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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: The Presidential Portfolio - History as Told

John Fitzgerald Kennedy: The Presidential Portfolio - History as Told

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The Kennedy Presidency, and his role in the history of a turbulent time, told through fast-paced narrative and illustrated with documents, photographs, artifacts, and audio recordings exclusive to the John...
The History of North American Theater: The United States, Canada and

The History of North American Theater: The United States, Canada and

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Completing a three-volume set on "The History of World Theater", this text examines theatre in Canada and Mexico, as well as the USA. Some 300 illustrations aid the depiction of...
Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence

Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence

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The author of the acclaimed Patriots: The Men Who Started the American Revolution presents this dramatic account of the War of 1812, the war that established a young nation as...
The Romance of American Psychology: Political Culture in the Age of

The Romance of American Psychology: Political Culture in the Age of

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Psychological insight is the creed of our time. A quiet academic discipline two generations ago, psychology has become a voice of great cultural authority, informing everything from family structure to...
The Imperial Cruise: A True Story of Empire and War

The Imperial Cruise: A True Story of Empire and War

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In 1905 President Teddy Roosevelt dispatched Secretary of War William Taft, his gun-toting daughter Alice and a gaggle of congressmen on a mission to Japan, the Philippines, China, and Korea....
A Tough Mind and a Tender Heart

A Tough Mind and a Tender Heart

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'Far from being the pious injunction of a Utopian dreamer, the command to love one's enemy is an absolute necessity for our survival.' Advocating love as strength and non-violence as...
Lincoln

Lincoln

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Most people know little more about the US President Abraham Lincoln than how he met his end - assassinated in a theatre box by a gunman. But as Thomas Keneally,...
With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918

With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918

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With so much at stake and so much already lost, why did World War I end with a whimper--an arrangement between two weary opponents to suspend hostilities? After more than...
Wagner Nights: An American History

Wagner Nights: An American History

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As never before or since, Richard Wagner's name dominated American music-making at the close of the nineteenth century. Europe, too, was obsessed with Wagner, but - as Joseph Horowitz shows...
Before and After: the heartbreaking true stories of a notorious

Before and After: the heartbreaking true stories of a notorious

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The incredible and heart-breaking true stories of victims of a notorious adoption scandal - inspired by No.1 bestselling novel Before We Were Yours From the 1920s to 1950, Georgia Tann...
Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents

Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents

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From Pete Souza, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Obama: An Intimate Portrait , comes a potent commentary on the Presidency -- and our country. As Chief Official...
Detroit's Cold War: The Origins of Postwar Conservatism

Detroit's Cold War: The Origins of Postwar Conservatism

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Detroit's Cold War locates the roots of American conservatism in a city that was a nexus of labor and industry in postwar America. Drawing on meticulous archival research focusing on...
Invaders: British & American Experience of Seaborne Landings 1939-1945

Invaders: British & American Experience of Seaborne Landings 1939-1945

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The Second World War was the first in which amphibious landings played a truly significant part in the outcome of a global conflict and in this work, drawing on the...
Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century

Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century

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An instant New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller from one of the world's leading economists: this "magisterial history" offers a grand narrative of the century that made us...
The Age of Revolutions: And the Generations Who Made It

The Age of Revolutions: And the Generations Who Made It

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A panoramic new history of the revolutionary decades between 1760 and 1825, from North America and Europe to Haiti and Spanish America, showing how progress and reaction went hand in...
America in the World: A History of U.S. Diplomacy and Foreign Policy

America in the World: A History of U.S. Diplomacy and Foreign Policy

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Recounting the actors and events of U.S. foreign policy, Zoellick identifies five traditions that have emerged from America's encounters with the world: the importance of North America; the special roles...
The Empire State of the South: Georgia History in Documents and Essays

The Empire State of the South: Georgia History in Documents and Essays

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This work offers a look at the history of Georgia through over 100 primary documents. ""The Empire State of the South: Georgia History in Documents and Essays"" offers teachers of...
A Brief History of America

A Brief History of America

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The next in this series of admirably concise yet nevertheless comprehensive titles looks at the history of all Americans as well as America; its environmental history and its linkage to...
Abyss: World on the Brink, The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962

Abyss: World on the Brink, The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962

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A Times History Book of the Year 2022 From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings 'the heart-stopping story of the missile crisis' Daily Telegraph The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was...
True Compass: A Memoir

True Compass: A Memoir

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A landmark autobiography and the definite account from a member of America s most heralded family. As a young man, Edward M. Kennedy played a key role in the presidential...
Infamy: Pearl Harbor and Its Aftermath

Infamy: Pearl Harbor and Its Aftermath

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How much of a surprise was the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour? History has tended to blame the two commanders of Hawaii's military installations, Admiral Kimmel and General Short, for...
By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native

By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native

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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NONFICTION A New Yorker Best Book of 2024 * An Esquire Best Book of Fall 2024 * Longlisted for the Andrew...
Resurrection: Salvaging the Battle Fleet at Pearl Harbor

Resurrection: Salvaging the Battle Fleet at Pearl Harbor

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The attack on Pearl Harbor is a topic of perennial interest to the American public, and a long line of popular books and movies have focused on the attack or...
L.A. Noir: The Struggle for the Soul of America's Most Seductive City

L.A. Noir: The Struggle for the Soul of America's Most Seductive City

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Mid-century Los Angeles. A city sold to the world as "the white spot of America," a land of sunshine and orange groves, wholesome Midwestern values and Hollywood stars, protected by...
United States Coastguard in World War II

