Bryan Burrough
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"Every nation needs its creation myth, and since Texas was a nation before it was a state, it's no surprise that its myths bite deep. There's no piece of history more important to Texans than the Battle of the Alamo, when Davy Crockett and a band of rebels went down in a blaze of glory fighting for independence from Mexico, losing the battle but setting Texas up to win the war. However, that version of events, as Forget the Alamo definitively shows,...
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Power Trip The Story of Energy volume 6
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Discover how energy, depending on how it's used, can lead to either peace or conflict.
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Power Trip The Story of Energy volume 3
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See just how cities consume 40% of U.S. energy.
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Power Trip The Story of Energy volume 4
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Travel across the centuries to discover the energy that brings us modern transportation.
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Power Trip The Story of Energy volume 5
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Learn how energy changes the way wealth is concentrated in the modern world.
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Power Trip The Story of Energy volume 1
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Journey back in time and across the world to learn the history of energy and water.
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Power Trip The Story of Energy volume 2
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Discover how much energy it takes to bring us our food.
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An account of the decade-long battle between the FBI and America's revolutionary counterculture documents terrorist activities stemming from radical beliefs, tracing the stories of such groups as the Weathermen and the Black Liberation Army. From the bestselling author of Public Enemies and The Big Rich, an explosive account of the decade-long battle between the FBI and the homegrown revolutionary movements of the 1970s.
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In the 1980s, everyone was making the big bucks and F. Ross Johnson, CEO of RJR Nabisco, wants to make his fortune. He decides to buy out the Nabisco shareholders and take over his company in order to escape the tyranny of the stockholders. Johnson is introduced to the master of the leveraged buyout, Henry Kravis, but afraid of losing the company to this sharp dealer, he decides to make his move with Peter Cohen. Kravis mounts his own buy-out campaign,...
10) Public enemies
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No one could stop Dillinger and his gang. No jail could hold him. His charm and audacious jailbreaks endeared him to almost everyone, from his girlfriend Billie Frechette to an American public who had no sympathy for the banks that had plunged the country into the Depression. But while the adventures of Dillinger's gang thrilled many, Hoover made Dillinger America's first Public Enemy Number One.