Simon & Schuster
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Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany
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The Story of the Citizen Soldiers Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Surrender of Germany by Stephen E. Ambrose presents a detailed account of American soldiers in the European Theater during World War II. The book begins on June 7, […]
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Abraham Lincoln and His Team of Rivals Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin examines Abraham Lincoln’s leadership during one of the most difficult periods in American history. The book follows Lincoln’s rise to the presidency and his decision […]
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The Defining Year of American Independence 1776 by David McCullough tells the dramatic story of the year that changed American history. Drawing on extensive research in American and British archives, McCullough examines the events that shaped the fight for independence. Moreover, he brings the military […]
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The Story of D-Day and the Normandy Landings The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan is a classic history of the Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944. Drawing on extensive interviews, official military records, personal diaries, letters, and firsthand accounts from Allied and German […]
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The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today’s Students
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The Crisis of American Higher Education The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today’s Students by Allan Bloom examines the state of American education, culture, and intellectual life. First published in 1987, the book became […]
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D-Day: June 6, 1944 by Stephen E. Ambrose is a comprehensive history of the Allied invasion of Normandy, one of the defining operations of World War II. Using interviews with veterans, official records, letters, diaries, and archival research, Ambrose reconstructs Operation Overlord. He also presents […]
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Overview of the history and an account of Henry Kissinger’s negotiations with world leaders. The author describes how the art of diplomacy has created the world in which we live, and how America’s approach to foreign affairs has always differed vastly from that of other […]
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HOW WARS END: WHY WE ALWAYS FIGHT THE LAST BATTLE: A HISTORY OF AMERICAN INTERVENTION FROM WORLD WAR I TO AFGHANISTAN
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This book recreates the choices that presidents and their advisers have confronted during the final stages of each major conflict from WWI through Iraq. The author “puts readers in the room” with U.S. officials as they make decisions that affect millions of lives and shape […]
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Family friend and confidant Doris Kearns Goodwin tells the story of two families whose lives shaped our times. This magnificent real-life saga reveals the ambitions that built a dynasty of American royalty–and the passions that nearly destroyed it. Soon to be an ABC-TV miniseries.
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Set in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, Wait Till Next Year is Doris Kearns Goodwin’s touching memoir of growing up in love with her family and baseball. She re-creates the postwar era, when the corner store was a place to share stories […]
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No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
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“No Ordinary Time” is a monumental work, a brilliantly conceived chronicle of one of the most vibrant and revolutionary periods in the history of the United States. With an extraordinary collection of details, Goodwin masterfully weaves together a striking number of story lines– Eleanor and […]
