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Reflections on Madison County: A Photographic Journey
The book titled Reflections on Madison County: A Photographic Journey by the author Mark Heffron. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Men Who Lost America: British Command during the Revolutionary War
In 1781 the British Empire suffered its most devastating defeat in a war that most believed Britain ought to have won. Common wisdom has held that incompetent military commanders and...
America and the Great War: A Library of Congress Illustrated History
Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Titles of the Year for 2017 "A uniquely colorful chronicle of this dramatic and convulsive chapter in American--and world--history. It's an epic tale, and here it...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to American History
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Americaas Past and Its Relevance Today At times Americaas historical events can seem like a random collection of names, dates, and events, with no coherent storyline to pull them together....
America 1933: The Great Depression, Lorena Hickok, Eleanor Roosevelt,
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The first account of the remarkable eighteen-month journey of Lorena Hickok, intimate friend of Eleanor Roosevelt, throughout the country during the worst of the Great Depression, bearing witness to the...
Future Jihad: Terrorist Strategies Against America
This book presents a frightening new picture of what we can expect from terrorists in the future. Phares shows that there has been a fundamental misunderstanding about Al Qaeda's ultimate...
The Wolf by the Ears: Thomas Jefferson and Slavery
The Wolf by the Ears is a book-length treatment of Thomas Jefferson's attitudes toward slavery. Through a close examination of Jefferson's personality and the influences of his social and political...
Industry, Architecture, and Engineering: American Ingenuity, 1750-1950
A comprehensive, illustrated study of American industrial architecture and civil engineering from the mid-eighteenth century to World War II.
Vital Forms: American Art and Design in the Atomic Age, 1940-1960
From the Studebaker and the Slinky to the TWA terminal and paintings by Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko, 1940 to 1960 was a compelling era for the arts in...
The Story of America
This text presents the history of the United States not as an endless parade of specific facts but as a story with twists and turns, heroes and villains, saints and...
Images from the Storm: 300 Civil War Images by the Author of Eye of
The Civil War legacy of Robert Knox Sneden is an unparalleled treasure trove of words and pictures. The publication of the bestselling "Eye of the Storm" in the fall of...
Inventing the American Dream: A History of Curious, Extraordinary and
The American Dream is popularly conceived as a search for the perfect consumer commodity. We all know about the more successful products to come out of America - popcorn, drive-in...
The Pacific Century: America and Asia in a Changing World
By the mid-1990s, American trade with the Pacific nations--Japan, China, Taiwan, Korea, the Philippines, Australia, and others--will be twice as large as our commerce with countries across the Atlantic. Now...
Conservatives Without Conscience
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Former Nixon White House legal counsel John Dean (author of Worse Than Watergate) takes a sobering look at how radical elements--including George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, and Bill...
Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington
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Andrew Ross Sorkin's website Andrew Ross Sorkin's interview on Charlie Rose Watch a Video Andrew Ross Sorkin delivers the first true behind-the-scenes, moment-by-moment account of how the greatest financial crisis...
Black Markets: The Supply and Demand of Body Parts
In America, in direct response to indefinite delays on the national transplantation waitlists and an inadequate supply of organs, a growing number of terminally ill Americans are turning to international...
Honor in the Dust: Theodore Roosevelt, War in the Philippines, and the
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On the eve of a new century, an up-and-coming Theodore Roosevelt set out to transform the U.S. into a major world power. The Spanish-American War would forever change America's standing...
Danger and Survival #
The book titled Danger and Survival # by the author McGeorge Bundy. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Family
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"Family "tells the story of Ian Frazier's family in America from the early colonial days to the present. Using letters and other family documents, he reconstructs two hundred years of...
3000 Mile Garden (Paperback)
Roger Phillips first met American cookery writer Leslie Land at a mushrooming foray in upstate New York in the summer of 1989. They discovered shared passions for gardening, food and...
From the Ends of the Earth: The Jews in the 20th Century
Original visual material based upon exhaustive picture research from untapped archives, private collections and Jewish museums in Israel, America and Europe. Jewish studies is an area of massive interest for...
Freedom
This volume focuses on the history of the United States through stories of human freedom aspired to and won, beginning with the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and culminating in...
Free Government in the Making
An authoritative and comprehensive collection of essays by America's most formative political thinkers, this classic anthology has now been thoroughly revised and updated. The fourth edition features extensive new coverage...
Awe-samosas!
This warm and joyful picture book blends family tradition and creativity as Noor puts an awesome spin on her Dadijaan's yummy but ingredient-specific samosa recipe. It's Noor's first time making...
