The Garments of Court and Palace: Machiavelli and the World That He Made 9781782391425

The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made 9781501130021, 2018006628, 9780743298094, 9780743298100

Acclaimed author Patricia O’Toole’s “superb” (The New York Times) account of Woodrow Wilson, one of the most high-minded

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Courtiers of the Marble Palace: The Rise and Influence of the Supreme Court Law Clerk 9781503625891

Since the hiring of the first Supreme Court law clerk by Associate Justice Horace Gray in the late 1880s, court observer

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Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made 9781453286142, 1453286144

A revealing portrait of a once-in-a-generation athlete and global icon One of sport’s biggest superstars, Michael Jor

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The Court at War: FDR, His Justices, and the World They Made 1541736486, 9781541736481

The inside story of how one president forever altered the most powerful legal institution in the country—with consequenc

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Oxygen: The molecule that made the world 0198607830, 9780191639074, 0191639079

Oxygen has had extraordinary effects on life. Three hundred million years ago, in Carboniferous times, dragonflies grew

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Seapower States: Maritime Culture, Continental Empires and the Conflict That Made the Modern World 9780300240900

One of the most eminent historians of our age investigates the extraordinary success of five small maritime states

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The Dreams That Stuff Is Made Of

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The Comedy and Tragedy of Machiavelli 9780300147940

 The Italian statesman and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli, well known as the author of The Prince, wrote not onl

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Samuel Pepys and the World He Lived In

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American Exceptionalism: An Idea that Made a Nation and Remade the World 1135048592, 9781135048594

How does American exceptionalism shape American foreign policy? Conventional wisdom states that American exceptionalism

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