Dictator, the Revolution, the Machine: A Political Account of Joseph Stalin
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It is a commonplace wisdom that from the authoritarian roots of the Bolshevik revolution in 1917...
Building the Skyline: The Birth and Growth of Manhattan's Skyscrapers
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The Manhattan skyline is one of the great wonders of the modern world. But how and why did it form?...
Garibaldi: Citizen of the World: A Biography
Allan Cameron and Alfonso Scirocco
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What adventure novelist could have invented the life of Giuseppe Garibaldi? The revolutionary,...
Blue Dahlia, Black Gold: A Journey into Angola
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"A rich and fascinating book about an overlooked African powerhouse by a travel writer of rare...
The Making of Gone with the Wind
Robert Osborne and Steve Wilson
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Gone With The Wind is one of the most popular movies of all time. To commemorate its seventy-fifth...
Svetik: A Family Portrait of Sviatoslav Richter
Anthony Phillips, Vladimir Ashkenazy and Walter Moskalew
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For well over half a century, since the Soviet regime first allowed Sviatoslav Richter to travel to...
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...
Treasures of the New-York Historical Society
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Founded in 1804, the New-York Historical Society is New York City's oldest museum, with a rich...
The Spectre of Alexander Wolf
Bryan Karetnyk, Gaito Gazdanov and Julien Pacaud
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A superb early postmodern classic by one of Nabokov's fellow emigre writers, rediscovered after more...
Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power
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From twice-Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Steve Coll comes Private Empire, winner of the FT/GOLDMAN...