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  • Fidel Castro

    Robert E. Quirk

    Paperback

    In this masterly biography, the prize-winning historian Robert E. Quirk paints a portrait of the charismatic leader who for more than three decades—and over eight American presidencies—managed to sustain a communist regime in the western hemisphere.

  • Haven in a Heartless World

    Christopher Lasch

    Paperback

    In the American political vocabulary, "family" and "family values" no longer simply evoke pictures of harmonious scenes; they also push our buttons (left and right) about what is wrong with society.

  • Berlin Journal, 1989-1990

    Robert Darnton

    Paperback

    “Makes us appreciate something of what it felt like for Germans East and West as the world ended.” —Anthony Bailey, New York Times Book Review

  • A Nation of Enemies: Chile Under Pinochet

    Pamela Constable, Arturo Valenzuela

    Paperback

    "This will stand as the definitive work on Chile under Pinochet for many years to come."—Library Journal

  • The Search for the "Manchurian Candidate": The CIA and Mind Control: The Secret History of the Behavioral Sciences

    John D. Marks

    Paperback

    "The CIA exposé to end all CIA exposés." —New York