Emerson, the Stoics, and Me: Timeless Wisdom for Living an Authentic
"This is a beautiful book, full of ideas that could help restore America's genius for freedom and promise." -Thomas Moore, New York Times bestselling author of Care of the Soul...
Passages to Freedom: The Underground Railroad in History and Memory
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Few things have defined America as much as slavery. In the wake of emancipation the story of the Underground Railroad has become a seemingly irresistible part of American historical consciousness....
Protect Yourself, Your Family, Your Home: Checklists against Crime:
How can people reduce their chances of becoming a victim of crime? How can a home become burglar-proof? What should be done every time a car is driven? What should...
The Years of Lyndon Johnson: v. 1: Path to Power
The book titled The Years of Lyndon Johnson: v. 1: Path to Power by the author Robert A. Caro. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...
The Dominion of War: Empire & Conflict in America, 1500-2000
This book defines war, rather than liberty, as the primary means by which peoples of North America have defined social, cultural, and political boundaries for the last half-millennium. From the...
American Statecraft: The Story of the U.S. Foreign Service
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This magisterial work on American diplomacy by a veteran journalist and historian is the first complete history of the U.S. Foreign Service American Statecraft is a fascinating and comprehensive look...
A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon
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From Neil Sheehan, author of the Pulitzer Prize--winning classic A Bright Shining Lie, comes this long-awaited, magnificent epic. Here is the never-before-told story of the nuclear arms race that changed...
The Atlantic Slave Trade
This survey is a synthesis of the economic, social, cultural and political history of the Atlantic slave trade. It provides the general reader with a basic understanding of the current...
Spying on the Bomb: American Nuclear Intelligence from Nazi Germany to
A global history of U.S. nuclear espionage from its World War II origins to today's threats from rogue states. For fifty years, the United States has monitored friends and foes...
The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln
In this magisterial work, Sean Wilentz traces a historical arc from the earliest days of the republic to the opening shots of the Civil War. One of our finest writers...
Khrushchev's Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary
Nikita Khrushchev was a leader who risked war to get peace during the most dangerous years of the twentieth century. In Khrushchev's Cold War, Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali, authors...
Castles Made of Sand: A Century of Anglo-American Espionage and
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"Extensively researched--with detailed source notes and an expansive bibliography--and cogently argued, Gerolymatos's study of diplomacy by espionage is timely and instructive." - Publishers Weekly With roots in imperialism and the...
America's Supreme Court: Making Democracy Work
The American Supreme Court is one of the most powerful and controversial judicial bodies in the world. The Court has assumed the role of settling fundamental issues of American social...
Mystics and Messiahs: Cults and New Religions in American History
In Mystics and Messiahs--the first full account of cults and anti-cult scares in American history--Philip Jenkins shows that, contrary to popular belief, cults were by no means an invention of...
Nixon's Piano: Presidents and Racial Politics from Washington to
An evaluation of the racial policies of 42 American presidents. This book argues that American presidents have used their power of office to impede racial equality. It shows how many...
Betrayal at Pearl Harbor: How Churchill Lured Roosevelt into War
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The book titled Betrayal at Pearl Harbor: How Churchill Lured Roosevelt into War by the author James Rusbridger. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...
Enemies: A History of the FBI
This title offers the epic, disturbing story of how the FBI is America's real secret service. "Such creatures of passion, disloyalty, and anarchy must be crushed out. The hand of...
Freefall: Free Markets and the Sinking of the Global Economy
This devastating and inspiring book, by one of the world's leading economic thinkers, lays out not only the course of the financial crisis which began in 2007, but also its...
How the Hell Did This Happen?: A Cautionary Tale of American Democracy
No comedian could have written the joke this election cycle has been. The punchline is too ridiculous (whoever the punchline is going to be). Celebrated political satirist, journalist, and diehard...
Mayday: The Decline of American Naval Supremacy
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Timely and urgent, Mayday is a clarion call to action--before it's too late. As with other powerful nations throughout history, maritime supremacy has been the key to America's rise to...
Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil
A collection of letters, personal testimony, transcripts, and various official records documents the effects of Emancipation on blacks and white throughout the Union.
When You Read This: 'Deeply moving but also uplifting, Mary Adkins'
On his first day of work at a struggling brand management firm, an ambitious intern discovers a blog created by his predecessor, Iris Massey. Iris, he quickly learns, died a...
Roosevelt
A protean figure and a man of massive achievement, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the only man to be elected to the presidency more than twice. In a ranking of chief...
The Market Gurus: Stock Investing Strategies You Can Use from Wall
Validea.com, a Web site that ranks and evaluates stock-picking professionals based on the performance of their ideas, is the first comprehensive, ongoing effort to hold investment gurus accountable. Now for...