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Mandela and the General
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In this thrilling graphic novel, Nelson Mandela's fight against racism is about to spiral into an all-out race war. Unless he can win over his arch...
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America, a Redemption Story: Choosing Hope, Creating Unity
HardcoverOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The American Dream isn’t a thing of the past, but a miracle of the present. Now more than ever it’s easy to focus on the divisions that plague ou...
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Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /When Annette Gordon-Reed's groundbreaking study was first published, rumors of Thomas Jefferson's sexual involvement with his slave Sally Hemings...
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A Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Paul Jennings was born into slavery on the plantation of James and Dolley Madison in Virginia, later becoming part of the Madison household staff a...
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This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President
PaperbackOriginal price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /"Exceptionally well written, a true story that seems as much a thriller as the remembrances of an ambitious and brave woman. . . . This timely book...
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Being So Gentle: The Frontier Love Story of Rachel and Andrew Jackson
HardcoverOriginal price $35.99Original price $35.99 - Original price $35.99Original price $35.99Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /The forty-year love affair between Rachel and Andrew Jackson parallels a tumultuous period in American history. Andrew Jackson was at the forefront...
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Legacy of Liberation
PaperbackOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /In this gripping social history of South Africa, award-winning journalist Mark Gevisser follows the family of former South African President Thabo ...
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Korea Betrayed: Kim Dae Jung and Sunshine
HardcoverOriginal price $54.99 - Original price $54.99Original price $54.99$65.99$65.99 - $65.99Current price $65.99| /This book recounts the rise of Kim Dae Jung from an oppressed region of Korea, beginning with his schooldays, his activities in the Korean War and ...
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Nelson Mandela
HardcoverOriginal price $11.95 - Original price $11.95Original price $11.95$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /The gripping story of iconic statesmen and activist Nelson Mandela, now told in this succinct, condensed book that's perfect for a wide audience.Ne...
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Nelson Mandela: The Man and the Movement
PaperbackOriginal price $23.95Original price $23.95 - Original price $23.95Original price $23.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Nelson Mandela became a legend in his own lifetime. The son of a chief, he qualified as a lawyer, then was one of the leaders of the African Nation...
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A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It
HardcoverOriginal price $37.99Original price $37.99 - Original price $37.99Original price $37.99Current price $35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It is the story of Paul Kagame, a refugee who, after a generation of exile, found his wa...
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Racing: Indian Style
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Charles Curtis was a Kansan, Native American, Jockey, Attorney, Senator and Vice President of the United States. He was the first person from Kansa...
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Park Chung Hee and Modern Korea: The Roots of Militarism, 1866-1945
HardcoverOriginal price $43.00 - Original price $43.00Original price $43.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /For South Koreans, the twenty years from the early 1960s to late 1970s were the best and worst of times--a period of unprecedented economic growth ...
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Chiang Kai Shek: China's Generalissimo and the Nation He Lost
PaperbackOriginal price $26.99Original price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /With a narrative as briskly paced and vividly detailed as an international thriller, this definitive biography of Chiang Kai-shek masterfully maps ...
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Ho Chi Minh: A Life
HardcoverOriginal price $39.00Original price $39.00 - Original price $39.00Original price $39.00Current price $37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /To grasp the complicated causes and consequences of the Vietnam War, one must understand the extraordinary life of Ho Chi Minh, the man generally r...
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Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare
PaperbackOriginal price $31.00Original price $31.00 - Original price $31.00Original price $31.00Current price $26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /The text sparkles with shrewdly plausible inferences mortared into a compelling narrative . . . [Short] is excellent at coining pithy summations of...
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In the Line of Fire: A Memoir
PaperbackOriginal price $23.95Original price $23.95 - Original price $23.95Original price $23.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /According to Time magazine, Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf holds "the world's most dangerous job." He has twice come within inches of assass...
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Nazarbayev and the Making of Kazakhstan: From Communism to Capitalism
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Kazakhstan is colossal in size, complicated in its history, colourful in its culture and is a nation state that most outsiders know little of. Much...
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Mao: The Real Story
PaperbackOriginal price $24.00Original price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /This "comprehensive, judicious, and finely detailed" (Roderick MacFarquhar, The New York Review of Books) biography of Mao Zedong traces how he cre...
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An Indian Pilgrim: An Unfinished Autobiography. This is the first part of the two-volume original autobiography of Subhas Chandra Bose fi
PaperbackOriginal price $9.99 - Original price $9.99Original price $9.99$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /Written towards the end of 1937 during his Europe trip, after being nominated the President of the Indian National Congress, An Indian Pilgrim trac...
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History for Kids: The Maya, the Inca, and the Aztec
PaperbackOriginal price $9.14 - Original price $9.14Original price $9.14$12.99$12.99 - $12.99Current price $12.99| /*Includes pictures In Charles River Editors' History for Kids series, your children can learn about history's most important people and events in ...
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Mao: A Reinterpretation
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /In recent years historians and political observers have vilified Mao Tse-tung and placed him in a class with tyrants like Hitler and Stalin. But, a...
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Mandela: A Biography
PaperbackOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /"It provides new perspective and insights into the man and his times. . . . [Meredith] is particularly good in recounting the parallel rise and ine...
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The Black Man's President: Abraham Lincoln, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Equality
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Frederick Douglass called the martyred president "emphatically the black man's president" as well as "the first who rose above the prejudice of his...
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