Edward Morris
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Gold had been found at various places in California before James Marshall made his now-fabled discovery in January 1848 near the sawmill he was building for businessman John Sutter.
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Both proportionately and absolutely, more people in industrialized countries are living alone today than ever before, Eric Klinenberg asserts.
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On the cold January eve of Stanley Alpert's 38th birthday, three young and impressively armed thugs whisked him off a Greenwich Village street and into a menacing black Lexus.
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<B>A captain's taste of island life</B> Sebastian Junger first drew attention to Linda Greenlaw, then the captain of a swordfishing boat, in his 1997 bestseller, <I>The Perfect St
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On the surface, there appear to be few similarities between Sir Francis Drake (c. 1541-1596) and Oscar Hartzell (1876-1943).
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The 28th child of a Mormon father who married 16 wives and sired 48 offspring, author Dorothy Allred Solomon shares the story of her fundamentalist upbringing in her compelling new memoir.
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The trouble in dealing with spies and former spies is that one can never be sure when they're telling the truth and when they're spinning self-serving fables.
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Starring a stunning WAC and a daring aviator who must fight for survival in the mountains of New Guinea, this true-life adventure is a must-read for anyone who thought there were no untold stories from World War II.
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To hug him or to slug him?
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Possibly the most comprehensive and balanced account of the Vietnam War that has yet been written, Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered from All Sides will not satisfy those who want a strict
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What constitutes information? What are its properties? And how have our lives adjusted to its omnipresence?
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<b>A former president's candid words</b> Thomas M.
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Those who are aware of it at all are likely to regard taxidermy as an art principally appreciated by those who like to kill animals and then have them stuffed and mounted to appear alive.
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"An average of 27,000 people perished each day between September 1939 and August 1945 as a consequence of the global conflict,” observes military historian Max Hastings in Infern
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With his new book, The Jester, the creator of detective Alex Cross, the Women's Murder Club and a veritable metropolis of other characters, peers into the turbulent village and castle l
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Let others probe the grand sweeps of human history Malcolm Gladwell is resolved to study moments. At least the significant ones.
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Don’t be surprised if Steve Earle emerges as a juggler in his next artistic reincarnation. And there’s sure to be one.
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The disclosure that Gwen Ifill’s The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama was in the works—just days before the author was scheduled to moderate the one
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Within the company of songwriters, Rodney Crowell is a revered name, particularly in the field of country music.
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If revealing one's self-doubts, vanities, ambitions and heartbreaks is an indication of fundamental honesty, then former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has written a very honest book
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The reader that David McCullough imagines peering over his shoulder as he crafts his meticulously researched histories and biographies is the person he happens to be writing about at the time, whe
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The land battles of the First World War with their miles of muddy trenches and coils of flesh-shredding barbed wire were such horrific scenes of slaughter that it's easy to forget that there wa
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The “blank spots” of the title of Trevor Paglen’s Blank Spots on the Map refer to America’s secret intelligence-gathering outposts—from unacknowledged
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The central premise of Marc Reisner's A Dangerous Place is sure to wipe the smile off the face of any California dreamer.
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Despite this book’s emotionally neutral title, Toms River is at bottom a horror story of unregulated capitalism.
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For a great many Americans, the late Strom Thurmond will forever be remembered as the thin, nasal voice of racism, militarism and regional insularity.
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Diamonds are sublimely useless, Matthew Hart concedes.
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William Rosen’s The Most Powerful Idea in the World tells the story of how steam power became the catalyst for England’s Industrial Revolution.
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Beware the apocalyptic book title.
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Ben Franklin is worried.
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On the morning of Aug.
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<b>A writer's life, layer by layer</b> Although this book is too chronologically ordered to be called stream-of-consciousness, German author Gunter Grass does ping-pong freely along th
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If it's ever made into the movie for which it's already been purchased, Storming the Court may do as much to romanticize lawyers as All The President's Men did to glamorize journalists.
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<B>America's passion for cash</B> <B>Greenback</B> is a history of America as seen through its money from the currency initially adapted by the colonies and territories from
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<b>An American in China: Richard Nixon's historic 1972 visit</b> It is hard to imagine a more cynical and self-serving quartet than Richard Nixon and Mao Tse-tung and their eager deputi
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In Frozen in Time, his second recounting of a largely forgotten World War II rescue mission, Mitchell Zuckoff shifts his focus from the steamy jungles of New Guinea—the local
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Hooman Majd's aim in The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran is to demonstrate that his native country is not the monolithic society depicted by the Bush administration and
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On . . . December 13 [2003], Alan and I were going to a holiday party at the Rumsfelds', writes NBC-TV reporter Andrea Mitchell. [There], everyone seemed especially jolly.
