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Wild West: History, Myth and the Making of America
The book titled Wild West: History, Myth and the Making of America by the author Frederick Nolan. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...
THE Great Depression
The book titled THE Great Depression by the author R Y MCELVAINE. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Presidency of Donald J. Trump: A First Historical Assessment
Leading historians provide perspective on Trump's four turbulent years in the White House The Presidency of Donald J. Trump presents a first draft of history by offering needed perspective on...
Commodore: The Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
Armed with a trove of previously unreleased archives, Edward J. Renehan Jr. offers a compelling portrait of Cornelius Vanderbilt, who built large shipping and rail enterprises into cornerstones of the...
Paradise of the Damned: The True Story of an Obsessive Quest for El
A "rollicking," "vividly re-created," and "enticing romp" that tells the true story of an obsessive quest to find El Dorado, set against the backdrop of Elizabethan political intrigue and a...
Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in
From their earliest encounters with Indigenous Pacific Islanders, white Europeans and Americans asserted an identification with the racial origins of Polynesians, declaring them to be racially almost white and speculating...
Korea: Division, Reunification and U.S.Foreign Policy
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An introduction to the causes and consequences of the Korean War, this history seeks to challenge presumptions about Korea favoured by American politicians and network news pundits. Through a judicious...
American People: Vol 1
The book titled American People: Vol 1 by the author Professor of History Gary B Nash (University of California Los Angeles). This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for...
Blockaded Family: Life in So. Alabama
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This reminiscence of daily life on a Southern plantation during the Civil War was originally published in 1888. Filled with vivid details of everything from methods of making dyes and...
Civil War Recipes: Receipts from the Pages of Godey's Lady's Book
Godey's Lady's Book, perhaps the most popular magazine for women in nineteenth-century America, had a national circulation of 150,000 during the 1860s. The recipes (spelled ""receipts"") it published were often...
Covered Wagon Women, Volume 6: Diaries and Letters from the Western
"The diaries and letters ...throb with excitement, pain, and mind-boggling determination."--Kliatt. "An outstanding collection of primary sources written by women moving west."--Wagon Tracks. "We traveled this forenoon over the roughest...
Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slave-Holding South in the American
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A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize Winner of the Avery Craven Prize In the ante-bellum South, women from elite slaveholding families...
The Emergence of the Middle Class: Social Experience in the American
Of all the terms with which Americans define themselves as members of society, few are as elusive as "middle class." This book traces the emergence of a recognizable and self-aware...
Oppose Any Foe: The Rise of America's Special Operations Forces
OPPOSE ANY FOE is the epic story of America's most elite warriors: the Special Operations Forces. Born as small appendages to the conventional armies of World War II, the Special...
The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics
In roughly five decades, between 1848 and 1899, more gold was removed from the earth than had been mined in the 3,000 preceding years, bringing untold wealth to individuals and...
A World on Fire: An Epic History of Two Nations Divided
In "A World on Fire" Amanda Foreman brings her unique style of epic biography to the American Civil War. During the titanic struggle between North and South, both sides demanded...
Before and After: the incredible real-life story behind the
From the 1920s to 1950, Georgia Tann ran a corrupt baby business at the Tennessee Children's Home Society in Memphis. She offered up more than 5,000 orphans tailored to the...
No Easy Day: The Only First-hand Account of the Navy Seal Mission that
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No Easy Day by Mark Owen with Kevin Maurer is the first-person account of Bin Laden's execution. For the first time anywhere, a first-person account of the planning and execution...
I'm Down: A Memoir
Mishna Wolff grew up in a poor black neighbourhood with her single father, a white man who truly believed he was black. He strutted around with a short perm, a...
102 Minutes
A massive New York Times bestseller- the untold true story of the fight to survive inside the twin towers on 9/11; the blackest day in living memory. ________________________________________ The only...
Almanac of American History
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The book titled Almanac of American History by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Civil War Dynasty: The Ewing Family of Ohio
For years the Ewing family of Ohio has been lost in the historical shadow cast by their in-law, General William T. Sherman. In the era of the Civil War, it...
My Life
For years people have tried to persuade the leader of the Cuban Revolution to tell his own life story. Here, finally, Ignacio Ramonet, well-known activist and editor of "Le Monde...
Jack: A Life Like No Other
Jack is both the first comprehensive one-volume biography of JFK and the first account of his life based on the extensive documentary record that has finally become available, including personal...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the only US president elected for four terms. Conrad Black, the Canadian born proprietor of the Daily Telegraph in Britain (and the Hollinger Group in Canada...
