| 1. The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States | |
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by: National Commission on Terrorist Attacks List Price: $10.00 Amazon.com's Price: $8.00 You Save: $2.00 (20%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description  Read Reviews and Description
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| 2. American Soldier | |
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by: Tommy Franks, Malcolm McConnell List Price: $27.95 Amazon.com's Price: $16.77 You Save: $11.18 (40%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description Read Reviews and Description
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| 3. Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare | |
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by: Stephen Greenblatt List Price: $26.95 Amazon.com's Price: $18.33 You Save: $8.62 (32%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description Read Reviews and Description
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| 4. The Missing Peace : The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace | |
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by: Dennis Ross List Price: $35.00 Amazon.com's Price: $23.10 You Save: $11.90 (34%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description Read Reviews and Description
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| 5. Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror | |
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by: Anonymous List Price: $27.50 Amazon.com's Price: $18.70 You Save: $8.80 (32%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description This is a must read book that is a definitive guide to the phenomenon called 'al Qaeda' and a careful dissection of the U.S. so-called 'War on Terrorism' including the policies behind it. What this book is not is a partisan attack on the current Bush administration or an overt call for change in the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC). As its title implies it is a harsh, but merited attack on the arrogance and ignorance which has informed U.S. policies towards the Islamic World (Dar al Islam) for the ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 6. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America | |
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by: Erik Larson List Price: $14.95 Amazon.com's Price: $10.46 You Save: $4.49 (30%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description Countless books have been written on the Chicago's World's Fair of 1893, but few are written with such narrative and poise as Erik Larson's The Devil in the White City. The historically based tale of Chicago's lesser known serial killer is told as though a work of stellar fiction, and embodies the idea that yes, truth is stranger than fiction. Developed characters, problems, controversies and emotion sweep a story that has been overlooked until now. It uncovers a darker side of Chicago in the late 19th ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 7. Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II | |
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by: Robert Kurson List Price: $26.95 Amazon.com's Price: $18.33 You Save: $8.62 (32%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description My reading tastes have always been fiction: thrillers, mysteries, and Romance because I like to escape. My Husband recommended this book though and I started it last week and then could not put it down. It is a TRUE thriller! This is the story of two deep sea wreck divers who dive into a long lost wreck in over 200 feet of water, which they identify as a German U-boat. The book follows the lives of these two men as they attempt to discover the identity of the U-boat and discover things about themselfs. There lives ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 8. A People's History of the United States : 1492-Present (Perennial Classics) | |
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by: Howard Zinn List Price: $18.95 Amazon.com's Price: $13.27 You Save: $5.68 (30%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description Tough book to review. His bias is clear, but he is also upfront about it. I feel the greatest flaw of the book is that it paints history in incredibly "good vs evil" colors. While attesting to narrate a history of the American people, Zinn is also willing to portray much of America as remorseless villains. His portrayal of police forces make them seem as humane as stormtroopers in Star Wars. While the "underclass" have names and inspire sympathy the police forces and conservatives are faceless drones whose only role in ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 9. Night | |
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by: Elie Wiesel, Stella Rodway, Francois Mauriac List Price: $5.99 Amazon.com's Price: $4.00 You Save: $1.99 (33%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description If I had a list of required reading for the entire human population, Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, "Night", would be at the top of the list. Reaching back into his Nazi-tormented childhood, Wiesel utilizes a rare literary talent: the ability to convey a child's impressions and experiences during one of the darkest times in our history through the wisdom of an adult's eyes. His unique power of words, combined with his incredible courage and fierce determination, continue to amaze me each time I read this book. To ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 10. Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return | |
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by: Marjane Satrapi List Price: $17.95 Amazon.com's Price: $12.57 You Save: $5.38 (30%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description If I had a list of required reading for the entire human population, Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, "Night", would be at the top of the list. Reaching back into his Nazi-tormented childhood, Wiesel utilizes a rare literary talent: the ability to convey a child's impressions and experiences during one of the darkest times in our history through the wisdom of an adult's eyes. His unique power of words, combined with his incredible courage and fierce determination, continue to amaze me each time I read this book. To ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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