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History and Current Events February 2020
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The Club : Johnson, Boswell, and the friends who shaped an age by Leopold Damrosch"The National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of ""Jonathan Swift"" documents the weekly gatherings of leading writers, artists, and intellectuals at an 18th-century London tavern, tracing the complex friendships and rivalries of luminaries ranging from Samuel Johnson to James Boswell."
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The American story : conversations with master historians by David M. Rubenstein"In these lively dialogues, the biggest names in American history explore the subjects they've come to so intimately know and understand. -- David McCullough on John Adams -- Jon Meacham on Thomas Jefferson -- Ron Chernow on Alexander Hamilton -- Walter Isaacson on Benjamin Franklin -- Doris Kearns Goodwin on Abraham Lincoln -- A. Scott Berg on Charles Lindbergh -- Taylor Branch on Martin Luther King -- Robert Caro on Lyndon B. Johnson -- Bob Woodward on Richard Nixon --And many others, including a special conversation with Chief Justice John Roberts. Through his popular program The David Rubenstein Show, David Rubenstein has established himself as one of our most thoughtful interviewers. Now, in The American Story, David captures the brilliance of our most esteemed historians, as well as the souls of their subjects."
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Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunnWith stark poignancy and political dispassion, Tightrope draws us deep into an "other America." The authors tell this story, in part, through the lives of some of the children with whom Kristof grew up, in rural Yamhill, Oregon, an area that prospered for much of the twentieth century but has been devastated in the last few decades as blue-collar jobs disappeared. About one-quarter of the children on Kristof's old school bus died in adulthood from drugs, alcohol, suicide, or reckless accidents. And while these particular stories unfolded in one corner of the country, they are representative of many places the authors write about, ranging from the Dakotas and Oklahoma to New York and Virginia.
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The fire and the darkness : the bombing of Dresden, 1945
by Sinclair McKay
Drawing on first-hand accounts from ordinary civilians, this gripping work of narrative nonfiction recounts the history of the Dresden Bombing on February 13, 1945, taking a complex, human view of this terrible night and its aftermath.
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Jubilee : recipes from two centuries of African American cooking by Toni Tipton-MartinDrawing from historical texts and rare African-American cookbooks, a collection of 125 recipes takes readers into the world of African-American cuisine made by enslaved master chefs, free caterers, and black entrepreneurs and culinary stars that goes far beyond soul food.
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The yellow house by Sarah M. BroomDescribes the author’s upbringing in a New Orleans East shotgun house as the unruly 13th child of a widowed mother, tracing a century of family history and the impact of class, race, and Hurricane Katrina on her sense of identity.
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Zora and Langston : a story of friendship and betrayal by Yuval TaylorTraces the story of the literary friendship of Harlem Renaissance figures Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes, tracing their folklore-collecting journeys through the 1920s South, their influential creative collaborations, and their passionate but mysterious falling out.
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