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Mighty Real: A History of LGBTQ Music, 1969-2000
by Barry Walters
From the underground dancefloors of the Seventies to the global charts of the Nineties, LGBTQ artists and audiences shaped music's sound, style, and spirit. In Mighty Real, veteran journalist Barry Walters chronicles its LGBTQ history from the Velvet Underground to the 21st century's dawn as he honors the artists who redefined gender, defied tradition, and dared to challenge sexual norms with the help of a
record business that wasn't as straight as commonly believed. Drawing on his decades as a New York- and San Francisco-based music critic, Walters examines how LGBTQ musicians, music industry executives,
and fans reshaped the mainstream. He connects the dots between
David Bowie's dazzling reinventions, Grace Jones's androgynous glamor, Prince's boundary-shattering sexuality, and the radical candor of the Indigo Girls to prove they're all doing the same thing: fighting oppression.
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Glorious Country: How the Artist Frederic Church Brought the World to America and America to the World
by Victoria Johnson
New York, spring 1859. Outside Frederic Church's Tenth Street studio, men and women amassed by the thousands hoping for a glimpse of his magnificent Heart of the Andes: a painting whose sublime, 'near supernatural' rendering of the vast Andean landscape encountered on the artist's recent travels introduced thousands of Americans to the fierce, majestic beauty of the far-flung wildernesses of the globe. Frederic Church brought the world to America, and America into the world. Cementing the United States as a cultural and artistic force a full century before America's Abstract Impressionists rose to prominence, Church's bold paintings composed odes in color, shadow, and light to natural places near and far: the lush jungles of South America and immense icebergs of Newfoundland where he journeyed as a young man; the Syrian deserts and ancient, ruined cities where he and his
wife traveled following the devastating loss of their two young children; the verdant, luminous valley around the Hudson where Church first studied painting and where he returned and established his estate, Olana, whose landscape itself became a work of art. Church was a master artist and innovator, turning landscape painting into a portrait of a nation, and in the process, putting American art on the map of the world. Glorious Country is a book, Johnson writes, about how we see and what we save.
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The Long Game: U.S. Men's Soccer and Its Savage, Four-Decade Journey to the Top, or Thereabouts
by Leander Schaerlaeckens
For almost half a century, the U.S. men's national team existed on the fringes of world soccer--out of sight, out of mind, and, more often than not, out of the World Cup. Between 1950 and 1990, the program toiled in irrelevance, a collection of part-timers playing before empty
bleachers. Then, things began to shift, and today's U.S. men's team is loaded with young and pedigreed talent, expected to make its mark at the 2026 World Cup. The story of this team's rise to prominence is a dramatic journey, with setbacks, buffoonery, misunderstandings, glory, and a wide, eccentric, talented cast of characters. With insight, wit, and razor-sharp storytelling, The Long Game is an unforgettable look at the past, present, and uncertain future of American soccer-- and the team that could redefine it all.
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This Is Not about Running: A Memoir
by Mary Cain
Few women have ever run 800 meters in under two minutes. Even
fewer people have taken on running's abusive training culture and won. Mary Cain has done both. She emerged as a running phenom at age
12, a straight-A student obsessed with Greco-Roman mythology and the freedom she felt when she ran fast. Like any middle-schooler, she just wanted to fit in, so she learned to run through the discomfort of hard training sessions, and the confusion of her coaches' and teammates' bullying. And she was overjoyed when, at 16, Alberto Salazar called to invite her to train with the famed Nike Oregon Project. Cain was poised to transform the sport, Salazar told her. She resolved to hold on to his favor, even as he insisted she lose weight and push through the pain of emerging injury. For years, she excelled, setting records against elite runners twice her age. The Olympics were in her sights. But off the track, Cain was crumbling. She snuck granola bars in the middle of the night and sank into a deep depression as injury after injury set in. Finally, she left the Oregon Project, telling herself she just needed a break. A chorus rang out across the running community: What
happened to Mary Cain? Now, with her suit against Nike behind her,
Cain is ready to share her side of the story--and to flip the script on abuse in youth sports.
