The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams
By: David S. Brown
3.75
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A revelatory biography of literary icon Henry Adams—o…
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1. The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
By: David McCullough
4.25
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
Published on the fortieth anniversary of its initial publication, this edition of the classic book … read more
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"One has the feeling that if you could pick it up and turn it over, you would see MADE IN AMERICA stamped on it."-David McCullough, The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
"What I wanted-what I needed-was a story wherein the principal characters took on something big and admirable and difficult, and did it right."-David McCullough, The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
"Nothing lasts forever. The most unforseen circumstances will swamp you and baffle the wisest calculations. Only vitality and plenty of it helps you. Washington A. Roebling quoted by"-David McCullough, The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
"Everywhere about her, lesser men, witless, vulgar, corrupt, men of narrow ambition and the cheapest of values, were prospering as never before, grabbing up power, money, or just about anything else t…"-David McCullough, The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
2. Tough Guys Don't Dance
By: Norman Mailer
3.51
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Norman Mailer peers into the recesses and buried virtues of the modern American male in a brilliant… read more
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"A cop is a human creature born stupid and raised in stupidity."-Norman Mailer, Tough Guys Don't Dance
"Despair is the emotion we feel at the death of beings within us."-Norman Mailer, Tough Guys Don't Dance
"Mi resi conto, allora, che l'unico vero collaudo della forza – del tono muscolare, per così dire – della sanità mentale è la capacità di sostenere l'urto di un interrogativo dietro l'altro senza che …"-Norman Mailer, Tough Guys Don't Dance
3. Of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647
By: William Bradford , Francis Murphy
3.50
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
The most important and influential source of information about the Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony, th… read more
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"Thus out of small beginnings greater things have been produced by His hand that made all things of nothing, and gives being to all things that are; and, as one small candle may light a thousand, so t…"-William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647
"...in a word, [they] did all the homely and necessary offices for them which dainty and queasy stomachs cannot endure to hear named; and all this willingly and cheerfully, without any grudging in the…"-William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647
"May not and ought not the children of these fathers rightly say: "Our fathers were Englishmen which came over this great ocean, and were ready to perish in this wilderness but they cried unto the Lor…"-William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647
"And I may not omit here a special work of God's providence. There was a proud and very profane young man [aboard the Mayflower], one of the seamen, of a lusty, able body, which made him the more haug…"-William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647
4. Coolidge
By: Amity Shlaes
3.76
Format: 536 pages, Hardcover
Calvin Coolidge, who served as president from 1923 to 1929, never rated highly in polls. The shy Ve… read more
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"It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones. -Calvin Coolidge"-Amity Shlaes, Coolidge
5. Patriots: The Men Who Started The American Revolution
By: A.J. Langguth
2.50
Format: None pages,
They were heroes, revolutionaries who risked everything. They were complicated, sometimes conniving… read more
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6. The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
By: Christopher Clark
3.79
Format: None pages,
On the morning of 6/28/1914, when Archduke Franz Ferdinand & his wife, Sophie Chotek, arrived at Sa… read more
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7. The Orchard Keeper
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.53
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Set in a small, remote community in rural Tennessee in the years between the two world wars, "The O… read more
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"See the hand that nursed the serpent."-Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper
"They passed, leaving a trail of foxfire shuffled up out of the wet leaves like stars plowed in a ship's wake."-Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper
"The old man remembered it now with dim regret, and remembered such nights when the air was warm as a breath and the moon no dead thing."-Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper
"A man gets older, he said, he finds they's lots of things he can do jest as well without and so he don't have to worry about this and that the way a young feller will. I worked near all my life and n…"-Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper
8. President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier
By: C.W. Goodyear
4.30
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
An “ambitious, thorough, supremely researched” ( The Washington Post ) biography of the extraordina… read more
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9. A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland
By: Troy Senik
4.16
Format: 384 pages, ebook
“A thoroughly engaging and enjoyable” (National Review) biography of Grover Cleveland—the honest, p… read more
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10. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
By: Erik Larson
4.24
Format: 565 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more
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"A house divided against itself cannot stand."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
11. A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
By: Kelly Weinersmith
4.06
Format: 448 pages, ebook
Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no … read more
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"For now, if leaving Earth is humanity leaving the cradle, well, humanity is going straight to its neighbor's basement."-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
"The Moon isn't just sort of a gray Sahara without air. Its surface is made of jagged, electrically charged microscopic glass and stone, which clings to pressure suits and landing vehicles. Nor is Mar…"-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
12. The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations
By: Daniel Yergin
4.20
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A Wall Street Journal besteller and a USA Today Best Book of 2020 Named Energy Writer of the Yea… read more
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"У 1976 в газеті "Вечірній Ленінград" з'явилася стаття про досі невідомого дзюдоїста, що переміг у змаганнях і здобув звання чемпіона. "Люди ще почують про нього в майбутньому", передбачало видання. Т…"-Daniel Yergin, The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations
13. The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
By: Rick Atkinson
4.43
Format: 776 pages, Hardcover
In the initial volume of the Revolution Trilogy Rick Atkinson recounts the first twenty-one months … read more
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14. This Strange Eventful History
By: Claire Messud
3.63
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
An immersive, masterful story of a family born on the wrong side of history, from one of our finest… read more
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"Family life, like playing chess, involved always thinking several steps ahead."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"Literature... Now, that's a religion I can believe in. That is perhaps my God."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"... she'd been a fool, enamored of a figment, had created the soul of a man who never existed -"-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"All-U-Can Hi-way 4-Sale Thru. This American English thrilled him - its energy, its freedom, its carelessness."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
15. The Rebels: Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and the Struggle for a New American Politics
By: Joshua Green
4.16
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Devil’s Bargain comes the revelatory inside sto… read more
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16. La educación de Henry Adams
By: Henry Adams
3.63
Format: 561 pages, Hardcover
La educación de Henry Adams (1907), recientemente elegida por el consejo de la prestigiosa Modern L… read more
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"Friends are born, not made."-Henry Adams, La educación de Henry Adams
"A friend in power is a friend lost."-Henry Adams, La educación de Henry Adams
"Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man."-Henry Adams, La educación de Henry Adams
"The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt."-Henry Adams, La educación de Henry Adams
17. Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations
By: Simon Schama
3.65
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Da millenni gli esseri umani e i virus coesistono e, suo malgrado, l'umanità più di una volta si è … read more
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18. God Save Benedict Arnold: The True Story of America's Most Hated Man
By: Jack Kelly
3.95
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Benedict Arnold committed treason— for more than two centuries, that’s all that most Americans have… read more
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19. The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America's Judicial Hero
By: Peter S. Canellos
4.34
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
The “superb” ( The Guardian ) biography of an American who stood against all the forces of Gilded A… read more
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20. The January 6th Report
By: The Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol
4.48
Format: 1388 pages, Kindle Edition
Alternate cover edition of ASIN B09T755LBH Celadon Books and The New Yorker present the report b… read more
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21. The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams
By: David S. Brown
3.75
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A revelatory biography of literary icon Henry Adams—o… read more
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