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"The acclaimed biographer, with a thought-provoking exploration of how Abraham Lincolnâs and John Quincy Adamsâ experiences with slavery and race shaped their differing viewpoints, provides both perceptive insights into these two great presidents and a revealing perspective on race relations in modern America. Lincoln, who in afterlife became mythologized as the Great Emancipator, was shaped by the values of the white America into which...
124) Colonies in revolt
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Examines how the once strong colony-mother-country relationship between America and Britain began to sour through the 1760s and 1770s, planting the roots for the once unthinkable idea of revolution.
127) The Persian Gulf War
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Offers a brief history of the Persian Gulf War and discusses oil politics in the Middle East, the end of the Cold War, and Saddam Hussein's regime.
132) Grave secrets
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A leading foresic expert reveals the startling truth about O.J. Simpson, David Koresh, Vincent Foser, and other sensational cases.
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"A century ago, the three-hundred-year-old Romanov dynasty was toppled, replaced first by an interim government and then by the world's first self-proclaimed socialist society. This was no narrative of ten earth-shaking days but one of months and years of compounding strife, a struggle for power by competing ideologies and regions and classes and political parties and ethnicities, all rushing to fill the vacuum left by the collapse of the tsarist...