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Fire and Clay: How Bricks Reveal the Hidden History of Chicago
by Will Quam
Will Quam shows that while the bricks that make up so many buildings in Chicago are inherently interesting, they also allow us to see the history of the city afresh. Simply looking-but really looking-at bricks reveals countless stories of the city's growth that have gone untold. Quam's infectious passion for the lowly brick and its history lets him range widely, casting his gaze across buildings of all types, from the famous and prominent to the vernacular and weird. He creates connections that might otherwise be hard to see, and he draws distinctions among buildings that seem practically identical-until you start looking through his eyes.
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We Are the World (Cup): A Personal History of the World's Greatest Sporting Event
by Roger Bennett
Every four years, millions of viewers all over the globe are united in the drama of the world's biggest sporting event. Geopolitical turmoil,
popular culture, clashes of custom and style all weave together on the pitch, making the World Cup about so much more than soccer. For fans, it is a series of triumphs, heartbreaks, and shocking twists of fate. For the players, single matches, single plays, single glorious moments can
be life changing. In We are the World (Cup), Roger Bennett imbues his unmitigated love for and dedication to the game into a deeply researched and deeply personal distillation of every tournament he has experienced from the 1978 to 2022. Beloved for his wit, humility, and unadulterated love of the game that the rest of the world calls football
is a celebration of our global culture and the power of sport to unite us all.
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Parks and Rec: The Underdog TV Show That Lit'rally Inspired a Vision for a Better America
by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
More than fifteen years after Parks and Recreation premiered, it has become a streaming staple. It's beloved for its jokes, characters, and expressions--the show even created a now widely observed holiday, Galentine's Day. How did it all happen and how did the show transform from a ratings disappointment into a cult classic? Pop culture historian Jennifer Keishin Armstrong reveals all this and more in the
authoritative history of the show, which is as full of humor, optimism, and heart as Parks and Recreation itself. Through new and exclusive interviews, as well as deep insight and smart and entertaining pop culture analysis, Armstrong tells the story of how Parks and Recreation came to BE. Lovingly told and deeply researched, Parks and Rec is the ultimate history of the show that taught us what's important in life: friends, waffles, and work.
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Partially Devoured: How Night of the Living Dead Saved My Life and Changed the World
by Daniel Kraus
Daniel Kraus first saw George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead
when he was five years old. Through watching it approximately three hundred times since, Kraus discovered the many ways the film is tied
to his childhood trauma and how its influence has carried into his adulthood. He couldn't help but wonder: Are there other admirers of
the film out there who feel the same? Partially Devoured uses a frame-by-frame deep dive into Night of the Living Dead to produce a kaleidoscopic cultural investigation of the film's importance and to examine the author's early life of rural isolation and local violence. Careening from film analysis to rabbit-hole tangents, Partially
Devoured will take readers from screaming laughter to the depths of grief, all while illustrating how a beloved genre film has woven itself
into so many facets of our lives.
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The Harmonious Home: Designing Peaceful, Personal Spaces Inspired by Nature
by Rebecca Atwood
Think of a place outside that contains a mood you want to bring into your home, such as the beach or a garden you saw on your travels. Identify the colors in its landscape and you can choose a room's paint colors. Pick out its textures and you can decide what materials--rugs, wallpaper, upholstery fabric--to bring into the room. The harmonious home walks you through six different landscapes--dunes, ocean, field, forest, garden, and city--and shows you how to pull together color and pattern combinations you might not have imagined on your own that evoke the feeling of the place without looking overly thematic.
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Super Nintendo: The Game-Changing Company That Unlocked the Power of Play
by Keza MacDonald
In Super Nintendo, lifelong gamer and a renowned video games journalist Keza MacDonald traces Nintendo back to its quirky
beginnings in 1889, illuminating its singular ethos, its endlessly innovative leaders and developers, its massive cultural impact, and,
most of all, the video games themselves, which have inspired joy and creativity in millions. Leaping from game to game, Super Nintendo tells the remarkable story of the people who brought us Super Mario Bros., Zelda, Pokemon, Animal Crossing, Splatoon, and more--not to mention the SNES, N64, Game Boy, Wii, Switch, and a host of other wacky gizmos--and charts the delights they've offered over the decades.
