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American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies
Michael W. Kauffman - Random House
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It is a tale as familiar as our history primers: A deranged actor, John Wilkes Booth, killed Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theatre, escaped on foot, and eluded capture for twelve days until he met his fiery end in a Virginia tobacco barn. In the national hysteria that followed, eight others... |
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Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West
Dorothy Wickenden - Scribner; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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This exhilarating saga about two intrepid young women who leave the affluence of their New York home to teach school on the Western frontier in 1916 is authentically created using actual letters home and interviews with descendants.Dorothy Woodruff and Rosamond Underwood attended grade... |
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America's Battlegrounds: Walk in the Footsteps of America's Bravest
Richard Sauers - Readers Digest
Format: Hardcover
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Pitched as a history and as a guidebook, this thoughtfully put together tour through American war sites takes readers to territories that will be unfamiliar to many. Over five broad chapters, veteran military historian Sauers (Advance the Colors) begins with the American Revolution, hitting... |
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How the End Begins: The Road to a Nuclear World War III
Ron Rosenbaum - Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The president loses control of fifty nukes for nearly an hour. Russian nuclear bombers almost bump wingtips with American fighter jets over the Pacific coast. North Korea detonates nuclear weapons underground. Irans nuclear shroud is penetrated by a computer worm. Al-Qaeda goes on the hunt... |
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National Geographic Visual History of the World
Douglas Brinkley - National Geographic
Format: Hardcover
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The world history book to define all others, National Geographic Visual History of the World is a classic in the making. No other volume offers such a comprehensive and richly illustrated chronicle of world events, from the construction of the Pyramids to the overthrow of the Taliban. Readers... |
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Young Benjamin Franklin: The Birth of Ingenuity
Nick Bunker - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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In this new account of Franklin's early life, Pulitzer finalist Nick Bunker portrays him as a complex, driven young man who elbows his way to success.From his early career as a printer and journalist, to his scientific work and his role as a founder of a new republic, Benjamin Franklin... |
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Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Re-Made America
Garry Wills - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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An account of Lincoln's revolutionary speech describes how, in the space of a mere 272 words, the President brought to bear the rhetoric of the Greek Revival, the categories of transcendentalism, and the imagery of the Rural Cemetary Movement. 25,000 first printing. |
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The Queen & Di: The Untold Story
Ingrid Seward - Arcade Publishing; 1st U.S. ed edition
Format: Hardcover
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As the editor of Majesty magazine, Ingrid Seward has developed professional and personal relationships with the royal family. We discover a surprising portrait of the English monarch and the princess, contradicting what the press has previously reported: a fragile Diana battling an unfeeling... |
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Land of Lincoln: Adventures in Abe's America
Andrew Ferguson - Atlantic Monthly Press; 1ST edition
Format: Hardcover
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A journalist embarks on a cross-country odyssey in search of Abraham Lincoln's place in modern-day America and discovers the often surprising legacy of his personality, philosophy, and mythology. |
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My War Gone By, I Miss It So
Anthony Loyd - Atlantic Monthly Pr
Format: Hardcover
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An extraordinary, personal look at modern war by a young correspondent who saw its horrors firsthand, My War Gone By, I Miss It So is already being compared to the classics of war literature.Born into a distinguished family steeped in military tradition, from his youth Anthony Loyd longed... |
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Made in America: A Social History of American Culture and Character
Claude S. Fischer - University Of Chicago Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Our nation began with the simple phrase, We the People. But who were and are We Who were we in 1776, in 1865, or 1968, and is there any continuity in character between the we of those years and the nearly 300 million people living in the radically different America of todayWith Made in America,... |
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The American Dream: The 50s (Our American Century)
Time-Life Books - Time Life Education
Format: Hardcover
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Time-Life begins its newest set, based on its highly successful "This Fabulous Century" series, with a look at one of our country's liveliest decades. The work is the first of eight volumes to be published under the "Our American Century" brand. After the foreword,... |
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The Russian Civil War
Evan Mawdsley - Pegasus
Format: Hardcover
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"The best book ever written on the Russian civil war. A first-rate work of scholarly synthesis."—Robert McNealIn St. Petersburg on October 25, 1917, the A commanding chronicle of the three Bolshevik Party stormed the capital city and turbulent years that brought the ironfisted... |
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The Story of the West
Kay Donovan - DK ADULT; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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This blend of social, cultural, political, and economic history tells the complete story of the American West -- from prehistoric mammoth hunters to present-day Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. Written in an clear, engaging style by prominent historians in conjunction with the Smithsonian... |
