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Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition by Daniel Okrent Publisher Comments A brilliant, authoritative, and fascinating history of America’s most puzzling era, the years 1920 to 1933, when the U.S. Constitution was amended to restrict one of America’s favorite pastimes: drinking alcoholic beverages. From its start... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris by David McCullough Publisher Comments As David McCullough writes, “Not all pioneers went west.” In The Greater Journey, he tells the enthralling, inspiring—and until now, untold—story of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, and... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $14.00 Sale - Trade Paper
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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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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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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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A Secret Gift: How One Man's Kindness--And a Trove of Letters--Revealed the Hidden History of the Great Depression by Ted Gup Publisher Comments andquot;A wonderful reminder that economic hardship can bring suffering but can also foster compassion and community.andquot; -The Boston Globe In hard economic times like these, readers will find bestselling author Ted Gup's unique book uplifting as... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Bomb (Open Media) by Howard Zinn Publisher Comments As a World War II combat soldier, Howard Zinn took part in the aerial bombing of Royan, France. Two decades later, he was invited to visit Hiroshima and meet survivors of the atomic attack. In this short and powerful book, Zinn offers his deep personal... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $4.98 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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The New Deal: A Modern History by Michael Hiltzik Publisher Comments New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Michael Hiltzik tells the epic story of the New Deal through the outsized personalities of the people who fought for it, opposed it, and benefited from it, rendering vital lessons... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $10.98 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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Truman by David McCullough Publisher Comments The life of Harry S. Truman is one of the greatest of American stories, filled with vivid characters -- Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Wallace Truman, George Marshall, Joe McCarthy, and Dean Acheson -- and dramatic events. In this... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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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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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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Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris Publisher Comments Of all our great presidents, Theodore Roosevelt is the only one whose greatness increased out of office. When he toured Europe in 1910 as plain "Colonel Roosevelt," he was hailed as the most famous man in the world. Crowned heads vied to put him up in... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Hardcover
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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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Lion of Liberty: Patrick Henry and the Call to a New Nation by Harlow G Unger Publisher Comments In this action-packed history, award-winning author Harlow Giles Unger unfolds the epic story of Patrick Henry, who roused Americans to fight government tyranny—both British and American. Remembered largely for his cry for “liberty or death... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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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&... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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One Day in History: July 4, 1776 (One Day in History) by Rodney P Carlisle Publisher Comments A compendium of articles and historical analyses discusses such topics as daily life as it was experienced before and after the Declaration of Independence, the contributions of the Sons of Liberty, and the causes of the American Revolution. 25,000 first... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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