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Armenian Golgotha: A Memoir of the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1918 - Grigoris Palakʻean - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=e3llu-RtIKwC&dq
On April 24, 1915, Grigoris Balakian was arrested along with some 250 other leaders of Constantinople’s Armenian community. It was the beginning of the Ottoman Empire’s systematic attempt to eliminate the Armenian people from Turkey—a campaign that…
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Living with Guns: A Liberal's Case for the Second Amendment - Craig Whitney - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=DDgqDsg4EkYC&pg=PA248
Newtown. Columbine. Virginia Tech. Tucson. Aurora. Gun violence on a massive scale has become a plague in our society, yet politicians seem more afraid of having a serious conversation about guns than they are of the next horrific shooting. Any attempt to…
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The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The path to power - Robert A. Caro - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?ei=7sAQUtapBsuVswbz4oHABQ&hl=de&id=bpYrAQAAIAAJ&dq=caro+path+to+power&q=freemason
This is the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill Country. The Path to Power reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy, and ambition that set LBJ apart. It follows…
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Change They Can't Believe In: The Tea Party and Reactionary Politics in America - Christopher S. Parker, Matt A. Barreto - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=hDUiFG6dficC&pg=PA54&dq=Tea-party+enemy+obama&hl=de&sa=X&ei=kpxZUoHbK4mN0wXAwoG4Aw&ved=0CDQQ6AEw
Are Tea Party supporters merely a group of conservative citizens concerned about government spending? Or are they racists who refuse to accept Barack Obama as their president because he's not white? Change They Can't Believe In offers an alternative…
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Postcards from the Ledge: Collected Mountaineering Writings of Greg Child - Greg Child - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=v18HOmSk5FsC&
Selections of the best writing from elite mountaineer Greg Child.
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The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some are So Rich and Some So Poor - David S. Landes - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=Bo5fQgAACAAJ&dq=david+landes+wealth&client=firefox-a&cd=1
Countries of the West, Landes asserts, prospered early through the interplay of a vital, open society focused on work and knowledge, which led to increased productivity, the creation of new technologies, and the pursuit of change. Europe's key advantage…
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The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials: A Personal Memoir - Telford Taylor - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books/about/The_Anatomy_of_the_Nuremberg_Trials.html?id=hEH7KcpN-OcC&redir_esc=y
A long-awaited memoir of the Nuremberg war crimes trials by one of its key participants. In 1945 Telford Taylor joined the prosecution staff and eventually became chief counsel of the international tribunal established to try top-echelon Nazis. Telford…
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Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil - Hannah Arendt - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=ZwjNGDPUSPsC&pg=PA3&dq=eichmann+jerusalem&sig=l36-g8zfNaM02v4dF4ExtoKjDNg
This report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in The New Yorker in 1963. This edition contains further factual material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt's postscript commenting…
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Armenian Golgotha: A Memoir of the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1918 - Grigoris Palakʻean - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=e3llu-RtIKwC
On April 24, 1915, Grigoris Balakian was arrested along with some 250 other leaders of Constantinople’s Armenian community. It was the beginning of the Ottoman Empire’s systematic attempt to eliminate the Armenian people from Turkey—a campaign that…