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Knight: The Warrior and World of Chivalry
Robert Jones - Osprey Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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From a life-long student of the medieval long sword and medieval history comes a comprehensive overview of the Age of the Knights. Jones shows that behind the popular image of the knight in shining armor lies a world that is both more complex and more fascinating. Were knights glory-seeking,... |
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White trash : the 400-year untold history of class in America
Nancy Isenberg - Tantor Audio
Format: Audiobook
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The wretched and landless poor have existed from the time of the earliest British colonial settlement. They were alternately known as "waste people," "offals," "rubbish," "lazy lubbers," and "crackers." By the 1850s, the downtrodden included... |
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America in Space: Nasa's First Fifty Years
Robert Jacobs - Harry N. Abrams; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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NASA launches a yearlong celebration of its 50th anniversary in the fall of 2007, and Abrams is privileged to publish this visual history of its many achievements in manned and unmanned space travel. Written and edited by a team of experienced NASA staffers, and illustrated with many unpublished... |
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The Sixteenth Rail: The Evidence, the Scientist, and the Lindbergh Kidnapping
Adam Schrager - Fulcrum Publishing
Format: Paperback
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Before there was CSI and NCIS, there was a mild-mannered forensic scientist whose diligence would help solve the twentieth century's greatest crime. Arthur Koehler was called the Sherlock Holmes of his era for his work tracing the ladder used to kidnap Charles Lindbergh's son to the culprit.... |
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The Making of a Racist: A Southerner Reflects on Family, History, and the Slave Trade
Charles B Dew - University of Virginia Press
Format: Print book
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In this powerful memoir, Charles Dew, one of America's most respected historians of the South--and particularly its history of slavery--turns the focus on his own life, which began not in the halls of enlightenment but in a society unequivocally committed to segregation. Dew re-creates... |
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In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
Hampton Sides - Random House Inc
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides returns with a white-knuckle tale of polar exploration and survival in the Gilded AgeIn the late nineteenth century, people were obsessed by one of the last unmapped areas of the globe: the North Pole. No one knew what existed beyond... |
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Forgotten: The Untold Story of D-Day's Black Heroes, at Home and at War
Linda Hervieux - Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Print book
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The injustices of 1940s Jim Crow America are brought to life in this extraordinary blend of military and social history - a story that pays tribute to the valor of an all-black battalion whose crucial contributions at D-Day have gone unrecognized to this day.In the early hours of June 6, 1944,... |
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The Library: A Catalogue of Wonders
STUART KELLS - Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover
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"If you think you know what a library is, this marvellously idiosyncratic book will make you think again. After visiting hundreds of libraries around the world and in the realm of the imagination, bibliophile and rare-book collector Stuart Kells has compiled an enchanting compendium... |
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Twin Tracks : The Unexpected Origins of the Modern World
James Burke - Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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This is a landmark book of real-world stories that contends with the nature of change and divines as never beforethe unlikely origins of many aspects od contemporary life. The book pin points the myrid of ways the future is shaped, whether by love, war, accident, genius, or discovery. |
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The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870-1914
David G McCullough - Simon and Schuster
Format: Book
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The National Book Award-winning epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal, a first-rate drama of the bold and brilliant engineering feat that was filled with both tragedy and triumph, told by master historian David McCullough.From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Truman, here... |
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1970s
Milan Bobek - Eldorado Ink
Format: Book
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The Decades of the Twentieth Century is an informative and richly illustrated portrait of the last one hundred years. All the important events between 1900 and 2000 are explained in text and photographs: political incidents, developments in science and technology, arts, literature and music,... |
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Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad
Eric Foner - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Paperback
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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 Prize-winning... |
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On Hitler's Mountain: Overcoming the Legacy of a Nazi Childhood
Irmgard Hunt - HarperCollins
Format: Book
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An account of a woman who spent her childhood in the shadow of Hitler's famous alpine retreat, otherwise known as The Eagle's Nest, describes her family's witness to Third Reich activities, the impact of Aryan values on their belief systems, and her membership in the Hitler... |
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Two Rings: A Story of Love and War
Millie Werber - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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Judged only as a World War Two survivor's chronicle, Millie Werber's story would be remarkable enough. Born in central Poland in the town of Radom, she found herself trapped in the ghetto at the age of fourteen, a slave laborer in an armaments factory in the summer of 1942, transported... |
