, 2013
"With documents amply provided at the close of the text, Raphael provides a truly accessible teaching tool."
In his latest populist reality check, Raphael (
Mr. President: How and Why the Founders Created a Chief Executive, 2012, etc.) demonstrates how objectively studying the original broken political system lends insight into ours.
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Released: March 4, 2013
"Although little was at stake and everyone knows the outcome, Mires works hard and mostly successfully to hold her readers' interest in the energetic, often-quaint public-relation antics of the 1940s."
Mires (History/Rutgers Univ., Camden;
Independence Hall in American Memory, 2002) delivers an amusing account of the intense, if not world-shaking competition for the U.N. headquarters.
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Released: March 4, 2013
"A useful, cogent examination of why, despite some folly and ill judgment, America continues to be the one country the world looks to when in crisis or need of support."
A reasoned argument for the universally appealing power of American ideals over imperial might.
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Released: March 1, 2013
"Some will quarrel with aspects of Katznelson's analysis, few with his widely allusive, elegant prose."
A wholly new approach to the New Deal takes history we thought we knew and makes it even richer and more complex.
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Released: March 1, 2013
"An exciting reminder of how Vatican machinations continue to haunt history."
The story of the race to compose a last top-secret encyclical against Nazi racism before the death of Pope Pius XI.
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Released: March 1, 2013
"A well-honed tale of momentous courage and strength."
A Holocaust survivor's novelistic account of persevering through the horrendous firebombing of her hometown of Hamburg, Germany.
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Released: March 1, 2013
"A wealth of research for the armchair traveler and historian."
An academic correction of the "triumphalist" notion of British exploration of Africa and Australia.
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Released: March 1, 2013
"A balanced history--sometimes admiring, sometimes blistering--of the writers who fractured the glass capsule of literary conformity."
The co-authors of
The Trials of Lenny Bruce (2002) return with a sharp-edged history of the Beats.
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Released: Feb. 26, 2013
"An intriguing sidelight on the effects of climate change."
A panoramic overview of the wide-ranging social and political effects of a climatic catastrophe.
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Released: Feb. 26, 2013
"The Stones' dog-eared story is better told in a dozen other accounts."
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Released: Feb. 26, 2013
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Released: Feb. 26, 2013
"A British historian nimbly makes sense and relevance out of the confoundingly entangled dynasties of the Yorks and Tudors."
A labyrinthine journey through the York-Lancaster feud of 15th-century England from the point of view of its queens.
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