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Martin Scorsese All the Films: The Story Behind Every Movie, Episode, and Short
by Olivier Bousquet
Martin Scorsese: All the Films is the ultimate deep dive into every one
of his films from his early indie days with Who's That Knocking at My Door to his latest epic, Killers of the Flower Moon, plus classics such as Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and Goodfellas that are regularly cited as being among the finest films ever made. Covering each of the director's 26 feature films, 17 documentary films, 7 short films, and 4 television episodes, the book draws upon years of research to tell the behind-
the-scenes stories of how each project was conceived, cast, and produced. It explores the themes, techniques, and cultural impact of each movie, examining how Scorsese's work evolved alongside his personal obsessions and how he has navigated Hollywood's changing landscape.
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Ensemble: An Oral History of Chicago Theater
by Mark Larson
A monumental behind-the-scenes oral history of Chicago's theater movement spanning 1953 to the present day, from the people who
made it happen. Includes commentary from scores of celebrated
actors, writers, and more.
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The Last Kings of Hollywood: Coppola, Lucas, Spielberg--And the Battle for the Soul of American Cinema
by Paul Fischer
In the summer of 1967, as the old Hollywood studio system was dying, an intense, uncompromising young film school graduate named George Lucas walked onto the Warner Bros backlot for his first day working as an assistant to another up-and-coming, largely-unknown filmmaker, a boisterous father of two called Francis Ford Coppola. At the exact same time, across town on the Universal Studios lot, a film-obsessed twenty-year-old from a peripatetic Jewish family, Steven Spielberg, longed to break free from his apprenticeship for the struggling studio and
become a film director in his own right. Within a year, the three men would become friends. Based on extensive research and hundreds of original interviews with the inner circle of these Hollywood icons, The Last Kings of Hollywood tells the thrilling, dramatic inside story of how, over the next fifteen years, the three filmmakers rivalled and supported each other, fell out and reconciled, and struggled to reinvent popular American cinema.
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Against Breaking: On the Power of Poetry
by Ada Limón
Ada Limon--celebrated poet laureate and 2023 MacArthur fellow--takes us on an inspiring journey into a world where poetry is both a soothing balm for the soul and a spark for transformation. With her blend of accessible yet profound prose, Limon delivers a powerful message: poetry has the ability to heal, connect, and remind us of our shared humanity. Limon's mission to make poetry approachable shines brightly in this slim but impactful book. Recognized as a 2024 Time magazine Woman of the Year for her commitment to bringing poetry into
everyday lives, Limon passionately argues that poetry is essential to understanding ourselves--our tenderness, courage, imperfections, and our deep, unshakable worthiness of love. Drawing from her own experiences as the 24th US poet laureate, Limon shares how poetry connects us not only to each other but to the natural world. This theme is at the heart of her project You Are Here, which celebrates the beauty of our environment and our place in it.
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Poetry Says It Better: Poems to Help You Wake Up
by Ellen Burstyn
In this beautiful volume, Ellen Burstyn celebrates poetic magic and shares her favorite works. Now into her nineties, Ellen reveals she had an evangelical response to learning poetry even as a child and would memorize and recite the works of Edna St Vincent Millay to envelope herself in the poet's deeper emotional landscape. As Burstyn continued her epic rise through film and theater--eventually winning an Oscar, a Tony, a BAFTA, and an Emmy--poetry gave voice to her experience as
no other literary art form could. She never went anywhere without her curated poetry pack. Featuring work by W.B. Yeats, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Rainer Maria Rilke, Mary Oliver, William Wordsworth, Edgar Allan Poe, Rumi, William Ernest Henley, and others, Poetry Says It Better is a perfect daily companion for everyone looking to deepen and add meaning to their life experience. Throughout, Burstyn's charming voice and luminous insights help readers meet her in this poetic celebration--soul to soul.
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How to Disappear and Why: Essays
by Kyle Minor
From acclaimed fiction writer Kyle Minor emerges a collection of essays all about disappearing. Considering a wide scope of cultural, historical, spiritual, and philosophical figures and ideas, Minor assembles a collection of essays centered on the concept of disappearance. Considering subjects like ghosts (think Shakespeare and The Sixth Sense), lost temples, professional erasure and strategic exile, these essays dig deep into the cultural and historical archives of our
civilization. Minor's keen wit and perception ensure one thing: readers will never forget this book.
