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Savage Peace: Hope and Fear in America, 1919
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Written with the sweep of an epic novel and grounded in extensive research into contemporary documents, Savage Peace is a striking portrait of American democracy under stress. It is the...
Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974
Beginning in 1945, America rocketed through a quarter-century of extraordinary economic growth, experiencing an amazing boom that soared to unimaginable heights in the 1960s. At one point, in the late...
Civil War Battlegrounds: The Illustrated History of the War's Pivotal
Relive the historic battles of the Civil War in this comprehensive overview of all the key battle sites. Written by expert Civil War scholar Richard Sauers, Civil War Battlegrounds is...
Bad Boy: Bert Hall, Aviator and Mercenary of the Skies
Weston Birch (Bert) Hall carved out his place in history with an almost devilish delight. Much of what has been written about him, including his own two autobiographies, has proven...
Converting the West: Biography of Narcissa Whitman
Narcissa Whitman and her husband, Marcus, were pioneering missionaries to the Cayuse Indians in Oregon Territory. In this biography, the author traces her motivations and relationships, as well as the...
Of Greed and Glory: In Pursuit of Freedom for All
A ground-breaking, personal exploration of America's obsession with continuing human bondage from the editor of the New York Times- bestselling Barracoon . Freedom and equality are the watchwords of American...
Wilt, 1962: The Night of 100 Points and the Dawn of a New Era
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On the night of March 2, 1962, in Hershey, Pennsylvania, right up the street from the chocolate factory, Wilt Chamberlain, a young and striking athlete celebrated as the Big Dipper,...
Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of
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"It's one of the best books on politics of any kind I've read. For entertainment value, I put it up there with Catch 22 ." -- The Financial Times "It...
We the People: A History of the US Constitution
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A HISTORY TODAY BOOK OF THE YEAR On the 250th anniversary of America's founding - a landmark history of the US Constitution for a...
Dictionary of Modern American History
This reference covers the history of the United States from the declaration of independence to the late 1990s. Entries deal not only with key political, diplomatic and military events but...
The American Presidency, 1945-2000: Illusions of Grandeur
Unique in its concentration on the postwar presidency, this radical history goes to the heart of the presidential role in the US to discover how and why the power and...
The Money Makers: How Roosevelt and Keynes Ended the Depression,
Shortly after arriving in the White House in early 1933, Franklin Roosevelt took the United States off the gold standard. His opponents thought his decision unwise at best, and ruinous...
The Story of the Jamaican People
A history of the Jamaican people from an Afro-Caribbean rather than a European perspective. Africa is at the centre of the story; for by claiming Africa as homeland, Jamaicans gain...
From Sarah to Sydney: The Woman Behind All-of-a-Kind Family
This is the first and only biography of Sydney Taylor (1904-1978), author of the award-winning All-of-a-Kind Family series of books, the first juvenile novels published by a mainstream publisher to...
The Secret Parts of Fortune: Three Decades of Intense Investigations
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The book titled The Secret Parts of Fortune: Three Decades of Intense Investigations by the author Ron Rosenbaum. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...
Journey to the Sun: Junipero Serra's Dream and the Founding of
The fascinating narrative of the remarkable life of Junipero Serra, the intrepid priest who led Spain and the Catholic Church into California in the 1700s and became a key figure...
I Don't Want to Go Home: The Oral History of the Stone Pony
A captivating oral history of the iconic music venue the Stone Pony and of the rise, fall, and rebirth of Asbury Park, New Jersey-featuring interviews with Bruce Springsteen, Steve Van...
Time and Money: The Economy and the Planets (second Edition)
Can the planets predict economic conditions? In the second edition of Time and Money, best-selling author Robert Gover links the planets to major economic turning points in US history, going...
Vintage New York City Subway Signs: 1920s-1980s
Photographic chronicle of the history and evolution of New York subway signage, covering porcelain, wood, tin, and mosaic signs from the 1920s to the 1980s. Vintage New York City Subway...
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER A NEW YORK TIMES B ESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK AN NPR BEST BOOK Selected by New York Times ' critic Dwight Garner as...
The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World - and Globalization
An authoritative rethinking of global history by a leading Yale professor. When did globalization begin? Most observers have settled on 1492, the year Columbus discovered America. But as celebrated Yale...
Baltimore: Charm City
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The book titled Baltimore: Charm City by the author Dan Rodricks. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Shirts Powdered Red: Haudenosaunee Gender, Trade, and Exchange Across
Beginning with a purchased shirt and ending with a handmade dress, Shirts Powdered Red shows how Haudenosaunee women and their work shaped their nations from the sixteenth century through the...
Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics
In Hollywood Left and Right, Steven J. Ross tells a story that has escaped public attention: the emergence of Hollywood as a vital center of political life and the important...
Save Our Souls: The True Story of a Castaway Family, Treachery, and
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER From the bestselling author of The Taking of Jemima Boone , the unbelievable true story of a real-life Swiss Family Robinson (and their dog) who faced sharks, shipwreck,...
Unprofitable Servants: Crown Slaves in Berbice, Guyana, 1803-1831
In 1803, during the Napoleonic Wars, the British imperial government conquered the Dutch colony of Berbice and took over the management of presumed governmental slaves. These consisted of persons on...
High Peaks Engineering: Rocky Mountain Marvels
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Building transportation routes through the Rockies is dangerous. It always has been. It is also expensive, labour-intensive, and highly political. But railway and highway construction through the western cordillera succeeded...
Vancouver Confidential
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Most civic histories celebrate progress, industry, order, and vision. This isn't one of those. Vancouver Confidential is a collaboration of artists and writers who plumb the shadows of civic memory...
George Washington: A Life
A president-to-be chronicles the life and times of the historic first Chief Executive in this insightful biography. Noted educator and historian Woodrow Wilson profiles George Washington's rise to leadership, providing...
The Last Kilo: Willy Falcon and the Cocaine Empire That Seduced
From true-crime legend T. J. English, the epic, behind-the-scenes saga of "Los Muchachos," one of the most successful cocaine trafficking organizations in American history-a story of glitz, glamour, and organized...
Wagons West: The Epic Story of America's Overland Trails
In all the sagas of human migration, none can top the drama of the journey by mid-Western farmers to Oregon and California in the years 1840-49. Seeking the promised land,...
1929: The Inside Story of The Greatest Crash in Wall Street History
From the bestselling author of Too Big to Fail, comes a riveting, fly-on-the-wall account of the most infamous stock market crash in history In 1929, the world watched in shock...
Encyclopedia of Native Tribes Of North America
This superb, fully illustrated reference offers the most up-to-date and essential facts on the identity, kinships, locations, populations and cultural characteristics of some 400 separately identifiable peoples native to the...
New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in
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PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST * ANISFIELD-WOLF AWARD WINNER * A revelatory study of the ways in which slavery both destabilized and created American politics. "Vivid and provocative; [Lepore] evokes eighteenth-century New...
Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima and the Surrender of Japan
A remarkable account of the terrible climax of the Second World War in Asia, published to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing. In the closing months of...
Bushit!: How the Bush Crew is Wrecking America and Endangering the
What's gone wrong in the land of the free? Jack Huberman's bestseller, The Bush-Hater's Handbook, exposed the iniquities and idiocies of George W. Bush's first term in the White House....
The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Winner of the PEN New England Award "Enchanting...A book filled with so much love...Long before Oregon, Rinker Buck has convinced us that the best...
Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon
In August 1968, NASA made a bold decision: in just sixteen weeks, the United States would launch humankind's first flight to the moon. Only the year before, three astronauts had...
Futebol Nation
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No nation is as closely identified with the game of soccer as Brazil. For over a century, Brazil's people, politicians, and poets have found in soccer the finest expression of...
Benjamin Franklin
This fully documented account of ' the first American' gives a detailed and lively picture of the writer who invented the lightning conductor; the politician who spent years as emissary...
To Rescue the Constitution: George Washington and the Fragile American
Fox News Channel's Chief Political Anchor reveals George Washington's indispensable-yet overlooked-contributions to America's founding " To Rescue The Constitution is a masterful exploration of the electrifying struggle to unite a...
In America: Travels with John Steinbeck
In 1960 John Steinbeck and his dog Charley set out in their green pickup truck to rediscover the soul of America, visiting small towns and cities from New York to...
Fire and Song
It is 1596 and in Mexico the Inquisition is at its most efficient. A young man trembles in his cell as he prays for salvation, torn between the Christianity he...
The Mexican Revolution: A Short Introduction
Long after its outbreak, the revolution remains the defining moment in Mexico's modern history. Yet the debate over its legacy continues to this day. In a comprehensible style, aimed at...
Jet Age: The Comet, the 707, and the Race to Shrink the World
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The captivating story of the titans, engineers, and pilots who raced to design a safe and lucrative passenger jet. In "Jet Age," journalist Sam Howe Verhovek explores the advent of...
1858: Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S.
A 2008 BookSense pick now in paperback, from an acclaimed historian of the Civil War and the American Revolution As 1858 dawned, the men who would become the iconic figures...