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The 1619 Project

A New Origin Story

by Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times Magazine ...

Narrated by Nikole Hannah-Jones, Full Cast ...

Unabridged

18 hours 57 min

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • NPR • Marie ClaireIn late August 1619, a ship arrived in the British colony of Virginia bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty people ... Read more

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • NPR • Marie ClaireIn late August 1619, a ship arrived in the British colony of Virginia bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty people
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All the Wrong Moves

How Three Catastrophic Decisions Led to the Rise of Trump

by Anthony Scaramucci ...

Narrated by Anthony Scaramucci ...

Unabridged

12 hours 47 min

We’re living in an age of deep political anger and frustration. Where did it come from? All the Wrong Moves offers a new, eye-opening answer, rooted in history, business, and the author’s firsthand experience, that reveals the true origins of America’s current political crisis.This program is read by the author and features a bonus conversation with the author and Dominic Sandbrook, host of The ... Read more

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We’re living in an age of deep political anger and frustration. Where did it come from? All the Wrong Moves offers a new, eye-opening answer, rooted in history, business, and the author’s firsthand experience, that reveals the true origins of America’s current political crisis.This program is read by the author and features a bonus conversation with the author and Dominic Sandbrook, host of The
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The Last Stand

Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn

by Nathaniel Philbrick ...

Narrated by George Guidall ...

Unabridged

12 hours 11 min

The bestselling author of Valiant Ambition and In the Hurricane's Eye sheds new light on one of the iconic stories of the American WestLittle Bighorn and Custer are names synonymous in the American imagination with unmatched bravery and spectacular defeat. Mythologized as Custer's Last Stand, the June 1876 battle has been equated with other famous last stands, from the Spartans' defeat at ... Read more

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The bestselling author of Valiant Ambition and In the Hurricane's Eye sheds new light on one of the iconic stories of the American WestLittle Bighorn and Custer are names synonymous in the American imagination with unmatched bravery and spectacular defeat. Mythologized as Custer's Last Stand, the June 1876 battle has been equated with other famous last stands, from the Spartans' defeat at
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Revolutionary Suicide

by Huey P. Newton ...

Narrated by Fredrika Newton, C.T. Hayes ...

Unabridged

13 hours 12 min

The searing, visionary memoir of founding Black Panther Huey P. NewtonTracing the birth of a revolutionary, Huey P. Newton's famous and oft-quoted autobiography is as much a manifesto as a portrait of the inner circle of America's Black Panther Party. From Newton's impoverished childhood on the streets of Oakland to his adolescence and struggles with the system, from his role in the Black Panthers ... Read more

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The searing, visionary memoir of founding Black Panther Huey P. NewtonTracing the birth of a revolutionary, Huey P. Newton's famous and oft-quoted autobiography is as much a manifesto as a portrait of the inner circle of America's Black Panther Party. From Newton's impoverished childhood on the streets of Oakland to his adolescence and struggles with the system, from his role in the Black Panthers
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The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol. 3

Red River to Appomattox

by Shelby Foote ...

Narrated by Grover Gardner ...

Unabridged

58 hours 23 min

Here is the final volume of the highly acclaimed narrative history named one of the best nonfiction books of the century by National Review.In The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol. 3, Shelby Foote follows the events of the war from 1862 through 1864, discussing the strategies of both the North and the South and assessing the performance of the Union generals. The book opens with the beginning of the ... Read more

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Here is the final volume of the highly acclaimed narrative history named one of the best nonfiction books of the century by National Review.In The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol. 3, Shelby Foote follows the events of the war from 1862 through 1864, discussing the strategies of both the North and the South and assessing the performance of the Union generals. The book opens with the beginning of the
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Red Scare

Blacklists, McCarthyism and the Making of Modern America

by Clay Risen ...

Narrated by Kevin R. Free ...

Unabridged

15 hours 30 min

Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, and Kirkus ReviewsFrom an award-winning historian and New York Times reporter comes the timely story about McCarthyism that both “lays out the many mechanisms of repression that made the Red Scare possible…[and] describes how something that once seemed so terrifying and interminable did, in fact, come to an end” .. ... Read more

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Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, and Kirkus ReviewsFrom an award-winning historian and New York Times reporter comes the timely story about McCarthyism that both “lays out the many mechanisms of repression that made the Red Scare possible…[and] describes how something that once seemed so terrifying and interminable did, in fact, come to an end” ..
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Ask Not

The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed

by Maureen Callahan ...

Narrated by Gabra Zackman ...

