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Rod Andrew
The Marines' Fight for Survival

The compelling history of how the US Marines and their allies fought to preserve the Corps and establish its role in national defense. Only five years after Marines raised the American flag on Iwo Jima, t…

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Rebecca Barrett-Fox
God Hates

The congregants thanked God that they weren't like all those hopeless people outside the church, bound for hell. So the Westboro Baptist Church's Sunday service began, and Rebecca Barrett-Fox, a curious o…

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Thomas Bell
The Constitution of Conflict

A bold and timely proposal for rethinking the role of the Supreme Court in the separation of powers.There is a widespread sense today that the separation-of-powers system is broken or dysfunctional and ha…

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Ross Benes
1999

From pro wrestling and Pokémon to Vince McMahon and Jerry Springer, this look at the low culture of the late '90s reveals its profound impact and how it continues to affect our culture and society today.T…

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Ross Benes
Rural Rebellion

After Ross Benes left Nebraska for New York, he witnessed his polite home state become synonymous with "Trump country." Long dismissed as "flyover" land, the area where he was born and…

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James G. Benze
Nancy Reagan

Many thought of her as Queen Nancy. Others as the Dragon Lady. But for millions of Americans, Nancy Reagan was the always-smiling and deeply admiring presidential spouse who stood by her man; that image l…

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Tor Bukkvoll
Spetsnaz

In January 1951, Lieutenant Evgeniy Borisov was sent to the headquarters of the Soviet 5th Army in Spassk-Dalnii, a small city in the Russian Far East. Borisov was there on a secret mission. Together with…

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Dane J. Cash
The Forgotten Debate

A deeply researched political history that finds a new origin story to today's deeply entrenched partisanship. Cash reminds us that the "forgotten war" in Korea was also the occasion for the &qu…

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Erik J. Chaput
People's Martyr

In 1840s Rhode Island, the state's seventeenth-century colonial charter remained in force and restricted suffrage to property owners, effectively disenfranchising 60 percent of potential voters. Thomas Wi…

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R. Bruce Craig
Treasonable Doubt

Whittaker Chambers and Elizabeth Bentley shocked America in 1948 with their allegations that Communist spies had penetrated the American government. The resulting perjury trial of Alger Hiss is already le…

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John M Curatola
Armies Afloat

How the US services prepared for the largest amphibious operation in history,American forces storming the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944, is one of the most famous moments in US military histo…

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Larry Daniel
Richmond Views the West

How did politicians, bureaucrats, reporters, and civilians in Richmond understand a war being fought a thousand miles away? Expert Civil War historian Larry Daniel shows for the first time how poor intell…

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Chelan David
Stories from the Phog

Come along on a 40-year journey of Kansas basketball through the eyes of a hoops fanatic.It can be hard to describe the pull of Kansas basketball to those not in the know. Basketball is an important part …

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David M Dorsen
Reopening Watergate

A bold new look at Watergate from a member of the Senate Watergate Committee who argues that the received wisdom about Nixon's resignation is inaccurate.Written by assistant chief counsel of the Senate Wa…

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Richard J. Ellis
Old Tip vs. the Sly Fox

Usually remembered for its slogan "Tippecanoe and Tyler too," the election of 1840 is also the first presidential election of which it might be truly said, "It's the economy, stupid." …

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Brian P. Farrell
Misfire

Of all the Allied strategic defensive campaigns in the first half of World War II, the fight to defend Malaya and Singapore provided perhaps the best chance to use special forces to wider effect.In Decemb…

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John A. Fliter
U.S. v. Darby Lumber

The story of how the advocacy of workers and labor unions and a monumental shift on the Supreme Court paved the way for fair labor standards in the United States. The eight-hour day. The five-day work wee…

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Dennis Raphael Garcia
Las Madres

Las Madres is an incredible story of generational resilience and transformation with family and community at its heart. Dennis Raphael Garcia deftly writes the tale of three generations of women in his fa…

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David M. Glantz
Red Storm Over the Balkans

Germany's Eastern Front in World War II saw many campaigns and battles that have been "forgotten" by a Soviet Union that tried to hide its military failures. The Red Army's invasion of Romania i…

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Dan Glickman
Laughing at Myself

Where else but in America could a Jewish kid from Kansas, son of self-made, entrepreneurial parents and a grandson of Russian and Eastern European immigrants, end up as a congressman, secretary of agricul…

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