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Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America
CATHERINE KERRISON - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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Thomas Jefferson fathered three girls: two white and free, one black and a slave. This book about Martha, Maria, and Harriet tells the fascinating story of their very different lives at Monticello and beyond, as daughters of one of our most brilliant and complicated Founding Fathers. |
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Mexicans in the Making of America
Neil Foley - Belknap Press
Format: Hardcover
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According to census projections, by 2050 nearly one in three U.S. residents will be Latino, and the overwhelming majority of these will be of Mexican descent. This dramatic demographic shift is reshaping politics, culture, and fundamental ideas about American identity. Neil Foley, a leading... |
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The Fourth of July: And the Founding of America
Peter De Bolla - Overlook Hardcover
Format: Hardcover
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The United States is a nation that touts its diversity but there is one tradition that all Americans love to share Every year on the Fourth of July Americans celebrate the founding of the nation Independence Day is the greatest of national traditions but much of the inherited lore that... |
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American Heritage History of the Battle of Gettysburg
American Heritage Publishing Staff - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover
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Filled with photographs, drawings, maps, first-hand accounts, and essays, a lavishly illustrated and thorough history of one of the most lethal battles in all of American history provides a gripping narrative that captures the personalities, struggles, and decisions on both sides of the battlefield.... |
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Haiti After the Earthquake
Paul Farmer - PublicAffairs; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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On January a massive earthquake laid waste to Port-au-Prince Haiti killing hundreds of thousands of people Within three days Dr Paul Farmer arrived in the Haitian capital along with a team of volunteers to lend his services to the injuredIn this vivid narrative Farmer describes the incredible... |
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A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School
Lisa Frazier Page - One World/Ballantine; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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When fourteen-year-old Carlotta Walls walked up the stairs of Little Rock Central High School on September 25, 1957, she and eight other black students only wanted to make it to class. But the journey of the Little Rock Nine, as they came to be known, would lead the nation on an even longer... |
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And Die in the West: The Story of the O.K. Corral Gunfight
Paula Mitchell Marks - William Morrow & Co; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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Was it murder or self-defense when the three Earp brothers and Doc Holliday confronted the Clanton and McLaury brothers on the streets of Tombstone, Ariz.? Each side has had its partisans, and the subject is still debated by historians. Marks delivers an exhaustive account of this episode... |
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The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve
STEPHEN GREENBLATT - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Stephen Greenblatt -- Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author of The Swerve and Will in the World -- investigates the life of one of humankind's greatest stories.Bolder, even, than the ambitious books for which Stephen Greenblatt is already renowned, The Rise and Fall of Adam... |
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Paradise of the Pacific: Approaching Hawaii
Susanna Moore - Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Illustrated edition
Format: Hardcover
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The dramatic history of Americas tropical paradiseThe history of Hawaii may be said to be the story of arrivals -- from the eruption of volcanoes on the ocean floor 18,000 feet below, the first hardy seeds that over millennia found their... |
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Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
Pierre Cambon - National Geographic
Format: Paperback
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Almost 30 years ago, a precious trove of art was spirited away from the National Museum of Afghanistan by a small group of "keyholders" —museum guards, curators, and antiquities lovers who risked their lives to save the country’s cultural treasures. Their actions spared... |
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The History of Pirates
Angus Konstam - Lyons Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Piracy flourished in the early eighteenth century, producing many of the pirates whose names have gripped our imaginations: Blackbeard, Captain Kidd, and Bartholomew Roberts, to name a few. Yet piracy existed long before Blackbeard's name struck terror in the hearts of merchant seamen... |
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Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story
David Maraniss - Simon & Schuster, 2015. ©2015
Format: Print book
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"Elegiac and richly detailed...[Maraniss] succeeds with authoritative, adrenaline-laced flair...evocative." - Michiko Kakutani for The New York Times As David Maraniss captures it with power and affection, Detroit summed up America's path to music and prosperity that was already... |
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To Hell With Honor: Custer and the Little Bighorn
Larry Sklenar - Univ of Oklahoma Pr
Format: Hardcover
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The image of the famous "last stand" of the Seventh U.S. Cavalry under General George Armstrong Custer has transmogrified into myth. We imagine the solitary Custer standing upright to the end, his troops formed into groups of wounded and dying men around him. In To Hell with Honor,... |
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Uncovering Your Ancestry through Family Photographs
Maureen Alice Taylor - Family Tree Books
Format: Paperback
