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Through his team's deadly last showdown fighting alongside Afghan forces against the Taliban on the dangerous southern Helmand border, Marine Corps veteran Christopher Izant illustrates the impossible conditions and strategic blunders that disillusioned a generation of American veterans and all but guaranteed defeat. They were stepping into a world of hidden minefields, cultural clashes, "green-on-blue" insider attacks, and an ever-patient and relentless enemy. . . . But Christopher Izant and the Marines on his team volunteered to train the Afghan National Security Forces and fight the Taliban alongside them despite the risks and a seemingly futile mission they would term "advise and abandon," made by policymakers a world away. In Final Engagement, readers join then-Lieutenant Izant and the last team of Marine Corps combat advisors at Combat Outpost Taghaz in southern Helmand Province during Operation Enduring Freedom's most crucial and challenging campaign to sustain the hard-won victories of the infantry units. It was 2012, and with base-closure and troop-withdrawal timelines foolhardily fixed by America's top brass, the Marines had only six months to prepare the Afghan Border Police to stand on their own. But before Border Advisor Team 1 completely lay down arms, there would be one last deadly battle with a devastating aftermath. After the fall of Kabul nearly a decade later, Final Engagement relives a clash in the Afghan borderlands that forbode the countrywide collapse to come. Senior military commanders claimed victory to Congress, the press, and to the American public while Izant and his fellow front-line warriors confronted understaffed and ill-equipped Afghan forces withering in the face of tribal infighting, incompetent leadership, and escalating Taliban attacks.  From foot patrols, deadly enemy engagements, and sinister insider attacks to meals and conversations with the men of the Afghan Border Police, Izant's account confronts the gauntlet of violence and anguish that transformed a generation of American and Afghan warriors from idealist volunteers for a just war to disillusioned veterans of a lost cause.

The white-knuckled war saga of the US Navy task force who achieved the impossible on June 4, 1944, capturing Nazi submarine U-505, its crew, technology, encryption codes, and an Enigma cipher machine--the first seizure of an enemy ship in battle since the War of 1812 and one that undoubtedly shortened the duration of the war. On June 4, 1944--two days before D-Day--the course of World War II was forever changed. That day, a US Navy task force achieved the impossible--capturing a German U-Boat, its crew, all its technology, Nazi encryption codes, and an Enigma cipher machine. Led by a nine-man boarding party and the maverick Captain Daniel Gallery, US antisubmarine Task Group 22.3's capture of U-505 in what was called Operation Nemo was the first seizure of an enemy ship in battle since the War of 1812, one of the greatest achievements of the US Navy, and a victory that shortened the duration of the war. Charles Lachman's white-knuckled war saga and thrilling cat-and-mouse game is told through the eyes of the men on both sides of Operation Nemo--German U-Boaters and American heroes like Lieutenant Albert David ("Mustang"), who led the boarding party that took control of U-505 and became the only sailor to be awarded the Medal of Honor in the Battle of the Atlantic; and Chief Motor Machinist Zenon Lukosius ("Zeke"), a Lithuanian immigrant's son from Chicago who dropped out of high school to enlist in the Navy and whose quick thinking saved the day when he plugged a hole of gushing water that was threatening to sink U-505. Three thousand American sailors participated in this extraordinary adventure; nine ordinary American men channeling extraordinary skill and bravery finished the job; and then--like everyone involved--breathed not a word of it until after the war was over. Nothing leaked out. In Berlin, the German Kriegsmarine assumed that U-505 had been blown to bits by depth charges, with all hands lost at sea. They were unaware that the U-Boat and its secrets, to be used in cracking Nazi coded messages, were in now American hands. They were also unaware that the 59 German sailors captured on the high seas were imprisoned in a POW camp in Ruston, Louisiana, until their release in 1946 when they were permitted to return home to family and friends who thought they had perished. Following Operation Nemo step-by-step, author Charles Lachman has crafted a deeply researched, fast-paced World War II narrative for the ages.

