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1.
American Sketches
Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers, and Heroes of a Hurricane
By: Walter Isaacson
This edition: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publication date: November 24, 2009
What are the roots of creativity? What makes for great leadership? How do influential people end up rippling the surface of history?In this collection of essays, Walter Isaacson reflects on the lessons to be learned from...
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Dogtown
Death and Enchantment in a New England Ghost Town
By: Elyssa East
This edition: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publication date: December 1, 2009
The area known as Dogtown -- an isolated colonial ruin and surrounding 3,000-acre woodland in storied seaside Gloucester, Massachusetts -- has long exerted a powerful influence over artists, writers, eccentrics, and nature...
Other Formats: eBook
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The Darkest Summer
Pusan and Inchon 1950: The Battles That Saved South Korea--and the Marines--from Extinction
By: Bill Sloan
This edition: Hardcover, 400 pages
Publication date: November 10, 2009
One of the darkest periods in American military history began on June 25, 1950, when hordes of North Korean troops stormed across the 38th Parallel into South Korea. The Communists' blitzkrieg-style invasion came less than...
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An Illustrated Guide to The Lost Symbol
By: John Weber
This edition: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publication date: December 8, 2009
Rich in world history and political power, veiled in secrecy, and rife with rituals and arcane symbols -- from art and architecture to the images that adorn our currency -- the Freemasons arose from ambiguous origins centuries...
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A Country of Vast Designs
James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent
By: Robert W. Merry
This edition: Hardcover, 592 pages
Publication date: November 3, 2009
When James K. Polk was elected president in 1844, the United States was locked in a bitter diplomatic struggle with Britain over the rich lands of the Oregon Territory, which included what is now Washington, Oregon, and Idaho....
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Tear Down This Wall
A City, a President, and the Speech that Ended the Cold War
By: Romesh Ratnesar
This edition: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publication date: November 3, 2009
On June 12, 1987, Ronald Reagan addressed a crowd of 20,000 people in West Berlin in the shadow of the Berlin Wall. The words he delivered that afternoon would become among the most famous in presidential history. "Mr....
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7.
Abigail Adams
By: Woody Holton
This edition: Hardcover, 512 pages
Publication date: November 3, 2009
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The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree
The History & Lore of the World's Most Famous Evergreen
By: Nancy Armstrong and Alexandra Lewis
This edition: Hardcover, 200 pages
Publication date: November 3, 2009
Rockefeller Center had its first Christmas tree even before any buildings rose to fill the space: in 1931, just after they cleared the site, construction workers decorated a small balsam fir with the most humble of ornaments,...
Other Formats: Hardcover
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The Fight to Survive
A Young Girl, Diabetes, and the Discovery of Insulin
By: Caroline Cox
This edition: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publication date: November 3, 2009
In 1919, when 11-year-old Elizabeth Evan Hughes was first diagnosed with what we now know is Type 1 or juvenile diabetes, the medical community considered it a death sentence. In The Fight to Survive, Caroline Cox weaves the...
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Crisis and Command
A History of Executive Power from George Washington to George W. Bush
By: John Yoo
This edition: Hardcover, 544 pages
Publication date: January 5, 2010
An American President faces war and finds himself hamstrung by a Congress that will not act. To protect national security, he invokes his powers as Commander-in-Chief and orders actions that seem to violate laws enacted by...
