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The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington

By Brad Meltzer, Josh Mensch

Taking place during the most critical period of our nation's birth, The First Conspiracy tells a remarkable and previously untold piece of American history that not only reveals George Washington's character, but also illuminates the origins of America's counterintelligence movement that led to the modern day CIA.

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The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington

By Brad Meltzer, Josh Mensch

Taking place during the most critical period of our nation's birth, The First Conspiracy tells a remarkable and previously untold piece of American history that not only reveals George Washington's character, but also illuminates the origins of America's counterintelligence movement that led to the modern day CIA.

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Ghost Flames: Life and Death in a Hidden War, Korea 1950-1953

By Charles J Hanley

"Although it was then perceived as a far-off and inconclusive engagement, the Korean War was a decisive and deeply destructive conflict. American forces dropped 635,000 tons of bombs over Korea --- more than the entire Pacific campaign of World War II --- and millions of Koreans perished. Today, mass graves still litter the countryside and two nuclear-armed forces stand at odds. In Ghost Flames, Charles Hanley adds new color and urgency by telling the history of the war through the eyes of twenty one individuals --- soldiers and civilians, male and female, young and old, witnesses both to atrocity and to heroism. The narrative unfolds in interwoven episodes, month by month, from the hilltop trench lines, the refugee camps and the prisoner-of-war camps. In time for the 70th anniversary of the beginning of the war, Hanley offers a people's history of the devastating events on the Korean Peninsula"--

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Grant

By Ron Chernow

The #1 New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2017 "Eminently readable but thick with import. . . Grant hits like a Mack truck of knowledge. " -- Ta-Nehisi Coates , The Atlantic Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most compelling generals and presidents, Ulysses S.

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Make Change: How to Fight Injustice, Dismantle Systemic Oppression, and Own Our Future

By Shaun King

Activist and journalist Shaun King reflects on the events that made him one of the most prominent social justice leaders of our time and lays out a clear action plan for you to join the fight--with a foreword from Bernie Sanders

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Is This Anything?

By Jerry Seinfeld

Collecting material from half a century in comedy, a chronologically arranged selection of favorite bits by the iconic funnyman includes selections from his original "Catch a Rising Star" performance.