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Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People
Elizabeth A. Fenn - Hill and Wang Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for HistoryEncounters at the Heart of the World concerns the Mandan Indians, iconic Plains people whose teeming, busy towns on the upper Missouri River were for centuries at the center of the North American universe. We know of them mostly because Lewis... |
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The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832
Alan Taylor - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for History This searing story of slavery and freedom in the Chesapeake by a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian reveals the pivot in the nation’s path between the founding and civil war. Frederick Douglass recalled that slaves living along Chesapeake... |
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Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam
Fredrik Logevall - Random House Format: Print book
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE Written with the style of a great novelist and the intrigue of a Cold War thriller, Embers of War is a landmark work that will forever change your understanding of how and why America went to war in Vietnam. Tapping newly accessible diplomatic archives in several... |
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The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
Eric Foner - W. W. Norton & Company; 1St Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in History, the Bancroft Prize, and the Lincoln Prize: from a master historian, the story of Lincoln's -- and the nation's -- transformation through the crucible of slavery and emancipation. In this landmark work of deep scholarship and insight,... |
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Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
Manning Marable - Viking Adult; 1St Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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Years in the making--the definitive biography of the legendary black activist. Of the great figure in twentieth-century American history perhaps none is more complex and controversial than Malcolm X. Constantly rewriting his own story, he became a criminal, a minister, a leader, and an icon,... |
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The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
Annette Gordon-Reed - W. W. Norton & Company; Illustrated edition Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize: "[A] commanding and important book." -- Jill Lepore, The New Yorker In the mid-1700s the English captain of a trading... |
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An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943
Rick Atkinson - Henry Holt and Co.; 1st edition Format: Hardcover
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn the first volume of his monumental trilogy about the liberation of Europe in WW II, Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson tells the riveting story of the war in North AfricaThe liberation of Europe and the destruction of the Third... |
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Founding brothers : the revolutionary generation
Joseph J Ellis - Knopf; 1st edition Format: Print book
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Includes material on John Adams, Aaron Burr, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington. |
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No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
Doris Kearns Goodwin - Simon & Schuster Audio Format: Audiobook
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Pulitzer Prize Winner, History, 1995No Ordinary Time describes how the isolationist and divided United States of 1940 was unified under the extraordinary leadership of Franklin Roosevelt to become the preeminent economic and military power in the world. Using diaries, interviews, and White... |
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Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
James M McPherson - Oxford University Press Format: eBook
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Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Freedom will unquestionably become the standard one-volume history of the Civil War. James McPhersons fast-paced narrative fully integrates the political, social, and military... |
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Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
Tim Weiner - Doubleday; First Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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For the last sixty years the CIA has managed to maintain a formidable reputation in spite of its terrible record burying its blunders in top-secret archives Its mission was to know the world When it did not succeed it set out to change the world Its failures have handed us in the words... |
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
Timothy Egan - Mariner Books; 1St Edition edition Format: Paperback
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The Worst Hard Time is an epic story of blind hope and endurance almost beyond belief it is also, as Tim Egan has told it, a riveting tale of bumptious charlatans, conmen, and tricksters, environmental arrogance and hubris, political chicanery, and a ruinous ignorance of natures ways.... |
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The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
T.J. Stiles - Knopf; First Edition Format: Hardcover
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD In this groundbreaking biography, T.J. Stiles tells the dramatic story of Cornelius "Commodore" Vanderbilt, the combative man and American icon who, through his genius and force of will, did more than perhaps any other... |
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The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
George Packer - Farrar, Straus and Giroux Format: Audiobook
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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKAN NPR BEST BOOKSelected by New York Times critic Dwight Garner as a Favorite BookA Washington Post Best Political BookA New Republic Best BookA riveting examination of a nation in crisis, from one of the finest... |
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Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
Robert A. Caro - Knopf; 1st edition Format: Hardcover
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Book Three of Robert A. Caros monumental work, The Years of Lyndon Johnsonthe most admired and riveting political biography of our erawhich began with the best-selling and prizewinning The Path to Power and Means of Ascent.Master of the Senate carries Lyndon Johnsons story through one of its most... |
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A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
Neil Sheehan - Vintage; 1st Vintage Books ed edition
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ONE OF THE MOST ACCLAIMED BOOKS OF OUR TIME25th ANNIVERSARY EDITIONWhen he came to Vietnam in 1962, Lieutenant Colonel John Paul Vann was the one clear-sighted participant in an enterpirse riddled with arrogance and self-deception, a charismatic soldier who put his life and career on the line... |
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition
Richard Rhodes - Simon & Schuster; Anv Rep edition Format: Paperback
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Twenty-five years after its initial publication, The Making of the Atomic Bomb remains the definitive history of nuclear weapons and the Manhattan Project. From the turn-of-the-century discovery of nuclear energy to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan, Richard Rhodess Pulitzer Prize-winning... |
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The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
Ron Chernow - Atlantic Monthly Pr; 1st edition Format: Hardcover
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The most ambitious history ever written about an American banking dynasty, The House of Morgan traces the astonishing path of the J.P. Morgan empire with the sweep of an epic novel. "Brilliantly researched and written" (The Wall Street Journal), the hardcover was recently named... |
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
Nathaniel Philbrick - Penguin Format: Paperback
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From the author of the forthcoming book, Valiant Ambition, the riveting and critically acclaimed bestseller, soon to be a major motion picture on December 11, 2015, directed by Ron Howard Chris Hemsworth, Cillian Murphy, Ben Whishaw, and Brendan Gleeson will star in a new film based... |
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