The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America
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George Harrison: The Reluctant Beatle
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The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi
A shocking and revelatory account of the murder of Emmett Till that lays bare how forces from around the world converged on the Mississippi Delta in the long lead-up to the crime, and how the truth wa…
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The Future Was Now: Madmen, Mavericks, and the Epic Sci-Fi Summer of 1982
From legendary entertainment journalist and author of Caddyshack comes a rollicking history of 1980s cinema―how eight legendary sci-fi films changed Hollywood forever
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Beatles '66: The Revolutionary Year
A riveting look at the transformative year in the lives and careers of the legendary group whose groundbreaking legacy would forever change music and popular culture.
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Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman's Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue
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The vivid and masterful story of an American original—a formidable art collector and builder of one of America’s most unique and stunning museums—a late bloomer whose own life was remade by art. Isabe…
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A surprising and beautiful meditation on the color blue—and its fascinating role in Black history and culture—from National Book Award winner Imani Perry
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Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the southern border told through the lives of the migrants forced to risk everything and the policymakers w…
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Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball
A page-turning work of narrative nonfiction chronicling the incredible story of one of America’s most iconic, charismatic, and still polarizing figures—baseball immortal Pete Rose—and an exquisite cul…
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A hugely entertaining history of baseball and New York City, bursting with larger-than-life figures and fascinating stories from the game’s beginnings to the end of World War II.
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