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The Girls Next Door: Bringing the Home Front to the Front Lines
This book provides a look at how young women volunteered to help and entertain servicement from World War I through wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Bluff City: The Secret Life of Photographer Ernest Withers
Author Preston Lauterbach examines the career of Ernest Withers,a civil rights photographer who was secretly an informant for the FBI.
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Spy Pilot: Francis Gary Powers, the U-2 Incident, and a Controversial Cold War Legacy
Powers's son offers new information about what happened to his father on the 1960 flight that caused an international incident.
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Influenza: The Hundred-Year Hunt to Cure the Deadliest Disease in History
In his new book, Dr. Jeremy Brown describes the history of the flu virus and how close we are to finding a cure.
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The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington
Brad Meltzer investigates how some of his hand-picked troops and the governor of New York plotted against George Washington.
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Garrett Peck -- The Great War in America: World War and Its Aftermath
Offered in partnership with Tom’s Town, come celebrate the anniversary of Repeal Day with French 75 cocktails at the Truman Library and an interesting discussion with author and historian Garrett Peck.
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Leadership in Turbulent Times
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin discusses her new book, Leadership in Turbulent Times, with Robin Young, co-host of WBUR's Here and Now.
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From Boston to Yorktown: Tales of the National Trails
Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In the Hurricane’s Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown, explores key events at sites featured in National Historic Trails and National Recreation Trails.
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Elliott J. Gorn Author Program
Elliott J. Gorn discusses and signs his book "Let the People See: The Story of Emmett Till."
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David Hu Author Program
David Hu discusses and signs is book "How to Walk on Water and Climb Up Walls."