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  • Thy Will Be Done

    The Conquest of the Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil

    Series Book 25 - Forbidden Bookshelf
    A "blistering exposé" of the USA's secret history of financial, political, and cultural exploitation of Latin America in the 20th century, with a new introduction ( Publishers Weekly ).What happened when a wealthy industrialist and a visionary evangelist unleashed forces that joined to subjugate an entire continent? Historians Gerard Colby and Charlotte Dennett tell the story of the forty-year ... Read more

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  • Du Pont Dynasty

    Behind the Nylon Curtain

    by Gerard Colby ...
    Series Book 6 - Forbidden Bookshelf
    Award-winning journalist Gerard Colby takes readers behind the scenes of one of America's most powerful and enduring corporations; now with a new introduction by the authorTheir name is everywhere. America's wealthiest industrial family by far and a vast financial power, the Du Ponts, from their mansions in northern Delaware's "Chateau Country," have long been leaders in the relentless drive to ... Read more

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  • The Robber Barons

    The Classic Account of the Influential Capitalists Who Transformed America's Future

    "The best, the liveliest and most illuminating" account of Rockefeller, Morgan, and the other men who seized American economic power after the Civil War ( The New Republic).John D. Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, E. H. Harriman, Jay Gould, Henry Clay Frick . . . their names carry a powerful historical ring, still echoing today in the countless institutions that ... Read more

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  • The Big Change

    America Transforms Itself, 1900–1950

    The New York Times–bestselling history of the first half of the twentieth century—five decades that transformed America—from the author of Only Yesterday.During the first fifty years of the twentieth century, the United States saw two world wars, a devastating economic depression, and more social, political, and economic changes than in any other five-decade period before. Frederick Lewis Allen, ... Read more

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  • Year of No Garbage

    Recycling Lies, Plastic Problems, and One Woman's Trashy Journey to Zero Waste

    by Eve O. Schaub ...
    "Eve’s brave and honest experiment reveals the shocking impact of the throwaway society we’ve become and at the same time showing small ways we can all do better.” —Rebecca Prince-Ruiz, founder of Plastic Free JulyYear of No Garbage is Super Size Me meets the environmental movement.In this book Eve O. Schaub, humorist and stunt memoirist extraordinaire, tackles her most difficult challenge to date ... Read more

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  • Blood and Money

    War, Slavery, Finance, and Empire

    by David McNally ...
    The history of money and its violent and oppressive origins from slavery to war—by the author of Global Slump.In most accounts of the origins of money we are offered pleasant tales in which it arises to the mutual benefit of all parties as a result of barter. But in this groundbreaking study, David McNally reveals the true story of money's origins and development as one of violence and human ... Read more

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  • Tesla: Wizard at War

    The Genius, the Particle Beam Weapon, and the Pursuit of Power

    by Marc Seifer ...
    In this revelatory new book, the author of the award-winning international bestseller Wizard: The Life & Times of Nikola Tesla delves deeper into the groundbreaking ideas and astonishing mind of one of the greatest geniuses of modern times . . .“In a few years hence, it will be possible for nations to fight without armies, ships or guns, by weapons far more terrible to the destructive action and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Secrets of Alchemy

    Series series Synthesis
    "This elegant, readable book…covers the history of alchemy from its shadowy origins in Hellenistic Egypt to its scholarly recovery in the 20th century" (Anthony Grafton, Science).In The Secrets of Alchemy, science historian and practicing chemist Lawrence M. Principe dispels commonly held misconceptions about alchemy and sheds light on what it was, how it began, and how it influenced a range of ... Read more

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  • Dallas '63

    The First Deep State Revolt Against the White House

    Series Book 17 - Forbidden Bookshelf
    "Our most provocative scholar of American power " reveals the forces behind the assassination of JFK—and their continuing influence over our world (David Talbot, Salon) .On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was gunned down in Dallas by Lee Harvey Oswald. Shortly after, Oswald himself was killed. These events led many to believe there was a far greater plan at work, with a secret cabal ... Read more

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  • Usurpers, A New Look at Medieval Kings

    This examination of six usurper kings of England, and the people and circumstances surrounding them, is "a masterpiece of academic scholarship" ( Midwest Book Review).In the Middle Ages, England had to contend with a string of usurpers who disrupted the British monarchy—and ultimately changed the course of European history by deposing England's reigning kings and seizing power for themselves. Some ... Read more

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  • Soul City

    Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia

    by Thomas Healy ...
    A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice**2021 Hooks National Book Award WinnerThe fascinating, forgotten story of the 1970s attempt to build a city dedicated to racial equality in the heart of “Klan Country”**In 1969, with America’s cities in turmoil and racial tensions high, civil rights leader Floyd McKissick announced an audacious plan: he would build a new city in rural North Carolina, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Humane

    How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War

    by Samuel Moyn ...
    "[A] brilliant new book . . . Humane provides a powerful intellectual history of the American way of war. It is a bold departure from decades of historiography dominated by interventionist bromides." —Jackson Lears, The New York Review of BooksA prominent historian exposes the dark side of making war more humaneIn the years since 9/11, we have entered an age of endless war. With little debate or ... Read more

    $14.39 USD