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The Brothers' War: Civil War Letters to Their Loved Ones from the Blue
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The book titled The Brothers' War: Civil War Letters to Their Loved Ones from the Blue by the author Annette Tapert. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for...
Survivors in Mexico
West's narrative takes on all of Mexican history, from the conquest by Spain and the Mexican Revolution, to the muralist movement, and explores the inner lives of such figures as...
We Were Not the Savages: First Nations History ? Collision Between
This fully updated third edition of a vital text on the history of indigenous peoples comes from the thorough research of a First Nations descendent. By turns revealing and deeply...
Death Dreams & Dancing in Nicaragua
The book titled Death Dreams & Dancing in Nicaragua by the author Penny O'Donnell. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Outrage, Passion, And Uncommon Sense
Mining newspaper files and the deep archives and journalistic expertise of the Newseum, an interactive museum of news located in Washington, D.C., Outrage, Passion and Uncommon Sense examines decisive issues...
Yucatan Before and After the Conquest
Describes geography and natural history of the peninsula, gives brief history of Mayan life, discusses Spanish conquest, and provides a long summary of Maya civilization. 4 maps, and over 120...
Operation Pedro Pan: The Untold Exodus of 14,048 Cuban Children
First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
JFK: Volume 1: John F Kennedy: 1917-1956
The definitive biography of JFK, from Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Fredrik Logevall The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian's much-garlanded masterpiece- 'The most compelling biography I have read in years' Max Hastings By the...
Class: Image and Reality: In Britain, France and the USA Since 1930:
Class is an emotive subject, and never more so than today. It is part of the very fabric of our contemporary society and Professor Marwick's major historical study of the...
The Female Experience: An American Documentary
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While women's experience encompasses all that is human, while women have participated in history and the making of history through all time, until very recently they have been largely excluded...
Against Slavery: An Abolitionist Reader
"An invaluable resource to students, scholars, and general readers alike."-Amazon.com This colleciton assembles more than forty speeches, lectures, and essays critical to the abolitionist crusade, featuring writing by William Lloyd...
Losing Ground: American Social Policy 1950-1980
Argues that the ambitious social programmes of the Great Society designed to help the poor and disadvantaged not only did not accomplish what they set out to do, but often...
Treasures of the Incas New Edn
The world's longest mountain chain, the Andes, dominates western South America from north to south, and for millennia has been home to the continent's richest civilisations. Only in the past...
Wilderness Empire
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The book titled Wilderness Empire by the author Allan W Eckert. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
I Don't Want to Go Home: The Oral History of the Stone Pony
"Reading Nick Corasaniti's delightful book about the storied Asbury Park, New Jersey, club is like sitting at your favorite bar listening to the old regulars tell magnificent stories." - Rolling...
Presidents of the United States
From George Washington to Bill Clinton, this book contains a collection of portraits and potted biographies of 42 of America's Presidents. The pictures have all been taken from the National...
Respect Yourself: Stax Records and the Soul Explosion
The story of Stax Records unfolds like a Greek tragedy. A white brother and sister build a monument to racial harmony in blighted south Memphis during the civil rights movement....
The Last Fish Tale: The Fate of the Atlantic and Survival in
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"A marvelous, compelling tale"( Rocky Mountain News ) from the New York Times bestselling author of Salt and Cod . Gloucester, Massachusetts, America's oldest fishing port, is defined by the...
Whale Hunt
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A gloriously idiosyncratic fusion of travelogue, ecology, history, moral controversy, and high-seas adventure from the acclaimed author of The Meadowlands. In the fall of 1997, Robert Sullivan arrived in Neah...
Tree of Rivers: The Story of the Amazon
Amazonia contains by far the world's largest river and the greatest expanse of tropical rain forest, home to the most luxuriant biological diversity on the planet. Tree of Rivers brilliantly...
