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Covert City: The Cold War and the Making of Miami
Secret operations, corruption, crime, and a city teeming with spies: why Miami was as crucial to winning the Cold War as Washington DC or Moscow.The Cuban Missile Crisis was perhaps...
America's Black Capital: How African Americans Remade Atlanta in the
The remarkable story of how African Americans transformed Atlanta, the former heart of the Confederacy, into today's Black mecca Atlanta is home to some of America's most prominent Black politicians,...
Covert City: The Cold War and the Making of Miami
Secret operations, corruption, crime, and a city teeming with spies: why Miami was as crucial to winning the Cold War as Washington DC or Moscow.The Cuban Missile Crisis was perhaps...
King Richard: Nixon and Watergate: an American tragedy
From an acclaimed British author, a sharply focused, riveting account - told from inside the White House - of the crucial days, hours, and moments when the Watergate conspiracy consumed,...
Great Expectations: a national US Bestseller
'A phenomenal, transfixing?work; Cunningham is a singular, dazzling writer' Bryan Washington'A coming-of-age novel of the richest, most expansive kind, it's a rare debut, one that feels both intimate and revelatory'...
The Last Honest Man: The CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, and the [...]
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn this "gripping . . . spectacular piece of reporting" (Ken Burns), a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines Senator Frank Church, the man at the center...
Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America
The New York Times Editors' ChoiceNPR Science Friday Book Club SelectionAn intimate and revelatory dive into the world of the beaver-the wonderfully weird rodent that has surprisingly shaped American history...
Eyewitness: American Originals from the National Archives
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White World Order, Black Power Politics: The Birth of American International Relations
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Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon
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A Brief History of America
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...
The Age of Revolutions: And the Generations Who Made It
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...
The Unfit Heiress: The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization [...]
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2021 BY THE NEW YORK POST AND BOOK RIOTNAMED A BEST TRUE CRIME BOOK OF 2021 BY CRIMEREADSAt the turn of the twentieth century, emboldened...
Freedom's Dominion (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): A Saga of [...]
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY! An "important, deeply affecting-and regrettably relevant" (New York Times Book Review) chronicle of a sinister idea of freedom: white Americans' freedom to oppress...
The Unfit Heiress: The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization [...]
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2021 BY THE NEW YORK POST AND BOOK RIOTNAMED A BEST TRUE CRIME BOOK OF 2021 BY CRIMEREADSAt the turn of the twentieth century, emboldened...
American Resistance: The Inside Story of How the Deep State [...]
Each federal employee takes an oath to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic," but none had imagined that enemy might be...
A Brief History of Slavery: A New Global History
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Blood and Fears: How America's Bomber Boys and Girls in England Won their War
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The J. Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Collections
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Author: J. Paul Getty MuseumBinding: SoftbackPublished: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1986Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis handbook provides an overview of the collections at the J. Paul...
The Mighty Aztecs
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Author: Gene S. StuartBinding: HardbackPublished: National Geographic Society, 1981Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe Mighty Aztecs explores the rich history and culture of the Aztec civilization, detailing...
Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies & the Reagan Era
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Author: Alexander CockburnBinding: SoftbackPublished: Verso, 1988Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis book offers a critical examination of the political and social landscape during the Reagan era. Alexander...
The Fatal Environment: The Myth of the Frontier in the Age of Industrialization, 1800-1890
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Author: Richard SlotkinBinding: HardbackPublished: Atheneum Books, 1985Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsThis book explores the myth of the American frontier during the period of industrialization,...
Thomas Jefferson: American Humanist
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Author: Karl LehmanBinding: SoftbackPublished: University of Virginia Press, 1991Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis book explores the humanistic values of Thomas Jefferson, examining his contributions to philosophy,...
The God of War (Journal of Confederate History Series) (SIGNED)
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Author: Chambers, Robert SBinding: HardbackPublished: King Phillip Publishing, 2003Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionThis book explores the complexities of war through the lens of Confederate history, examining...
War Stories (SIGNED)
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Author: David PhillipsBinding: Other bindingPublished: Gauley Mount Pr, 1991Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionWar Stories by David Phillips explores various personal and historical accounts of war, shedding...