A Secret Order: Investigating the High Strangeness and Synchronicity
Reporting new and never-before-published information about the assassination of John F. Kennedy, this investigation dives straight into the deep end, and seeks to prove the CIA's involvement in one of...
Hit List: An In-Depth Investigation into the Mysterious Deaths of
Richard Belzer and David Wayne are back to set the record straight after Dead Wrong ; this time they're going to uncover the truth about the many witness deaths tied...
The Politics of Deception
Investigative reporter Patrick J. Sloyan, a former member of the White House Press Corps, revisits the last years of John F. Kennedy's presidency, his fateful involvement with Diem's assassination, the...
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The riveting true story of the Galveston hurricane of 1900, still the deadliest natural disaster in American history-from the acclaimed author of The Devil in...
The Continuing Storm: Iraq, Poisonous Weapons and Deterrence
This study offers a reassessment of the 1991 Gulf War, focusing on the role of biological and chemical weapons. The narrative reviews the events of the war, examines intelligence and...
Who Paid the Piper?: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War
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During the Cold War, both sides looked to govern artistic output. This is the story of the CIA's strategy to insinuate itself in every aspect of cultural life, in order...
Blowback: A Warning to Save Democracy from the Next Trump
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The author behind the "eye-popping" (CNN) #1 New York Times bestseller A Warning presents an urgent look at how our deeply divided nation is setting...
The History Buff's Guide to the Presidents
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Americans have named schools, counties, rivers, cities, and even their own children after U.S. presidents. Their work is in our laws, their words adorn our monuments, and their countenances appear...
1812: War with America
Listen to a short interview with Jon LatimerHost: Chris Gondek | Producer: Heron & Crane In the first complete history of the War of 1812 written from a British perspective,...
"Mayflower": A Voyage to War
Bestselling author Nathaniel Philbrick's new book tells the story of the Pilgrim fathers who set sail on the Mayflower and the bloody battle they ultimately waged against the Native Americans....
Down the Great Unknown
This was wild adventure, but it was also a journey with a practical purpose. Powell furthered the cause of modern science, seeing the Grand Canyon as a geological textbook which...
Jfk: The Cuba Files: The Untold Story of the Plot to Kill Kennedy
First ever publication of the declassified Cuban report into the Kennedy assassination, instigated at the request of the US government. Fabian Escalante, director of Cuba's investigation, describes how Cuban units...
The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison
The Women's House of Detention, a landmark that ushered in the modern era of women's imprisonment, is now largely forgotten. But when it stood in New York City's Greenwich Village,...
The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ
"We appreciate Roger Stone, he is one tough cookie." - President Trump The sensational New York Times bestseller, now in paperback. Find out how and why LBJ had JFK assassinated....
Olympic Pride, American Prejudice: The Untold Story of 18 African
Discover the astonishing, inspirational, and largely unknown true story of the eighteen African American athletes who competed in the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, defying the racism of both Nazi Germany...
NASA, Nazis & JFK: The Torbitt Document & the Kennedy Assassination
In 1970 a photocopied manuscript began circulating among conspiracy researchers entitled 'Nomenclature of an Assassination Cabal' by William Torbitt (a pseudonym). The Torbitt Document was a damning expose of J...
Kamala Harris: Selections from the Official White House Photography
The ultimate visual portrait of Kamala Harris on her road to shattering America's highest glass ceiling and making history-selected from the official White House photographers and beautifully curated in the...
Andes
Stretching for over 5,500 miles, and containing the highest active volcanoes in the world, the largest salt flat, the highest lake, and peaks rivalled in size only by the Himalayas,...
An American Dreamer: life in a divided country
A man navigates the deep divisions in America today and discovers that sometimes change can start by finding common ground with your neighbours, in this immersive account by the Pulitzer...
Little America: The War within the War for Afghanistan
The US Government invested millions in Helmand in the 1950s and '60s to transform the barren desert into a veritable oasis - known locally as 'Little America' - and then...
Born in Blood: Violence and the Making of America
Born in Blood investigates one of history's most violent undertakings: The United States of America. People the world over consider violence in the United States as measurably different than that...
American Dialogue: The Founders and Us
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The award-winning author of Founding Brothers and The Quartet now gives us a deeply insightful examination of the relevance of the views of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and...