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True crime author Ann Rule gets to know the kind of people most of us hope we'll never meet.
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On matters of right and wrong, Earl Warren was not a man noticeably plagued by doubts, either in his nearly 11 years as governor of California or in his close to 16 years as chief justice of the Unit
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Colin Escott's The Grand Ole Opry: The Making of an American Icon will find particular favor among those who already know something of the Opry's history but who want some inside glimpses into
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Conceding that the term “amateur” means different things to different people, in his book Bunch of Amateurs Jack Hitt nonetheless singles out particular examples of tha
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Jennet Conant's 109 East Palace told the story of how the atomic bomb was constructed in the "secret city" of Los Alamos, New Mexico.
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In the tight-lipped tradition of Greta Garbo, J.D.
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Not so fast, Mr. Brokaw.
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The social reverberations from most murders are so constricted and short-lived that they alter comparatively few lives or institutions.
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America's Founding Fathers tackled many thorny questions from the pursuit of happiness to the separation of powers but they never had to confront such controversial issues as stem cell research, Soci
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Behold this haunted house.
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Don't be surprised if this generation-spanning spy saga ignites widespread nostalgia for the days of the Cold War.
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Constructing an atomic bomb particularly one portable enough to be sneaked into a target city is a fiendishly difficult task, William Langewiesche says in The Atomic Bazaar, even for the most
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Thumbing through Richard Carlin's Country Music: The People, Places, and Moments that Shaped the Country Sound is a lot like strolling through the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in
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Murder-mystery fans would kill for entry to the Vidocq Society, the Philadelphia-based crime-probing organization Michael Capuzzo describes in The Murder Room.
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On a subfreezing night in early December 1997, a gigantic Amur tiger killed and devoured a beekeeper and hunter named Vladimir Markov just outside his cabin in a forest in the Russian territory of
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Dominic Streatfeild's mission in Cocaine: An Unauthorized Biography is to tell everything known about cocaine its origin, chemistry and physical effects, its experimenters, defenders, detr
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Given the volcanic sales of Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code, it’s understandable that he’s chosen to retread many of that book’s co
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Nothing so animates the contentious natives of Martha's Vineyard as the question of proper land use.
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Few experiences are as exhilarating as watching a bully being brought to his knees. And if his former victims have had a hand in his collapse, it’s all the more delicious.
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The more we learn about Elvis Presley, the more sad and pathetic his life seems to have been.
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It is only in hindsight that the course of a particular war seems inevitable.
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Alan Beattie defines the “false economy” of his title as the belief that “our economic future is predestined and that we are helplessly borne along by huge, uncontrollable, impers
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What if a secret society possessed indisputable proof that Christianity in general—and the Catholic Church in particular—are built on historical error?
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Volker Skierka's Fidel Castro: A Biography was first published in Germany in 2000 but has been updated for the American edition.
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Famous people cross each other’s paths all the time and end up exchanging views on various topics. No surprise there.
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On the three scientific voyages he led between 1768 and his violent death in 1779, English Navy Captain James Cook explored and mapped vast regions of the previously uncharted world, filling in wi
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Although journalist Tom Bissell was only an infant when South Vietnam finally fell to the communists in 1975, the war that culminated in that event has cast a particularly tenacious shadow across
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Ernestine Bradley is the wife of Bill Bradley, the former basketball star, U.S. senator from New Jersey and 2000 presidential aspirant.
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Sherwin Nuland recalls his "ambivalent heritage" Throughout his childhood in the 1930s and '40s, Sherwin Nuland viewed his immigrant father through a prism of fear and embarrassment.
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In Future Perfect—as in earlier books such as The Ghost Map and Everything Bad Is Good For You—Steven Johnson seeks to discover the processes by which
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What are the military aspirations and capabilities of the world's real and would-be nuclear powers?
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Barely a year after her marriage in 1987, Wendy Plump embarked on the first of three volcanically passionate affairs she would immerse herself in before she and her husband, Bill, began having chil
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Bill Clinton aspired to be another Franklin D. Roosevelt, someone whose presidency historians would rightly view as epochal. John F.