His Excellency: George Washington
Joseph Ellis follows Washington from his military career to his presidency, illuminating the difficulties the first executive faced as he worked to keep the emerging country united in the face...
America: An Illustrated History
"Time" illuminates the story of America in a fascinating new way in this magnificent volume which collects the most iconic images in the nation's history. Here are indelible photographs -...
A Crack in the Edge of the World: The Great American Earthquake of
A burgeoning new city is built on the dreams of the American gold rush. It is also built upon a landscape that has been stretching, sliding and breaking apart for...
New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and
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A New York Times Notable Book A lively, immersive history by an award-winning urbanist of New York City's transformation, and the lessons it offers for the city's future. Dangerous, filthy,...
The Crossing: El Paso, the Southwest, and America's Forgotten Origin
A radical work of history that re-centers the American story around El Paso, Texas, gateway between north and south, center of indigenous power and resistance, locus of European colonization of...
Beyond the White House: Waging Peace, Fighting Disease, Building Hope
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In summer 2007 former president Jimmy Carter caused uproar when he described George W. Bush's foreign policy as the worst in history. Not because people disagreed, but because it was...
The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History in the White House
The Clinton Tapes was a secret project, initiated by Clinton, to preserve for future historians an unfiltered record of presidential experience. During his eight years in office, Clinton met with...
The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History in the White House
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Branch interviewed President Clinton 78 times between 1993 and 2001 for roughly two hours each time. The President's side of those conversations formed the basis of his own memoir. Branch,...
Through The Children's Gate: A Home in New York
On every page of this delicious book you will meet characters and situations that tell you this could only be New York. The parents who are determined to get their...
Hist World Explore
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The book titled Hist World Explore by the author John Keay. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves and the Creation of
An Imperfect God is a unique biography of one of the most famous statesmen of all time. Wiencek looks beyond the established view of Washington as general, commander in chief...
Robert E.Lee: Icon for a Nation
General Robert E Lee, handsome, immaculately attired and dignified, quickly emerged as one of the great heroes of the American Civil War. This is rather surprising for, as Brian Holden...
Golden Years: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Age
The surprising history of old age in modern America, showing how we created unprecedented security for some and painful uncertainty for others On farms and in factories, Americans once had...
The Furious Improvisation: How the Wpa and a Cast of Thousands Made
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A vivid portrait of the turbulent 1930s and the Roosevelt administration as seen through the WPA's Federal Theater Project. Under the direction of a five-foot redheaded firecracker, Hallie Flanagan, the...
Mayflower
The band of Puritan emigres that left Southampton in 1620 to found a godly colony in Virginia (as the eastern seaboard of the North American continent was known then) carried...
Abuse of Power: New Nixon Tapes
No President has taped Oval conversations so thoroughly or found himself in as much trouble as Richard Nixon. He and his heirs fought for years to keep hours of these...
Very Thin Line
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The book titled Very Thin Line by the author Theodore Draper. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Inheritance
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The book titled The Inheritance by the author Samuel G Freedman. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Cycles of American History
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The book titled Cycles of American History by the author Arthur M. Schlesinger. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2020 From the bestselling author of Nixonland and The Invisible Bridge comes the dramatic conclusion of how conservatism took control of American political...
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...
Burning Down the House: Talking Heads and the New York Scene That
On the 50 th anniversary of Talking Heads, acclaimed music biographer Jonathan Gould presents the long-overdue, definitive story of this singular band, capturing the gritty energy of 1970s New York...
Access to History: The USA and the Cold War 1945-63 Second Edition
This second edition has been updated to take account of recent historical research into the period, including up-to-date interpretations relating to the Cuban Missile Crisis. The major issues surrounding the...
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Collins Classics)
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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Written in 1876, this is a novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River.
Who Shot JFK?
After nearly 1000 books, half a dozen journals, two official inquiries, several million pages of declassified documents, dozens of TV documentaries and hundreds of Websites, is there anything left to...