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Good Writing: 36 Ways to Improve Your Sentences
by Neal Allen
Starting where The Elements of Style leaves off, Good Writing can improve your book, your essay, your memo, your blog post, speech, or script. These essential rules for persuasive language work on any type
of writing, and anyone can learn them quickly. Each rule is
accompanied by examples and a lively pair of essays, the first by Neal Allen, who developed the list of tips over the course of his journalism and corporate careers; the second by his wife, Anne Lamott, acclaimed author of Bird by Bird and nineteen other nonfiction works and novels. Whether you're a novice writer or a seasoned author, this entertaining guide will revolutionize your approach to crafting sentences.
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Winter: The Story of a Season
by Val McDermid
A hygge-filled journey through winter nights, McDermid reminds us
that it is a time of rest, retreat and creativity, for scribbling in
notebooks and settling in beside the fire. A treat for the hunkering-
down, post-holiday reading season, Winter is a charming and cozy celebration of the year’s idle months from one of Scotland’s best-loved writers.
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On Morrison
by Namwali Serpell
Toni Morrison, Nobel Laureate and one of our most beloved writers, has inspired generations of readers. But her artistic genius is often overshadowed by her monumental public persona, perhaps because, as Namwali Serpell puts it, she is our only truly canonical black, female writer-and her work is highly complex. In On Morrison, Serpell brings
her unique experience as both an award-winning writer and professor who teaches a course on Morrison to illuminate her masterful experiments with literary form. This is Morrison as you've never encountered her before, a journey through her oeuvre-her fiction and criticism, as well as her lesser-known dramatic works and poetry-with contextual guidance, archival discoveries, and original close readings.
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Korean Messiah: Kim Il Sung and the Christian Roots of North Korea's Personality Cult
by Jonathan Cheng
For nearly eight decades, North Korea has marched defiantly to its own beat, shaking off its Soviet and Chinese sponsors to emerge as the world's most enigmatic nation--a nuclear-armed state ruled by a dictatorial dynasty. Underpinning the state is a personality cult more soaked in religiosity than those constructed by Stalin or Mao--one that traces its roots back to the Christian fervor of post-Civil War America. Jonathan Cheng, the Wall Street Journal's China bureau chief and
former Korea bureau chief, takes us deep inside Pyongyang, a city once so dominated by Christianity that it was known as the Jerusalem of the East. Cheng introduces us to Samuel Moffett, a Presbyterian missionary from Madison, Indiana, who would venture into Pyongyang at the end
of the nineteenth century and build a remarkable following--one that would include the Kim family that today presides over one of the
world's harshest persecutors of the Christian faith. At the center of this story is North Korea's founder, Kim Il Sung, son of two fervent
Christians and progenitor of an ideology known as Kimilsungism, an exercise in idolatry that has elevated him, and his successor son and grandson, to Christlike status, from the humble manger where he was born to the subway seat on which the venerated leader once placed his posterior, cordoned off as if it were a religious relic. Drawing on letters, diaries, and never-before-unearthed archival material that temper and often contradict the glorious historical record promoted by Kim Il Sung's legions of hagiographers, Korean Messiah tells the true story of a
country shrouded in fictions.
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This Vast Enterprise: A New History of Lewis & Clark
by Craig Fehrman
In 1806, when Meriwether Lewis and William Clark return from their journey--having led the Corps of Discovery across eight thousand miles of rapids, mountains, forests, and ravines--they bring an incredible tale starring themselves as courageous explorers, skilled survivalists, underrated scientists, and peaceful ambassadors. While there is truth in those descriptions, there is also distortion. From one of the most
exciting new historians to emerge in the past decade, This Vast Enterprise offers a novel take on the expedition: a gripping narrative
that draws on lost documents, stunning analysis, and Native perspectives. Craig Fehrman spent five years visiting more than thirty archives, interviewing more than a hundred sources, and collecting oral history passed down over centuries. He came to see that the success of Lewis and Clark depended on much more than just Lewis and Clark. We all know Sacajawea, and some of us know York, the Black man Clark enslaved. But here we meet John Ordway, a working-class soldier who fought grizzlies and towed the captains' hulking barge. We hear from Wolf Calf, a Blackfoot teenager who watched his friend die in a battle with Lewis and his men. Each chapter moves to a different person's
point of view, describing their desires and contradictions. We see Thomas Jefferson operating in an age of bitter partisan unrest--his
secret political maneuvers to fund the expedition, revealed here for the first time, are a case study in presidential power. Fehrman balances the story's adventure with the humanity of its protagonists. The result is a thrilling reminder that even the most familiar moments in history can
still surprise us.
