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Black Earth

A Journey Through Russia After the Fall

by Andrew Meier ...

"That Black Earth is an extraordinary work is, for anyone who has known Russia, beyond question."—George Kennan"A compassionate glimpse into the extremes where the new Russia meets the old," writes Robert Legvold (Foreign Affairs) about Andrew Meier's enthralling new work. Journeying across a resurgent and reputedly free land, Meier has produced a virtuosic mix of nuanced history, lyric travelogue ... Read more

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"That Black Earth is an extraordinary work is, for anyone who has known Russia, beyond question."—George Kennan"A compassionate glimpse into the extremes where the new Russia meets the old," writes Robert Legvold (Foreign Affairs) about Andrew Meier's enthralling new work. Journeying across a resurgent and reputedly free land, Meier has produced a virtuosic mix of nuanced history, lyric travelogue
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Morgenthau

Power, Privilege, and the Rise of an American Dynasty

by Andrew Meier ...

A “magisterial” (The Wall Street Journal) portrait of four generations of the Morgenthau family, a dynasty of power brokers and public officials with an outsize—and previously unmapped—influence extending from daily life in New York City to the shaping of the American CenturyA New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice • A New Yorker Book of the Year“Exhaustively researched, vividly written, and a ... Read more

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A “magisterial” (The Wall Street Journal) portrait of four generations of the Morgenthau family, a dynasty of power brokers and public officials with an outsize—and previously unmapped—influence extending from daily life in New York City to the shaping of the American CenturyA New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice • A New Yorker Book of the Year“Exhaustively researched, vividly written, and a
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Chechnya: To the Heart of a Conflict

To the Heart of a Conflict

by Andrew Meier ...

Andrew's Meier riveting portrait of Chechnya, a land ravaged by indescribable carnage, enables us to understand the origins of this brutal conflict like no other recent work.The barbaric, terrorist siege in the summer of 2004 that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of innocent children in Beslan did not begin either there or in the take-over of a Moscow theatre in 2002. As Andrew Meier explains in ... Read more

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Andrew's Meier riveting portrait of Chechnya, a land ravaged by indescribable carnage, enables us to understand the origins of this brutal conflict like no other recent work.The barbaric, terrorist siege in the summer of 2004 that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of innocent children in Beslan did not begin either there or in the take-over of a Moscow theatre in 2002. As Andrew Meier explains in
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The Lost Spy: An American in Stalin's Secret Service

An American in Stalin's Secret Service

by Andrew Meier ...

Filled with dramatic revelations, The Lost Spy may be the most important American spy story to come along in a generation.For half a century, the case of Isaiah Oggins, a 1920s New York intellectual brutally murdered in 1947 on Stalin's orders, remained hidden in the secret files of the KGB and the FBI—a footnote buried in the rubble of the Cold War. Then, in 1992, it surfaced briefly, when Boris ... Read more

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Filled with dramatic revelations, The Lost Spy may be the most important American spy story to come along in a generation.For half a century, the case of Isaiah Oggins, a 1920s New York intellectual brutally murdered in 1947 on Stalin's orders, remained hidden in the secret files of the KGB and the FBI—a footnote buried in the rubble of the Cold War. Then, in 1992, it surfaced briefly, when Boris
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Morgenthau

Power, Privilege, and the Rise of an American Dynasty

by Andrew Meier ...

Narrated by Mark Deakins ...

Unabridged

38 hours 44 min

An “epic and intimate” (David M. Kennedy) portrait of four generations of the Morgenthau family, a dynasty of power brokers and public officials with an outsize—and previously unmapped—influence extending from daily life in New York City to the shaping of the American Century“Magisterial . . . a vivid retelling of critical domestic and world events over two centuries.”—Dr. Fiona HillAfter coming ... Read more

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An “epic and intimate” (David M. Kennedy) portrait of four generations of the Morgenthau family, a dynasty of power brokers and public officials with an outsize—and previously unmapped—influence extending from daily life in New York City to the shaping of the American Century“Magisterial . . . a vivid retelling of critical domestic and world events over two centuries.”—Dr. Fiona HillAfter coming
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The Lost Spy: An American in Stalin's Secret Service

by Andrew Meier ...

Narrated by David Chandler ...

Unabridged

11 hours 47 min

This is the riveting account of one of the first Americans to spy for Joseph Stalin. A brilliant Columbia University graduate, Isaiah Oggins went to Berlin to establish a safe house and spy for his country-but he turned coat. Working for the Soviets, he was nevertheless poisoned in 1947 on Stalin's orders. Classified for decades, Oggins' story is a cloak-and-dagger tale to rival the best novels. ... Read more

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This is the riveting account of one of the first Americans to spy for Joseph Stalin. A brilliant Columbia University graduate, Isaiah Oggins went to Berlin to establish a safe house and spy for his country-but he turned coat. Working for the Soviets, he was nevertheless poisoned in 1947 on Stalin's orders. Classified for decades, Oggins' story is a cloak-and-dagger tale to rival the best novels.
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Seceding from Secession

The Civil War, Politics, and the Creation of West Virginia

by Eric J. Wittenberg, Penny L. Barrick, Edmund A. Sargus, Jr. ...

