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    Skyscraper Dreams: The Great Real Estate Dynasties of New York

    Tom Shachtman

    A portrait of Manhattan real estate and the multimillionaires who are its masters. The author describes those who failed and those who founded family dynasties among the wealthiest in America…

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    Rumspringa

    Tom Shachtman

    Through vivid portraits of teenagers in Ohio and Indiana, the author offers an account of Amish life as a mirror to the soul-searching and questing recognized as a generally intrinsic…

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    Airlift to America: How Barack Obama, Sr., John F. Kennedy, Tom Mboya, and 800 East African Students Changed Their World and Ours

    Tom Shachtman

    This long-hidden saga reveals how a handful of Americans and Kenyans fought the British colonial government, the U.S. State Department, and segregation to send nearly 800 young East African men…

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    The Memoir of the Minotaur

    Tom Shachtman

    The posthumous confessions of the half-man, half-bull of Crete, as offered to an audience of recently-deceased, 21st century fellow souls in Hades’ domain –Back cover.

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    Inarticulate Society: Eloquence and Culture in America

    Tom Shachtman

    Thomas Schachtman, author of Skyscraper Dreams, approaches the muddy, intolerant world of political conversation through the belief that Americans have lost the ability to respond and argue differing points of…

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    American Iconoclast

    Tom Shachtman

    In this biography, historian and social analyst Tom Shachtman offers the clearest and most detailed examination to date of one of America’s most influential thinkers. Known as the longshoreman philosopher…

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    Laboratory Warriors: How Allied Science and Technology Tipped the Balance in World War II

    Tom Shachtman

    Cites the role played by scientists and technologists in the Second World War, identifying crucial breakthroughs that were made by both sides in a secret laboratory war that resulted in…

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    Edith & Woodrow: A Presidential Romance

    Tom Shachtman

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    The Phony War 1939-1940

    Tom Shachtman

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    Echoes

    Tom Shachtman

    Ell, a millennial of European and Mexican heritage, is a writer whose boyfriend has dumped her, and she is deeply frightened by a recurring dream. To solve her problems, she…

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    The Memoir of the Minotaur

    Tom Shachtman

    The posthumous confessions of the half-man, half-bull of Crete, as offered to an audience of recently-deceased, 21st century fellow souls in Hades’ domain –Back cover.

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    Absolute Zero and the Conquest of Cold

    Tom Shachtman

    Bringing the history of cold to life, Schachtman starts in the 1600s with an alchemist’s attempt to air-condition Westminster Abbey and continues with the invention of thermometers and scales, the…

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    The Forty Years War

    Len Colodny,Tom Shachtman

    Two bestselling investigative writers trace the arc of the neoconservative movement from the Nixon era through the end of Bush’s second term.

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    Dead Center: Behind the Scenes at the World’s Largest Medical Examiner'sOffice

    Shiya Ribowsky,Tom Shachtman

    In his fifteen years with the New York City medical examiner’s office, Shiya Ribowski has been the primary investigator on more than eight thousand deaths. Weaving together stories from 9/11…

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    The Gilded Leaf: Triumph, Tragedy, and Tobacco: Three Generations of the R. J. Reynolds Family and Fortune

    Patrick Reynolds

    The Gilded Leaf is the riveting, dramatic saga of the R. J. Reynolds tobacco family, one of America’s richest and most intensely private clans. R.J. was the original founder of…

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    The Gilded Leaf: Triumph, Tragedy, and Tobacco: Three Generations of the R. J. Reynolds Family and Fortune

    Patrick Reynolds

    The Gilded Leaf is the riveting, dramatic saga of the R. J. Reynolds tobacco family, one of America’s richest and most intensely private clans. R.J. was the original founder of…

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    Building Tall: My Life and the Invention of Construction Management

    John L. Tishman,Tom Shachtman

    The memoir of the Construction Manager for some of the world’s most famous high-rises

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    The FBI-KGB War: A Special Agent’s Story

    Robert J. Lamphere,Tom Shachtman

    The names, we sometimes say, have been changed to protect the innocent . As regards those agents in KGB networks in the US, their presence and their deeds were known…

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    Whoever Fights Monsters

    Robert K. Ressler,Tom Shachtman

    The FBI expert who coined the term serial killer and advised Thomas Harris on serial killers for the now-classic novel The Silence of the Lambs tells how he uses evidence…

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    Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI

    Robert K Ressler (The Director of Forensic Behavioral Services International He Also Spent Twenty Years in the FBI),Tom Shachtman,Robert K Ressler (The director of Forensic Behavioral Services International. He also spent twenty years in the FBI.),Tom Shachtman

    Whoever Fights Monsters, a chronicle of one man’s lifelong career tracking serial killers, introduces the FBI detective who pioneered psychological profiling as a way to catch some of the nation’s…

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