Unabridged

11 hours 18 min

From New York Timesbestseller Maureen Callahan, a fierce, character-driven exposé of the real Kennedy Curse—the family’s generations-long legacy of misogyny, murder, and mayhem.The Kennedy name has long been synonymous with wealth, power, glamor, and—above all else—integrity. But this carefully constructed veneer hides a dark truth: the pattern of Kennedy men physically and psychologically abusing ... Read more

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From New York Timesbestseller Maureen Callahan, a fierce, character-driven exposé of the real Kennedy Curse—the family’s generations-long legacy of misogyny, murder, and mayhem.The Kennedy name has long been synonymous with wealth, power, glamor, and—above all else—integrity. But this carefully constructed veneer hides a dark truth: the pattern of Kennedy men physically and psychologically abusing
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Alexander Hamilton

by Ron Chernow ...

Narrated by Scott Brick ...

Unabridged

35 hours 58 min

The inspiration for the hit Broadway musical Hamilton!In the first full-length biography of Alexander Hamilton in decades, National Book Award winner Ron Chernow tells the riveting story of a man who overcame all odds to shape, inspire, and scandalize the newborn America. According to historian Joseph Ellis, Alexander Hamilton is “a robust full-length portrait, in my view the best ever written, of ... Read more

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The inspiration for the hit Broadway musical Hamilton!In the first full-length biography of Alexander Hamilton in decades, National Book Award winner Ron Chernow tells the riveting story of a man who overcame all odds to shape, inspire, and scandalize the newborn America. According to historian Joseph Ellis, Alexander Hamilton is “a robust full-length portrait, in my view the best ever written, of
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Truth, Lies, and O-Rings

Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster

by Allan J. McDonald ...

Narrated by Jonathan Yen ...

Unabridged

26 hours 59 min

On a cold January morning in 1986, NASA launched the Space Shuttle Challenger, despite warnings against doing so by many individuals, including Allan McDonald. The fiery destruction of Challenger on live television moments after launch remains an indelible image in the nation's collective memory.In Truth, Lies, and O-Rings, McDonald, a skilled engineer and executive, relives the tragedy from where ... Read more

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On a cold January morning in 1986, NASA launched the Space Shuttle Challenger, despite warnings against doing so by many individuals, including Allan McDonald. The fiery destruction of Challenger on live television moments after launch remains an indelible image in the nation's collective memory.In Truth, Lies, and O-Rings, McDonald, a skilled engineer and executive, relives the tragedy from where
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Swamp Monsters

Trump vs. DeSantis—the Greatest Show on Earth (or at Least in Florida)

by Matt Dixon ...

Unabridged

8 hours 11 min

“Delivering juicy details with unrelenting speed and force” (Jonathan Allen), Swamp Monsters is the wild inside story of how Donald Trump made a star of Ron DeSantis and then set out to destroy him—a struggle for supremacy that has turned Florida into the crucible of the new GOP and of America's future—by “one of the keenest and best-sourced observers of Florida’s political maelstrom” (Rick Wilson ... Read more

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“Delivering juicy details with unrelenting speed and force” (Jonathan Allen), Swamp Monsters is the wild inside story of how Donald Trump made a star of Ron DeSantis and then set out to destroy him—a struggle for supremacy that has turned Florida into the crucible of the new GOP and of America's future—by “one of the keenest and best-sourced observers of Florida’s political maelstrom” (Rick Wilson
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Grant

by Ron Chernow ...

Narrated by Mark Bramhall ...

Unabridged

48 hours 2 min

**The #1 New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2017“Eminently readable but thick with import . . . Grant hits like a Mack truck of knowledge.” —Ta-Nehisi Coates*, The Atlantic***Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most compelling generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant.Ulysses S. Grant's life has ... Read more

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**The #1 New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2017“Eminently readable but thick with import . . . Grant hits like a Mack truck of knowledge.” —Ta-Nehisi Coates*, The Atlantic***Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most compelling generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant.Ulysses S. Grant's life has
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Radical Duke

How One Aristocrat―and the American Revolution―Transformed Britain

by Danielle Allen ...

Narrated by Danielle Allen ...

Unabridged

15 hours 58 min

"With impressive scholarly sleuthing and a storyteller's eloquence, Danielle Allen has written a landmark book about the people and the ideas that changed the world. By bringing the glamorous Duke of Richmond back to life, Allen paints a panoramic portrait of how principles of human equality and the spirit of independence suffused the Atlantic world in the eighteenth century—a story that shapes us ... Read more

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"With impressive scholarly sleuthing and a storyteller's eloquence, Danielle Allen has written a landmark book about the people and the ideas that changed the world. By bringing the glamorous Duke of Richmond back to life, Allen paints a panoramic portrait of how principles of human equality and the spirit of independence suffused the Atlantic world in the eighteenth century—a story that shapes us
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Profiles in Cowardice

A Study of Collaboration in the Trump Era

by Jacob Weisberg ...