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<B>Going back into the cold: Novel draws on author's FBI tenure</B> Jeremy Waller plies his trade against a backdrop of moral ambiguities.
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John Grisham's engrossing new coming-of-age novel should banish any notion that his talent is limited to writing legal thrillers.
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On July 25, 1984, nine-year-old Dawn Venice Hamilton was raped and murdered in a wood near Baltimore.
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Fifty-two years after his death at the age of 29, Hank Williams remains the colossus of country music, as well as a pivotal figure in pop and rock 'n' roll.
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CBS News' Bob Schieffer relives his life on deadline From James Meredith's fiery admission to the University of Mississippi in 1962 to the recent take-down of Mississippi Sen.
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Some of the most prominent figures in early jazz and the glory days of pop music make their bows in Richard M.
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David Halberstam turned in the last corrections for The Coldest Winter, his study of the first eight months of the Korean War, just five days before he died in a traffic accident while en r
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It is fitting that an excellent study of Robert Oppenheimer, "the father of the atomic bomb," would emerge at a time when American politicians are butting heads with scientists over such subjects
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It is fitting that an excellent study of Robert Oppenheimer, "the father of the atomic bomb," would emerge at a time when American politicians are butting heads with scientists over such subjects as
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As the current administration sputters to an end and a new leader is elected, Americans may find it instructive to look back at the controversial presidency of Andrew Jackson.
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The massacre at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999, followed the usual media trajectory: first a flurry of fact-starved news bulletins; then a procession of eye-witness interviews, crime-scene
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Were the endlessly curious Benjamin Franklin to awaken and pop his balding head into the affairs of America 2005, he would find a discouraging similarity between the current suppression of stem cell
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With the publication of At Canaan's Edge, historian Taylor Branch completes his massive Martin Luther King Jr.
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Cuba In Mind, edited by Maria Finn Dominguez, is a collection of essays, short fiction, reports and poems by such luminaries as Anthony Trollope, Steven Crane, Graham Greene, Langston Hugh
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Forty-five years after John F.
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While it’s easy enough to show that the events of any given year were pivotal to one cause or another, Fred Kaplan makes a persuasive argument in 1959: The Year Everything Changed 
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The new collection of essays by historian Tony Judt looks back on a life well and enjoyably lived—and one that was rapidly coming to a close.
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If Arizona Sen.
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Memoirs of a remote childhood tend to be either idyllic or pockmarked with trauma.
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For 118 years, beginning with the ascent of Henry VII to the throne in 1485 and continuing through the sequential reigns of Henry VIII and his children, Edward VI, Mary and Elizabeth, England suffe
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All the elements Dan Brown used to such dramatic effect in Angels & Demons, The Da Vinci Code and The Lost Symbol are in full flower in his newest Robert Langdon thriller.
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There are four parallel stories in play in Kate Summerscale's The Suspicions of Mr.
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Eugene Robinson, an editor and former reporter for the Washington Post, views Cuba's history and post-Revolutionary politics through its many kinds of music in Last Dance In Havana.
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Stuart Dill is more at home hobnobbing with country music stars than he is slogging through the lower depths of humanity where conspiracies are hatched and killers roam.
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How America's revolution transformed the world Jay Winik doesn't prowl through the raw materials of history to prove a point or to bask vicariously in a time more congenial or exciting than his own.
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The outline of Henry Hudson that emerges in Half Moon—it’s too scant of detail to call it a portrait—is of a man whose primary attribute was pig-headedness.
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You can't accuse Robert MacNeil of being impulsive.
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Russian defector Alexander Litvinenko died slowly, painfully and publicly in hisadopted home city of London.
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Anne Garrels reports from the Middle East's hottest spot Anne Garrels is barely two days away from flying back to Baghdad when BookPage reaches her at her home in Connecticut.
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It is difficult to imagine a more thorough immersion into the world of everyday copdom—with all its sudden excitements and excruciating procedural minutiae—than readers will find in <
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People concerned for the welfare of children born and raised within the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Days Saints will take small comfort in knowing that the church’s pedoph
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<B>Other people's money</B> Peter G.
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As Americans struggle to survive and prosper in today’s shifting and far-flung economy, they find themselves tugged farther and farther away from the supportive embrace of family and communit
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Forget the title. There's no honeymoon chronicled in the latest fast-paced thriller from James Patterson. But there are plenty of lovemaking scenes of honeymoon intensity.