Before there was Anna Delvey or Elizabeth Holmes, there was Cassie Chadwick. The first woman-using criminal cunning, some confidence, and a bit of charm--to bring down a federal agent, a bank, and a city's worth of men. Paroled felon. Rich doctor's wife. Famous clairvoyant. The best con artists know how to reinvent themselves, time and time again. Cassie Chadwick, one of history's most successful con artists, was a master of the trade. Over the course of fifteen years, she swept from town to town, assuming new identities and running new swindles at each railroad stop. In the dusk of the Gilded Age, years after the robber barons had amassed their fortunes, she was amassing her own. Then came the Carnegie con. Using her wits and a series of forged documents, Cassie convinced prominent men from Cleveland to New York City that she was Andrew Carnegie's illegitimate daughter. Blinded by the name of the most powerful man in the world, businessmen lined up to loan her hundreds of thousands of dollars at a time. The con made her impossibly rich. The crash shattered banks and bankers alike. Her sensational trial drew the eyes of a nation that couldn't get enough of the woman, who newspapers called the Queen of Swindlers, the Duchess of Diamonds, the High Priestess of Fraudulent Finance. Indeed, when Charles Ponzi's infamous scheme collapsed in 1920, reporters scoffed that "Ponzi is a piker compared to Cassie."Interspersing Cassie's crimes with stories of an unsuspecting Andrew Carnegie, author Annie Reed spins an enthralling, page turning tale of true crime. Could the rumors be true? Can Cassie's money last? Will she escape the electric chair? Told with a gossip columnists' charm and wit, THE IMPOSTER HEIRESS, is a rollicky trickster's tale that will appeal to history buffs and true crime aficionados alike to bring one of the greatest swindlers of all time back into the public eye.

The saga of Sealand, the world's smallest rebel nation, is a swashbuckling tale of international intrigue, armed battles, and Swingin' Sixties radio pirates over a fifty-year span of self-proclaimed sovereignty.

The story behind Shohei Ohtani¿s legendary MVP season as baseball¿s greatest two-way player¿dominant pitcher and outfielder/DH with otherworldly power at the plate¿and his path from his early days in Japan to the most fascinating figure in Major League Baseball, with a start-to-finish inside look at his historic 2021 season.

Incumbents enjoy many advantages when they seek reelection, but their distinct disadvantages (such as not fulfilling promises or staying within the status quo) are ripe weaknesses for opposing candidates to knock them down. Studying the US's Barack Obama, Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky, and France's Emmanuel Macron, among many other candidates, political strategist Louis Perron, PhD, describes tactics to assess the strength of the incumbent, the quality of the challenger, and how to control and win a campaign. Readers interested in running for office or in assisting a political campaign will learn how to build a top-notch team, define your target audience, increase your media presence, develop your message, advertise effectively, deliver great speeches, and prepare to win debates. For relatively new challengers, Perron demonstrates how lack of experience has become less important and how these weaknesses can be neutralized. When campaigns turn ugly and play dirty, he instructs candidates how to combat against character attacks and how they can make a comeback if they lose the election. With over a decade of experience orchestrating political campaigns around the globe, Perron's Beat the Incumbent is the essential step-by-step guide for any level of political office to challenge an incumbent and, once victory is claimed, how you can avoid the same traps to effect change and win reelection.

Award-Winning, Veteran Author: Pietrusza’s books on American history include the Edgar Award Finalist Rothstein: The Life, Times and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series and 1920: The Year of Six Presidents. Critics have compared Pietrusza’s work to that of David McCullough, Theodore S. White, H. L. Mencken, Doris Kearns Goodwin, and Gene Fowler.Frequent Media Appearances: He is a frequent guest and talking head about American history on NPR, MSNBC, The History Channel, C-SPAN and more. He has also appeared on Good Morning America, Morning Joe, The Voice of America, ESPN, and AMC.Site-by-Site Walking Tour of Infamous Roaring '20s Manhattan: GANGSTERLAND takes the reader on a journey—street by street, block by block, building by building—through some of the deadliest and juiciest gangster crimes of 1920s Times Square and Upper West Side.Ideal NYC Gift Book: GANGSTERLAND will fit nicely on any Barnes & Noble or Indie NYC display. Perfect for visitors, NYC history buffs, or mafia history enthusiasts.Hundreds of Gangster Tales: Filled with the era’s most fascinating murders and mayhem, like Arnold Rothstein’s storied nights at Lindy’s Restaurant, and his mysterious murder on a dreary Sunday evening in a conference room in Park Central Hotel.Recurring Cast of Characters: In addition to notorious kingpin Arnold Rothstein, Pietrusza introduces wild characters like con artists Nicky Arnstein, Wilson Mizner, and “Dapper Don” Collins; Crooked cops like the NYPD’s Lt. Charles Becker; Baseball’s John J. “Mugsy” McGraw, New York Giants owner Charles A. Stoneham, Giants outfielder Benny Kauff, and the 1919 Black Sox; Politicians “Gentleman Jimmy” Walker, “Big Tim” Sullivan, “Little Tim” Sullivan, Fiorello “The Little Flower” La Guardia, and James J. Hines; and many more.75-100 vintage B&W photographs, advertisements, and sketches