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In this visually stunning book of historic family photographs, renowned family history researcher and photography expert Maureen A. Taylor shows you how to cherish old photographs and what clues they can provide to your ancestors' lives. You will learn how to:Identify and verify people... |
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Tales From a Tin Can: The USS Dale from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay
Marlene Olson - Zenith Press; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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“What was life like on a destroyer during World War II? Find out by reading Michael Keith Olson’s superb telling of tales of the war in the Pacific as seen from the deck of a very luck ‘tin can”… The son of a former Dale crewman, Olson interviewed 44 veterans... |
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The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression
Amity Shlaes - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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It's difficult today to imagine how America survived the Great Depression. Only through the stories of the common people who struggled during that era can we really understand how the nation endured. These are the people at the heart of Amity Shlaes's insightful and inspiring history of one of the most... |
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1900s: Decades of the 20th Century
Milan Bobek - Eldorado Ink
Format: Book
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The Decades of the Twentieth Century is an informative and richly illustrated portrait of the last one hundred years. All the important events between 1900 and 2000 are explained in text and photographs: political incidents, developments in science and technology, arts, literature and music,... |
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Fierce Patriot: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman
Robert L O'Connell - Random House
Format: Book
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National bestseller William Tecumseh Sherman was more than just one of our greatest generals. Fierce Patriot is a bold, revisionist portrait of how this iconic and enigmatic figure exerted an outsize impact on the American landscape - and the American character. America's first "celebrity"... |
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The Sistine Secrets: Michelangelo's Forbidden Messages in the Heart of the Vatican
Benjamin Blech - HarperOne
Format: Book
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Five hundred years ago Michelangelo began work on a painting that became one of the most famous pieces of art in the world - the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Every year millions of people come to see Michelangelo's Sistine ceiling, which is the largest fresco painting on earth in the holiest... |
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The Last Days of the Incas
Kim MacQuarrie - Simon & Schuster; 1st. edition
Format: Hardcover
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In 1532, the fifty-four-year-old Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro led a force of 167 men, including his four brothers, to the shores of Peru. Unbeknownst to the Spaniards, the Inca rulers of Peru had just fought a bloody civil war in which the emperor Atahualpa had defeated his brother... |
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Bringing Adam Home: The Abduction That Changed America
Les Standiford - Ecco; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Before Adam Walsh there were no faces on milk cartons, no Amber Alerts, no federal databases of crimes against children. His abduction and murderunsolved for more than a quarter of a centuryforever changed America. Shocked by Adams murder and the inability of the police and FBI to find... |
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The Vietnam War: An Intimate History
Geoffrey C Ward - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the award-winning historian and filmmakers of The Civil War, Baseball, The War, The Roosevelts, and others: a vivid, uniquely powerful history of the conflict that tore America apart--the companion volume to the major, multipart PBS film to be aired in September 2017.More than... |
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We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights
Adam Winkler - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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We the Corporations chronicles the revelatory story of one of the most successful, yet least known, "civil rights movements" in American history. In this groundbreaking portrait of corporate seizure of political power, We the Corporations reveals how American businesses won equal... |
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Sailing from Byzantium: How a Lost Empire Shaped the World
Colin Wells - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover
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A gripping intellectual adventure story, Sailing from Byzantium sweeps you from the deserts of Arabia to the dark forests of northern Russia, from the colorful towns of Renaissance Italy to the final moments of a millennial city under siege….Byzantium: the successor of Greece and Rome,... |
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What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War
Chandra Manning - Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Deckle Edge]
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A vivid, unprecedented account of why Union and Confederate soldiers identified slavery as the root of the war, how the conflict changed troops’ ideas about slavery, and what those changing ideas meant for the war and the nation.Using soldiers’ letters, diaries, and regimental... |
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Revolutionaries
Time-Life Books. - Time Life-Books
Format: Book
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The visually lush presentation of paintings, documents, and artifacts is sure to appeal to students doing research or just looking for an attractive presentation. The text describes the events of the Revolutionary War, with inset essays on such topics as the work of a Quaker housewife and the role... |
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In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692
Mary Beth Norton - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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Award-winning historian Mary Beth Norton reexamines the Salem witch trials in this startlingly original, meticulously researched, and utterly riveting study. In 1692 the people of Massachusetts were living in fear, and not solely of satanic afflictions. Horrifyingly violent Indian attacks... |