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Coming on the heels of the slaughter of millions, the Paris Peace Conference that convened after World War I was a surprisingly civilized gathering of the era's top statesmen.
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In Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher: A Political Marriage, Nicholas Wapshott tries rather too hard to draw parallels between the early lives of Reagan and Thatcher when all he really need
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It started as a Sunday afternoon lark and developed into one of the strangest survival stories of WWII.
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Alex Kurzem had kept his silence for more than 50 years, leaking out to his family only sparse and misleading details about his boyhood in Russia during World War II.
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Ignore the title of Nando Parrado's new book, Miracle in the Andes.
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Kevin Phillips' new book is sure to delight Democratic Party strategists and infuriate those who favor a second term for President George W. Bush.
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Many Americans can still recall when the word "polio" had the same chilling effect that "cancer" and "AIDS" have today.
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Three years after his resignation, Nixon negotiated a large fee to do a series of interviews with British TV personality David Frost.
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In December of 2000, Chief Justice Rehnquist sided with a majority of U.S. Supreme Court judges in awarding Florida's electoral votes and thus the American presidency to George W. Bush.
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This combined history and memoir by her grandson arrives on the 40th anniversary of Eleanor Roosevelt's death.
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It took only 18 minutes for the Cunard liner Lusitania to sink after the German submarine U-20 torpedoed it off the coast of Ireland on May 7, 1915.
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<B>Reporter's notebook</B> Mike Wallace may not have interviewed <I>every</I> mover, shaker and cultural innovator of the past 60 years, but he's come close.
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Big money largely designates who runs, who wins, what issues are raised, how they are framed, and finally, how legislation is drafted.
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The Encyclopedia of Country Music (Oxford University Press $49.95, 0195116712), edited by Paul Kingsbury, provides readers a complete education in country music not to mention hours of delicious br
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In this meticulously researched biography, Michael Lydon presents a thorough, appreciative appraisal of Ray Charles's music even as he lays bare the singer's monumental defects of character.
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Now approaching its 74th anniversary, the Grand Ole Opry is more than just America's longest-running radio show.
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Before Eddie Fisher took his place in history as Elizabeth Taylor's most famous cuckold, he stood shoulder-to-shoulder in the pop music pantheon with Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Tony Bennett.
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Imagine yourself in the attic at Graceland.
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Drawing on public records and their own on-the-scene observations, Ivins and Dubose contend that George W.
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FitzGerald dismantles here the notion that Ronald Reagan's Star Wars proposal of 1983 subsequently enshrined as the Strategic Defense Initiative contributed significantly to the breakup of the So
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Until his death in 1996, Bill Monroe was so formidable a presence that it was almost impossible to discuss him in human terms.
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Stephen Ambrose: a guide for appreciating our history Stephen E. Ambrose's histories are as vivid as screenplays.
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Readers who are unfamiliar with Gary Giddins' earlier musical biographies or his commentaries on jazz for the Village Voice may recall him as one of the more animated talking heads in Ken Bu
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here are now 1.3 million Americans in state or federal prisons, a record, Joseph T. Hallinan reports. Each week the rolls swell by another 1,000 inmates enough to fill two brand-new prisons.
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uthor Gerald Nicosia explains it, the American soldiers who fought in Vietnam lost two wars: one in Southeast Asia to gain and hold territory and one at home to gain public understanding of their lif
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ing together meditation and travelogue in his insightful new nonfiction book Paradise, Larry McMurtry captains the reader through two very different worlds his parents' long and rocky marriage
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This handbook of melancholy is not for the suggestible.
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Moss Hart loved the theater from the day he was whisked away from his grade school studies by a demented aunt to attend a production at the Bronx Opera House.
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For most of us, serving on a jury is one of the few occasions in which our opinion has a life-altering impact.
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In his latest work of nonfiction, Ron Powers returns to his hometown of Hannibal, Missouri, to investigate two senseless killings committed in the span of six weeks by two pairs of disaffected teen
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Americans may soon know more about Richard Nixon's personality and escapades than they do about Paris Hilton's. At least, Americans who read will.
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Even before it hit the bookstores, SuperFreakonomics was inciting scorn and outrage.
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In 2001, Philip Kearney took a leave of absence from his job as a district attorney in San Francisco to serve as a war crimes prosecutor for the United Nations in Kosovo.
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Sharing Good Times is Jimmy Carter's episodic account of how he has managed to fit fun, family and friends into a life that's been powered by ambition and inclined toward solitude.