Van Dorn: The Life and Times of a Confederate General
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Author: Robert G. HartjeBinding: SoftbackPublished: Vanderbilt University Press, 1994Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis biography chronicles the life of Earl Van Dorn, a flamboyant and controversial...
Red Gold: The Conquest of the Brazilian Indians
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Author: John HemmingBinding: HardbackPublished: Harvard University Press, 1978Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis book explores the complex interactions between the Brazilian Indians and European colonizers from 1500...
Wild Life on the Plains and Horrors of Indian Warfare
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Author: George Armstrong CusterBinding: HardbackPublished: Arno Press, 1969 - Facsimile EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book is a memoir of General George Armstrong Custer's experiences as a cavalry...
Infamy: Pearl Harbor and Its Aftermath
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Author: John TolandBinding: HardbackPublished: Doubleday Books, 1982Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsA revealing and controversial account of the events surrounding Pearl Harbor. Pulitzer Prize-winning author...
George B. McClellan: The Young Napoleon
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Author: Stephen W. SearsBinding: HardbackPublished: Ticknor & Fields, 1988Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: UnblemishedPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsThis biography explores the life of George B. McClellan, a controversial Union general during...
Lincoln and His Admirals
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Author: Craig L. SymondsBinding: HardbackPublished: Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2008Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn Lincoln and His Admirals, Craig L. Symonds unveils an aspect of Lincoln's presidency...
Intervention!: The United States and the Mexican Revolution, 1913-1917
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Author: John S. D. EisenhowerBinding: HardbackPublished: W. W. Norton & Company, 1993Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book explores the United States' involvement in the Mexican Revolution, particularly...
Lost Kingdom: Hawaii's Last Queen, the Sugar Kings, and America's First Imperial Adventure
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Author: Julia Flynn SilerBinding: HardbackPublished: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2012Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsLost Kingdom is a well-told history of the U.S. acquisition of Hawaii, deftly weaving together...
A Stillness at Appomattox
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Author: Bruce CattonBinding: HardbackPublished: Book of the Month Club, 1982Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsUndoubtedly Bruce Catton's most brilliant book, A Stillness at Appomattox won both the Pulitzer...
The Private Mary Chestnutt
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Author: Chesnut, Mary Boykin MillerBinding: SoftbackPublished: Oxford University Press, 1984Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsThe Private Mary Chestnutt is a compilation of the personal diaries...
Port Hudson, Confederate Bastion on the Mississippi
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Author: Lawrence L. HewittBinding: HardbackPublished: Louisiana State University Press, 1987Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book provides an in-depth analysis of the Port Hudson campaign during the American...
Secret Missions of the Civil War; First-hand accounts by men and women who risked their lives in underground activities for the North and South
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Author: Philip Van Doren SternBinding: HardbackPublished: Rand McNally, 1960, Second PrintingCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis book provides a compelling look at the lesser-known stories of the...
Two Thousand Miles on Horseback: Santa Fe and Back
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Author: James F. MelineBinding: HardbackPublished: Horn and Wallace, 1966Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book chronicles a summer tour through Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, and New Mexico...
Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?: And Other Questions You Should Have Answers to When You Work in the White House
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Obama from Promise To Power
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The King of Confidence: A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier [...]
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The "unputdownable" (Dave Eggers, National Book award finalist) story of the most infamous American con man you've never heard of: James Strang, self-proclaimed divine king of earth, heaven, and an...
The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age
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Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years, [...]
Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years reconstructs the life of Emma Goldman through significant texts and documents. These two volumes - part of a projected four-volume series...
Indomitable Will: Turning Defeat into Victory from Pearl Harbor [...]
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...
General Mark Clark: Commander of U.S. Fifth Army and Liberator of Rome
Although not nearly as well known as other U.S. Army senior commanders, General Mark Clark is one of the four men-along with Eisenhower, Patton, and Bradley-who historian Martin Blumenson called...
Pilgrims to the Northland: The Archdiocese of St. Paul, 1840-1962
This is the first narrative history of the Archdiocese of St. Paul, from 1840 to 1962. Historian Marvin R. O'Connell brings to life the extraordinary labors and accomplishments of the...
Lemay
LeMay was a terrifying, complex, and brilliant general. In World War II, he ordered the firebombing of Tokyo and was in charge when Atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and...
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...