Made in America: An Informal History of American English by Bill Bryson
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Category: American | Series: Bryson
"Funny, wise, learned and compulsive." (GQ). Bill Bryson turns away from travelling the highways and byways of middle America, so hilariously depicted in his bestselling The Lost Continent, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid and Notes from a Big Country, for a fast, exhilarating ride along the Ro ...Show more
The Devil In The White City by Erik Larson
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Category: American | Series: history of the Americas
"The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and its amazing 'White City' was one of the most spectacular the world has ever seen. This is the incredible story of its realization, and of the two men whose fates it linked, and architect and a serial killer. The architect was Daniel H. Burnham, the chief builder of ...Show more
Bloodbath Nation by Paul Auster; Spencer Ostrander
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Category: American
'Remarkably powerful.' Washington Post 'A compelling polemic, dismaying and often moving.' Jake Kerridge, Daily Telegraph No issue divides Americans more deeply than the debate around guns. Paul Auster begins his examination of gun violence by looking into his own past, knowing first-hand how families ...Show more
No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston s Black Workers in the Civil War Era by Jacqueline Jones
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Category: American
From a Bancroft Prize winner, a harrowing portrait of Black workers and white hypocrisy in nineteenth-century Boston Impassioned antislavery rhetoric made antebellum Boston famous as the nation s hub of radical abolitionism. In fact, however, the city was far from a beacon of equality. In No Right to an ...Show more
Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond
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Category: American
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a "provocative and compelling" (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The New York Times Book R ...Show more
Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises, Vol. 1 by Angela Y. Davis
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Category: American
An icon of revolutionary politics, Angela Y. Davis has been at the forefront of collective movements for prison abolition for over fifty years. Abolition- Politics, Practices, Promises, the first of two important new volumes, brings together an essential collection of Davis's essays, conversations, and ...Show more
The Forever War by Nick Bryant
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Category: Political
As we approach the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the American experiment is failing. Division, mistrust and misinformation are now its defining characteristics. The storming of the Capitol, the overturning of Roe v. Wade and the increasing spotlight on Second Amendment rights rai ...Show more
Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women they Destroyed by Maureen Callahan
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Category: American
From New York Times bestseller Maureen Callahan, a fierce, character-driven exposé of the real Kennedy Curse--the family's generations-long legacy of misogyny, murder, and mayhem. The Kennedy name has long been synonymous with wealth, power, glamor, and--above all else--integrity. But this carefully ...Show more
The CIA - An Imperial History by Hugh Wilford
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Category: American
A celebrated British historian of US intelligence explores how the CIA was born in anti-imperialist idealism but swiftly became an instrument of a new covert empire both in America and overseas. As World War II ended, the United States stood as the dominant power on the world stage. In 1947, to support ...Show more
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here by Jonathan Blitzer
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Category: American
'Urgent, extraordinary . . . a tribute to the astonishing indomitability of the human spirit.' - Patrick Radden Keefe, New York Times bestelling author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain New Yorker journalist Jonathan Blitzer has been covering the immigration crisis at America's southern border for near ...Show more
The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis by George Stephanopoulos, Lisa Dickey
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Category: American
No room better defines American power and its role in the world than the White House Situation Room. And yet, none is more shrouded in secrecy and mystery. Created under President Kennedy, the Sit Room has been the epicentre of crisis management for presidents for more than six decades. Time and again, ...Show more
Demon Of Unrest: Abraham Lincoln & America's Road to Civil War by Erik Larson
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Category: American
The internationally bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War—a slow-burning crisis that finally tore a deeply divided nation in two. On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky ...Show more