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Stephen Edward Schmidt is an American communications and public affairs strategist who has worked on Republican political campaigns, including those of President George W. Bush, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Arizona Senator John McCain.
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The Code Breaker
Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
Walter Isaacson - 2021-03-09
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The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a gripping account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies.When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a ...
Steve Schmidt
2022-12-21T13:01:45.000Z
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JFK
Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956
Fredrik Logevall - 2020-09-08
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian takes us as close as we have ever been to the real John F. Kennedy in the first truly definitive biography of the elusive 35th president.By the time of his assassination in 1963, John F. Kennedy stood at the helm of the greatest power the world had ever seen, a booming American nation he had steered through some o...
Steve Schmidt
2022-12-21T13:01:45.000Z
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War and Peace
FDR's Final Odyssey
Nigel Hamilton - 2020-05-12 (first published in 2019)
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The stirring climax to Nigel Hamilton’s three-part saga of FDR at war—proof that he was the Second World War’s key strategist, even on his deathbed “A first-class, lens-changing work.” —James N. Mattis, former US secretary of defense Nigel Hamilton’s celebrated trilogy culminates with a story of triumph and tragedy. Just as FDR was proven right by ...
Steve Schmidt
2022-12-21T13:01:45.000Z
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Commander in Chief
FDR's Battle with Churchill, 1943 (2) (FDR at War)
Nigel Hamilton - 2017-05-16 (first published in 2016)
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“Superb . . . Hamilton brilliantly sets out Roosevelt’s foresight, determination and skill in establishing a new world order.” —Fareed Zakaria, Washington Post “Provocative . . . stimulating to follow.” —Thomas E. Ricks, New York Times Book Review 1943 was the year of Allied military counteroffensives, beating back the forces of the Axis powers in ...
Steve Schmidt
2022-12-21T13:01:45.000Z
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The Daily Stoic
366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
Ryan Holiday - 2016-10-18
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A beautifully packaged, gifty daily devotional of Stoic wisdom, from the author of The Obstacle is the Way. Modern readers praise Stoic philosophy for its unique blend of practicality and wisdom. But it's admittedly hard for the average reader to decipher the Dover Thrift edition of Marcus Aurelius' work. The antiquated, needlessly formal language ...
Steve Schmidt
2022-12-21T13:01:45.000Z
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The Mantle of Command
FDR at War, 1941–1942
Nigel Hamilton - 2015-05-19 (first published in 2014)
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Based on years of archival research and interviews with the last surviving aides and Roosevelt family members, Nigel Hamilton offers a definitive account of FDR's masterful--and underappreciated--command of the Allied war effort. Hamilton takes readers inside FDR's White House Oval Study--his personal command center--and into the meetings where he ...
Steve Schmidt
2022-12-21T13:01:45.000Z
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Citizens of London
The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour
Lynne Olson - 2011-05-03 (first published in 2010)
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The acclaimed author of Troublesome Young Men reveals the behind-the-scenes story of how the United States forged its wartime alliance with Britain, told from the perspective of three key American players in London: Edward R. Murrow, the handsome, chain-smoking head of CBS News in Europe; Averell Harriman, the hard-driving millionaire who ran FDR’s...
Steve Schmidt
2022-12-21T13:01:45.000Z
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Night
Elie Wiesel - 2006-01-16 (first published in 1956)
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Born in the town of Sighet, Transylvania, Elie Wiesel was a teenager when he and his family were taken from their home in 1944 to Auschwitz concentration camp, and then to Buchenwald. Night is the terrifying record of Elie Wiesel's memories of the death of his family, the death of his own innocence, and his despair as a deeply observant Jew confron...
Steve Schmidt
2022-12-21T13:01:45.000Z
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John Adams
David McCullough - 2001-05-22
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The enthralling, often surprising story of John Adams, one of the most important and fascinating Americans who ever lived.In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot -- "the colossus of independence," as Thom...
Steve Schmidt
2022-12-21T13:01:45.000Z
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou - 1993-11-01 (first published in 1969)
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Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local "powhitetrash." At eight years old and back at her mothers side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her ageand has to live with the consequen...
Steve Schmidt
2022-12-21T13:01:45.000Z
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Damascus Station by David McCloskey
I Alone Can Fix It by Carol Leonnig, Philip Rucker
Frankly, We Did Win This Election by Michael C. Bender
An Ugly Truth by Sheera Frenkel, Cecilia Kang
It Was All a Lie by Stuart Stevens
Beyond the Trees by Adam Shoalts
Churchill and Orwell by Thomas E. Ricks
Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard
In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
Empire of the Summer Moon by S. C. Gwynne
In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick