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Ted Kennedy: Scenes from an Epic Life by Boston Globe Publisher Comments 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) List Price $35.00 Your price: $3.95 Sale - Hardcover 
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The New Deal: A 75th Anniversary Celebration by Kathy Flynn Publisher Comments 2008 marks the 75th anniversary of the New Deal, the series of programs initiated by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to help Americans recover during the Great Depression. Programs such as the Civilian Conservation Corps, the Civil Works... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $5.98 Sale - Hardcover
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FDR: The First Hundred Days (Critical Issue) by Anthony J Badger Publisher Comments The Hundred Days, Franklin Roosevelts first fifteen weeks in office, have become the stuff of legend, a mythic yardstick against which every subsequent American president has felt obliged to measure himself. The renowned historian Anthony J. Badger cuts... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America by Steven Johnson Publisher Comments Bestselling author Steven Johnson recounts in dazzling, multidisciplinary fashion, the story of the brilliant man who embodied the relationship between science, religion, and politics for America's Founding Fathers. The Invention of Air is a book of... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Americana: The Americas in the World Around 1850 by James Dunkerley Publisher Comments 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) List Price $45.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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A Moment of Crisis: Jimmy Carter, the Power of a Peacemaker, and North Koreas Nuclear Ambitions by Marion V Creekmore Publisher Comments 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) List Price $27.50 Your price: $2.75 Sale - Hardcover
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Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams by Joseph J Ellis Publisher Comments A fresh look at this astute, likably quirky statesman, by the author of the Pulitzer Award-winning Founding Brothers and the National Book Award winning American Sphinx. "The most lovable and most laughable, the warmest and possibly the wisest of the... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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White House Diary by Jimmy Carter Publisher Comments A New York Times Bestseller Each day during his presidency, Jimmy Carter kept a private diary. In it, he supplied unvarnished assessments of cabinet members, congressmen, and foreign leaders, and narrated the progress of secret negotiations; he recorded... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Devil's Own Work: The Civil War Draft Riots and the Fight to Reconstruct America by Barnet Schecter Publisher Comments On July 13, 1863, the largest riots in American history broke out on the streets of New York City, nearly destroying in four days the financial, industrial, and commercial hub of the nation. Placing the riots in the context of social tension and reform... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life Through the Pages of a Lost Journal by Lily Koppel Publisher Comments Rescued from a Dumpster on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, a discarded diary brings to life the glamorous, forgotten world of an extraordinary young woman. For more than half a century, the red leather diary lay silent, languishing inside a steamer... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker by Stacy A Cordery Publisher Comments An entertaining and eye-opening biography of America?s most memorable first daughter From the moment Teddy Roosevelt?s outrageous and charming teenage daughter strode into the White House?carrying a snake and dangling a cigarette?the outspoken Alice... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin Publisher Comments No Ordinary Time is a monumental work, a brilliantly conceived chronicle of one of the most vibrant and revolutionary periods in the history of the United States. With an extraordinary collection of details, Goodwin masterfully weaves together a striking... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Impending Crisis by David M Potter Publisher Comments David M. Potter's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Impending Crisis is the definitive history of antebellum America. Potter's sweeping epic masterfully charts the chaotic forces that climaxed with the outbreak of the Civil War: westward expansion, the... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Presidential Difference: Leadership Style from FDR to Barack Obama by Fred I. Greenstein Publisher Comments Praise for Princeton's previous editions: "A wonderful book. . . . For journalists, it is a great checklist as to what we ought to be--but probably are not likely to be--looking for in a presidential candidate."--David Broder Praise for Princeton's... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Clash of Extremes: The Economic Origins of the Civil War by Marc Egnal Publisher Comments Clash of Extremes takes on the reigning orthodoxy that the American Civil War was waged over high moral principles. Marc Egnal contends that economics, more than any other factor, moved the country to war in 1861. Drawing on a wealth of primary and... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Reagan's War: The Epic Story of His Forty-Year Struggle and Final Triumph Over Communism by Peter Schweizer Publisher Comments Reagans War is the story of Ronald Reagans personal and political journey as an anti-communist, from his early days as an actor to his years in the White House. Challenging popular misconceptions of Reagan as an empty suit who played only a passive role... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Tocqueville's Discovery of America by Leo Damrosch Publisher Comments Alexis de Tocqueville is more quoted than read; commentators across the political spectrum invoke him as an oracle who defined America and its democracy for all times. But in fact his masterpiece, Democracy in America, was the product of a young mans... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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General Washington's Christmas Farewell: A Mount Vernon Homecoming, 1783 by Stanley Weintraub Publisher Comments In late November 1783, when George Washington finally received formal notice of the signing of a peace treaty with England, Washington had little more than a month to accept the transfer of power from Britain, to bid farewell to his troops, and to resign... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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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... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Dreaming Up America by Russell Banks Publisher Comments With America ever under global scrutiny, Russell Banks contemplates the questions of our origins, values, heroes, conflicts, and contradictions. He writes with conversational ease and emotional insight, drawing on contemporary politics, literature, film,... (read more) List Price $20.50 Your price: $8.95 Sale - Hardcover
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