July 2019 list by Elizabeth Hanby
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Big Week: The Biggest Air Battle of World War II by James HollandTells the vivid and largely untold story of the dramatic Allied air campaign against Germany that was a turning point in World War II and ultimately crucial to the success of D-Day and the Allied invasion of Europe.
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The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America
by Margaret O'Mara
The historian author of Cities of Knowledge draws on firsthand perspectives to document the epic history of Silicon Valley, its deep involvement with the Clinton administration and its indelible world influence.
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The Conservative Sensibility
by George F. Will
The Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and best-selling author of Men at Work outlines revolutionary perspectives on American conservatism that reveal how the Founders' beliefs in natural rights established a political tradition under threat in today's world.
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The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California
by Mark Arax
A journalist with roots in Central Valley, California, farming chronicles the battles over water that led to a unique distribution system that was built in the 1940s but is straining to keep up with the state's modern growth.
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A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father
by David Maraniss
A timely account of the mid-20th-century Red Scare and its impact on everyday families describes how the author's WWII veteran father was spied on by the FBI, accused of communist sympathies, fired from his job and blacklisted.
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Sacred Duty: A Soldier's Tour at Arlington National Cemetery
by Tom Cotton
The conservative Arkansas senator presents an intimate and uplifting portrait of Arlington National Cemetery's Old Guard, in a historical memoir that draws on his tradition-inspired service as a unit platoon leader in wartime.
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Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations
by William H. McRaven
The #1 New York Times best-selling author of Make Your Bed tells amazing stories of bravery and heroism from his career as a Navy SEAL and commander of America's Special Forces.
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Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide
by Tony Horwitz
The Pulitzer Prize-winning New Yorker writer and best-selling author of Confederates in the Attic retraces Frederick Law Olmstead's epic journey across the pre-Civil War American South in search of common ground in today's dangerously divided nation.
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Underland: A Deep Time Journey
by Robert Macfarlane
The award-winning author of The Old Ways presents an exploration of the planet's underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory and geography, offering unsettling perspectives into whether or not humans are making the correct choices for Earth's future.
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Unfreedom of the Press
by Mark R. Levin
Presents a history of American journalism from the patriot press in the revolutionary war to partisan party-press, and a critique of the state of a once proud and respected profession.
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The Vinyl Frontier: The Story of the Voyager Golden Record
by Jonathan Scott
Tells the whole story of how the Record of music, sounds and pictures that painted a picture of Earth for any alien races that may come into contact with NASA’s Voyager probe was created, from NASA’s project proposal to the moment Carl Sagan and his team watched the Record rocket off into space.
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