Narrated by David Stifel ...

Unabridged

1 hour 31 min

"West Virginia was the child of the storm," concluded early Mountaineer historian and Civil War veteran, Maj. Theodore F. Lang. The northwestern third of the Commonwealth of Virginia finally broke away in 1863 to form the Union's thirty-fifth state. In Seceding from Secession: The Civil War, Politics, and the Creation of West Virginia, authors Eric J. Wittenberg, Edmund A. Sargus, and Penny L. ... Read more

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"West Virginia was the child of the storm," concluded early Mountaineer historian and Civil War veteran, Maj. Theodore F. Lang. The northwestern third of the Commonwealth of Virginia finally broke away in 1863 to form the Union's thirty-fifth state. In Seceding from Secession: The Civil War, Politics, and the Creation of West Virginia, authors Eric J. Wittenberg, Edmund A. Sargus, and Penny L.
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Resistance

The Underground War Against Hitler, 1939-1945

by Halik Kochanski ...

Narrated by Jennifer M. Dixon ...

Unabridged

46 hours 15 min

A monumental history that finally integrates the many resistance movements against Nazi hegemony across Europe into a single, sweeping narrative.It's almost shocking to think that now, more than seventy years after the Nazi surrender in 1945, there is not a single volume that has attempted to unify the resistance movements that convulsed Europe during the brutal years of occupation. In her ... Read more

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A monumental history that finally integrates the many resistance movements against Nazi hegemony across Europe into a single, sweeping narrative.It's almost shocking to think that now, more than seventy years after the Nazi surrender in 1945, there is not a single volume that has attempted to unify the resistance movements that convulsed Europe during the brutal years of occupation. In her
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This America

The Case for the Nation

by Jill Lepore ...

Narrated by Jill Lepore ...

Unabridged

2 hours 36 min

From the best-selling author of These Truths, a work that examines the dilemma of nationalism and the erosion of liberalism in the twenty-first century.At a time of much despair over the future of liberal democracy, Harvard historian Jill Lepore makes a stirring case for the nation in This America. Since the end of the Cold War, Lepore writes, American historians have largely retreated from the ... Read more

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From the best-selling author of These Truths, a work that examines the dilemma of nationalism and the erosion of liberalism in the twenty-first century.At a time of much despair over the future of liberal democracy, Harvard historian Jill Lepore makes a stirring case for the nation in This America. Since the end of the Cold War, Lepore writes, American historians have largely retreated from the
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Covered with Night

A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America

by Nicole Eustace ...

Narrated by Laural Merlington ...

Unabridged

14 hours 33 min

On the eve of a major treaty conference between Iroquois leaders and European colonists in the distant summer of 1722, two white fur traders attacked an Indigenous hunter and left him for dead near Conestoga, Pennsylvania. Though virtually forgotten today, this act of brutality set into motion a remarkable series of criminal investigations and cross-cultural negotiations that challenged the ... Read more

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On the eve of a major treaty conference between Iroquois leaders and European colonists in the distant summer of 1722, two white fur traders attacked an Indigenous hunter and left him for dead near Conestoga, Pennsylvania. Though virtually forgotten today, this act of brutality set into motion a remarkable series of criminal investigations and cross-cultural negotiations that challenged the
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Vicksburg

Grant's Campaign That Broke the Confederacy

by Donald L. Miller ...

Narrated by Rick Adamson ...

Unabridged

21 hours 28 min

**Winner of the Civil War Round Table of New York’s Fletcher Pratt Literary Award, the Austin Civil War Round Table’s Daniel M. & Marilyn W. Laney Book Prize, and the Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award“A superb account” (The Wall Street Journal) of the longest and most decisive Civil War campaign—the Siege of Vicksburg in Vicksburg, Mississippi—which opened the Mississippi ... Read more

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**Winner of the Civil War Round Table of New York’s Fletcher Pratt Literary Award, the Austin Civil War Round Table’s Daniel M. & Marilyn W. Laney Book Prize, and the Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award“A superb account” (The Wall Street Journal) of the longest and most decisive Civil War campaign—the Siege of Vicksburg in Vicksburg, Mississippi—which opened the Mississippi
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Reveille in Washington

1860-1865

by Margaret Leech ...

**Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeFeaturing a foreword by Battle Cry of Freedom author James McPhersonA vibrant portrait of Civil War-era Washington, D.C. that is “packed and running over with the anecdotes, scandals, personalities, and tragi-comedies of the day”—from the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for History (The New Yorker)**1860: The American capital is sprawling, fractured, squalid, ... Read more

$13.99 USD

**Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeFeaturing a foreword by Battle Cry of Freedom author James McPhersonA vibrant portrait of Civil War-era Washington, D.C. that is “packed and running over with the anecdotes, scandals, personalities, and tragi-comedies of the day”—from the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for History (The New Yorker)**1860: The American capital is sprawling, fractured, squalid,
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