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The Agitator: William Bailey and the First American Uprising Against Nazism by Peter Duffy By 1935, Hitler had suppressed all internal opposition and established himself as Germany's unchallenged dictator. Yet many Americans remained largely indifferent as he turned his dangerous ambitions abroad. Not William Bailey. Just days after violent anti-Semitic riots had broken out in Berlin, the SS Bremen, the flagship of… Read more about this item

A Being So Gentle: The Frontier Love Story of Rachel and Andrew Jackson by Patricia Brady THERE IS A BLACK "CLOSEOUT/REMAINDER" MARK ON THE TOP PAGE EDGES. The love story of Rachel and Andrew Jackson is one of the greatest in American history. The young lawyer met the daughter of one of Nashville's founders in 1788, while Rachel was still married to… Read more about this item

A Woman's Crusade: Alice Paul and the Battle for the Ballot by Mary Walton THERE IS A BLACK "CLOSEOUT/REMAINDER" MARK ON THE TOP PAGE EDGES. Alice Paul began her life as a studious girl from a strict Quaker family in New Jersey. In 1907, a scholarship took her to England, where she became passionately devoted to the suffrage movement. Upon her return… Read more about this item

Calhoun: American Heretic by Robert Elder John C. Calhoun is among the most notorious and enigmatic figures in American political history. First elected to Congress in 1810, Calhoun went on to serve as secretary of war, as vice president under two very different presidents -- John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson -- and as secretary of state. But he is perhaps… Read more about this item

The Unfathomable Ascent: How Hitler Came to Power by Peter Ross Range THERE IS A BLACK "CLOSEOUT/REMAINDER" MARK ON THE TOP PAGE EDGES. On the night of January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler leaned out of a spotlit window of the Reich chancellery in Berlin, butsting with joy. The moment seemed unbelievable, even to Hitler. After an improbable political journey that came close… Read more about this item

Gentleman and Soldier: The Extraordinary Life of General Wade Hampton by Edward G. Longacre Gentleman and Soldier is the first biography in more than 50 years of Wade Hampton III, a Confederate general whose remarkable life provides a unique sweeping insight into the entire history of the Civil War in the South. Hampton was a leading citizen of South Carolina before… Read more about this item

Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America by T.J. Stiles From the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner T.J. Stiles comes a brilliant new biography of General George Armstrong Custer that radically changes our view of the man and his turbulent times. In this magisterial biography, Stiles paints a portrait of Custer both deeply personal and sweeping… Read more about this item

The Babysitter: My Summers with a Serial Killer by Liza Rodman and Jennifer Jordan Liza Rodman was a lonely little girl. During her Cape Cod summers, while her mother worked days in a local motel and danced most nights in the Provincetown bars, her babysitter -- the gentle, handsome handyman at the motel -- took her and her sister on adventures… Read more about this item

Young Castro: The Making of a Revolutionary by Jonathan M. Hansen THERE IS A BLACK "CLOSEOUT/REMAINDER" MARK ON THE BOTTOM PAGE EDGES. Castro got his toughness from a father who survived Spain's nasty class system and colonial wars to become one of the most successful independent plantation owners in Cuba. He grew up to be full of contradictions. In prison, he showed… Read more about this item

The Hangman and His Wife: The Life and Death of Reinhard Heydrich by Nancy Dougherty An astonishing journey into the heart of Nazi evil; a portrait of one of the darkest figures of Hitler's Nazi elite, the designer and executor of the Holocaust; interwoven with commentary by Reinhard Heydrich's wife, from the author's in-depth interviews. He was called "the Hangman" of the… Read more about this item

Isabella of Castile: Europe's First Great Queen by Giles Tremlett THERE IS A BLACK "CLOSEOUT/REMAINDER" MARK ON THE TOP PAGE EDGES AND SOME MINOR SHELF WEAR. In 1474 when Castile was the largest, strongest, and most populous kingdom in Hispania (present-day Spain and Portugal), a twenty-three-year-old woman named Isabella ascended the throne. At a time when successful queens regnant were few and… Read more about this item

The Race to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue the Russian Imperial Family by Helen Rappaport THERE IS A BLACK "CLOSEOUT/REMAINDER" MARK ON THE BOTTOM PAGE EDGES. The murder of the Romanov family in July 1918 horrified the world and its aftershocks still reverberate today. In Putin's autocratic Russia, the Revolution itself is considered a crime and… Read more about this item

The Ratline: The Exalted Life and Mysterious Death of a Nazi Fugitive by Philippe Sands THERE IS A BLACK "CLOSEOUT/REMAINDER" MARK ON THE BOTTOM PAGE EDGES. From the author of the internationally acclaimed, best-selling East West Street, a tale of Nazi lives, mass murder, love, Cold War espionage, a mysterious death in the Vatican, and "the Ratline," the Nazi escape route to… Read more about this item

The Caesar of Paris: Napoleon Bonaparte, Rome, and the Artistic Obsession that Shaped an Empire by Susan Jaques THERE IS A BLACK "CLOSEOUT/REMAINDER" MARK ON THE BOTTOM PAGE EDGES. Napoleon is one of history's most fascinating figures. But his complex relationship with Rome -- both with antiquity and his contemporary conflicts with the pope and the Holy See -- has undergone little… Read more about this item

The Temptation of Elizabeth Tudor: Elizabeth I, Thomas Seymour, and the Making of a Virgin Queen by Elizabeth Norton England, late 1547. King Henry VIII is dead. His fourteen-year-old daughter Elizabeth is living with the king's widow, Catherine Parr, and her new husband, Thomas Seymour. Ambitious and dangerous, Seymour begins an overt flirtation with Elizabeth that ends with Catherine sending her away.… Read more about this item

Justice Rising: Robert Kennedy's America in Black and White by Patricia Sullivan History, race, and politics converged in the 1960s in ways that indelibly changed America. In this landmark reconsideration of Robert Kennedy's life and legacy, Patricia Sullivan draws on government files, personal papers, and oral interviews to reveal how he grasped the moment to emerge as a transformational leader. When civil… Read more about this item

Young Henry: The Rise of Henry VIII by Robert Hutchinson THERE IS A BLACK "CLOSEOUT/REMAINDER" MARK ON THE TOP PAGE EDGES. Immortalized as a domineering king, notorious philanderer, and the unlikely benefactor of a new church, Henry VIII became a legend during his own reign. Who, though, was the young royal who would grow up to become England's most infamous ruler? Robert… Read more about this item

The Red Man's Bones: George Catlin, Artist and Showman by Benita Eisler THERE IS A BLACK "CLOSEOUT/REMAINDER" MARK ON THE BOTTOM PAGE EDGES. George Catlin (1796 - 1872) has been called the "first artist of the West," as none before him lived among and painted the Native American tribes of the Northern Plains. After a false start as a painter of… Read more about this item

Ride the Devil's Herd: Wyatt Earp's Epic Battle Against the West's Biggest Outlaw Gang by John Boessenecker Wyatt Earp is regarded as the most famous lawman of the Old West, best known for his role in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. But the story of his two-year war with a band of outlaws known as the Cowboys… Read more about this item

The Last of the Tsars: Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution by Robert Service THERE IS A BLACK "CLOSEOUT/REMAINDER" MARK ON THE BOTTOM PAGE EDGES. In March 1917, Nicholas II, the last Tsar of All the Russias, abdicated and the dynasty that had ruled an empire for three hundred years was forced from power by revolution. Now, on the hundredth anniversary of… Read more about this item