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The Town That Started the Civil War
Nat Brandt - Syracuse Univ Pr
Format: Hardcover
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In a work of first-rate scholarship as well as popular history at its most enjoyable, Brandt, former editor of Publishers Weekly , introduces readers to a little-known event that occurred in the college town of Oberlin, Ohio, a stop on the Underground Railroad. Slave-hunters incurred the resentment... |
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Inside SEAL Team Six: My Life and Missions with America's Elite Warriors
Don Mann - Little, Brown and Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The Inside Story of America's Ultimate Warriors When Osama bin Laden was assassinated, the entire world was fascinated by the men who had completed the seemingly impossible mission that had dogged the U.S. government for over a decade. SEAL Team 6 became synonymous with heroism, duty,... |
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The Sixties Unplugged: A Kaleidoscopic History of a Disorderly Decade
Gerard J. DeGroot - Harvard University Press; First edition
Format: Hardcover
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“If you remember the Sixties,” quipped Robin Williams, “you weren’t there.” That was, of course, an oblique reference to the mind-bending drugs that clouded perception—yet time has proven an equally effective hallucinogen. This book revisits the Sixties... |
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Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu
Laurence Bergreen - Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook
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As the most celebrated European to explore Asia, Marco Polo was the original global traveler and the earliest bridge between East and West. A universal icon of adventure and discovery, he has inspired six centuries of popular fascination and spurious mythology. Now, from acclaimed author... |
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Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance
Mark Whitaker - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The other great Renaissance of black culture, influence, and glamour burst forth joyfully in what may seem an unlikely place - Pittsburgh, PA - from the 1920s through the 1950s.Today black Pittsburgh is known as the setting for August Wilson's famed plays about noble but doomed working-class... |
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Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History, 1513-2008
Henry Louis Gates Jr. - Knopf; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr., gives us a sumptuously illustrated landmark book tracing African American history from the arrival of the conquistadors to the election of Barack Obama. Informed by the latest, sometimes provocative scholarship and including more than seven hundred images—ancient... |
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Caterpillar Chronicle: The History of the World's Greatest Earthmovers
Eric C. Orlemann - Motorbooks; First, New Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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“If it’s big and it’s yellow, it’s in here!” one reader of this book remarked on Amazon. And another: “To anyone interested in the big iron, this book will not disappoint.” That’s the kind of satisfaction Eric Orlemann delivers... |
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Donovan's Devils: OSS Commandos Behind Enemy LinesEurope, World War II
Albert Lulushi - Arcade Pubishing, 2016.
Format: Print book
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The stirring, little-known story of the forerunners to today's Special Forces.The OSS - Office of Strategic Services - created under the command of William Donovan, has been celebrated for its cloak-and-dagger operations during World War II and as the precursor of the CIA. As the "Oh... |
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The Devil's Tickets: A Night of Bridge, a Fatal Hand, and a New American Age
Gary M Pomerantz - Crown Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Kansas City, 1929: Myrtle and Jack Bennett sit down with another couple for an evening of bridge. As the game intensifies, Myrtle complains that Jack is a "bum bridge player." For such insubordination, he slaps her hard in front of their stunned guests and announces he is leaving.... |
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Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948
Madeleine Albright - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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Drawing on her own memory, her parents' written reflections, interviews with contemporaries, and newly-available documents, former US Secretary of State and New York Times bestselling author Madeleine Albright recounts a tale that is by turns harrowing and inspiring.Before she turned twelve,... |
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Soldiers Story
Ron Steinman - TV Books
Format: Hardcover
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The Vietnam War raged for ten years and when it was over 58,000 Americans lay dead. The war changed the consciousness of the military and the very nature of warfare in the future. Gathering the voices and eyewitness stories of seventy-seven veterans from all branches of the military,... |
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The Handy Diabetes Answer Book
Patricia L Barnes-Svarney - Visible Ink Press
Format: Paperback
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Whether young, old, type 1, type 2, gestational, newly-diagnosed, long-time sufferer, caretaker or loved one, millions of people are afflicted and affected by diabetes. The CDC estimates 9.3% of the population in the U.S. and Canada have diabetes, with millions more with prediabetes. From... |
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The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art
Joan Marter - Oxford University Press
Format: Book
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The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art is an ambitious publishing endeavor, unparalleled in its comprehensive approach to the study of art in the United States. Edited by Joan Marter, Distinguished Professor of Art History at Rutgers University, the five-volume Encyclopedia reconceptualizes... |
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Shots on the Bridge: Police Violence and Cover-Up in the Wake of Katrina
Ronnie Greene - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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A harrowing story of blue on black violence, of black lives that seemingly did not matter.On September 4, 2005, six days after Hurricane Katrina's landfall in New Orleans, two groups of people intersected on the Danziger Bridge, a low-rising expanse over the Industrial Canal. One was the police... |
