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In a dramatic account of violence and espionage, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan Farrow exposes serial abusers and a cabal of powerful interests hell-bent on covering up the truth, at any cost.In 2017, a routine network television investigation led Ronan Farrow to a story only whispered about: one of Hollywood's most powerful pr...
Josh Marshall
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Zooey DeschanelChants Democratic
New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850, 20th Anniversary Edition
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Since its publication in 1984, Chants Democratic has endured as a classic narrative on labor and the rise of American democracy. In it, Sean Wilentz explores the dramatic social and intellectual changes that accompanied early industrialization in New York. He provides a panoramic chronicle of New York City's labor strife, social movements, and poli...
Josh Marshall
Jan 23, 2020The Republic of St. Peter
The Birth of the Papal State, 680-825 (The Middle Ages Series)
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The Republic of St. Peter seeks to reclaim for central Italy an important part of its own history. Noble's thesis is at once original and controversial: that the Republic, an independent political entity, was in existence by the 730s and was not a creation of the Franks in the 750s.Noble examines the political, economic, and religious problems that...
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Mar 29, 2018Greek and Roman Artillery
Technical Treatises (Oxford University Press Academic Monograph Reprints)
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Five Greek and Latin treatises, with a facing English translation, which enable Marsden to trace mechanical progress in Greek and Roman artillery over five hundred years. Each text and translation is followed by extensive notes which contain explanatory diagrams which reconstruct the machines. Additional chapters discuss and reconstruct the 4th-cen...
Josh Marshall
Aug 30, 2017