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An Inconvenient Book: Real Solutions to the World's Biggest Problems»rank: 188410by: Glenn Beck
: :FUNNY.0UTRAGE0US.TRUE.Have you ever wondered why some of the biggest problems we face, from illegal immigration to global warming to poverty, never seem to get fixed? The reason is simple: the solutions just aren't very convenient. Fortunately, radio and television host Glenn Beck doesn't care much about convenience; he cares about common sense.Take the issue of poverty, for example. 0ver the last forty years, America's ten poorest cities all had one simple thing in common, but self-serving politicians will never tell you what ... |
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The Widow Clicquot: The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman Who Ruled It»rank: 856by: Tilar J. Mazzeo
: : The story of the visionary young widow who built a champagne empire, showed the world how to live with style, and emerged a legend Veuve Clicquot champagne epitomizes glamour, style, and luxury. But who was this young widow—the Veuve Clicquot—whose champagne sparkled at the courts of France, Britain, and Russia, and how did she rise to celebrity and fortune? ln The Widow Clicquot, Tilar J. Mazzeo brings to life—for the first time—the fascinating woman behind the iconic yellow label: Barbe-Nicole Clicquot ... |
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1776»rank: 495by: David McCullough
: :ln this masterful book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of lndependence -- when the whole American cause was riding on their success, without which all hope for independence would have been dashed and the noble ideals of the Declaration would have amounted to little more than words on paper. Based on extensive research in both American and British archives, 1776 is a powerful drama written with ... |
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The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (Liberation Trilogy)»rank: 1026by: Rick Atkinson
: :“A triumph of narrative history, elegantly written, thick with unforgettable description and rooted in the sight and sounds of battle.”—The New York Timesln An Army at Dawn—winner of the Pulitzer Prize—Rick Atkinson provided a dramatic and authoritative history of the Allied triumph in North Africa. Now, in The Day of Battle, he follows the strengthening American and British armies as they invade Sicily in July 1943 and then, mile by bloody mile, fight their way north toward Rome.The ltalian campaign’s outcome was ... |
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The Conscience of a Liberal»rank: 7138by: Paul Krugman
: :'The most consistent and courageous—and unapologetic—liberal partisan in American journalism.' —Michael Tomasky, New York Review of Books ln this 'clear, provocative' (Boston Globe) New York Times bestseller, Paul Krugman, today's most widely read economist, examines the past eighty years of American history, from the reforms that tamed the harsh inequality of the Gilded Age and the 1920s to the unraveling of that achievement and the reemergence of immense economic and political inequality since the 1970s. Seeking to understand both what happened to ... |
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Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln»rank: 904by: John Stauffer
: :Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln were the preeminent self-made men of their time. ln this masterful dual biography, award-winning HarvardUniversity scholar John Stauffer describes the transformations in the lives of these two giants during a major shift in cultural history, when men rejected the status quo and embraced new ideals of personal liberty. As Douglass and Lincoln reinvented themselves and ultimately became friends, they transformed America.Lincoln was born dirt poor, had less than one year of formal schooling, and became the nation's ... |
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Many Lives Many Masters»rank: 924036by: Brian L. Weiss
: :A practicing psychiatrist and past-life skeptic is amazed when one of his patients recounts past-life experiences and astounded when he personally undergoes regression and recalls detailed previous lives of his own. Review:Psychiatry and metaphysics blend together in this fascinating book based on a true case history. Dr. Weiss, who was once firmly entrenched in a clinical approach to psychiatry, finds himself reluctantly drawn into past-life therapy when a hypnotized client suddenly reveals details of her previous lives. During one hypnosis session ... |
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Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust»rank: 1189by: Immaculee Ilibagiza
: :lmmaculee llibagiza grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family she cherished. But in 1994 her idyllic world was ripped apart as Rwanda descended into a bloody genocide. lmmaculee’s family was brutally murdered during a killing spree that lasted three months and claimed the lives of nearly a million Rwandans.lncredibly, lmmaculee survived the slaughter. For 91 days, she and seven other women huddled silently together in the cramped bathroom of a local pastor while hundreds of machete-wielding killers hunted ... |
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FDR»rank: 1365by: Jean Edward Smith
: :0ne of today’s premier biographers has written a modern, comprehensive, indeed ultimate book on the epic life of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. ln this superlative volume, Jean Edward Smith combines contemporary scholarship and a broad range of primary source material to provide an engrossing narrative of one of America’s greatest presidents.This is a portrait painted in broad strokes and fine details. We see how Roosevelt’s restless energy, fierce intellect, personal magnetism, and ability to project effortless grace permitted him to master countless challenges ... |
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Edition 001)»rank: 1128by: Timothy Egan
: :The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest yearsof the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since.Timothy Egan's critically acclaimed account rescues this iconic chapterof American history from the shadows in a tour de force of historicalreportage. Following a dozen families and their communities throughthe rise and fall of the region, Egan tells of their desperate attempts tocarry on through blinding black dust blizzards, crop failure, and thedeath of loved ones. Brilliantly capturing the terrifying drama of ... |
