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The General vs. the President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War
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Checkmate in Berlin: The Cold War Showdown That Shaped the Modern World
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First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power
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Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire
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The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War
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Paris, 1919: Six Months that Changed the World
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Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U. S. Navy
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Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour
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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
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Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History of our Times
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Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941
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The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles & Their Secret World War
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The Ambassador: Joseph P. Kennedy at the Court of St. James's 1938-1940
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The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy
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The Colonel: The Life and Wars of Henry Stimson, 1867-1950
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