The Only Woman in the Room: A Memoir of Japan, Human Rights, and the Arts
Beate Sirota Gordon, John W. Dower and Nicole A. Gordon
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In 1946, at age twenty-two, Beate Sirota Gordon helped to draft the new postwar Japanese...
Young Orson: The Years of Luck and Genius on the Path to Citizen Kane
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On the centennial of his birth, the defining wunderkind of modern entertainment gets his due in a...
The Close Encounters Man: How One Man Made the World Believe in UFOs
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The wildly entertaining and eye-opening biography of J. Allen Hynek, the astronomer who invented the...
Kris Kristofferson: Country Highwayman
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Singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson has maintained a career in music and film for more than forty...
Hog's Exit: Jerry Daniels, the Hmong, and the CIA
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It just didn t sit right. Not with his friends, not with his coworkers, not with his hunting and...
Bad Rabbi: And Other Strange but True Stories from the Yiddish Press
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Stories abound of immigrant Jews on the outside looking in, clambering up the ladder of social...
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The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
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A revelatory look at our national power grid--how it developed, its current flaws, and how it must...
Viet Nam: A History from Earliest Times to the Present
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This book narrates the history of the different peoples who have lived in the three major regions of...
WWI in Cartoons
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In an age before TV and radio the impact and importance of cartoon art was immense, especially when...
The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace
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From New York Times bestselling author H. W. Brands, a masterful biography of the Civil War general...