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John Adams
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David McCullough
His first book since Truman, from one of America's most distinguished and popular biographers. Destined for the same kind of sweeping success as his Pulitzer Prize-winning Truman, John Adams is a powerful, deeply moving biography that reads like an epic historical novel. Breathing fresh life into American history, it takes as its subject the ...
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1776
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David McCullough
David McCullough is known for his scholarly yet readable accounts of historical events and people's lives. Fans of his biography of John Adams will find the same narrative skill in 1776, his history of the first year of the America's war for independence from Britain. General Washington is at the center of this history, but important too are the ...
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
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Erik Larson
The story of two men's obsessions with the Chicago World's Fair, one its architect, the other a murderer. "The Devil in the White City" draws the reader into a time of magic and majesty, made all the more appealing by a supporting cast of real-life characters, including Buffalo Bill, Theodore Dreiser, Susan B. Anthony, Thomas Edison, Archduke ...
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The Great Crash: 1929
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John Kenneth Galbraith (Introduction by)
The stock market crash in October of 1929 has become the benchmark against which all economic bubble-bursts have been compared. Here renowned economist Galbraith provides a history of the event, a critique of investor and government responses, and an extrapolation of the forces that led America into the oncoming and unavoidable Depression.
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The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression
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Amity Shlaes
This striking reinterpretation of the Great Depression looks at the neglected and moving stories of individual Americans, and shows how they had helped to establish the steadfast character that has developed a nation.
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A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present
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Howard Zinn, Ph.D.
Since its original landmark publication in 1980, "A People's History of the United States" has been chronicling American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official version of history taught in schools--with its emphasis on great men in high places--to focus on the street, the home, and the, workplace. Known for its lively, clear prose ...
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Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
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Jon Krakauer
Krakauer shifts his focus from extremes of physical adventure to extremes of religious belief in this true story of an appalling double murder committed by two Mormon Fundamentalist brothers who insist God commanded them to kill.
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Wealth of Nations
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Adam Smith
Political economy had been studied long before Adam Smith. But "Wealth of Nations" (1776) established it for the first time as a separate science. Smith based his arguments on vast historical knowledge, and developed his principles with remarkable clarity. What set this work apart was its statement of the doctrine of natural liberty. Smith ...
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No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, the Home Front in World War II
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Doris Kearns Goodwin
"No Ordinary Time" is a monumental work, a brilliantly conceived chronicle of one of the most vibrant and revolutionary periods in the history of the United States. With an extraordinary collection of details, Goodwin masterfully weaves together a striking number of story lines--Eleanor and Franklin's marriage and remarkable partnership, Eleanor's ...
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The Conscience of a Liberal
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Paul Krugman
This wholly original new work by the best-selling author of "The Great Unraveling" challenges America to reclaim the values that made it great. With this major new volume, Paul Krugman, today's most widely read economist, studies the past eighty years of American history, from the reforms that tamed the harsh inequality of the Gilded Age to the ...
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Killer Angels
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Michael Shaara
This title is a novelized account of the Battle of Gettysburg. Despite carrying a letter from Lincoln offering peace on the South's terms, General Robert E. Lee resolved on one mighty blow to finally destroy the Federal Army of the Potomac.
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
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Timothy Egan
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Timothy Egan follows a half-dozen families and their communities through the dust storms that terrorized America's High Plains during the Depression, going from sod huts to new framed houses to basements with the windows sealed by damp sheets in a futile effort to keep the dust out.
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Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
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Tim Weiner
Covering the Central Intelligence Agencys less-than-stellar reputation over its 60-year existence, this work by a Pulitzer Prize-winning author is based on more than 50,000 documents, primarily from the archives of the CIA itself, and hundreds of interviews with CIA veterans.
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
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Eric Schlosser
To a degree both engrossing and alarming, the story of fast food is the story of postwar America. Schlosser, a National Magazine Award-winning journalist, charts the fast food industry's enormous impact on our health, landscape, economy, politics and culture as he transforms the way America thinks about what it eats.
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Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West
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Professor Stephen E Ambrose
In this sweeping adventure story, Stephen E. Ambrose, the bestselling author od "D-Day," presents the definitive account of one of the most momentous journeys in American history. Ambrose follows the Lewis and Clark Expedition from Thomas Jefferson's hope of finding a waterway to the Pacific, through the heart-stopping moments of the actual trip, ...
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Truman
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David McCullough (Read by)
This biography of Harry Truman goes beyond the traditional portrait of the "ordinary man" to present an extraordinary American President. Drawing on archival material and extensive interviews, McCullough chronicles Truman's boyhood in Missouri, his entry into politics and his surprising success as a US senator. But it is Truman's emergence as a ...
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Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
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Joseph J Ellis
Ellis recounts the sometimes collaborative, sometimes archly antagonistic interactions between these men, and shows us the private characters behind the public personas: Adams, the ever-combative iconoclast, whose closest political collaborator was his wife, Abigail; Burr, crafty, smooth, and one of the most despised public figures of his time for ...
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
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James W Loewen
Winner of the 1996 American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship Americans have lost touch with their history, and in this thought-provoking book, Professor James Loewen shows why. After surveying twelve leading high school American history texts, he has concluded that "not one" does a decent job ...
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The Wordy Shipmates
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Sarah Vowell
From the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Assassination Vacation" and "The Partly Cloudy Patriot" comes an examination of the Puritans, their covenant communities, deep-rooted idealism, political and cultural relevance, and their myriad oddities.
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Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief
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James McPherson
A bestselling historian of the Civil War illuminates how Lincoln worked with--and often against--his senior commanders to defeat the Confederacy and create the role of commander in chief as we know it. "Tried by War" offers a revelatory portrait of leadership during the greatest crisis America has ever endured.
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Democracy in America
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Professor Alexis de Tocqueville
When it was first published last year, Harvey Mansfield and Delba Winthrop's new translation of "Democracy in America" was lauded in all quarters as the finest and most definitive edition of Tocqueville's classic thus far--complete with the most faithful and readable translation to date, impeccable annotations of unfamiliar references, and a ...
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The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals
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Jane Mayer
"The Dark Side" is a dramatic, riveting, and definitive narrative account of how the U.S. has made self-destructive decisions in the pursuit of terrorists around the world--decisions that have not only violated the Constitution and American values, but have also hampered the pursuit of Al Qaeda.
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
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Dee Brown
Immediately recognized as a revelatory and enormously controversial book since its first publication in 1971, "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" is universally recognized as one of those rare books that forever changes the way its subject is perceived. Now repackaged with a new introduction from bestselling author Hampton Sides to coincide with a ...
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Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
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Nathaniel Philbrick
A New York Times Bestselling Author From the perilous ocean crossing to the shared bounty of the first Thanksgiving, the Pilgrim settlement of New England has become enshrined as our most sacred national myth. Yet, as bestselling author Nathaniel Philbrick reveals in his spellbinding new book, the true story of the Pilgrims is much more than the ...
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Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hit
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Professor Stephen E Ambrose
They came together, citizen soldiers, in the summer of 1942, drawn to Airborne by the $50 monthly bonus and a desire to be better than the other guy. And at its peak -- in Holland and the Ardennes -- Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Divison, U.S. Army, was as good a rifle company as any in the world. From the ...
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