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Released: June 11, 2013
"Dense, repetitive commentary that may lead some readers back to The Prince."
A convoluted return to the misunderstood work of the wily Florentine bureaucrat and philosopher.
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Released: June 11, 2013
"Despite its length, a tremendously engaging work with few dull moments."
The exhaustive second volume of this definitive biography treats the admiral's supreme command of the British Navy and the bittersweet Lady Hamilton years.
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Released: June 11, 2013
"Clear, focused snapshots of a movement and its celebrated leader."
The author of
The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization (2009) returns with an examination of transformative events in American cultural history--and of that great transformer himself, Benjamin Franklin.
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Released: June 11, 2013
"Insightful social history with a light touch."
Koppel (
The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life through the Pages of a Lost Journal, 2008, etc.) explores the cohesiveness of a group of wives who formed an unofficial support group and their individual development during the early years of the Cold War.
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Released: June 11, 2013
"An intriguing, revealing study of Arabs' changing views of themselves and the world as their countries open up--deserves a wide audience."
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Released: June 11, 2013
"An invaluable complement to an immortal testimony."
Anne Frank, before and after the diary, with many new details and a fresh, welcome perspective.
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Released: June 11, 2013
"A quick, smoothly readable account of Lincoln the political striver, the embodiment of the Declaration's "central idea…that every man can make himself.""
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Released: June 11, 2013
"A thoughtful, deeply personal approach to understanding the Vietnam War for the Americans who fought it."
An argument for rethinking the stereotypes of Vietnam veterans in light of oral histories of ex-servicemen and women from New York City.
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Released: June 11, 2013
"The authors' tone is less alarmist than, say, David Stockman's, but there's not much room for good news here, either. "We might be wrong," they write. "History has yet to be written, after all." But if they're right, then there's plenty of cause for worry."
The enemy is at the wall--but no worry, since the city inside is pretty well destroyed already.
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Released: June 11, 2013
"Lincoln completists will want it, but the content and concepts are covered better elsewhere."
More stories may have been told about Abraham Lincoln than any other U.S. president; here's a representative, somewhat haphazardly chosen batch, showing the popular image of Lincoln as it developed over the years.
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Released: June 7, 2013
"The most authoritative, important book on Stonehenge to date."
Renowned archaeologist Pearson (Archaeology/University College London;
From Machair to Mountains, 2012, etc.) presents the findings of the most ambitious and scientifically informed investigation of Stonehenge thus far.
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Released: June 6, 2013
"A fascinating work enriched by the author's deep knowledge and command of his material."
An in-depth look at the intriguing dark days at the break of World War II, when fear of a "Fifth Column" was rampant.
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