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The Sound of Freedom
Award-winning Civil Rights historian Ray Arsenault describes the dramatic story behind Marian Anderson's concert at the Lincoln Memorial - an unrecognized turning point in civil rights history - on the 70th anniversary of her performance--a "story that's well worth retelling," according to the New York Times.The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire
A sweeping, brilliantly vivid history of the sudden end of the British empire and the moment when America became a world superpower—published on the 60th anniversary of Britain's withdrawal from Palestine
The Secret Sentry
A groundbreaking history of America's other, more powerful intelligence agency
Jungle of Snakes
A gripping history of counter-insurgency wars—successful and unsuccessful—with sobering lessons for America's future
The House of Wisdom
The remarkable story of how Medieval Arab scholars preserved ancient learning and made dazzling advances in science - and how itinerant European scholars brought this lost wisdom back to the West
The Irish Americans
A history of the Irish in America from the 18th century to the present by one of the nation's most eminent scholars of the immigrant experience.
The Power Makers
The dramatic story of the "power revolution" that turned America from an agrarian society into a technological superpower, and the dynamic, fiercely competitive inventors and entrepreneurs who made it happen—a riveting historical saga to rival McCullough's The Great Bridge or Larson's Thunderstruck
After Tamerlane
A Rise and Fall of the Great Powers for the post-Cold War era-a brilliantly written, sweeping new history of how empires have ebbed and flowed over the past six centuries.The Soiling of Old Glory
Sometimes a moment can change history. This one took 1/250th of a second.The Good Doctors
The untold story of the courageous doctors and nurses who fought the battle for racial justice in hospitals, in clinics, and on the streets in the 1960s.