Narrated by Jacob Weisberg, Samantha Desz, Oliver Wyman ...

Unabridged

7 hours 55 min

**The Instant New York Times Bestseller“Valuable and dauntless.” —The New York Times Book Review"We badly need [this] book.” —Tina BrownA devastating reckoning with the people and institutions whose failure to stand up to Trump’s brazen grab for authoritarian power has been particularly shocking and consequential**It may be scant solace, but history will be particularly harsh to a subset of Trump ... Read more

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**The Instant New York Times Bestseller“Valuable and dauntless.” —The New York Times Book Review"We badly need [this] book.” —Tina BrownA devastating reckoning with the people and institutions whose failure to stand up to Trump’s brazen grab for authoritarian power has been particularly shocking and consequential**It may be scant solace, but history will be particularly harsh to a subset of Trump
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Live Laugh Love

The Secret History of White Christian Women and the World They Made

by Kristin Kobes Du Mez ...

Narrated by Sarah Zimmerman ...

Unabridged

13 hours 3 min

"A smart, endlessly interesting exercise in connecting cultural dots to learn how we got here."—Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewFrom the New York Times best-selling author of Jesus and John Wayne**, a revelatory history of white Christian womanhood in the United States.**In her “paradigm-influencing” (Christianity Today) be... ... Read more

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"A smart, endlessly interesting exercise in connecting cultural dots to learn how we got here."—Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewFrom the New York Times best-selling author of Jesus and John Wayne**, a revelatory history of white Christian womanhood in the United States.**In her “paradigm-influencing” (Christianity Today) be...
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Combat: The Civil War

by Don Congdon, Don Congdon ...

Narrated by Joe Barrett ...

Series Audiobook 0 - The Combat Series
Unabridged

29 hours 52 min

This is the book Civil War enthusiasts have been waiting for.There are many, many studies of the Civil War. Books have been written on its economic effects, its political causes, its relationship to western expansion. But the real fascination of the war is the story of combat, men in battle. Combat: The Civil War tells this story in the words of men who actually marched into battle. We share their ... Read more

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This is the book Civil War enthusiasts have been waiting for.There are many, many studies of the Civil War. Books have been written on its economic effects, its political causes, its relationship to western expansion. But the real fascination of the war is the story of combat, men in battle. Combat: The Civil War tells this story in the words of men who actually marched into battle. We share their
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The Frontiersmen

A Narrative

by Allan W. Eckert ...

Narrated by Kevin Foley ...

Series series Winning of America
Unabridged

30 hours 30 min

The frontiersmen were a remarkable breed of men. They were often rough and illiterate, sometimes brutal and vicious, often seeking an escape in the wilderness of mid-America from crimes committed back east. In the beautiful but deadly country which would one day come to be known as West Virginia, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, more often than not they left their bones to bleach ... Read more

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The frontiersmen were a remarkable breed of men. They were often rough and illiterate, sometimes brutal and vicious, often seeking an escape in the wilderness of mid-America from crimes committed back east. In the beautiful but deadly country which would one day come to be known as West Virginia, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, more often than not they left their bones to bleach
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The Sinners All Bow

Two Authors, One Murder, and the Real Hester Prynne

by Kate Winkler Dawson ...

Narrated by Kate Winkler Dawson ...

Unabridged

9 hours 34 min

**INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER!One of Amazon’s Best History Books of JanuaryAcclaimed journalist, podcaster, and true*-crime historian Kate Winkler Dawson tells the true story of the scandalous murder investigation that became the inspiration for both Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter and the first true-crime book published in America.*On a cold winter day in 1832, Sarah Maria Cornell was ... Read more

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**INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER!One of Amazon’s Best History Books of JanuaryAcclaimed journalist, podcaster, and true*-crime historian Kate Winkler Dawson tells the true story of the scandalous murder investigation that became the inspiration for both Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter and the first true-crime book published in America.*On a cold winter day in 1832, Sarah Maria Cornell was
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The Pursuit of Happiness

How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America

by Jeffrey Rosen ...

Narrated by Sean Patrick Hopkins ...

Unabridged

10 hours 51 min

A New York Times bestseller and an “enriching…brilliant” (David W. Blight, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Frederick Douglass) examination of what “the pursuit of happiness” meant to our nation’s Founders and how that famous phrase defined their lives and became the foundation of our democracy.The Declaration of Independence identified “the pursuit of happiness” as one of our unalienable rights, ... Read more

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A New York Times bestseller and an “enriching…brilliant” (David W. Blight, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Frederick Douglass) examination of what “the pursuit of happiness” meant to our nation’s Founders and how that famous phrase defined their lives and became the foundation of our democracy.The Declaration of Independence identified “the pursuit of happiness” as one of our unalienable rights,
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Movie Nights with the Reagans

A Memoir

by Mark Weinberg ...