The blazing rock opera of the greatest drummer of all-time, Jim Gordon, from the legendary Wrecking Crew to redefining rock on the Seventies’ biggest hits and outrageous tours, and ultimately to the most shocking crime in rock history—a story of musical genius, uncontrollable madness, and the big fill Jim Gordon was the greatest rock drummer of all-time. Just ask the world-famous musicians who played with him—John Lennon, George Harrison, Eric Clapton, Tom Petty, Frank Zappa, Steely Dan, Ringo Starr, Harry Nilsson, Joe Cocker, and many more. They knew him for his superior playing, extraordinary training and technique, preternatural intuition, perfect sense of time, and his “big fill”—the mathematically-precise clatter that exploded like detonating fireworks on his drum breaks. And as best-selling author and award-winning journalist Joel Selvin reveals in Mad Rhythm, the story of Jim Gordon is the most brilliant, turbulent, and wrenching rock opera ever. Mad Rhythm follows Gordon as the very chemicals in his brain that gifted him also destroyed him. His head crowded with a hellish gang of voices screaming at him, demanding obedience, Gordon descended from the absolute heights of the rock world—playing with the most famous musicians of his generation—to working with a Santa Monica dive-bar band for $30 a night. And then he committed the most shocking crime in rock history. Based on his trademark extensive, detailed research, Joel Selvin’s Mad Rhythm is at once an epic journey through an artist’s monumental musical contributions, a rollicking history of rock drumming, and a terrifying downward spiral into unimaginable madness that Gordon fought a valiant but losing battle against. One of the great untold stories of rock is finally being told.

Journalist William J. Kole, reluctant but newly minted member of AARP, explores the looming era of super-aging—incredibly longer lifespans overall, and eight times more centenarians by the year 2050—through the lens of past, present, and future life at ages 50, 65, 80, and on to 100-plus. What happens to all of us when 65 is merely a life half-lived?By 2050, the world’s centenarian population—those aged 100 or more—will increase eightfold. Half of today’s 5-year-olds can expect to reach the same heights. It’s going to upend everything we thought we knew about health care, personal finance, retirement, politics, and more. Whether we’re 18 or 81, this tectonic demographic shift will affect us all. The Big 100 confronts readers with both the brightness and potential bleakness of a fate few of us thought possible. Journalist William Kole guides us on this journey into our future, an optimistic but sometimes fraught exploration of super-aging as the grandson of a centenarian. Along the way, there are expert sources, like Dr. Jane Goodall, longevity expert Dr. Thomas Perls, Senator Elizabeth Warren, and even 101-year-old influencer and fashionista Iris Apfel; along with surprises, including the truth about those so-called “Blue Zones” everyone thinks are centenarian factories. (Spoiler alert: They’re not.) And there’s the troubling truth that those reaching extreme longevity tend to be overwhelmingly white, a product of what experts deem the “weathering theory”: the idea that the health of African Americans begins to deteriorate in early adulthood as a physical consequence of socio-economic disadvantages. How long can we live? How long should we live? And what happens when 65 is merely a life half-lived? The Big 100 explores the most pressing questions of our super-aging future, and offers a glimpse of a reality that awaits us, our children, and our grandchildren.

Beautiful deluxe packaging includes jacket design of Desmond Child, paper-over-board design of his first band Rouge's album art, and endpapers with handwritten liner notes of his songs. Foreword by KISS’s cofounder, co-frontman and guitarist, Paul Stanley, who Desmond Child cites as his biggest songwriting influence and mentor.Introduction by legendary music writer and Desmond’s biography cowriter David Ritz.Over 125 black and white photos throughout the book demonstrate a lifetime in the music industry.List of songs written by Desmond Child can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_written_by_Desmond_Child but some highlights include:  "Before Your Love" (Kelly Clarkson), "Inside Your Heaven" (Carrie Underwood), "You Give Love a Bad Name" and "Livin' on a Prayer" (Bon Jovi), "Livin’ la Vida Loca" and "She Bangs" (Ricky Martin), "How Can We Be Lovers" (Michael Bolton), "Dude Looks Like a Lady" (Aerosmith), "Waking Up In Vegas" (Katy Perry), "I Was Made For Loving You" (Kiss), and “Kings & Queens” (Ava Max) among others.

