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Americana: The Americas in the World Around 1850
Americana: The Americas in the World Around 1850
by James Dunkerley
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The Americas of the 1850s provides James Dunkerley with compelling material for this majestic and unorthodox book. Drawing on a range of contemporary sources, from Walt Whitman to Charles Darwin, Anthony Trollope, Karl Marx and Domingo Faustino Sarmiento,... (read more)

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A People's History of American Empire: A Graphic Adaptation
A People's History of American Empire: A Graphic Adaptation
by Howard Zinn and Paul Buhle and Mike Konopacki
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Adapted from the bestselling grassroots history of the United States, the story of America in the world, told in comics form Since its landmark publication in 1980, A Peoples History of the United States has had six new editions, sold more than 1.7... (read more)

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Mary's Mosaic: The CIA Conspiracy to Murder John F. Kennedy, Mary Pinchot Meyer, and Their Vision of World Peace
Mary's Mosaic: The CIA Conspiracy to Murder John F. Kennedy, Mary Pinchot Meyer, and Their Vision of World Peace
by Peter Janney
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Winner – 2012 Hollywood Book Festival for General Non-FictionHonorable Mention – 2012 New England Book Festival for General Non-Fiction Who really murdered Mary Pinchot Meyer in the fall of 1964? Why was there a mad rush by CIA... (read more)

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Don't Know Much About? the American Presidents
Don't Know Much About? the American Presidents
by Kenneth C Davis
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- Which president broke the laws to keep his slaves from being freed? - How did a president help save college football from early extinction? - Who said, "When the president does it that means it's not illegal"? - If the framers of the... (read more)

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Signing Their Lives Away: The Fame and Misfortune of the Men Who Signed the Declaration of Independence
Signing Their Lives Away: The Fame and Misfortune of the Men Who Signed the Declaration of Independence
by Denise Kiernan
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In the summer of 1776, fifty-six men risked their lives and livelihood to defy King George III and sign the Declaration of Independence—yet how many of them do we actually remember? Signing Their Lives Away introduces readers to the eclectic group... (read more)

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Ted Kennedy: Scenes from an Epic Life
Ted Kennedy: Scenes from an Epic Life
by Boston Globe
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The extraordinary life of senator Edward Moore Kennedy captures two vivid stories: one is of an iconic senator who experienced the greatest of triumphs and the most devastating of losses, and the other is a chronicle of the most dramatic moments in our... (read more)

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White House Diary
White House Diary
by Jimmy Carter
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The edited, annotated diary of President Jimmy Carter—filled with insights into his presidency, his relationships with friends and foes, and his lasting impact on issues that still preoccupy America and the world Each day during his presidency,... (read more)

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Lions of the West: Heroes and Villains of the Westward Expansion
Lions of the West: Heroes and Villains of the Westward Expansion
by Robert Morgan
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From Thomas Jefferson’s birth in 1743 to the California Gold Rush in 1849, America’s westward expansion comes to life in the hands of a writer fascinated by the way individual lives link up, illuminate one another, and collectively impact... (read more)

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Listening in: The Secret White House Recordings of John F. Kennedy
Listening in: The Secret White House Recordings of John F. Kennedy
by John F Kennedy
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In July 1962, in an effort to preserve an accurate record of Presidential decision-making in a highly charged atmosphere of conflicting viewpoints, strategies and tactics, John F. Kennedy installed hidden recording systems in the Oval Office and in the... (read more)

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The Dawn of Innovation: The First American Industrial Revolution
The Dawn of Innovation: The First American Industrial Revolution
by Charles R Morris
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In the thirty years after the Civil War, the United States blew by Great Britain to become the greatest economic power in world history. That is a well-known period in history, when titans like Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and J.P. Morgan... (read more)

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Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero
Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero
by Chris Matthews
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“What was he like?” Jack Kennedy said the reason people read biography is to answer that basic question. What was he like, this man whose own wife called him “that elusive, unforgettable man”? In this New York Times bestselling... (read more)

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Rise to Greatness: Abraham Lincoln and America's Most Perilous Year
Rise to Greatness: Abraham Lincoln and America's Most Perilous Year
by David Von Drehle
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The electrifying story of Abraham Lincoln's rise to greatness during the most perilous year in our nations history As 1862 dawned, the American republic was at death's door. The federal government appeared overwhelmed, the U.S. Treasury was broke, and... (read more)

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Revolutionary Founders: Rebels, Radicals, and Reformers in the Making of the Nation
Revolutionary Founders: Rebels, Radicals, and Reformers in the Making of the Nation
by Alfred F. Young
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In twenty-two original essays, leading historians reveal the radical impulses at the founding of the American Republic. Here is a fresh new reading of the American Revolution that gives voice and recognition to a generation of radical thinkers and doers... (read more)

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A Moment of Crisis: Jimmy Carter, the Power of a Peacemaker, and North Koreas Nuclear Ambitions
A Moment of Crisis: Jimmy Carter, the Power of a Peacemaker, and North Koreas Nuclear Ambitions
by Marion V Creekmore
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In A Moment of Crisis, Marion V. Creekmore, Jr. tells the story of Jimmy Carter's dramatic intervention in the 1994 North Korean nuclear crisis and shows how Carter prevented what he had determined was an almost certain war. Writing with the cooperation... (read more)

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My Thoughts Be Bloody: The Bitter Rivalry That Led to the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
My Thoughts Be Bloody: The Bitter Rivalry That Led to the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
by Nora Titone
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The scene of John Wilkes Booth shooting Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theatre is among the most vivid and indelible images in American history. The literal story of what happened on April 14, 1865, is familiar: Lincoln was killed by John Wilkes Booth, a... (read more)

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The Dogs of War: 1861
The Dogs of War: 1861
by Emory M Thomas
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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... (read more)

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Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West
by Stephen Ambrose
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At the heart of the immense and growing interest in Lewis and Clark in recent years stands this book. WWII historian Stephen Ambrose had long harbored a private obsession for the Expedition of the Corps of Discovery, and in Undaunted Courage he was able... (read more)

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For Love of Politics: Inside the Clinton White House
For Love of Politics: Inside the Clinton White House
by Sally Bedell Smith
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During their eight years in the White House, Bill and Hillary Clinton worked together more closely than the public ever knew. Their intertwined personal and professional lives had far-reaching consequences-for politics, domestic policy, and international... (read more)

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Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis
Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis
by Jimmy Carter
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President Jimmy Carter offers a passionate defense of separation of church and state. He warns that fundamentalists are deliberately blurring the lines between politics and religion. As a believing Christian, Carter takes on issues that are under fierce... (read more)

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The Twentieth Century: A People's History
The Twentieth Century: A People's History
by Howard Zinn
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Containing just the twentieth-century chapters from Howard Zinn's bestselling A People's History of the United States, this revised and updated edition includes two new chapters — covering Clinton's presidency, the 2000 Election, and the "war on... (read more)

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