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A Terrible Intimacy: Interracial Life in the Slaveholding South
by Melvin Patrick Ely
A Terrible Intimacy recounts six criminal cases in one Virginia county in the years preceding the Civil War. Witnesses of both races describe a startling variety of encounters between white and Black that
reconfigures the binary terrain of master-slave relations. Contrary to
our common assumption, fully half the enslaved people in the South lived not on sprawling plantations but on small properties. Cruelty was baked into the system, yet in households of five, ten, fifteen, or twenty people, exploiters and exploited, knew each other well, sharing
religious worship, folkways, and complex domestic dynamics. Slaves, slave owners, overseers, and poor whites drank, played, slept, and
even committed crimes together. Yet whippings happened often, enslaved families were split up, and in 1861, most white men in Prince Edward County were ready to fight to defend their right to own other human beings. These webs of interaction make clear that white Americans recognized the humanity of their Black neighbors, even as they remained committed to a system that abused and sometimes terrorized them. Offering striking new insights into the true complexity
of life in the old South, A Terrible Intimacy expands our understanding
of this darkest of histories.
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This Land Is Your Land: A Road Trip Through U.S. History
by Beverly Gage
Ride along with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Beverly Gage as she travels the country to see the museums, historic sites, roadside attractions, reenactments, and souvenir shops where Americans learn--and fight--about our history. From the birth of the nation in
Philadelphia to Disneyland and the California dream, This Land Is Your Land offers a guided tour of thirteen places and thirteen key moments that define America's greatest successes and challenges. The year 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, a document that proclaimed the liberty and equality of all human beings, but produced a country that often failed to agree upon--or live up to--those ideals. Gage shows that Americans can face their past and still
love their country. Toss the book in the back seat--or listen on audio
with the windows down--and join the journey.
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The Last Titans: How Churchill and de Gaulle Saved Their Nations and Transformed the World
by Richard Vinen
De Gaulle--tall, gauche, and incorruptible--exhibited qualities often associated with the English. Churchill--short, charming, witty, and a
bon vivant--resembled the quintessential politician of the French Third Republic. Their working relationship was rarely smooth, but they appreciated each other's stature: de Gaulle said Churchill was the great artist of a great history, while Churchill recognized de Gaulle as
l'homme du destin. Richard Vinen explores what made these men exceptional and how profoundly they were influenced by their national cultures. Beyond personal intrigue, Vinen makes a wider point that Britain and France are both haunted by perceptions of past greatness. He retraces the paths of two leaders who once helmed superpowers
but lived to see their nations weakened by two world wars and the loss of empires. Written with extraordinary narrative verve, The Last Titans offers a fresh exploration into the lives of de Gaulle and Churchill. By bringing their two stories into one, each man is seen anew and we
gain fresh insights into their achievements and their legacy today.
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A Compendium of the Early History of Chicago: To the Year 1835 When the Indians Left
by Ulrich Danckers
Welcome to early Chicagou! Accounts of an earlier time and its characters are recorded in these pages. This compendium denotes the locale and presents a wide variety of information concerning Chicago's earliest period, long before the settlement developed into a midwest metropolis. Many people came, mattered, and moved along; some settled. In these pages meet the native Americans, the French, some Canadians, traders, soldiers, settlers, women and children who are a
part of Chicago's story.
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The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People's History of Afghanistan
by Lyse Doucet
When the Inter-Continental Kabul opened in 1969, Afghanistan's first luxury hotel symbolised a dream of a modernising country connected
to the world. More than fifty years on, the Inter-Continental is still standing. It has endured Soviet occupation, multiple coups, a grievous civil war, a US invasion and the rise, fall and rise of the Taliban. History lives within its scarred windows and walls. Lyse Doucet, the BBC's
Chief International Correspondent, has been checking into the Inter-Continental since 1988. And here, she uses its story to craft a richly immersive history of modern Afghanistan. The result is a remarkably vivid history of how Afghans have survived a half century of
destruction and disruption. It is the story of a hotel, but also the story
of a people.
