NYT - Hardcover Nonfiction

New York Times - Hardcover Nonfiction

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Book cover for "Confronting the presidents"
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#5 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-10-20. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 4 week(s).
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"Every American president, from Washington to Biden: Their lives, policies, foibles, and legacies, assessed with clear-eyed authority and wit. Authors of the acclaimed Killing books, the #1 bestselling narrative history series in the world, Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard begin a new direction with Confronting the Presidents. From Washington to Jefferson, Lincoln to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Kennedy to Nixon, Reagan to Obama and Biden, the 45 United...
Book cover for "Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI"
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#7 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-10-20. Last week it was ranked 8. It has been on the list for 4 week(s).
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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world.
“Striking original . . . A historian whose arguments operate on the scale of millennia has managed to capture the zeitgeist perfectly.”—The Economist
“This deeply important book comes at a critical time as we all think
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Book cover for "Truths"
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#8 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-10-20. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).
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"Today's conservatives know what they're against. They're anti-woke, anti-globalist, anti-big government. But what exactly do they stand for? [The author believes that] the fact that this is a hard question to answer is a damning indictment of the modern Republican Party which has abjectly failed to articulate an affirmative alternative to the left's vision. Ramaswamy calls on the conservative movement to articulate exactly what it stands for, or...
Book cover for "The small and the mighty"
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#9 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-10-20. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).
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"From America's favorite government teacher, a heartfelt, inspiring portrait of twelve ordinary Americans whose courage formed the character of our country. In The Small and the Mighty, Sharon McMahon proves that the most remarkable Americans are often ordinary people who didn't make it into the textbooks. Not the presidents, but the telephone operators. Not the aristocrats, but the schoolteachers. Through meticulous research, she discovers history's...
Book cover for "America's deadliest election"
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#11 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-10-20. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).
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The Louisiana gubernatorial election of 1872 was the most contentious in American history. After both parties complained of corruption, neither candidate would concede, two governors claimed office and chaos erupted. Rival newspapers engaged in a bitter war of words, politicians plotted to overthrow the government, and their supporters fought in the streets and attempted assassinations. The entire country watched in grim fascination as the wounds...
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#13 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-10-20. Last week it was ranked 5. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).
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"The first in a new in-depth nonfiction series examining the devastating terrorist attacks that changed the course of history from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jack Carr and Pulitzer Prize finalist James M. Scott, beginning with the 1983 Marine barracks bombing in Beirut. 1983: the United States Marine Corps experiences its greatest single-day loss of life since the Battle of Iwo Jima when a truck packed with explosives crashes into their...
Book cover for "The barn"
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#15 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list for 2024-10-20. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).
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"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 was erased for so long"--