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Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
by Robert A. Caro
Listed under LBJ

Seabiscuit: An American Legend
by Laura Hillenbrand
An exceptionally well-told tale of a horse which became an American icon in the Depression Era. Five Stars
Listed under Horse Racing

Why We Fight: Moral Clarity and the War on Terrorism
by William J. Bennett
(Hardcover -- April 9, )

The Fall of Berlin 1945
by Antony Beevor
Listed under Germany 1945

When I Was a Young Man
by Robert Kerrey, et al
Listed under Vietnam War

Profiles in Courage for Our Time
by Caroline Kennedy (Editor)
Essays on political heroics - from small town to US President - by some of the finest thinkers and writers of our time. Db.
Hardcover: 256 pages
Hyperion; ISBN: 0786867930;

Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission
by Hampton Sides
Listed under WWII in the Pacific

Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative
by David Brock
(Hardcover -- March 5, )
 

	Hitler's Jewish Soldiers: The Untold Story of Nazi Racial Laws and Men of Jewish Descent in the German Military by Bryan Mark Rigg (Hardcover -- May )

Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
by Stephen E. Ambrose
Listed under Normandy Invasion

Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency
by James Bamford
(Paperback -- April 30, )

Survival in Auschwitz: The Nazi Assault on Humanity
by Primo Levi
Listed under Auschwitz

Portraits 9/11/01: The Collected "Portraits of Grief" from The New York Times
by Gloria Emerson, et al
Listed under September 11 2001
 

Thirty Years of Treason: Excerpts from Hearings Before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, 1938-1968 by United States Congress House Committee on Un-American Activities, Frank Rich, Eric Bentley Paperback from Nation Books

	We Interrupt This Broadcast: The Events That Stopped Our Lives...from the Hindenburg Explosion to the Attacks of September 11 by Joe Garner, et al (Hardcover -- May )

Flags of Our Fathers
by James Bradley, Ron Powers (Contributor)
(Hardcover -- May 2, )

The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America
by Louis Menand
(Paperback -- April )

The Russia Hand: A Memoir of Presidential Diplomacy
by Strobe Talbott
Listed under Bill Clinton

A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
by Samantha Power
(Hardcover -- February 19, )
 

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