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08/14/2024

Ira Chinoy discusses PREDICTING THE WINNER and the origins of election forecasting at the Computer History Museum.

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[Recorded July 23, 2024]Every election night, millions of Americans hit refresh on their browsers and social media and tune into the news for the latest pred...

08/12/2024

D.M. Giangreco, author of TRUMAN AND THE BOMB, featured in the The Kansas City Star.

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Without the president’s fateful choice, the end of the carnage might still have been years away. | Opinion

07/30/2024

STRATEGY STRIKES BACK gives STAR WARS fans and aspiring military minds alike an inspiring and entertaining means of understanding many facets of modern warfare in a book as captivating as STAR WARS itself.

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07/26/2024

WHO INVENTED OSCAR WILDE? by David Newhoff is a story about the nature of authorship and the “convenient fiction” we call copyright. While a seemingly obscure topic, copyright has been a hotly contested issue almost since the day the internet became publicly accessible.

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07/25/2024

CHANGING THE RULES OF ENGAGEMENT brings to life the authentic, vivid stories of leadership from inspiring and adventurous women who achieved the extraordinary by serving their country in the U.S. military.

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07/23/2024

OURS TO EXPLORE offers a plan for how the service-based travel industry can break the cycle of exploitation and suggests strategies for travelers who want to improve the places they visit for the long haul.

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07/19/2024

In SPEED one of America’s greatest test pilots collaborates with acclaimed journalist Keith Dunnavant to tell his remarkable story: How he was pushed to excel by his demanding father. How a lucky envelope at the U.S. Naval Academy altered the trajectory of his life.

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07/18/2024

A SECOND RECKONING tells the story of the 1917 murder that led to the last hanging in Annapolis, Maryland, and makes an appeal for posthumous justice, especially where racial prejudice may have tainted a case.

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07/16/2024

Andrew L. Yarrow tells the story of LOOK magazine, one of the greatest mass-circulation publications in American history, and the very different United States in which it existed.

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07/12/2024

TROUBLING THE WATER follows ordinary Cambodians coping with the rapid erasure of a long-held way of life. Drawing on years of reporting in Cambodia, Abby Seiff traces the changes in the Tonle Sap Lake.

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07/11/2024

THE TURTLE AND THE DREAMBOAT by Jim Leeke is the first detailed account of the race for long-distance flight records between the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy less than fourteen months after World War II.

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07/09/2024

In COLD Wayne L. White documents his time in extreme elements and offers a unique perspective on the United States Antarctic Program at the South Pole.

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07/05/2024

SPY SHIPS by Norman Polmar and Lee J. Mathers highlights specialized naval ships used for collecting intelligence and reveals their major impact on military operations and national security.

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07/04/2024

THE REVOLUTIONARY YEARS 1775-1789 by William Nester, examines how the Founders’ experience in revolution and nation-building caused them to understand leadership as an art.

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07/02/2024

THE GAS AND FLAME MEN by Jim Leeke is the first full account of Major League ballplayers who served in the Chemical Warfare Service during World War I.

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06/28/2024

MINE EYES HAVE SEEN THE GLORY squarely faces how racism and religion influenced individual and societal debates over slavery, Manifest Destiny, secession, and civil war.

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06/27/2024

Both nostalgic and gripping, THE TIME LEFT BETWEEN US is a meditation on how deeply connected the past is to the present and how the truth—and what we remember of it—are fragmented.

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06/25/2024

OPERATION PEDRO PAN explores the undertaking sponsored by the Miami Catholic Diocese and anti-Castro Cubans to bring more than fourteen thousand unaccompanied children to the United States during the Cold War.

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06/21/2024

COLD WAR RADIO breaks new ground as Mark Pomar integrates his analysis of Cold War radio programming with the long-term aims of U.S. foreign policy, illuminating the role of radio in the peaceful end of the Cold War.

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06/20/2024

SMALL BUT IMPORTANT RIOTS by Robert F. O'Neill is a tactical study of fighting from June 17 to 22, 1863, at Aldie, Middleburg, and Upperville, placed within the strategic context of the Gettysburg campaign.

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06/18/2024

DELIVERED UNDER FIRE by Candice Shy Hooper is the biography of the U.S. Post Office special agent who risked his life to protect mail that contained some of the most personal and valuable information during the Civil War.

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05/24/2024

Those in NY, join John A. Gronbeck-Tedesco, author of OPERATION PEDRO PAN, at noon tomorrow for a book signing at the Barnes & Noble in Bridgehampton.

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05/21/2024

On Election Night: the dangers of seeing what we want to see https://go.umd.edu/DallasOpEd

Ira Chinoy, author of PREDICTING THE WINNER, discusses the impacts of election night forecasting's evolution in The Dallas Morning News.

The 1952 election was the first to use computer technology to broadcast results on TV, but as results defied expectations, news channels were reluctant to use...

05/08/2024

In 1952, TV news producers needed an edge on election night. And they found it in new "fearsome contraptions" called computers. Ira Chinoy joins POLITICO Tech to discuss this topic and his new book, PREDICTING THE WINNER.

‎Show POLITICO Tech, Ep The untold story of how computers forever changed election night - Apr 29, 2024

05/02/2024

Join Ira Chinoy to celebrate the release of his book PREDICTING THE WINNER and his retirement! The event will take place Next Tuesday on May 9th from 5-7pm ET at Merrill College.

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04/16/2024

"Baseball fans will find joy here. Military readers too will find interest. Even generalist readers will enjoy . . . Great for a summer read," writes SASKToday of Jim Leeke's THE GAS AND FLAME MEN

Increasingly I find myself wanting sports books which recognize athletics do not exist in a vacuum, and in that recognition, write stories that tell of the larger world around a given sport moment.

03/29/2024

Author Candice Shy Hooper talks about Absalom Hanks Markland, also known as “Grant’s postmaster general,” a U.S. Post Office Department special agent who ensured that military mail was delivered during the Civil War. The Smithsonian National Postal Museum hosted this program.

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03/26/2024

In FROM CHERNOBYL WITH LOVE, Katya Cengel covers her time as a recent college graduate reporting from the former Soviet Union in Kyiv, Ukraine, and Riga, Latvia, shortly after the fall of Communism.

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03/19/2024

Tatiana L. Dubinskaya’s autobiographical novel of life in the Russian army, IN THE TRENCHES, marked the first major work published by a female World War I soldier in the Soviet Union.

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03/15/2024

We're so happy to share that Paul Carter's RICHARD NIXON: CALIFORNIA'S NATIVE SON was named a 2023 Foreword Reviews INDIES finalist in the Biography (Adult Nonfiction) category!

"Richard Nixon: California's Native Son" is a Foreword INDIES finalist in Biography (Adult Nonfiction).