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This month we feature the History and Current Events newsletter with a selection of new and recent titles with a spotlight on the history of the American Civil War, Canadian and American politics, and Elizabethan England. For more information about these titles check out the October 2014 Nextreads Newsletter.

Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War by Karen Abbott

The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan by Rick Perlstein

The Roosevelts: An Intimate History by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns


The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives by Sasha Abramsky

Duffy : Stardom to Senate to Scandal by Dan Leger


The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI by Betty Medsger

The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England by Ian Mortimer

The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics... by Simon Winchester