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retired journalist Ben McNitt tells the story of how slavery shaped American politics—and indeed the American story—from the Founding until the Civil War

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Gorbachev: His Life and Times (Taubman WH) lincoln revealing the role each playedby William Taubman A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist The definitive biography of the transformational world leader by the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of Khrushchev. When Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1985, the USSR was one of the worlds two superpowers. By 1989, his liberal policies of perestroika and glasnost had permanently transformed Soviet Communism, and had made enemies of radicals on the right and left.