United States Coastguard in World War II

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Originally published in 1957, this intimate view of the Coast Guard's dramatic World War II record has long been considered a classic. Out of print for years, it is once...
Stonewall in the Valley: Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's Shenandoah

Stonewall in the Valley: Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's Shenandoah

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The Valley Campaign conducted by Maj. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson has long fascinated those interested in the American Civil War as well as general students of military history, all...
Chronicle of 20th. Century History

Chronicle of 20th. Century History

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From the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 to the recent ceasefire in the Iran-Iraq War, Bowman provides an invaluable guide to the climactic world events of this century. The expertly written...
Diego Rivera. The Complete Murals

Diego Rivera. The Complete Murals

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A veritable folk hero in Latin America and Mexico's most important artist-along with his wife, painter Frida Kahlo-Diego Rivera (1886-1957) led a passionate life devoted to art and communism. After...
A Crisis of Peace: George Washington, the Newburgh Conspiracy, and the

A Crisis of Peace: George Washington, the Newburgh Conspiracy, and the

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The dramatic story of George Washington's first crisis of the fledgling republic. In the war's waning days, the American Revolution neared collapsed when Washington's senior officers were rumored to be...
In the Shadow of the Alabama: The British Foreign Office and the

In the Shadow of the Alabama: The British Foreign Office and the

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This book looks at an allegation of betrayal made against a young Foreign Office clerk, Victor Buckley, who, it was claimed, leaked privileged information to agents of the southern States...
Curiosities of the Civil War: Strange Stories, Infamous Characters and

Curiosities of the Civil War: Strange Stories, Infamous Characters and

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Civil War buffs, be warned: Webb Garrison's Curiosities of the Civil War may catch you off guard. Packed with obscurities and bizarre anecdotes, it spills over with specifics you've likely...
Stealing the General

Stealing the General

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If James J. Andrews' plan had worked, it could have dramatically altered the course of the war, but the General's young conductor had other ideas. At first, he gave chase...
Best Little Stories of the Blue and Gray

Best Little Stories of the Blue and Gray

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A journalistic history of America's Civil War, it records the war largely in terms of human-interest aspects. In more than 100 vignettes, the writings of soldiers, sailors, slaves, politicians, and...
The Water is Never Cold: The Origins of U.S. Naval Combat Demolition

The Water is Never Cold: The Origins of U.S. Naval Combat Demolition

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The Water Is Never Cold is a groundbreaking study of the birth of the U.S. Navy's combat demolition teams. Naval Combat Demolition Units (NCDUs) and Underwater Demolition Teams (UDTs), little-known...
The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century: A Social Justice Hall

The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century: A Social Justice Hall

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A hundred years ago, any soapbox orator who called for women's suffrage, laws protecting the environment, an end to lynching, or a federal minimum wage was considered a utopian dreamer...
Blood: Stories of Life and Death from the Civil War

Blood: Stories of Life and Death from the Civil War

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The Civil War the bloodiest, most dramatic moment in this nation's history also produced some of the country's greatest literature. Blood reflects the violent hatred, love, patriotism, and heroism this...
A Self-Made Man: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. I,

A Self-Made Man: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. I,

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The first of a multi-volume history of Lincoln as a political genius-from his obscure beginnings to his presidency, assassination, and the overthrow of his post-Civil War dreams of Reconstruction. This...
Great White Fleet: Celebrating Canada Steamship Lines Passenger Ships

Great White Fleet: Celebrating Canada Steamship Lines Passenger Ships

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For decades Canada Steamship Lines proclaimed itself as the world's largest transportation company operating on inland waters. Its passenger and freight vessels could be found on the Great Lakes as...
The Untold History of the United States

The Untold History of the United States

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The companion to the Showtime documentary series, director Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick challenge the prevailing orthodoxies of traditional history books in this thoroughly researched and rigorously analyzed look...
American Emperor: Aaron Burr's Challenge to Jefferson's America

American Emperor: Aaron Burr's Challenge to Jefferson's America

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In this vivid and brilliant biography, David Stewart describes Aaron Burr, the third vice president, as a daring and perhaps deluded figure who shook the nation's foundations in its earliest,...
Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence

Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence

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By the author of the acclaimed Patriots: The Men Who Started the American Revolution , a gripping narrative that tells the story of the second and final war of independence...
Patriotic Fire: Andrew Jackson and Jean Laffite at the Battle of New

Patriotic Fire: Andrew Jackson and Jean Laffite at the Battle of New

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From the author of best-selling works of history and fiction, a fast-paced, enthralling retelling of one of the greatest battles fought on the North American continent, and of the two...
Lincoln's Last Trial: The Murder Case That Propelled Him to the

Lincoln's Last Trial: The Murder Case That Propelled Him to the

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Look for Dan Abrams and David Fisher's new book, Kennedy's Avenger: Assassination, Conspiracy, and the Forgotten Trial of Jack Ruby . Instant New York Times bestseller! A Winner of the...
Indomitable Will: Turning Defeat into Victory from Pearl Harbor to

Indomitable Will: Turning Defeat into Victory from Pearl Harbor to

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Some of the worst military disasters in U.S. history occurred between Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 and the Battle of Midway in June 1942. During this period, the American...
Texas and New Mexico on the Eve of the Civil War: The Mansfield and

Texas and New Mexico on the Eve of the Civil War: The Mansfield and

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The reports of officers Lt. Col. Joseph E. Johnston and Col. Joseph K. F. Mansfield on the combat readiness of troops in the Texas and New Mexico Departments of the...