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Just as he used the pivotal figure of John Paul Vann in A Bright Shining Lie to tie together America’s myriad miscalculations in the Vietnam War, so Neil Sheehan focuses here on Bernar
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Ever since Cain and Abel, societies have been shaken and shaped by brothers who competed with, supported or blithely ignored one another.
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Simon Winchester journeys through space and time with equal aplomb.
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In Flags of Our Fathers, James Bradley chronicled the lives of the six soldiers his father among them who famously raised the flag on Iwo Jima.
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It wasn’t obvious as it was happening, but, as David Browne shows in Fire and Rain, 1970 turned out to be a watershed year in popular music.
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Michael Streissguth, who has written extensively about Johnny Cash before, essays a final summation of the singer/songwriter's career and personal struggles in Johnny Cash: The Biography.
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Think your life has been hard? Imagine growing up black in the legally segregated South and, at the age of five, seeing your father kill your mother with an ax.
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Beginning with this book's subtitle "How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World" you get the idea that the author, journalist Greg Critser, isn't going to pull any punches.
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Sherlock Holmes knew two things to be true: that noticing small, seemingly inconsequential details can lead one to larger discoveries, and that real life spawns situations more curious than mere fi
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<B>Talkin' bout his Baby Boom generation</B> Because they grew up in an age in which media particularly network television connected them with a common diet of images and attitudes, mem
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Juvenile offenders find release in a creative writing class Having already found that teaching creative writing to college students was a dismal experience, best-selling author Mark Salzman was even
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In A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution, author Carol Berkin recalls the period following the end of the Revolutionary War when the Articles of Confederation were in f
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<b>The collapse of Enron's house of cards</b> Surely at some time in its tawdry history, Enron or one of its myriad corporate affiliates must have produced, developed or delivered some
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That tragedy may befall us regardless of how sensibly we conduct our lives is a reality almost too unsettling to contemplate. So we instinctively try to rationalize random catastrophes.
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One could hardly hope for a more scintillating guide through late 20th-century America than historian Arthur W. Schlesinger Jr.
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“What!” you gasp with mouth agape.
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Laurence C. Smith’s The World in 2050 is quite a calm book, considering the world changes it envisions.
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Compared to Dr. Paul Farmer, Mother Teresa was a slacker. But she had better PR.
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Like the late Stephen Ambrose, historian Jill Jonnes paints her story on a broad canvas and populates it with titans.
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She can be tough in court, but in conversation, Judge Leslie Crocker Snyder is light-hearted, quick to laugh and more inclined to explain her views of the law than proclaim them as absolutes.
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In fleshing out the creator of Roget's Thesaurus, writer Joshua Kendall faces something of a dramatic and structural problem: How does one enliven and sustain interest in a man who didn't m
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In Just One Catch, his reconstruction of the life of novelist, playwright and screenwriter Joseph Heller, Tracy Daugherty has also illuminated the post-World War II culture of Amer
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Hard-hitting advice from The Donald Donald Trump. The name carries its own exclamation point.
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Plutocrats is an immensely useful and entertaining book, not only because it lets the striving 99 percent of the world’s population see how the glittering 1 percent live but,
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Defining and showcasing the American identity is a fruitful endeavor for publishers, who take up the challenge this season with a quartet of fine new gift books.
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Defining and showcasing the American identity is a fruitful endeavor for publishers, who take up the challenge this season with a quartet of fine new gift books.
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Defining and showcasing the American identity is a fruitful endeavor for publishers, who take up the challenge this season with a quartet of fine new gift books.
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Defining and showcasing the American identity is a fruitful endeavor for publishers, who take up the challenge this season with a quartet of fine new gift books.
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The notion that the ages-old imbalance between rich and poor could be altered by learning how wealth is created and apportioned flowered in Victorian England and has been a staple of governance eve
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One had to be an adult living through that time to fully appreciate the fear kindled throughout the world by what is now called "the Cuban missile crisis" - 13 agonizing days in October
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There can hardly be a more frustrating or thankless task than trying to impose a moral code on war, an institution which, by its very nature, feeds on its own excesses. Yet that is the job that A.C.
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Originally published in Australia and the U.K.
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<B>The president's men</B> Doris Kearns Goodwin pinpoints Lincoln's political genius Vigorous research has a way of toppling a scholar's most reasonable expectations.
