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When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s

A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legacy today.

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The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World

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Rising star New York Times technology reporters Kate Conger and Ryan Mac tell for the first time the full and shocking inside story of Elon Musk’s unprecedented hostile takeover of Twitter and the for…

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Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s

A bold new history of modern conservatism that finds its origins in the populist right-wing politics of the 1990s

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American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson

Following his subject from the drafting of the Declaration of Independence to his retirement in Monticello, Joseph Ellis unravels the contradictions of the Jeffersonian character. A marvel of scholars…

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The Years of Lyndon Johnson is the political biography of our time. No president—no era of American politics—has been so intensively and sharply examined at a time when so many prime witnesses to hith…

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From the author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and The Silence , an eerily convincing fictional speculation on the events leading up to the assassination of John F. Kennedy

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Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning

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In Ballard's hallucinatory novel, the car provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a "TV scientist" turned "nightmare angel of the highways," experiments with erotic atrocities among auto crash …

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Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics

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Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America

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An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963

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