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Hershey: Milton S. Hershey's Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire, and Utopian Dreams
Michael D'Antonio - Simon & Schuster; First edition
Format: Hardcover
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The name Hershey evokes many things: chocolate bars, the company town in Pennsylvania, one of America's most recognizable brands. But who was the man behind the name? In this compelling biography, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Michael D'Antonio gives us the real-life rags-to-riches... |
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The Murder of King Tut: The Plot to Kill the Child King - A Nonfiction Thriller
James Patterson - Little, Brown and Company; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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James Patterson and Martin Dugard dig through stacks of evidence--X-rays, archaeologist Howard Carter's files dealing with the discovery of a long-lost crypt, forensic clues, and stories told through the ages--to arrive at their own account of King Tut's life and death. The result... |
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Indian Yell: The Heart of an American Insurgency
Michael Blake - Northland; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Grounded in meticulous research and written with an uncanny understanding of the military and of American Indian culture, Blake offers soulful profiles of the participants, both Indian and cavalry. Indian Yell is filled with accounts of harrowing sacrifice and tragic misdeeds of real people-Blake... |
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Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius
Colin Dickey - Unbridled Books
Format: Print book
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The after-death stories of Franz Joseph Haydn, Ludwig Beethoven, Swedenborg, Sir Thomas Browne and many others have never before been told in such detail and vividness.Fully illustrated with some surprising images, this is a fascinating and authoritative history of ideas carried along on the guilty... |
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CITIZEN SOLDIERS : The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany -- June 7, 1944-May 7, 1945
Stephen E Ambrose - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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This sequel to D-DAY opens at 00:01 hours, June 7, 1944 on the Normandy Beaches and ends at 02:45 hours, May 7, 1945. In between comes the battles in the hedgerows of Normandy, the breakout of Saint-Lo, the Falaise gap, Patton tearing through France, the liberation of Paris, the attempt... |
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The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey
Rinker Buck - Simon & Schuster; 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * #1 Indie Next Pick * Winner of the PEN New England Award "Enchanting ... A book filled with so much love ... Long before Oregon, Rinker Buck has convinced us that the best way to see America is from the seat of a covered wagon." - The Wall Street... |
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Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon's Secret World
Trevor Paglen - Dutton
Format: Print book
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Blank Spots on the Map is an expose of an empire that continues to grow every year - and which, officially, it isn't even there. It is the adventurous, insightful, and often chilling story of a young geographer's road trip through the underworld of U.S. military and C.I.A. "black... |
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The Great Wall: The Extraordinary Story of China's Wonder of the World
John Man - Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover
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The Great Wall of China is a wonder of the world. Every year, hundreds of thousands of tourists take the five-mile journey from Beijing to climb its battlements. While myriad photographs have made this extraordinary landmark familiar to millions more, its story remains mysterious and steeped... |
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The African American Experience During World War II (The African American History Series)
Neil A. Wynn - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Drawing on more than thirty years of teaching and research, Neil A. Wynn combines narrative history and primary sources as he locates the World War II years within the long-term struggle for African Americans' equal rights. It is now widely accepted that these years were crucial in the development... |
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Malabar Farm
Louis Bromfield - Wooster Book Co.
Format: Book
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Book by Louis Bromfield, E. B. White |
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Gettysburg: The Last Invasion
Allen C. Guelzo - Alfred A. Knopf; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the acclaimed Civil War historian, a brilliant new historythe most intimate and richly readable account we have hadof the climactic three-day battle of Gettysburg July 13, 1863, which draws the reader into the heat, smoke, and grime of Gettysburg alongside the ordinary soldier, and depicts... |
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Theodore Roosevelt: The Rough Riders/An Autobiography (Library of America)
Theodore Roosevelt - Library of America
Format: Hardcover
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Reformer, rancher, conservationist, hunter, historian, police commissioner, soldier, the youngest man ever to serve as President of the United States - no other American public figure has led as vigorous and varied a life as Theodore Roosevelt. This Library of America volume brings together... |
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The Red Man's Bones: George Catlin, Artist and Showman
Benita Eisler - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The first biography in over sixty years of a great American artist whose paintings are more famous than the man who made them. George Catlin has been called the "first artist of the West," as none before him lived among and painted the Native American tribes of the Northern Plains.... |
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Gettysburg: The Confederate High Tide
Champ Clark - Time-Life Books; Time-Life Civil War edition
Format: Loose Leaf
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Wonderful book on what led to this Great battle of the Civil War as well as great detail about the 3 day epic conflict. |
