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Jefferson's Second Revolution

The Election Crisis of 1800 and the Triumph of Republicanism

by Susan Dunn
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2004

An “excellent” history of the tumultuous early years of American government, and a constitutional crisis sparked by the Electoral College (Booklist). In the election of 1800, Federalist incumbent John Adams, and the elitism he represented, faced Republican Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson defeated...
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Heretics

The Creation of Christianity from the Gnostics to the Modern Church

by Jonathan Wright
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011

A lively examination of the heretics who helped Christianity become the world’s most powerful religion. From Arius, a fourth-century Libyan cleric who doubted the very divinity of Christ, to more successful heretics like Martin Luther and John Calvin, this book charts the history of dissent...
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George B. McClellan

The Young Napoleon

by Stephen W. Sears
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014

“Sears has finally unraveled the mystique of this complex, brilliant Civil War general . . . A fascinating story” (James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom). “Commander of the Northern army in the Civil War, Gen. George McClellan saw himself as God’s chosen instrument for...
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Lincoln’s Darkest Year

The War in 1862

by William Marvel
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2008

A portrait of a pivotal chapter in the Civil War, “featuring scheming politicians, bumbling generals, and an increasingly disheartened Northern public” (Brooks Simpson, author of Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph Over Adversity, 1822–1865).   In Mr. Lincoln Goes to War, award-winning historian William...
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The Great Task Remaining

The Third Year of Lincoln's War

by William Marvel
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010

Focusing on the dramatic events of 1863, this is “a well-researched and well-written study that will be a fine addition to Civil War collections” (Booklist).   The Great Task Remaining is a striking, often poignant portrait of people in conflict—not only in battles between North and South,...
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Clover Adams

A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life

by Natalie Dykstra
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012

A biography of one of the Gilded Age’s most fascinating and mysterious society women that “reads as well as any page-turning novel” (Library Journal). The hidden story of one of the most fascinating women of the Gilded Age Clover Adams, a fiercely intelligent Boston Brahmin, married at...
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The Rogue Republic

How Would-Be Patriots Waged the Shortest Revolution in American History

by William C. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011

The little-known story of the West Florida Revolt: “One rollicking good book.” —Jay Winik When Britain ceded the territory of West Florida—what is now Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida—to Spain in 1783, America was still too young to confidently fight in one of Europe’s...
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The Lucky Ones

One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America

by Mae Ngai
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2010

This rags-to-riches history of three generations offers a “terrifically readable, compelling” look at the Chinese middle class and the immigrant experience (Publishers Weekly). In 1864, at the age of twelve, Jeu Dip left southern China for America. In San Francisco, he reinvented himself...
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by Danny Orbach
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016

The first definitive account of the anti-Nazi underground in Germany: “Superb” (Publishers Weekly). In 1933, Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany. A year later, all political parties but the Nazis had been outlawed, freedom of the press was but a memory, and Hitler’s dominance seemed...
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by Louis Auchincloss
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 1999

From a New York Times–bestselling author: A collection of short fiction “reminiscent of the work of Henry James and Edith Wharton” (Library Journal).   Crisscrossing a tumultuous century, these stories evoke lives both blessed and cursed by good fortune and reveal the quotidian conflicts of...
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Absolutely American

Four Years at West Point

by David Lipsky
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014

This chronicle of daily life at the US Military Academy is “a fascinating, funny and tremendously well written account of life on the Long Gray Line” (Time).   In 1998, West Point made an unprecedented offer to Rolling Stone writer David Lipsky: Stay at the Academy as long as you like, go wherever...
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by Louis Auchincloss
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012

A prominent lawyer in 1940s New York investigates the mystery of his partner’s life and death in this novel by a New York Times–bestselling author.   Nearing the end of his days, Adrian Suydam, half the partnership of the law firm of Suydam & Saunders, reflects on his lifelong friendship...
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The Emperor

Downfall of an Autocrat

by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1983

This account of the rise and fall of Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie is “an unforgettable, fiercely comic, and finally compassionate book” (Salman Rushdie, Man Booker Prize–winning author). After Haile Selassie was deposed in 1974, Ryszard Kapuściński—Poland’s top foreign correspondent—went...
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by Louis Auchincloss
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2002

**From a New York Times–bestselling author, short stories of the privileged class, spanning a century of New York history:**“Urbane, humorous . . . a treat to read.” —Library Journal Sublime master of manners, exquisite critic of the upper crust, and beloved American author Louis Auchincloss...
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