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History and Current Events January 2020
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Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War
by S.C. Gwynne
What it is: a vivid chronicle of the Civil War's decisive battles.
Is it for you? This unsparing account doesn't shy away from the battlefield devastation, the conditions of the POW camps, and the mistreatment of black soldiers on both sides of the conflict.
About the author: Journalist and historian S.C. Gwynne was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for 2010's Empire of the Summer Moon.
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A Castle in Wartime: One Family, Their Missing Sons, and the Fight to Defeat the Nazis
by Catherine Bailey
What it's about: an aristocratic German Italian family living in northern Italy who resisted the Nazi regime and were later targeted for their connections to a failed assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler.
Read it for: a pulse-pounding story of courage and survival.
For fans of: Erik Larson's In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin.
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They will have to die now : Mosul and the fall of the caliphate
by James Verini
An award-winning journalist documents his firsthand witness to the events of the Battle of Mosul in Iraq, describing the conflict’s harrowing violence and improbable humanity through the experiences of Middle East soldiers and civilians.
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You are worth it : building a life worth fighting for
by Kyle Carpenter
The youngest living recipient of the Medal of Honor presents an inspirational memoir that describes the selfless act that protected his brothers in arms in Afghanistan and his motivational battle to recover from catastrophic injuries.
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One Day: The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America
by Gene Weingarten
How it began: After enlisting the help of strangers to pick a random date out of a hat, Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post columnist Gene Weingarten spent years researching the events of December 28, 1986.
What's inside: murders, medical discoveries, freak accidents, and more; updated interviews with people involved in the headlines of the day.
Reviewers say: "a trove of compelling human-interest pieces with long reverberations" (Publishers Weekly).
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Self-portrait in black and white : unlearning race
by Thomas Chatterton Williams
The award-winning cultural critic draws on his controversial op-ed about the “one drop” rule that shaped his experiences and identity beliefs as a mixed-race youth who looked white but was treated as black.
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Goliath : the 100-year war between monopoly power and democracy
by Matt Stoller
An Open Markets Institute Fellow and former policy advisor to the Senate Budget Committee examines how concentrated financial power and consumerism have transformed American politics, prompting the emergence of populism and authoritarianism at the expense of democracy.
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Troubled water : what's wrong with what we drink
by Seth M. Siegel
A lawyer, activist and entrepreneur shows how chemicals linked to cancer, heart disease, obesity and birth defects have contaminated our drinking water through the failures of government, chemical companies and utilities and explains what can be done about it.
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Mister Rogers' Neighborhood : a visual history
by Melissa Wagner
Complemented by exclusive photographs and rare ephemera, a behind-the-scenes, anecdotal tour of the iconic preschool show’s storied history draws on original celebrity interviews to trace its inner workings and enduring legacy.
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