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Makers of Modern Thought 

101 Great Philosophers 

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Abigail Adams

An Oral History 

Reporting America At War

David Eisenhower

Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Julie Nixon

A Memoir of Life with Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961-1969

When President Dwight Eisenhower left Washington, D.C., at the end of his second term, he retired to a farm in historic Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, that he had bought a decade earlier. Living on the farm with the former president and his wife, Mamie, were his son, daughter-in-law, and four grandchildren, the oldest of whom, David, was just entering his teens. In this engaging and fascinating memoir, David Eisenhower; whose previous book about his grandfather ,Eisenhower at War, 1945,was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; provides a uniquely intimate account of the final years of the former president and general, one of the giants of the twentieth century.InGoing Home to Glory,Dwight Eisenhower emerges as both a beloved and forbidding figure. He was eager to advise, instruct, and assist his young grandson, but as a general of the army and president, he held to the highest imaginable standards. At the same time, Eisenhower was trying to define a new political role for himself. Ostensibly the leader of the Republican party, he was prepared to counsel his successor, John F. Kennedy, who sought instead to break with Eisenhower's policies. (In contrast, Kennedy's successor, Lyndon Johnson, would eagerly seek Eisenhower's advice.) As the tumultuous 1960s dawned, with assassinations, riots, and the deeply divisive war in Vietnam, plus a Republican nominee for president in 1964 whom Eisenhower considered unqualified, the former president tried to chart the correct course for himself, his party, and the country. Meanwhile, the past continued to pull on him as he wrote his memoirs, and publishers and broadcasters asked him to reminisce about his wartime experiences.When his grandfather took him on a post-presidential tour of Europe, David saw firsthand the esteem with which monarchs, prime ministers, and the people of Europe held the wartime hero. Then as later, David was under the watchful eye of a grandfather who had little understanding of or patience with the emerging rock n roll generation. But even as David went off to boarding school and college, grandfather and grandson remained close, visiting and corresponding frequently. David and Julie Nixon's romance brought the two families together, and Eisenhower strongly endorsed his former vice-president's successful run for the presidency in 1968.With a grandson's love and devotion but with a historian's candor and insight, David Eisenhower has written a remarkable book about the final years of a great American whose stature continues to grow.

Going Home to Glory

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Hywel Williams

Days That Changed the World

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Batt Burns

Folktales Of The World

Storytelling is one of Ireland’s oldest and grandest traditions, and these vivid tales of far-off days will introduce young readers to the country’s irresistible folklore. Here are brave warriors with superhuman skills, monster dogs with blazing eyes, fairy folk and leprechauns, and the magical land of Tir na nÓg. Author Batt Burns grew up with these beloved characters and legends, and he captures all their enchanting language and flights of fancy. Exquisite art by Igor Oleynikov enhances every tale.

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Contents include:

·nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; The King with Horse’s Ears

·nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; The Greedy Barber

·nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Oisín in the Land of the Ever Young

·nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Back from the Fairies

·nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Paying the Rent

·nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; A Clever Leprechaun

·nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; The Lost Island of Lonesome Seals

·nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; And many more!

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The King with Horse's Ears and Other Irish Folktales

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Michael Kerrigan

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The Roman Emperors from Julius Caesar to the Fall of Rome

A Dark History

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Camilla De la Bédoyère

Ian Graham

Steve Parker

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Discover the Savage World

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Renoir and Algeria

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The Covenant 

William C. MacKay

Maureen Slattery

Over 500 Fascinating Facts 

The United States of Trivia

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A Soviet Novel Of Life In Stalin's Forced Labor Camps

One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich

Robert Payne

Life and Death of Adolf Hitler

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This gargantuan, 704-page hardcover book is chock-full of that information and more, covering pop culture, nature, technology, food, sports, art, history, religion, crime, and tales of the just plain weird.

Prepared to get lost perusing page after page of unusual facts, enthralling stories, and amusing anecdotes because The Book of Extraordinary Facts will keep you busy for hours!
 * Learn about the strange collaboration between surrealist painter Salvador Dalí and comedy icon Harpo Marx.
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The Book of Extraordinary Facts

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Rod Stewart

The Autobiography

A personal portrait by the legendary music artist recounts his life on and off the stage, from his humble British roots and his riotous years on tour with the Jeff Beck Group and the Faces to his three marriages and his decades as a solo performer. (This book was previously listed in Forecast.) 300,000 first printing.

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John Sedgwick

Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Duel That Stunned the Nation

The murder-by-duel of Alexander Hamilton by Aaron Burr remains one of the most shocking and unparalleled events in American history. In War of Two, John Sedgwick offers a detailed and vivid portrayal of the lives of these two major figures of the pre and post-Revolutionary era, of the dramatic events they lived through and of the political and personal conflicts that led to their clash.

War of Two

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Ted Sorensen

A Life at the Edge of History

In this gripping memoir, John F. Kennedy's closest advisor recounts in full for the first time his experience counseling Kennedy through the most dramatic moments in American history. Sorensen returns to January 1953, when he and the freshman senator from Massachusetts began their extraordinary professional and personal relationship. Rising from legislative assistant to speechwriter and advisor, the young lawyer from Nebraska worked closely with JFK on his most important speeches, as well as his book Profiles in Courage. Sorensen encouraged the junior senator's political ambitions—from a failed bid for the vice presidential nomination in 1956 to the successful presidential campaign in 1960, after which he was named Special Counsel to the President. Sorensen describes in thrilling detail his experience advising JFK during some of the most crucial days of his presidency, from the decision to go to the moon to the Cuban Missile Crisis, when JFK requested that the thirty-four-year-old Sorensen draft the key letter to Khrushchev at the most critical point of the world's first nuclear confrontation. After Kennedy was assassinated, Sorensen stayed with President Johnson for a few months before leaving to write a biography of JFK. In 1968 he returned to Washington to help run Robert Kennedy's presidential campaign. Through it all, Sorensen never lost sight of the ideals that brought him to Washington and to the White House, working tirelessly to promote and defend free, peaceful societies. Illuminating, revelatory, and utterly compelling, Counselor is the brilliant, long-awaited memoir from the remarkable man who shaped the presidency and the legacy of one of the greatest leaders America has ever known.

Counselor

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H. W. Brands

Ulysses Grant in War and Peace

From New York Times bestselling author H. W. Brands, a masterful biography of the Civil War general and two-term president who saved the Union twice, on the battlefield and in the White House, holding the country together at two critical turning points in our history.

Ulysses Grant rose from obscurity to discover he had a genius for battle, and he propelled the Union to victory in the Civil War. After Abraham Lincoln's assassination and the disastrous brief presidency of Andrew Johnson, America turned to Grant again to unite the country, this time as president. In Brands's sweeping, majestic full biography, Grant emerges as a heroic figure who was fearlessly on the side of right. He was a beloved commander in the field but willing to make the troop sacrifices necessary to win the war, even in the face of storms of criticism. He worked valiantly to protect the rights of freedmen in the South; Brands calls him the last presidential defender of black civil rights for nearly a century. He played it straight with the American Indians, allowing them to shape their own fate even as the realities of Manifest Destiny meant the end of their way of life. He was an enormously popular president whose memoirs were a huge bestseller; yet within decades of his death his reputation was in tatters, the victim of Southerners who resented his policies on Reconstruction. In this page-turning biography, Brands now reconsiders Grant's legacy and provides a compelling and intimate portrait of a man who saved the Union on the battlefield and consolidated that victory as a resolute and principled political leader.

The Man Who Saved the Union

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All The King's Men

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