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"When President Theodore Roosevelt welcomed the country's most visible Black man, Booker T. Washington, into his circle of counselors in 1901, the two confronted a shocking and violent wave of racist outrage. In the previous decade, Jim Crow laws had legalized discrimination in the South, eroding social and economic gains for former slaves. Lynching was on the rise, and Black Americans faced new barriers to voting. Slavery had been abolished, but...
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Plaza Janés
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2021.
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Un oasis que se encoge en el desierto del Sahara; un dron robado del ejército de los Estados Unidos; una isla japonesa deshabitada; y el alijo secreto de venenos químicos mortales de un país. Pauline Green, la primera mujer presidenta de los Estados Unidos, navega por los ataques terroristas, el comercio ilegal de armas y las campañas de difamación de su fanfarrón oponente político con una diplomacia cuidadosa y hábil. Hará todo lo que esté...
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Simon & Schuster
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2022.
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"The nearly eight years of Harry Truman's presidency--among the most turbulent in American history--were marked by victory in the wars against Germany and Japan; the first use of an atomic weapon; the beginning of the Cold War; creation of the NATO alliance; the founding of the United Nations; the Marshall Plan to rebuild the wreckage of postwar Europe; the Red Scare; and the fateful decision to commit troops to fight in Korea."--Amazon.
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