Narrated by George Newbern ...

Unabridged

6 hours 29 min

The former special advisor and press secretary to President Ronald Reagan shares a “sentimental but often revealing…enjoyable walk down Memory Lane” (Kirkus Reviews)—told through the movies he watched with the Reagans every week at Camp David.Over the course of eight years, Mark Weinberg travelled to Camp David with Ronald and Nancy Reagan as they screened movies on Friday and Saturday nights. ... Read more

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The former special advisor and press secretary to President Ronald Reagan shares a “sentimental but often revealing…enjoyable walk down Memory Lane” (Kirkus Reviews)—told through the movies he watched with the Reagans every week at Camp David.Over the course of eight years, Mark Weinberg travelled to Camp David with Ronald and Nancy Reagan as they screened movies on Friday and Saturday nights.
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America's Golden Age

Trumpism and an Era of Limitless Possibilities

by Newt Gingrich ...

Narrated by Charles Constant ...

Unabridged

5 hours 26 min

In his most fascinating book yet, #1 New York Times bestselling author Newt Gingrich envisions what daily life in America will look like 50 years from now—and argues the future is golden.Imagine it’s 2076, and America is celebrating the 300th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Despite fears over the AI revolution and pessimism from the Left, Gingrich sees a future in ... Read more

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In his most fascinating book yet, #1 New York Times bestselling author Newt Gingrich envisions what daily life in America will look like 50 years from now—and argues the future is golden.Imagine it’s 2076, and America is celebrating the 300th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Despite fears over the AI revolution and pessimism from the Left, Gingrich sees a future in
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Nothing Like It In The World

The Men Who Built The Transcontinental Railroad 1863 - 1869

by Stephen E. Ambrose ...

Narrated by Jeffrey DeMunn ...

Unabridged

15 hours 38 min

In this New York Times bestseller, Stephen Ambrose brings to life the story of the building of the transcontinental railroad, from the men who financed it to the engineers and surveyors who risked their lives to the workers who signed on for the dangerous job.Nothing Like It in the World gives the account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision, and courage. It is the story of the men who ... Read more

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In this New York Times bestseller, Stephen Ambrose brings to life the story of the building of the transcontinental railroad, from the men who financed it to the engineers and surveyors who risked their lives to the workers who signed on for the dangerous job.Nothing Like It in the World gives the account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision, and courage. It is the story of the men who
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1960

LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon--The Epic Campaign That Forged Three Presidencies

by David Pietrusza ...

Narrated by Jeff Cummings ...

Unabridged

18 hours 40 min

"1960 aims to take us deeper into the campaign than Theodore White's famous The Making of the President, 1960. And it does." ―Chicago Sun-TimesAward-winning historian David Pietrusza's hard-edged account of the 1960 Presidential Campaign―the bare-knuckle politics of the primaries, the party conventions' backroom dealings, the unprecedented television debates, along with hot-button issues of race, ... Read more

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"1960 aims to take us deeper into the campaign than Theodore White's famous The Making of the President, 1960. And it does." ―Chicago Sun-TimesAward-winning historian David Pietrusza's hard-edged account of the 1960 Presidential Campaign―the bare-knuckle politics of the primaries, the party conventions' backroom dealings, the unprecedented television debates, along with hot-button issues of race,
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This Land is Your Land

A Road Trip Through U.S. History

by Beverly Gage ...

Narrated by Gabra Zackman ...

Unabridged

8 hours 43 min

A Barack Obama Summer Reading List SelectionPulitzer Prize–winning author of G-Man and acclaimed historian Beverly Gage takes the ultimate road trip into the American past.Ride along with Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Beverly Gage as she travels the country to see the museums, historic sites, roadside attractions, reenactments, and souvenir shops where Americans learn—and fight—about our ... Read more

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A Barack Obama Summer Reading List SelectionPulitzer Prize–winning author of G-Man and acclaimed historian Beverly Gage takes the ultimate road trip into the American past.Ride along with Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Beverly Gage as she travels the country to see the museums, historic sites, roadside attractions, reenactments, and souvenir shops where Americans learn—and fight—about our
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The Devil in the White City

Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

by Erik Larson ...

Narrated by Scott Brick ...

Unabridged

15 hours

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The true tale of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the cunning serial killer who used the magic and majesty of the fair to lure his victims to their death.A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the CenturyTwo men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America’s rush toward the twentieth ... Read more

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The true tale of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the cunning serial killer who used the magic and majesty of the fair to lure his victims to their death.A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the CenturyTwo men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America’s rush toward the twentieth
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