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  Alexander Hamilton - A Life

  Willard Sterne Randall

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  “Hamilton’s turbulent life, the dramatic birth of a nation . . . propelled with the page-turning intensity of an epic novel.” —Ronald Blumer, Peabody Award–winning writer 
   
  A new reissue of this important biography of Alexander Hamilton—arguably one of the most brilliant and complex of our nation’s founders. 
   
  From his less than auspicious start in 1755 on the Caribbean island of Nevis, to his unhappy fate in 1804 in Weehawken, New Jersey, at the hands of his enemy Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton’s short life left a huge legacy. 
   
  Orphaned at eleven and apprenticed to a counting house, Hamilton learned the principles of business that helped him, as the first Secretary of the Treasury, create the American banking system and invent the modern corporation. He served in the American Revolution, primarily as aide-de-camp to General Washington, and subsequently developed a successful legal career, co-wrote The Federalist Papers, and built a life in politics. Told in a highly readable style, Alexander Hamilton presents Hamilton’s contributions to America, and what they mean today. 
   
  “Assiduously researched and appealingly written . . . an informative and insightful portrait of a highly complex personality.” —Houston Chronicle 
   
  “Engaging . . . vivid.” —Publishers Weekly 
   
  “Randall excels in describing the conflicts Hamilton created and weathered as a soldier, politician and lawyer.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch 
   
  “This is biographical excellence—solid, first rate work.” —William H. Hallahan, author of The Day the American Revolution Began 
   
  “A fresh look at the many-faceted career of one of the Founding Fathers.” —BookPage 
   
  “This richly detailed, deeply sympathetic biography gives us a Hamilton we’re compelled to know—hungry, human, brilliant and magnificant.” —Virginia Scharff, author of Twenty Thousand Roads

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  Little Known Facts: Lucas Hedges

  Ilana Levine

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  American actor is best known for playing Patrick Chandler in Manchester in the Sea (2016), which earned him an Academy Award nomination. His screen, stage and TV credits also include Moonrise Kingdom, Kill the Messenger, Lady Bird. The Gate and The Slap. In this interview, he talks about his wanting to act since he was a young child, the ability to cry on camera or stage, and how he doesn’t have social media even though he’s a millennial.

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  American Ghost - A Family's...

  Hannah Nordhaus

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  The dark-eyed woman in the long black gown was first seen in the 1970s standing near a fireplace. She was sad and translucent, present and absent at once. Strange things began to happen in the Santa Fe hotel where she was seen. Gas fireplaces turned off and on without anyone touching a switch. Glasses flew off shelves. And in one second-floor suite with a canopy bed and arched windows looking out to the mountains, guests reported alarming events: blankets ripped off while they slept, the room temperature plummeting, disembodied breathing, and dancing balls of light.La Posada-"place of rest"-had been a grand Santa Fe home before it was converted to a hotel. The room with the canopy bed had belonged to Julia Schuster Staab, the wife of the home's original owner. She died in 1896, nearly a century before the hauntings were first reported. In American Ghost, Hannah Nordhaus traces the life, death, and unsettled afterlife of her great-great-grandmother, Julia, from her childhood in Germany to her years in the American West with her Jewish merchant husband. As she traces the strands of Julia's life, Nordhaus uncovers a larger tale of how a true-life story becomes a ghost story and how difficult it can sometimes be to separate history and myth.

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  Dinner With the President

  Alex Prud'Homme

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  Some of the most significant moments in American history have occurred over meals, as U.S. presidents broke bread with friends or foe: Thomas Jefferson’s nationbuilding receptions in the new capital, Washington, D.C.; Ulysses S. Grant’s state dinner for the king of Hawaii; Teddy Roosevelt’s groundbreaking supper with Booker T. Washington; Jimmy Carter’s cakes and pies that fueled a détente between Israel and Egypt at Camp David. Here Alex Prud’homme invites listeners into the White House kitchen to reveal the sometimes curious tastes of 26 of America’s most influential presidents, how their meals were prepared and by whom, and the ways their choices affected food policy around the world. What our leaders say about food touches on everything from our nation’s shifting diet and local politics to global trade, science, religion, war, class, gender, race, and so much more. Prud’homme also details overlooked figures, like George Washington’s enslaved chef, Hercules Posey, whose meals burnished the president’s reputation before the cook narrowly escaped to freedom, and pioneering First Ladies, such as Dolley Madison and Jackie Kennedy, who used food and entertaining to build political and social relationships. As he weaves these stories together, Prud’homme shows that food is not just fuel when it is served to the most powerful people in the world. It is a tool of communication, a lever of power and persuasion, a form of entertainment, and a symbol of the nation.

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  NUTS! - The Life and Times of...

  Tom McAuliffe

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  Surrounded! The American Army was besieged… 
  Faced off in Bastogne Belgium during World War 2’s crucial Battle of the Bulge… 
  Do you know the true story of how we said 'Nuts!' to the Nazi’s? 
  The pivotal battle and the 35+ year career of General Tony McAuliffe (1898-1975) is examined and for the first time with information direct from his family, his writings and rare photographs.  
  He commanded thousands at a time when America was in trouble and our freedom lay in the balance… 
  He helped invent tools to defend out nation including America’s Nuclear and Biological arsenals… 
  And December 1944 in Belgium saw Nazi gunfire shatter the silence of the Ardennes forest in Hitler’s last ditch attempt to win the war. 
  Loved by his men and the American public McAuliffe’s good humor, military skill and determination helped save his men and lead the Allies to victory. 
  Now we know the true story of this American hero. Without his determination and leadership we’d all be speaking German! 
  You’ll adore this uplifting story because it’s lovingly written by his distant relative with the help of the General’s nephew as a lasting tribute to a man who changed the world and helped us win WWII. 
  Get it now!

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  This Really Isn't About You

  Jean Hannah Edelstein

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  In 2014 I moved back to the United States after living abroad for fourteen years, my whole adult life, because my father was dying from cancer.  
  Six weeks after I arrived in New York City, my father died. 
  Six months after that I learned that I had inherited the gene that would cause me cancer too. 
  When Jean Hannah Edelstein's world overturned she was forced to confront some of the big questions in life: how do we cope with grief? How does living change when we realize we're not invincible? Does knowing our likely fate make it harder or easier to face the future? How do you motivate yourself to go on your OkCupid date when you’re struggling with your own mortality? 
  Written in her inimitable, wry and insightful voice, Jean Hannah Edelstein's memoir is by turns heart-breaking, hopeful and yet also disarmingly funny. This Really Isn't About You is a book about finding your way in life. Which is to say, it’s a book about discovering you are not really in control of that at all.

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