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The Gettysburg Address: Perspectives on Lincoln's Greatest Speech
Sean Conant - Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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It is the most famous speech Lincoln ever gave, and one of the most important orations in the history of the nation. Delivered on November 19, 1863, among the freshly dug graves of the Union dead, the Gettysburg Address defined the central meaning of the Civil War and gave cause for the nation's... |
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The Peloponnesian War
Thucydides - Oxford University Press; Tra edition
Format: Paperback
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"The greatest historian that ever lived." Such was Macaulay's assessment of Thucydides (c. 460-400 BC) and his history of the Peloponnesian War, the momentous struggle between Athens and Sparta that lasted for twenty-seven years from 431 to 404 BC, involved virtually the whole... |
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Vicksburg 1863
Winston Groom - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book
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A riveting history of the battle that permanently turned the tide of the Civil War.While Gettysburg is better known, Winston Groom makes clear in this engrossing narrative that Vicksburg was the more important battle from a strategic point of view. Re-creating the epic campaign that culminated... |
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Beyond the River: A True Story of the Underground Railroad
Ann Hagedorn - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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"Beyond the River" brings to brilliant life the dramatic story of the forgotten heroes of the Ripley, Ohio, line of the Underground Railroad.The decades preceding the Civil War were rife with fierce sectarian violence along the borders between slave and free states. The Ohio River... |
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Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence
Joseph J. Ellis - Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Pulitzer-winning American historian Joseph Ellis tells an old story in a new way, with a freshness at once colorful and compelling. The summer months of 1776 witnessed the most consequential events in the story of our country's founding. While the thirteen colonies came together and agreed... |
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The Dogs of War: 1861
Emory M. Thomas - Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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In 1861, Americans thought that the war looming on their horizon would be brief. None foresaw that they were embarking on our nation's worst calamity, a four-year bloodbath that cost the lives of more than half a million people. But as eminent Civil War historian Emory Thomas points out in this... |
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Black April: The Fall of South Vietnam, 1973-75
George J Veith - Encounter Books
Format: Hardcover
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The defeat of South Vietnam was arguably America’s worst foreign policy disaster of the 20th Century. Yet a complete understanding of the endgame—from the 27 January 1973 signing of the Paris Peace Accords to South Vietnam’s surrender on 30 April 1975—has eluded... |
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The miracle of Dunkirk
Walter Lord - Open Road Media
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Stranded on the beach with the Nazis closing in, the British army managed one of the most unlikely maneuvers in modern military history In May of 1940, the remnants of the French and British armies, broken by Hitler's blitzkrieg, retreated to Dunkirk. Hemmed in by overwhelming Nazi... |
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Soldiers of Freedom: An Illustrated History of African Americans in the Armed Forces
Kai Wright - Black Dog & Leventhal
Format: Book
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Spanning from the American Revolution to the war in Afghanistan, this long-overdue, comprehensive history covers the full scope of African Americans' involvement in the armed forces during war and peacetime. Accompanying the informative text are 300 photographs and illustrations, most... |
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OHIO: THE HISTORY OF A PEOPLE
Andrew R. L. Cayton - Ohio State University Press
Format: Hardcover
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As the state of Ohio prepares to celebrate its bicentennial in 2003, Andrew R. L. Cayton offers an account of ways in which diverse citizens have woven its history. Ohio: The History of a People, centers around the many stories Ohioans have told about life in their state. The founders of Ohio... |
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The Wounded Warrior Handbook: A Resource Guide for Returning Veterans
Don Philpott - Government Institutes
Format: Paperback
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The typical wounded soldier must complete and file 22 forms following an active-duty injury. To many soldiers and their families coping with the shock and reality of the injuries, figuring out what to do next -- even completing tasks as seemingly easy as submitting paperwork -- can be overwhelming... |
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The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain
Bill Bryson - Doubleday
Format: Print book
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Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to discover and celebrate that green and pleasant land. The result was Notes from a Small Island, one of the bestselling travel books ever written. Now he has traveled about Britain again, by bus and train and rental car and on foot,... |
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Last of the Blue and Gray: Old Men, Stolen Glory, and the Mystery That Outlived the Civil War
Richard A. Serrano - Smithsonian Books
Format: Hardcover
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Richard Serrano, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for the Los Angeles Times, pens a story of two veterans. In the late 1950s, as America prepared for the Civil War centennial, two very old men lay dying. Albert Woolson, 109 years old, slipped in and out of a coma at a Duluth, Minnesota,... |
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Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life
Queen Noor - Miramax; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Leap of Faith is the dramatic and inspiring story of an American woman's remarkable journey into the heart of a man and his nation. Born into a distinguished Arab-American family and raised amid privilege, Lisa Halaby joined the first freshman class at Princeton to accept women,... |
