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Somewhere Toward Freedom is well-written, fast, and entertaining. It presents points of view often overlooked in Civil War studies.”

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“This work is far more than a beautifully illustrated coffee table book. The author has done 50 years of in-depth work on the subject and in other experts' research.”

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“Richard Pavlick can now be discussed in the same breath with other of America’s would-be presidential assassins . . .”

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In her Acknowledgements, author Amy Gamerman writes, “A story like this comes along once in a lifetime.” Readers can be grateful that Gamerman was there when this story came along, and that she—as

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“Lai’s story, Clifford writes, has ‘exposed the cruelty and barbarity of the Chinese communist system.’”

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Eva Payne’s invaluable study, Empire of Purity, sheds fresh light on a critical moment of U.S.

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"Ironic, isn't it, that people professing to be ‘Christians’ adamantly oppose the instructions and teachings of the person they claim to have accepted as their ‘personal savior.’"

The title, Devil in the Stack: A Code Odyssey, hints at a serious critique of coding and Big Tech, but what emerges is a sort of literary algorithm that fails to “compile”—that is, to tran

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"an exceptional job bringing this complicated and compelling history to light"

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“offers hours of entertainment in bites of a few minutes’ time. It will, no doubt, find a deserved place on many a bedside table . . .”

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“Oller has produced another work of dramatic reality and reading far superior to Hollywood myth and popular misunderstandings.”

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“‘They don’t elect us. If they don’t like what we’re doing, it’s more or less just too bad.’”

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“DeGaulle’s writing about politics and war is stirring and reflective, poignant and inspiring, passionate and stoic, detailed and contextual.”

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For anyone who learned navigation before the advent of GPS and the ubiquitous blue line on cell phone maps, the use of map and compass to go from one place to another was as much an art as a scienc

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"a dramatic reading of how wars are fought and intelligence used."

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Lazarus Man turns an ancient biblical miracle into a modern story of how we can weather the worst so long as we have each other. . . .

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“provides an outstanding primer to understanding Russia’s military and strategic mindset and why and how Russia is conducting military operations under the leadership of Vladimir Putin.”

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“a fascinating comparison between these two men and their development under the pressures of war.”

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“Wilson succeeded as President of the United States with reforms outside of social issues that, then and now, were used to thwart needed change.”

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In 2002, Bill Zehme conducted the first interview with Johnny Carson since his retirement from The Tonight Show a decade earlier.

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“Fascinating and well-written, Eden Undone expertly weaves together this complex tale of a doomed utopian vision. It’s compelling and unsettling and hard to put down.”

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“For anyone interested in the B-29 and the men who flew it during the closing period of the war in the Pacific, this is a fascinating and deeply personal book . . .”

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“a narrative that’s deeply insightful and thoroughly convincing in its condemnation of the city of Greensboro, its police force, and the FBI for their complicity in a deadly Klan and Nazi a

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“many fans of Old West banditry will overlook the book’s weaknesses and enjoy its rehashing of oft-told tales.”

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