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Trial By Fire: The New York City Fire Museum
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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life $1.82 Benjamin Franklin, writes journalist and biographer Walter Isaacson, was that rare Founding Father who would sooner wink at a passer-by than sit still for a formal portrait. What’s more, Isaacson relates in this fluent and entertaining biography, the revolutionary leader represents a political tradition that has been all but forgotten today, one that prizes pragmatism over moralism, religious tole… |
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Burma/Myanmar: What Everyone Needs to Know $9.61 In the past two decades, Burma/Myanmar has become a front-page topic in newspapers across the world. This former British colony has one of the most secretive, corrupt, and repressive regimes on the planet, yet it houses a Nobel Peace Prize winner who is and in and out of house arrest. It has an ancient civilization that is mostly unknown to Westerners, yet it was an important–and legendary–theat… |
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The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787 $19.50 One of the half dozen most important books ever written about the American Revolution.New York Times Book ReviewDuring the nearly two decades since its publication, this book has set the pace, furnished benchmarks, and afforded targets for many subsequent studies. If ever a work of history merited the appellation ‘modern classic,’ this is surely one.William and Mary Quarterly[A] brilliant and swee… |
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