Harper Perennial: 508 books

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"I Love Paul Revere, Whether He Rode Or Not"

A Collection of Legends, Lies, & Cherished Myths of American

by Richard Shenkman
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011

Provocative and amusingly heretical, "I Love Paul Revere, Whether He Rode or Not" (a quote attributed to Warren Harding) offers eye-opening revelations debunking long-held American legends.
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The Queen

A Life in Brief

by Robert Lacey
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012

the Queen Elizabeth II was not born to be queen. She came into the world on April 21, 1926, the equivalent of the modern Princess Beatrice, first-born daughter of the Duke of York, destined to flutter on the royal fringe. So while Lilibet was brought up with almost religious respect for the...
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Ordinary Men

Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

by Christopher R. Browning
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017

Christopher R. Browning’s shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews—now with a new afterword and additional photographs. Ordinary Men is the true story of Reserve Police Battalion 101 of the German Order...
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Deadly Departure

Why the Experts Failed to Prevent the TWA Flight 800 Disaster and How It Could Happen Again

by Christine Negroni
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013

The in-flight explosion of TWA Flight 800 on July 17, 1996, was one of the deadliest disasters in American history, spurring the most expensive airline investigation ever undertaken by the U.S. government. To this day the crash remains clouded in doubt and shadowed by suspicion of a government conspiracy. If...
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Fante

A Family's Legacy of Writing, Drinking and Surviving

by Dan Fante
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011

"Dan Fante is an authentic literary outlaw." —New York Times From Dan Fante, son of novelist John Fante, comes an exploration of his family’s legacy—one of boozing, passion, writing, and survival. Long before his father achieved literary recognition for Ask the Dust or The Road...
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Behemoth

The History of the Elephant in America

by Ronald B. Tobias
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013

In the two hundred years since their arrival in America, elephants have worked on farms, mills, mines, and railroads, in Hollywood, and in professional baseball. They've contributed to the national discourse on civil rights, immigration, politics, and capitalism. They became so deeply ingrained in...
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Confidence Men

Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President

by Ron Suskind
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012

The hidden history of Wall Street and the White House comes down to a single, powerful, quintessentially American concept: confidence. Both centers of power, tapping brazen innovations over the past three decades, learned how to manufacture it. Until August 2007, when that confidence finally...
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Bandido Massacre

A True Story of Bikers, Brotherhood and Betrayal

by Peter Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010

On the morning of April 8, 2006, residents of the hamlet of Shedden, Ontario, woke up to the news that the bloodied bodies of eight bikers from the Bandidos gang had been found dead on a local farm. The massacre made headlines around the world, and the shocking news brought a grim light to an otherwise...
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Montmartre

Paris's Village of Art and Sin

by John Baxter
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017

In the second portrait of his series Great Parisian Neighborhoods, award-winning raconteur John Baxter leads us on a whirlwind tour of Montmartre, the hill-top village that fired the greatest achievements of modern art while also provoking bloody revolution and the sexual misbehavior that made Paris...
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The Perfect Meal

In Search of the Lost Tastes of France

by John Baxter
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013

John Baxter's The Perfect Meal is part grand tour of France, part history of French cuisine, taking readers on a journey to discover and savor some of the world's great cultural achievements before they disappear completely. Some of the most revered and complex elements of French cuisine are...
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Diana Mosley

Mitford Beauty, British Fascist, Hitler's Angel

by Anne de Courcy
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014

Diana Mosley was a society beauty who fell from grace when she left her husband, brewery heir Bryan Guinness, for Sir Oswald Mosley, an admirer of Mussolini and a notorious womanizer. This horrified her family and scandalized society. In 1933, Diana met the new German leader, Adolf Hitler....
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The Viceroy's Daughters

The Lives of the Curzon Sisters

by Anne de Courcy
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014

Based on unpublished letters and diaries, The Viceroy's Daughters is a riveting portrait of three spirited and wilful women who were born at the height of British upper-class wealth and privilege. The oldest, Irene, never married but pursued her passion for foxes, alcohol, and married men....
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The Genius of Jane Austen

Her Love of Theatre and Why She Works in Hollywood

by Paula Byrne
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017

Perfect for fans of Jane Austen, this updated edition of Paula Byrne's debut book includes new material that explores the history of Austen stage adaptations, why her books work so well on screen, and what that reveals about one of the world's most beloved authors. Originally published by Bloomsbury...
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Amore

An American Father's Roman Holiday

by Roger Friedland
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014

As his twin daughters approached adolescence, sociologist Roger Friedland was worried. The thing that most bothered him was not the erotic heat of America’s youth culture, but the lovelessness of its sex. Offered the chance to live and teach in Rome, Roger and his wife, Debra, seized the opportunity...
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