With echoes of¿Unbroken; the derring-do and bravado of¿The Right Stuff; and the battle-forged comradery of¿Band of Brothers, this is the World War II story of 95-year-old veteran George Morgan and the elite Underwater Demolition Teams, precursor of the Navy SEALs-who were given nearly impossible pre-invasion missions from D-Day to the most crucial landings in the Pacific Theater

A Revelatory Account Of The 2020 Election-The Most Secure, Verifiable, And Transparent In American History-And The Heroes Brave Enough To Get It RightThe Big Truth illuminates a crowning achievement in America's quest for a robust democracy in the face of slander by sore losers and opportunists. Filled with interviews of the guardians of democracy-election workers, January 6th Committee members Reps. Liz Cheney (R-Wyoming) and Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland), Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, and more-it is an overpowering counterattack against the Big Lie.CBS Chief Washington Correspondent Major Garrett and National Election Expert David Becker, the Executive Director of the nonpartisan Center for Election Innovation & Research, reveal why Big Lie "fraud" allegations evaporate under scrutiny. They report what actually happened in 2020 while calling out each Trumpian misdirection designed to con and beguile Americans into chasing phantom allegations of election crimes.The 2020 election was not what Trumpist deniers claim. Our political parties knew the rules and procedures. We had record turnout and few election snarls. The result: an accurate count, a seven-million-vote margin of victory, 306 electoral votes for Joe Biden, and Republican gains in congressional and state races. But then-President Trump stoked paranoia-never looking for evidence, contesting results even before anyone cast a ballot, and seeking to bend our system until it almost broke with a violent Capitol riot.The Big Lie-the true corruption of American democracy-has shaken our confidence in stable self-government. On the heels of voter-fraud claims, the Capitol siege, and damaging voting laws, the next midterm and presidential election will test our democracy more severely than at any time since the Civil War. How we react may well determine if we are led into another war against ourselves. The Big Truth debunks the 2020 election conspiracy myth once and for all, while celebrating those who held up our democracy under arguably the most intense scrutiny in American electoral history.

Originally published in 1978 as Thurman Munson: An Autobiography just a year before Thurman Munson's death, Marty Appel's collaboration with the famous New York Yankees catcher and captain breathes new life in Thurm: Memoirs of a Forever Yankee. With a new Introduction by Appel and Foreword by Diana Munson, this revised edition celebrates the life of the Yankee captain in his own words, chronicling his path to the majors, his career success, the breakdown of his body as he gave his all to the sport, his absolute dedication to his wife and children above all else, and his tragic death at age thirty-two in a plane he was piloting.

With a focus on the economic battlefront and in-depth analysis of the diplomatic, military, and ideological arenas, the world¿s foremost expert on US-China global competition offers a rousing, strategic call to action and playbook¿harvesting all of our nation¿s ingenuity, confidence, and will power¿to outcompete the long-term strategies of China and its Communist Party.

Finally, a college prep book that actually prepares students for college!Almost all first-year college students discover that college courses are moreacademically challenging than they expected, and certainly harder thanclasses in high school. Professors expect students not just to absorbmaterial, but to analyze and synthesize it, consider multipleperspectives, evaluate conflicting evidence, and then apply what they've learned in new contexts.Thinking Critically in College explains how to do all this and more.Louis E. Newman draws on decades of experience as a professor at CarletonCollege and Dean of Academic Advising and Associate Vice Provost forUndergraduate Education at Stanford, offering the guidance you need tosucceed both in college and in life post-graduation. Unique amongcollege prep books, Thinking Critically in College builds on thelatest research in learning, spells out the key critical thinking skills you need, shows you how to tackle actual college assignments, andprovides exercises throughout to reinforce the lessons.Written in a personal, engaging style, Thinking Critically in College explains how to do the work your professors will require-exactly thepreparation you need, no matter what your academic background.Practical, accessible, comprehensive, and interactive, Thinking Critically in College is the definitive guide, not only for those in college or headed there,but for everyone who needs a refresher on thinking clearly.

CBS Chief WashingtonCorrespondent and the nation’s foremost elections expert counter Trump’s BigLie about 2020 election fraud with indisputable fact, profiles of theguardians of democracy who ran a fair and accurate vote, and in-depth reportingon methods being undertakenRIGHT NOW to undercut faith, belief, and effectiveness of elections with potentiallydire consequences for the 2022 midterm election and beyond.