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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: London
DK Publishing - DK Travel; Fol Pap/Ma edition
Format: Paperback
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Newly revised, updated, and redesigned for 2014. Experience the best of London with DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: London. This newly updated travel guide for London will lead you straight to the best attractions this city has to offer, whether you are looking for the "real" London... |
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10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America
Steven M Gillon - Three Rivers Press
Format: Paperback
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A companion book to The History Channel special series of ten one-hour documentaries10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America pinpoints pivotal days that transformed our nation. For the series and the book, The History Channel challenged a panel of leading historians, including author Steven... |
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Terrible Swift Sword: The Life of General Philip H. Sheridan
Joseph Wheelan - Da Capo Press; 1ST edition
Format: Hardcover
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Alongside Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman, Philip H. Sheridan is the least known of the triumvirate of generals most responsible for winning the Civil War. Yet, before Shermans famous march through Georgia, it was General Sheridan who introduced scorched-earth warfare to the South,... |
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National Geographic Historical Atlas of the United States
National Geographic Society - National Geographic
Format: Hardcover
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The Historical Atlas of the United States tells the story of the moments, people, and places that propelled forward the formation of what we know as modern America, providing a vital insight to understanding America today. Beginning in 1450, it will highlight-in chronological order-landmark... |
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New York: An Illustrated History
Ric Burns - Alfred A. Knopf; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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The companion volume to the PBS television series, with more than 500 full-color and black-and-white illustrationsThis lavish and handsomely produced book captures all the beauty, complexity, and power of New York -- the city that seems the very embodiment of ambition, aspiration, romance,... |
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Don't Hurt People and Don't Take Their Stuff: A Libertarian Manifesto
Matt Kibbe - HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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In this essential manifesto of the new libertarian movement, New York Times bestselling author and president of FreedomWorks Matt Kibbe makes a stand for individual liberty and shows us what we must do to preserve our freedom.Don't Hurt People and Don't Take Their Stuff is a rational... |
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One Hundred Victories: Special Ops and the Future of American Warfare
Linda Robinson - PublicAffairs; First Edition edition
Format: Book
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One Hundred Victories is a portrait of how - after a decade of intensive combat operations - special operations forces have become the go-to force for US military endeavors worldwide.Linda Robinson follows the evolution of special ops in Afghanistan, their longest deployment since Vietnam.... |
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The Spartacus War
Barry S Strauss - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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The Spartacus War is the extraordinary story of the most famous slave rebellion in the ancient world, the fascinating true story behind a legend that has been the inspiration for novelists, filmmakers, and revolutionaries for 2,000 years. Starting with only seventy-four men, a gladiator... |
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Daring Young Men: The Heroism and Triumph of The Berlin Airlift-June 1948-May 1949
Richard Reeves - Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In the early hours of June 26, 1948, phones began ringing across America, waking up the airmen of World War II - pilots, navigators, and mechanics - who were finally beginning normal lives with new houses, new jobs, new wives, and new babies. Some were given just forty-eight hours to report... |
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Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa
R.A. Scotti - Knopf; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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On August 21, 1911, the unfathomable happenedLeonardo da Vincis Mona Lisa vanished from the Louvre. More than twenty-four hours passed before museum officials realized she was gone. The prime suspects were as shocking as the crime Pablo Picasso and Guillaume Apollinaire, young provocateurs... |
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A Guide to Biltmore Estate
Rachel Carley - Biltmore Co; First Edition
Format: Paperback
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Great book featuring the Biltmore Estate and Mansion. Over 90 color illustrations of the house, interior and exterior views, the gardens, historic views of the estate, period furnishings. Includes list of original objects and furnishings in the Biltmore Estate Collections. Softcover. |
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Masters and Commanders: How Four Titans Won the War in the West, 1941-1945
Andrew Roberts - Harper
Format: Print book
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"Masterly. . . . A triumph of vivid description, telling anecdotes, and informed analysis." - The New York Review of Books "Britain's finest contemporary military historian." - The Economist An epic joint biography of four titanic figures - a President, a Prime Minister,... |
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Hell Riders: The True Story of the Charge of the Light Brigade
Terry Brighton - Henry Holt and Co.; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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On the 150th anniversary of the world's most famous cavalry charge comes a revisionist retelling of the battle based on firsthand accounts from the soldiers who fought thereIn October 1854, with the Crimean War just under way and British and French troops pushing the tsar's forces... |
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