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How the States Got Their Shapes
by Mark Stein  Publisher Comments Why does Oklahoma have that panhandle? Did someone make a mistake? We are so familiar with the map of the United States that our state borders seem as much a part of nature as mountains and rivers. Even the oddities — the entire state of Maryland(!)...
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A Time It Was: Bobby Kennedy in the Sixties
by Bill Eppridge Publisher Comments On June 6, 1968, at the age of 42 and at the height of his popularity, Robert F. Kennedy was tragically assassinated. Presidential candidate, U.S. Senator, father—Kennedy was all of these things—and, to many Americans, he embodied the power...
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Names on the Land: A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States (New York Review Books Classics)
by George R. Stewart Publisher Comments This beloved classic about place-naming in the United States was written during World War II in a conscious effort to pay tribute to the heritage of the nation's peoples. George R. Stewart's love of the surprising story, and his focus not just on...
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One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
by Michael Dobbs Publisher Comments In October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union appeared to be sliding inexorably toward a nuclear conflict over the placement of missiles in Cuba. Veteran Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs has pored over...
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Collateral Damage: America's War Against Iraqi Civilians
by Chris Hedges Publisher Comments Best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges and journalist Laila Al-Arian spent the past year interviewing over fifty veterans to expose the patterns of the occupation in Iraq. The testimonies of these soldiers—many of...
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A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign
by Edward J Larson Publisher Comments "They could write like angels and scheme like demons." So begins Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward Larson's masterful account of the wild ride that was the 1800 presidential election -- an election so convulsive and so momentous to the future of American...
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33 Questions about American History You're Not Supposed to Ask
by Thomas E., Jr. Woods Publisher Comments News flash: The Indians didn't save the Pilgrims from starvation by teaching them to grow corn. The Wild West was more peaceful and a lot safer than most modern cities. And the biggest scandal of the Clinton years didn't involve an intern in a blue dress....
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The Leaders We Deserved (and a Few We Didn't): Rethinking the Presidential Rating Game
by Alvin S Felzenberg Publisher Comments It’s a perennial pastime to rate U.S. presidents on an all-time ranking: Certain presidents were “Great,” others were “Near-Great,” and so on down to “Failures” and “Unmitigated Disasters.” (OK, we...
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Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventionsof 1968 (New York Review Books Classics)
by Norman Mailer Publisher Comments 1968. The Vietnam War was raging. President Lyndon Johnson, facing a challenge in his own Democratic party from the maverick anti-war candidate Eugene McCarthy, announced that he would not seek a second term. In April, Martin Luther King was assassinated,...
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On the Laps of Gods: The Red Summer of 1919 and the Struggle for Justice That Remade a Nation
by Robert Whitaker Publisher Comments They shot them down like rabbits . . . September 30, 1919. The United States teetered on the edge of a racial civil war. During the previous three months, racial fighting had erupted in twenty-five cities. And deep in the Arkansas Delta, black...
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Habits of Empire: A History of American Expansion
by Walter Nugent Publisher Comments Discussions abound today about the state of the union, its place in the world, and the founding fathers’ intentions. Did they want the United States to become a republic or an empire? Thomas Jefferson, after all, called the young nation an “...
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Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City
by Jed Horne Publisher Comments Hurricane Katrina shredded one of the great cities of the South, and as levees failed and the federal relief effort proved lethally incompetent, a natural disaster became a man-made catastrophe. As an editor of New Orleans' daily newspaper, the Pulitzer...
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Presidential Debates: Fifty Years of High-Risk TV
by Alan Schroeder Publisher Comments Alan Schroeder's popular history now covers the 2000 Bush-Gore and 2004 Bush-Kerry debates, including innovations in format and press coverage, and adds new research on televised debates since 1960. Schroeder organizes his book according to a television...
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The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia
by Timotheo Tzouliadis Publisher Comments A remarkable piece of forgotten historythe story of how thousands of Americans were lured to Soviet Russia by the promise of jobs and better lives only to meet a tragic, and until now forgotten, end The Forsaken starts with a photograph of a baseball...
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Total Cold War: Eisenhower's Secret Propaganda Battle at Home and Abroad
by Kenneth Osgood Publisher Comments When President Dwight Eisenhower spoke of waging total cold war, he was proposing nothing less than a global, all-embracing battle for hearts and minds. His wide-ranging propaganda campaign challenged world communism at every turn and left a lasting mark...
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The Slaves' War: The Civil War in the Words of Former Slaves
by Andrew Ward Publisher Comments The first narrative history of the Civil War told by the very people it freed. Groundbreaking, compelling, and poignant, The Slaves' War delivers an unprecedented vision of the nation's bloodiest conflict. An acclaimed historian of nineteenth-century...
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The Making of a Confederate: Walter Lenoir's Civil War (New Narratives in American History)
by William L. Barney Publisher Comments For all the advances of the civil rights movement, and for all the cultural diversity attending economic prosperity, many white southerners have been unable to relinquish the Confederate past and the idea of a heroic, liberty-loving South crushed by...
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South Carolina Lighthouses
by Margie Willis Clary Synopsis With one of the oldest lighthouses in the country and the most working lighthouses today, South Carolina boasts a rich lighthouse history....
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Age of Lincoln (07 Edition)
by Orville Vernon Burton Publisher Comments Stunning in its breadth and conclusions, The Age of Lincoln is a fiercely original history of the five decades that pivoted around the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. Abolishing slavery, the age’s most extraordinary accomplishment, was not its most...
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The Bottom of the Harbor
by Joseph Mitchell Publisher Comments On the centennial of Joseph Mitchell's birth, here is a new edition of the classic collection containing his most celebrated pieces about New York City. Fifty years after its original publication, The Bottom of the Harbor is still considered a...
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