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Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China
by Jung Chang
In this follow-up to Chang's Wild Swans, Deng Xiaoping opened the
door of Communist China, and Jung--twenty-six years old and unstoppably curious, despite years of brainwashing--seized the
propitious moment and became one of the first Chinese to leave the tightly sealed country and come to the West. This memoir chronicles
her journey and that of her family, along with that of China, as it rose from a decrepit and isolated state to a world power challenging
American dominance. During those decades, although she lives in the West, Jung's life intertwines with her native land in unexpected ways,
a rare relationship made more complex because all her books are banned there.
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Seven Sisters: Captives and Rebels in Revolutionary Europe's First Family
by Veronica Buckley
By 1764, after a generation of costly war, confronted by shaken
alliances, immense debts, and restive subjects, the Empress Maria Theresia was seeking once again to assert the dynasty's power
through strategic marriages. Her arsenal was full: her seven daughters were to serve as her pawns in the ruthless game of eighteenth-century dynastic politicking. Delivered to the grandest or dingiest courts in Europe, they made their difficult and even dangerous ways.
Meticulously researched and animated by the sisters' own diaries and
the almost daily letters traversing the continent, Seven Sisters reveals the drama, tragedy and comedy of these exceptional, yet all too
human lives. It is a vivid portrait of a brilliant world collapsing in a
fearful time.
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In the Shadow of the Great House: A History of the Plantation in America
by Daniel Rood
In a narrative that sweeps across four hundred years of American history, Rood reveals that the plantation did not die after the Civil War.
It metastasized. From the advent of sharecropping in the late
nineteenth century to the rise of cotton in mid-twentieth century California to today’s chicken processing plants―which sit on the same land once occupied by plantations and are staffed largely by migrant workers―the plantation has cast a long shadow over American life.
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The Pursuit of Liberty: How Hamilton vs. Jefferson Ignited the Lasting Battle Over Power in America
by Jeffrey Rosen
Jeffrey Rosen explores the clashing visions of Hamilton and Jefferson about how to balance liberty and power in a debate that continues to define--and divide--our country: Jefferson championed states' rights
and individual liberties, while Hamilton pushed for a strong federal government and a powerful executive. This ongoing tug-of-war has shaped all the pivotal moments in American history, including Abraham Lincoln's fight against slavery and Southern secession, the expansion of federal power under Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, and Ronald
Reagan's and Donald Trump's conservative push to shrink the size of
the federal government. Rosen also shows how Hamilton and
Jefferson's disagreement over how to read the Constitution has shaped landmark debates in Congress and the Supreme Court about executive power, from John Marshall's early battles with Andrew Jackson to the current divisions among the justices on issues from presidential
immunity to control over the administrative state.
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Days of Love and Rage: A Story of Ordinary People Forging a Revolution
by Anand Gopal
In 2011, in a northern Syrian city, a small group of men and women began a movement that overthrew one of the world's most brutal dictatorships. For the next eighteen months, citizens of Manbij carried out one of the most remarkable experiments in democracy in modern times. This book details the powerfully intimate narratives of men and women who led this struggle, and who experience the highs of camaraderie and the lows of betrayal: a pair of best friends torn apart
by political polarization, a mother who stands up to male dominance,
a worker who risks everything for the dream of equality.
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We the Women: The Hidden Heroes Who Shaped America
by Norah O'Donnell
We the Women presents a fresh look at American history through the eyes of women, introducing us to inspiring patriots who demanded
that the country live up to the promises made 250 years ago in the Declaration of Independence: that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. Since the signing of that document, the pressing question from women has
been: Why don't those unalienable rights apply to us? Through
extensive research and interviews, as well as historical documents and old photos, O'Donnell curates a compelling portrait of these fierce fighters for freedom. She brings these extraordinary women together
for the first time, and in doing so writes the American story anew.
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El Paso: Five Families and One Hundred Years of Blood, Migration, Race, and Memory
by Jazmine Ulloa
El Paso has been called the Ellis Island of America's southern border, a mountain pass cum border town cum bifurcated metropolis where past meets future, and disadvantage meets opportunity, or so the promise goes. El Paso is an extraordinary, can't-look-away reported history; it uses deep research and dozens of new interviews to blow away the
myth of this place, where Mexico's Juarez and America's El Paso intertwine. It charts the history of El Paso through five families. Ulloa draws upon meticulous research and reporting and stunning historical detail to craft the intimate narratives of an unforgettable cast of characters.
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