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History and Current Events May 2019
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Breaking news : the remaking of journalism and why it matters now
by Alan Rusbridger
An urgent account of the revolution that has upended the news business by the former editor-in-chief of The Guardian and author of Play It Again shares cautionary recommendations for practicing responsible journalism in today's technology-driven world.
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Us vs. them : the failure of globalism
by Ian Bremmer
The president and founder of Eurasia Group, the leading global political risk research and consulting firm, presents a definitive guide to understanding the global wave of populist nationalism, explaining complex political dynamics in accessible terms.
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Killing the SS : the hunt for the worst war criminals in history
by Bill O'Reilly
Traces the daring of Nazi hunters after World War II, revealing the contributions of legal experts, intelligence agents and concentration-camp survivors in tracking down and capturing high-profile Nazis. By the #1 New York Times best-selling authors of Killing the Rising Sun.
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The end of the end of the earth : essays
by Jonathan Franzen
A provocative new essay collection by the award-winning author of Freedom and The Corrections includes an exploration of his complex relationship with his uncle, an assessment of the global seabird crisis and his young adulthood in New York.
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| The Trial of Lizzie Borden: A True Story by Cara RobertsonWhat it is: a fast-paced account of the notorious 1893 Lizzie Borden murder trial that utilizes court transcripts, newspaper accounts, and recently discovered letters written by Borden herself to argue that the jury who acquitted her got it wrong.
About the author: Debut author Cara Robertson is a lawyer and former Supreme Court clerk who spent 20 years researching the Borden case.
Who it's for: true crime aficionados and amateur sleuths. |
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| One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill BrysonWhat it's about: how a single pivotal season signaled American's ascent to the world stage.
Topics include: Charles Lindbergh's ambitious transatlantic flight; Babe Ruth's career-best record of 60 home runs; the production of The Jazz Singer (the first "talking picture"); Al Capone's reign of terror.
Read it for: Bill Bryson's sly humor and unusual factoids (for instance, Calvin Coolidge enjoyed having Vaseline applied to his head). |
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| Careless People: Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of The Great Gatsby by Sarah ChurchwellWhat it is: an evocative social history that explores how "the crime of the decade," an unsolved 1922 double homicide, may have inspired F. Scott Fitzgerald to write The Great Gatsby.
Why you might like it: Thrilling, rich in detail, and sprinkled with a hint of gossip, Careless People blends aspects of biography, history, and true crime to vividly recreate the glamorous milieu of the Roaring Twenties. |
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So we read on : how The great Gatsby came to be and why it endures
by Maureen Corrigan
Delves into The Great Gatsby, taking the reader into archives, high school classrooms and even out onto the Long Island Sound to explore the novel's hidden depths, a journey whose revelations include Gatsby's debt to hard-boiled crime fiction, its rocky path to recognition and its commentaries on the themes of race, class and gender. Simultaneous.
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Paris 1919 : six months that changed the world
by Margaret Olwen Macmillan
Describes the six months following the end of the First World War when leaders of the great powers, as well as men and women from all over the world, all with their own agendas, converged on Paris to shape the peace, including Woodrow Wilson, Lloyd George, Clemenceau, T. E. Lawrence, Churchill, W. E. B. Dubois, and others. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.
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