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Deep Ellum and Central Track: The Other Side of Dallas/Where the Black and White Worlds of Dallas Converged
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A new edition of the biography of Dallas' own Deep Ellum. Just outside of downtown Dallas lies a section of the city called Deep Ellum, where graff...
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The American War in Afghanistan: A History
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 New York Times Notable BookWinner of 2022 Lionel Gelber PrizeThe first authoritative history of America's longest war by one of the world's lea...
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The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A History of International Human Rights and Forgotten Heroes In this national bestseller, the critically acclaimed author Peter Balakian brings u...
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Year Of The Hawk: America's Descent into Vietnam, 1965
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /From a celebrated military historian, a powerful, “highly recommended” (Library Journal, starred review) account of the most pivotal year of the ...
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The Wagon Box Fight: An Episode Of Red Cloud's War
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /One of the most dramatic battles of the Indian Wars is described in a revised edition with new material including official army reports and recen...
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Modern Chinese History: Revised and Expanded Second Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00$24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /The second edition of Modern Chinese History provides a concise narrative of Chinese history from the period 1644 to the present. Organized aroun...
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Crisis: The Anatomy of Two Major Foreign Policy Crises
PaperbackOriginal price $32.99Original price $32.99 - Original price $32.99Original price $32.99Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /By drawing upon previously unpublished transcripts of his telephone conversations during the Yom Kippur War (1973) and the last days of the Vietn...
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Secret History, Second Edition: The CIA's Classified Account of Its Operations in Guatemala, 1952-1954 / Edition 2
PaperbackOriginal price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00$24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /The first edition of this book, published in 1999, was well-received, but interest in it has surged in recent years. It chronicles an early examp...
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A Force So Swift: Mao, Truman, and the Birth of Modern China, 1949
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - Winner of the 2018 Truman Book Award A gripping narrative of the Truman Administration's response to...
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Recovering Armenia: The Limits of Belonging in Post-Genocide Turkey
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Recovering Armenia offers the first in-depth study of the aftermath of the 1915 Armenian Genocide and the Armenians who remained in Turkey. Follo...
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Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /An NPR Book of the YearA Seattle Times Book of the YearWilliam E. Colby Award Winner“A beautifully written, deeply intelligent book about [a] cru...
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Doomed to Succeed: The U.S.-Israel Relationship from Truman to Obama
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Winner of the National Jewish Book Award's Gerrard and Ella Berman Memorial Award in History.A necessary and unprecedented account of America's c...
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Hattiesburg: An American City in Black and White
PaperbackOriginal price $24.00Original price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Winner of the Zócalo Public Square Book PrizeBenjamin L. Hooks Award Finalist“An insightful, powerful, and moving book.”—Kevin Boyle, author of A...
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Panama Fever: The Epic Story of the Building of the Panama Canal
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The Panama Canal was the costliest undertaking in history; its completion in 1914 marked the beginning of the “American Century.” Panama Fever dr...
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Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography • Winner of the Society of American Historians Francis Parkman Prize • Winner of the...
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Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, And What We Can Do About It
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Root Shock examines 3 different U.S. cities to unmask the crippling results of decades-old disinvestment in communities of color and the urban re...
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Yellow Dirt: A Poisoned Land and the Betrayal of the Navajos
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /This investigative feat tells the shocking, heartbreaking story of uranium mining on the Navajo reservation and its terrible legacy of sickness a...
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Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Greg Grandin comes the stunning, never before told story of the quixotic attempt to recreate small-town Ameri...
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The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In 1905 President Teddy Roosevelt dispatched Secretary of War William Howard Taft on the largest U.S. diplomatic mission in history to Hawaii, Ja...
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The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95Original price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95Current price $38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /A major history of Zionism and the state of Israel, for anyone interested in deepening their knowledge of the Israel-Palestine conflict and Middl...
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Midnight in Broad Daylight: A Japanese American Family Caught Between Two Worlds
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Meticulously researched and beautifully written, the true story of a Japanese American family that found itself on opposite sides during World Wa...
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The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962-1976
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The concluding volume—following Mao's Great Famine and The Tragedy of Liberation—in Frank Dikötter's award-winning trilogy chronicling the Commun...
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The Pentagon Papers: The Secret History of the Vietnam War
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /“The WikiLeaks of its day” (Time) is as relevant today in the time of Trump as it was a in the time of Richard Nixon. “The most significant leaks...
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Our American Israel: The Story of an Entangled Alliance
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /An essential account of America’s most controversial alliance that reveals how the United States came to see Israel as an extension of itself, an...
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