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Susan Jacoby sees nothing ennobling and much to dread in the onset of old age, particularly as it plays itself out in America.
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While fossil evidence shows that the voracious Rocky Mountain locust was rampant in what is now North America as early as the 12th century, it didn't reach its peak of collective destructiveness ther
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On May 19, 2001, 26 men crossed the border from Mexico into the searing desert of southern Arizona. They intended to find work as orange pickers. By the time the U.S.
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To what extent can our minds be instruments of our own healing, and are there biological bases for this self-help phenomenon?
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Although Jonah Lehrer discusses brain functions and their connections to different forms of creativity in Imagine: How Creativity Works, the real delights and revelations here are
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Southern literature is awash in stories about sensitive young boys with domineering mothers, dissolute fathers and quirky extended families.
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One can have the benefits of a first-class education these days and still be oblivious to the name and exploits of the Victorian-era explorer Paul Du Chaillu.
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The days at issue here are those immediately following the resignation and departure from the White House of Richard Nixon on Aug.
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appears at a particularly propitious time, given the current comparisons between the surprise Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor and the recent terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pent
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In his new novel, Greenwich, Howard Fast lifts the picture-book cover of this posh Connecticut suburb and reveals the currents of ambition, violence, guilt, doubt, and compassion that swirl
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Even today, there are conflicting estimates of how many deaths the great influenza pandemic of 1918 caused worldwide.
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In his latest book, The Ghost Map, Steven Johnson (Everything Bad Is Good for You) examines a 10-day cholera plague in London in the late summer of 1854 to demonstrate, among other thin
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The defeat of Custer’s Seventh Cavalry near the Little Bighorn River on June 25, 1876, has been so painstakingly chronicled and relentlessly mythologized that it’s hard to imagine anyon
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Musician Reed Arvin hits new note with legal thrillers Although there's action aplenty in The Last Goodbye, the real thrill in this thriller is tuning into the caustic and nimble mind of prota
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Dominick Dunne became a chronicler of criminal justice for the rich and well-connected after his own daughter was murdered in 1982 by her boyfriend.
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Lying has become such a staple of foreign and domestic policy that politicians and the press have come to accept it without serious reservation.
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Cultural historian Steven Johnson has had it with people who complain that videogames, TV shows, movies and the Internet are dehumanizing and intellectually barren pastimes.
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It is no exaggeration to say that Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller reshaped American culture with their songs—tunes such as “Black Denim Trousers and Motorcycle Boots,” “Charli
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<b>Two of the president's men</b> Like Nixon, Henry Kissinger who began as the president's national security adviser and then moved on to become his secretary of state achieved politica
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<b>Two of the president's men</b> Serious though his subject is, Jules Witcover's account in <b>Very Strange Bedfellows</b> of Nixon's relationship with Spiro Agnew, his fir
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On September 7, 1857, a wagon train of pioneers on their way to California was ambushed at a place called Mountain Meadows in southwestern Utah.
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Jennet Conant is a genius at finding significant World War II-era stories that have largely gone untold or unnoticed in the more comprehensive chronicles of that period.
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Whether he's tracing a young man's doomed journey into the Alaskan wilderness, as he did with Into The Wild, or chronicling an ill-fated expedition to scale Mount Everest, his focus for Int
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Kurt Vonnegut's experiences as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany - the inspiration for his novel, Slaughterhouse-Five - still bear heavily on his mind in Armageddon in Retrospect, a
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The crucial matters of civilization, contends Ted Conover in The Routes of Man, invariably occur on and alongside roads, be they ground-based pathways or navigable rivers.
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<B>What they're doing now</B> Curious about what life is like for the "fraternity" of former U.S.
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When a young Muslim of Moroccan descent slaughtered Theo van Gogh in 2004 as punishment for the Dutch filmmaker's perceived offenses against Islam, it propelled the people of Holland into a state of
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Visitors new to Nashville are invariably surprised at how small, compact and unassuming the area known as Music Row is.
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Songs are the bookmarks in our memory that were either crafted painstakingly over a long period of time or dashed off in inspirational or deadline-imposed frenzy.
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To mark the 400th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown, Virginia, historian and journalist Benjamin Woolley has constructed a far-ranging account of the political machinations and human suffering
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<B>Young patients' heart-rending lessons</B> Don't even think of starting this brief but beautiful book without a box of tissues at your elbow. You've got a lot of crying ahead.
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