Catherine Whitney
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"On May 31, 1988, Reagan stood on Russian soil and addressed a packed audience at Moscow State University, delivering a remarkableyet now largely forgottenspeech that capped his first visit to the Soviet capital. This fourth in a series of summits between Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, was a dramatic coda to their tireless efforts to reduce the nuclear threat. More than that, Reagan viewed it as "a grand historical moment":...
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"Seeking to prepare a new generation for power, Eisenhower intensely advised the forty-three-year-old Kennedy in the intervening time between the speech and the inauguration. Dwight Eisenhower left the public stage at the end of these three days in January 1961 having done more than perhaps any other modern American to set the nation "on our charted course toward permanent peace and human betterment." Despite their differences in party affiliation,...
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Broadway Books
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c2007
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xxvii, 317 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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"With Eat Right 4 Your Type, Dr. D'Adamo proved that one diet plan does not fit all. Here, he provides a customized program that works with your genetic makeup to maximize health and weight loss, as well as prevent or even reverse disease. According to Dr. D'Adamo, a host of environmental factors, including diet and lifestyle, dictate how your genes express themselves. With the right tools, you can turn on the good genes and shut down the bad ones....
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Portfolio Penguin
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2010
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viii, 232 p. ; 24 cm.
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During a single historic weekend (September 12-14, 2008) the fate of Lehman Brothers was sealed, Merrill Lynch barely survived, and AIG became a ward of the federal government. Top CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo spent the entire weekend taking frantic phone calls from the most powerful players on Wall Street and in Washington, as they toiled to keep the economy from complete collapse. Those CEOs and dozens of other sources gave Bartiromo behind-the-scenes...
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Crown Business
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c2010
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293 p. ; 22 cm.
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What is success? How do you get it, and how do you keep it? If ever there was a cautionary tale about the fleeting nature of success, it is the events of recent years. Now, faced with gut-wrenching realities, many people are re-evaluating the meaning of success in less superficial and impermanent ways, asking themselves hard questions that have long been ignored: about what's really important to them, and where the bedrock of their personal achievement...
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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[2019]
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xiv, 434 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"November 1943: The Nazis and their Axis allies controlled nearly the entire European continent. Japan dominated the Pacific. Allied successes at Sicily and Guadalcanal had gained them modest ground but at an extraordinary cost. On the Eastern Front, the Soviet Red Army had been bled white. The path of history walked a knife's edge. Bestselling author and Fox News Channel anchor Bret Baier's new epic history, Three Days at the Brink, centers on these...
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Capturing America’s early struggles, when the fight for survival was constant, the chief political anchor for Fox News Channel presents this new biography of George Washington that centers around his return from retirement to lead the Constitutional Convention and secure the future of the U.S.
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Former prosecutor Jeanine Pirro's To Punish and Protect challenges us to have the will and the courage to wage war on the predators roaming our streets, and to avenge their victims.
"The office of the district attorney is a battleground, where the fight between good and evil unfolds each day. We see the ugliest side of life, the pain that people go through for no reason. They didn't do anything. They didn't ask for it. Yet here they are, living their...