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New Arrivals Browse more New Arrivals in US History $18.95 New Trade Paper add to wish list Smash the Church, Smash the State!: The Early Years of Gay Liberation Tommi Avicolli (edt) Mecca $143.25 New Hardcover add to wish list Samuel Gompers Papers #11: The Samuel Gompers Papers, Volume 11: The Postwar Years 1918-21 Peter J. (edt) Albert $40.25 New Trade Paper add to wish list The Civil War on the River Lines of Virginia, 1862-1864: Decision on the Rappahannock and the Rapidan Rivers David Trask $21.00 Sale Hardcover add to wish list A Brave Vessel: The True Tale of the Castaways Who Rescued Jamestown and Inspired Shakespeare's "The Tempest" Hobson Woodward $35.95 New Hardcover add to wish list Hanging Between Heaven and Earth: Capital Crimes, Execution Preaching, and Theology in Early New England Scott Seay $9.95 New Trade Paper add to wish list John Adams: In His Own Words (Speaker's Corner) Robert C. (edt) Baron Browse more New Arrivals in US History General Browse more titles in US History-General The Supremes' Greatest Hits: The 34 Supreme Court Cases That Most Directly Affect Your Life by Michael G. Trachtman Publisher Comments Can the government seize your house in order to build a shopping mall? Can it determine what you can do to your own body? Why are you allowed to copy songs on a CD, but not music files from the Internet? The answers to those questions come from the... 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It was a deliciously creepy read, made more creepy for being true. Several times in the course of reading it, I had to keep reminding myself that the events really happened."... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list check for other copies US Presidency Browse more titles in US History-US Presidency Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama Publisher Comments In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father—a... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list check for other copies 20th Century Browse more titles in US History-20th Century Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by Vincent Bugliosi Publisher Comments For over forty years the truth about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy has been obscured. This book releases us from a crippling distortion of American history. This extraordinary and historic book required twenty years to research and... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price: $17.98 Sale - Hardcover add to wish list check for other copies 1860 to 1920 Browse more titles in US History-1860 to 1920 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Penguin American Library) by Frederick Douglass Publisher Comments Written more than a century ago by Frederick Douglass, a former slave who went on to become a famous orator, U.S. minister, and a leader of his people, this masterpiece is one of the most eloquent indictments of slavery ever recorded. Douglass's shocking... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list check for other copies Roosevelt, Franklin D. Browse more titles in US History-Roosevelt, Franklin D. FDR by Jean Edward Smith Publisher Comments One of today’s premier biographers has written a modern, comprehensive, indeed ultimate book on the epic life of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In this superlative volume, Jean Edward Smith combines contemporary scholarship and a broad range of primary... (read more) Your price: $20.00 New - Trade Paper add to wish list check for other copies 1800 to Civil War Browse more titles in US History-1800 to Civil War Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 (New American Nation Series) by Eric Foner Publisher Comments Reconstruction chronicles how Americans, black and white, responded to the unprecedented changes unleashed by the Civil War and the end of slavery. Reconstruction addresses: the ways in which the emancipated slaves' quest for economic autonomy and equal... (read more) List Price $23.99 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper add to wish list check for other copies Foreign Policy Browse more titles in US History-Foreign Policy Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy by Leslie H. Gelb Publisher Comments From one of the nation's leading foreign-policy minds comes a provocative new account of how to think about—and use—America's power in the twenty-first century. Inspired by Machiavelli's classic The Prince, Leslie H. Gelb offers illuminating... (read more) Your price: $27.99 New - Hardcover add to wish list check for other copies Sale Books Browse more titles in US History-Sale Books A Remarkable Mother by Jimmy Carter Publisher Comments A Remarkable Mother is President Carter's loving, admiring, wry homage to Miss Lillian Carter, who championed the underdog always, even when her son was president. A registered nurse, pecan grower, university housemother, Peace Corps volunteer... 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Bestsellers Friday, July 10, 2009 The Supremes' Greatest Hits: The 34 Supreme Court Cases That Most Directly Affect Your Life by Michael G. Trachtman The Courage of Their Convictions: Sixteen Americans Who Fought Their Way to the Supreme Court by Peter Irons Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by Vincent Bugliosi Review-a-Day | June 17, 2009 White Nationalists Find Sundry Faults with the U.S. Government 0 comments By Review-a-Day Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream by Leonard Zeskind Reviewed by Art Winslow Los... Continue » $37.50 New Hardcover add to wish list Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream Leonard Zeskind Review-a-Day | June 12, 2009 Weeding Out the Weak 0 comments By Review-a-Day American Passage: The History of Ellis Island by Vincent J. Cannato Reviewed by Jonathan Yardley Washington Post Book World Ellis Island, through... Continue » $27.99 New Hardcover add to wish list American Passage: The History of Ellis Island Vincent J. Cannato Review-a-Day | June 8, 2009 The Admirable Mrs. James 0 comments By Review-a-Day Alice in Jamesland: The Story of Alice Howe Gibbens James by Susan E. Gunter Reviewed by Colm Toibin New York Review of Books At the end of R.W.B.... Continue » $40.00 Sale Hardcover add to wish list Alice in Jamesland: The Story of Alice Howe Gibbens James Susan E Gunter Review-a-Day | June 4, 2009 The Puffington Host 3 comments By Review-a-Day Right Is Wrong: How the Lunatic Fringe Hijacked America, Shredded the Constitution, and Made Us All Less Safe by Arianna Huffington Reviewed by... Continue » $14.95 Used Hardcover add to wish list Right Is Wrong: How the Lunatic Fringe Hijacked America, Shredded the Constitution, and Made Us All Less Safe Arianna Huffington Book to Film | May 20, 2009 Read It Before They Screen It: Papa Hemingway, Flow My Tears, and More 0 comments By Chris Bolton Kirk Ellis, who recently oversaw the award-winning HBO miniseries John Adams (based on the David McCullough biography), will follow that project... Continue » $8.50 Used Trade Paper add to wish list Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said Philip K Dick

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