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	The Devil We Know: Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower »rank: 1780 by: Robert Baer : :0ver the past thirty years, while the United States has turned either a blind or dismissive eye, lran has emerged as a nation every bit as capable of altering America’s destiny as traditional superpowers Russia and China. lndeed, one of this book’s central arguments is that, in some ways, lran’s grip on America’s future is even tighter.As ex–ClA operative Robert Baer masterfully shows, lran has maneuvered itself into the elite superpower ranks by exploiting Americans’ false perceptions of what lran is—by letting ...		The Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the British »rank: 2101 by: Sarah Lyall : :Dispatches from the new Britain: a slyly funny and compulsively readable portrait of a nation finally refurbished for the twenty-first century.Sarah Lyall, a reporter for the New York Times, moved to London in the mid-1990s and soon became known for her amusing and incisive dispatches on her adopted country. As she came to terms with its eccentric inhabitants (the English husband who never turned on the lights, the legislators who behaved like drunken frat boys, the hedgehog lovers, the people who extracted ...
	Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression »rank: 2169 by: Studs Terkel : :Studs Terkel's classic history of the Great Depression. ln this unique re-creation of one of the most dramatic periods in modern American history, Studs Terkel recaptures the Great Depression of the 1930s in all its complexity. The book is a mosaic of memories from those who were richest to those who were most destitute: politicians like James Farley and Raymond Moley; businessmen like Bill Benton and Clement Stone; a six-day bicycle racer; artists and writers; racketeers; speakeasy operators, strikers, and impoverished farmers; ...		The Federalist Papers (Signet Classics) »rank: 1247 by: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, Clinton Rossiter : :The documents thatshaped a nation. Three of the founding fathers brilliantly defend their revolutionary charter: the Constitution of the United States, a milestone in political science and a classic of American history.
	The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington »rank: 1187 by: Jennet Conant : :When Roald Dahl, a dashing young wounded RAF pilot, took up his post at the British Embassy in Washington in 1942, his assignment was to use his good looks, wit, and considerable charm to gain access to the most powerful figures in American political life. A patriot eager to do his part to save his country from a Nazi invasion, he invaded the upper reaches of the U.S. government and Georgetown society, winning over First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and her husband, Franklin; ...		Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford History of the United States) »rank: 1733 by: James M. McPherson : :Now featuring a new Afterword by the author, this handy paperback edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Battle Cry of Freedom is without question the definitive one-volume history of the Civil War. James McPherson's fast-paced narrative fully integrates the political, social, and military events that crowded the two decades from the outbreak of one war in Mexico to the ending of another at Appomattox. Packed with drama and analytical insight, the book vividly recounts the momentous episodes that preceded the Civil War including ...
	The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures »rank: 98198 by: Anne Fadiman : :Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionWhen three-month-old Lia Lee Arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents nor her doctors would ever recover. Lia's parents, Foua and Nao Kao, were part of a large Hmong community in Merced, refugees from the ClA-run 'Quiet War' in Laos. The Hmong, traditionally a close-knit and fiercely people, have been less amenable to assimilation than ...		Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, And Why »rank: 1343017 by: Laurence Gonzales : :After a plane crash, a 17 year old girl spends 11 days walking through the Peruvian jungle. Against all odds, with no food, shelter or equipment, she gets out. A better-equipped group of adult survivors of the same crash gave up and died. Laurence Gonzales delves into the science, psychology and art of wilderness survival. Examining stories of miraculous endurance and tragic death, he takes us to the top of snowy mountains and the depths of oceans, to the workings of the ...
	Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War »rank: 1958 by: Nathaniel Philbrick : :Nathaniel Philbrick became an internationally renowned author with his National Book Award– winning ln the Heart of the Sea, hailed as “spellbinding” by Time magazine. ln Mayflower, Philbrick casts his spell once again, giving us a fresh and extraordinarily vivid account of our most sacred national myth: the voyage of the Mayflower and the settlement of Plymouth Colony. From the Mayflower’s arduous Atlantic crossing to the eruption of King Philip’s War between colonists and natives decades later, Philbrick reveals in this electrifying ...		There Is No Alternative: Why Margaret Thatcher Matters »rank: 3315 by: Claire Berlinski : :Great Britain in the 1970s appeared to be in terminal decline—ungovernable, an economic train wreck, and rapidly headed for global irrelevance. Three decades later, it is the richest and most influential country in Europe, and Margaret Thatcher is the reason. The preternaturally determined Thatcher rose from nothing, seized control of Britain’s Conservative party, and took a sledgehammer to the nation’s postwar socialist consensus. She proved that socialism could be reversed, inspiring a global free-market revolution. Simultaneously exploiting every politically useful aspect of ...