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| The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War
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James Bradley.
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| Publisher: Little, Brown. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780316008952. Daedalus Item Code: 23346 |
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| In 1905 President Teddy Roosevelt dispatched Secretary of War William Howard Taft on the largest U.S. diplomatic mission in history to Hawaii, Japan, the Philippines, China, and Korea. Roosevelt's ... (Read More)
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| In Defense of Thomas Jefferson: The Sally Hemings Sex Scandal
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William G. Hyland Jr.
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| Publisher: Thomas Dunne. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780312561000. Daedalus Item Code: 30053 |
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| The belief that Thomas Jefferson had an affair and fathered one or more children with his slave Sally Hemings—and that such an allegation was proven by DNA testing—has become so pervasive in American ... (Read More)
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| The Insurgent Barricade
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Mark Traugott.
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| Publisher: California. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780520266322. Daedalus Item Code: 24084 |
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| "To the barricades!" The cry conjures images of angry citizens, turmoil in the streets, and skirmishes fought behind hastily improvised cover. History and sociology professor Mark Traugott charts the ... (Read More)
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| Inventing George Washington: America's Founder, in Myth and Memory
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Edward G. Lengel.
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| Publisher: Harper. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780061662584. Daedalus Item Code: 22314 |
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| "As the chief editor of the Papers of George Washington, Edward G. Lengel [the author of This Glorious Struggle] is the perfect author to rescue Washington from the reams of outrageous ... (Read More)
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| The Invention of Enterprise: Entrepreneurship from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Times
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David S Landes, ed. Joel Mokyr, ed. William J. Baumol, ed.
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| Publisher: Princeton. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780691143705. Daedalus Item Code: 31819 |
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| Variously lionized and vilified, entrepreneurs—and their commercial innovations—have had an enormous influence on the growth and prosperity of nations. In this sweeping history, leading economic ... (Read More)
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| The Irish Americans: A History
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Jay P. Dolan.
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| Publisher: Bloomsbury. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781596914193. Daedalus Item Code: 31904 |
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| The author of The American Catholic Experience: A History from Colonial Times to the Present, history professor Jay Dolan caps decades of writing and teaching with this sweeping chronicle of ... (Read More)
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| Jack Corbett, Mariner
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A.S. Hatch.
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| Publisher: Quantuck Lane. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780971454828. Daedalus Item Code: 31432 |
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| In 1849 the future financier Alfredrick Hatch was a delicate and slightly asthmatic youth, who was dispatched to sea by his physician father to "either cure him or kill him." He signed onto a ... (Read More)
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| Killer Colt: Murder, Disgrace, and the Making of an American Legend
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Harold Schechter.
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| Publisher: Ballantine. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780345476814. Daedalus Item Code: 21858 |
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| The author of The Devil's Gentleman returns to the sinister shadows of gaslit New York City in this gripping true-crime account, beginning in 1841 with the last moments of the life of ... (Read More)
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| King of Heists: The Sensational Bank Robbery of 1878 That Shocked America
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J. North Conway.
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| Publisher: Lyons Press. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781599215389. Daedalus Item Code: 22925 |
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| On October 27, 1878, thieves stole nearly $3 million in cash and securities (worth $50 million today) from the Manhattan Savings Institution. The greatest bank robbery in American history, it was ... (Read More)
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| The King of Vodka: The Story of Pyotr Smirnov and the Upheaval of an Empire
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Linda Himelstein.
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| Publisher: Harper. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780060855895. Daedalus Item Code: 31600 |
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| In this sweeping history of vodka magnate Pyotr Arsenievich Smirnov and his family, Linda Himelstein plumbs a great riddle of Russian history through the story of a poor serf, born in a small village ... (Read More)
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| The Kurds of Iraq
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Michiel Hegener.
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| Publisher: Mets & Schilt. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9789053306178. Daedalus Item Code: 24142 |
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| The Kurdish people of Iraq have been making headlines for decades; in the 1980s and early 90s they were known mostly as victims of Saddam Hussein's brutal suppression, and in the mid-90s they ... (Read More)
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| A Leader Born: The Life of Admiral John Sidney McCain, Pacific Carrier Commander
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Alton Keith Gilbert. John McCain, foreword.
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| Publisher: Casemate. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781932033502. Daedalus Item Code: 23807 |
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| John S. "Slew" McCain was an old-school sailor; wiry, profane, a cusser and a gambler, he reminded more than one observer of Popeye. He was also a pioneer in the hard-hitting naval tactics that ... (Read More)
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