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Overreached on all sides : the Freedmen's Bureau administrators in Texas, 1865-1868

William L Richter · Texas A&M University Press
Pages: 436
Format: Book

Richter examines the military occupation of Texas and how the policies of a quasi-military bureau affected the state after the Civil War.
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Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad

Eric Foner · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Print book

The dramatic story of fugitive slaves and the antislavery activists who defied the law to help them reach freedom.More than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our understanding of Americas history. Now, making brilliant use of extraordinary evidence, the Pulitzer Prizewinning...
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By the People: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission

Charles Murray
Pages: 336
Format: Book

The American way of life, built on individual liberty and limited government, is on life support.American freedom is being gutted. Whether we are trying to run a business, practice a vocation, raise our families, cooperate with our neighbors, or follow our religious beliefs, we run afoul...
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American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House

Jon Meacham · Random House Trade Paperbacks; Reprint edition
Pages: 512
Format: Paperback

Andrew Jackson, his intimate circle of friends, and his tumultuous times are at the heart of this remarkable book about the man who rose from nothing to create the modern presidency. Beloved and hated, venerated and reviled, Andrew Jackson was an orphan who fought his way to the pinnacle...
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Witnesses of War: Children's Lives Under the Nazis

Nicholas Stargardt · Knopf; 1st US Edition edition
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

Already hailed as magnificent some of the best historical writing about the aftermath of the war I have ever read stunning The Guardian Witnesses of War breaks new ground in its exploration of the lives and the fate of children of all nationalities under the Nazi regime Children were...
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Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less: A Handbook for Slashing Gas Prices and Solving Our Energy Crisis

Newt Gingrich · Regnery Publishing; UNABRIDGED VERSION--INCLUDES BUMPER STICKER edition
Format: Paperback

New York Times bestselling author, former Speaker of the House, and Fox News political analyst Newt Gingrich has a plan for slashing gas prices and reducing our long-term dependence on foreign oil.Gingrich is famous for taking big, visionary ideas and boiling them down into practical solutions...
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The Texas Kickapoo: Keepers of Tradition

John Gesick · Texas Western Press
Pages: 197
Format: Hardcover

The Texas Kickapoo: Keepers of Tradition is Bill Wright's latest photographic study on American Indian tribes in Texas. Historian John Gesick contributes an historical essay that tells the story of the tribe's migration from the woodlands of the northeast to the deserts of Texas...
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The Constitution Made Easy: A Tea Partier's Guide

Edwin Meese III · Sterling
Pages: 136
Format: Hardcover

Written by a fixture on the Tea Party rally circuit, and unofficially adopted by the Party as its U.S. Constitution guide, this book goes to the ultimate source for answers to the hot-button questions about how our nation is meant to be governed. Each spread pairs a page from the Constitution...
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America: Imagine a World without Her

Dinesh D'Souza · Regnery Publishing, a Salem Communications Company, New York, NY
Pages: 289
Format: Print book

#1 New York Times BestsellerIs America a source of pride, as Americans have long held, or shame, as Progressives allege? Beneath an innocent exterior, are our lives complicit in a national project of theft, expropriation, oppression, and murder, or is America still the hope of the world?Dinesh...
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American Government: Roots and Reform, 2011 Texas Edition

Karen O'Connor · Pearson Longman
Pages: 991
Format: Book

Updated in a new 2011 Texas edition, American Government: Roots and Reform provides the historical context students need to understand our government and the most crucial and controversial issues affecting the nation in the 21st century. This bestselling book has been extensively revised...
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Plunder and deceit : big government's exploitation of young people and the future

Mark R Levin · Threshold Editions
Pages: 244
Format: Print book

In each of his astounding #1 New York Times bestsellers, Mark R. Levin's overlying patriotic mission has been to avert a devastating tragedy: The loss of the greatest republic known to mankind. But who stands to lose the most?In modern America, the civil society is being steadily devoured...
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A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination

Philip Shenon · Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

A groundbreaking, explosive account of the Kennedy assassination that will rewrite the history of the 20th centurys most controversial murder investigationThe questions have haunted our nation for half a century Was the President killed by a single gunman? Was Lee Harvey Oswald part of a conspiracy?...
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The Romanovs: The Final Chapter

Robert K Massie · Random House Inc
Format: Hardcover

In 1991, nine skeletons were exhumed from a shallow grave near Ekaterinberg, Siberia. Were these the remains of the last tsar and his family, murdered over 70 years before? Pulitzer Prize winner Massie now answers this question, going back to the horrifying moments of the slaughter, and describing...
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No place to hide : Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. surveillance state

Glenn Greenwald · Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt
Pages: 259
Format: Print book

Investigative reporter Glenn Greenwald provides an in-depth look into the National Security Agency scandal that has triggered a national debate over national security and information privacy. With further revelations from documents entrusted to Glenn Greenwald by Edward Snowden himself,...
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Why America Slept: The Failure to Prevent 9/11

Gerald L Posner · Random House
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

The story of the years leading up to 9/11 is the story of what might have been, and also serves as a call to the defense of America's future. Since 9/11, one important question has persisted: What was really going on behind the scenes with intelligence services and government leaders...
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