The story of an eräs biggest ¿star of life,¿ Jaqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, as she coped with trauma and built a new existence in an unstable world during the time between JFK¿s murder in 1963 and the death of her second husband, Aristotle Onassis, in 1975

With echoes of¿Unbroken; the derring-do and bravado of¿The Right Stuff; and the battle-forged comradery of¿Band of Brothers, this is the World War II story of 95-year-old veteran George Morgan and the elite Underwater Demolition Teams, precursor of the Navy SEALs¿who were given nearly impossible pre-invasion missions from D-Day to the most crucial landings in the Pacific Theater

The first major biography of Little Richard, a rollicking, nuanced celebration of the late singer/songwriter¿s life and his role in the history of American music¿gospel, soul, rock, and more¿Tutti Frutti¿ ¿ ¿Rip It Up¿ ¿ ¿Good Golly Miss Molly¿ ¿ ¿Lucille¿ ¿ ¿Long Tall Sally¿ ¿ ¿You Keep A-Knockin¿¿Little Richard blazed the trail for generations of musicians¿The Beatles, James Brown, the Everly Brothers, Jimi Hendrix, the Rolling Stones, Elton John, Prince . . . the list seems endless. He was ¿The Originator,¿ ¿The Innovator,¿ and the self-anointed ¿King and Queen of Rock ¿n¿ Roll.¿ When he died on May 9, 2020, The Big Life of Little Richard¿a nearly-completed book¿was immediately updated to cover the international response to his death. It is the first major biography of Macon, Georgiäs Richard Wayne Penniman, who was, until his passing, the last rock god standing.Mark Ribowsky, acclaimed biographer of musical icons¿the Supremes, the Temptations, Stevie Wonder, Otis Redding¿takes readers through venues, gigs, and studios, conveying the sweaty energy of music sessions limited to a few tracks on an Ampex tape machine and vocals sung along with a live band. He explores Little Richard¿s musicianship; his family life; his uphill battle against racism; his interactions with famous contemporaries and the media; and his lifelong inner conflict between his religion and his sexuality.The Big Life of Little Richard not only explores a legendary stage persona, but also a complex life under the makeup and pomade, the neon-lit duds and piano pyrotechnics, along with a full-body dive into the waters of sexual fluidity. By 2020, eighty-seven-year-old Little Richard¿s electrifying smile was still intact, as were his bona fides as rock¿s kingly architect: the ¿50s defined his reign, and he extended elder statesmanship ever since. His biggest smash, ¿Tutti Frutti,¿ is one of history¿s most covered songs¿a staple of the pre-Invasion Beatles¿and Elvis pivoted from country to blues rock after Little Richard made R&B¿s sexual overtones a fundament of the new musical order. Even Hendrix, the greatest instrumentalist in rock history, toured with him before launching a meteoric solo career. Whenever someone pushes the music and culture of rock to its outer borders, one should turn to Little Richard for assurance that anything is possible.

The ingenious wartime tactics of some of history's most powerful female leaders, from the stifling battlefields of ancient Egypt to the frigid waters off the Falkland Islands.

On its 25th anniversary, relive the legend-stacked, dynasty-packed, most iconic sports year ever with the athletes, teams, and more whose collective influence affected every aspect of a generation of sports and pop culture fans¿Jordan, Shaq, Iverson, Kobe, Gretzky, Tiger, Griffey, Jeter, Tyson, the Cowboys, the Yankees, the Bulls, The Rock, Stone Cold, Kentucky, Florida, Agassi, Graf, the Williams Sisters, Happy Gilmore, Space Jam, the Olympics in Atlanta, Muhammad Ali, the Magnificent Seven and more!Take a rollicking tour through the sports world of 1996, when debuts, comebacks, movies, and pop culture crossover changed the sports landscape forever. From college to the Olympics to the pros; from the NBA to golf, tennis, and boxing, 1996 was home to athletes and teams who were among the best marketed, most beloved, colorful, and greatest in history. In 1996: A Biography, sportswriter and author Jon Finkel uncovers the stories behind the stories while interviewing a whös who of ¿96ers to reveal in thrilling detail how their collective influence on sports and pop culture still resonates to this day. For those of us who remember when Iverson, Kobe, The Rock and Stone Cold, the MLS and the WNBA all debuted; when the US Women¿s Olympic Gymnastics Team¿the Magnificent Seven¿won gold for the first time in history; when Mike Tyson and Magic Johnson made their comebacks; when MTV¿s Rock n¿ Jock, Michael Jordan¿s Space Jam, and ESPN¿s Dan Patrick and Stuart Scott were the bomb; when the Fun ¿n¿ Gun offense changed college football; when Ken Griffey Jr. ran for president (really! remember?); when Derek Jeter won Rookie of the Year, Favre marched to his first Super Bowl and Jerry Maguire had everyone saying ¿show me the money¿. . . . 1996 is a sports time machine you¿ve got to take for a spin.