|
$7 or Less
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw Publisher Comments "In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the fortieth anniversary of D-Day, the massive and daring Allied invasion of Europe that marked the beginning of the end of Adolf Hitler's Third... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover 
add to wish list |
|
The Federalist Papers (Signet Classics) by Alexander Hamilton Publisher Comments The dissenting opinions of Patrick Henry and others who saw the Constitution as a threat to our hard-won rights and liberties.... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
add to wish list |
|
Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States by Dave Barry Publisher Comments "Bary turns his formidable wit to the subject of American history, with a result reminiscent of the Reduced Shakespeare Company: The better you know the original, the funnier it gets." LOS ANGELES TIMES This time Dave Barry's subject is history,... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Dereliction of Duty by H. R. Mcmaster Publisher Comments "The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the New York Times or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C." - H. R. McMaster (from the Conclusion) Dereliction Of Duty is a stunning new analysis of how... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
The Populist Moment: A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in America by Lawrence Goodwyn Publisher Comments This condensed version of Lawrence Goodwyn's Democratic Promise, the highly-acclaimed study on American Populism which the Civil Liberties Review called "a brilliant, comprehensive study," offers new political language designed to provide a fresh means... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West by Stephen Ambrose Staff Pick 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) List Price $18.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson (American Icons) by Gore Vidal Publisher Comments Gore Vidal?s uniquely irreverent take on America?s founding fathers will enliven all future discussion of the enduring power of their nation-building ideas. Gore Vidal, one of the master stylists of American literature and one of the most acute... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
James Madison and the Future of Limited Government by John Curtis Samples Publisher Comments The essays in this volume use Madison to engage such contemporary issues as multiculturalism, federalism, the emerging democracies, the scope of international law, and faith-based policy and politics. This book speaks to both the past and present of the... (read more) List Price $10.75 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J Ellis Publisher Comments In a landmark work of history, the National Book Award-winning author of "American Sphinx" explores how a group of greatly gifted but deeply flawed men--Hamilton, Burr, Jefferson, Franklin, Washington, Adams, and Madison--set the course for our nation. A... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
A History of the American People by Paul Johnson Publisher Comments A brilliant portrait of the Greek philosopher who personified philosophy. Socrates was undeniably one of the greatest thinkers of all time, yet he wrote nothing. Throughout his life, and indeed until his very last moment alive, Socrates fully embodied... (read more) List Price $20.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Black Indian Slave Narratives by Patrick Neal Minges Publisher Comments Few people realize that Native Americans were enslaved right alongside the African Americans in this country. Fewer still realize that many Native Americans owned African Americans and Native Americans from other tribes. Recently historians have... (read more) List Price $4.99 Your price: $4.43 Google eBooks - Electronic
add to wish list |
|
Letters of a Woman Homesteader (06 Edition) by Stewart Publisher Comments Elinor Pruitt Stewart's letters to her friend are an authentic record of Western ranch life in the early 1900s. Written with a born writer's talent and a pioneer spirit laced with a strong dose of twentieth century liberation. Basis for the 1980 film... (read more) List Price $6.95 Your price: $5.00 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Way to the Western Sea: Lewis & Clark Across the Continent by David Lavender Publisher Comments Brilliantly distilled from diary entries and contemporary accounts and with masterly scholarship and high drama, David Lavender recreates one of the greatest adventure stores in American history--the transit and exploration of the American continent by... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $3.25 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow Publisher Comments The landmark biography of a true American original-and the first written since the opening of Rockefeller's papers -- masterfully rendered by the National Book Award -- winning author of The House of Morgan. William James said of John D. Rockefeller that... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
No Backward Step: A Guide to Grant's Campaign in Virginia by Charles G Siegel Publisher Comments The reader is taken along the bloody routes during the final year of the Civil War visiting more than 200 sites. The book is organized so that the reader has the option of touring the entire campaign or a single battle.... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Declaration of Independence: A Study in the History of Political Ideas by Carl Becker Publisher Comments The Declaration of Independence Carl L. Becker's important study is an analysis of the concepts expressed in the Declaration. Here is a lucid explanation of what the Declaration really is, what views it sets forth, where those views arose, and how they... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Mass Market
add to wish list |
|
The China Diary of George H. W. Bush: The Making of a Global President by Jeffrey A Engel Publisher Comments "When George Bush went to China in 1974, our two countries were still very much in the discovery stage of our relationship. His honest and personal reflections provide a rare, almost 'behind the scenes' window into that fascinating time period, and are a... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $3.95 Sale - Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt by David McCullough Publisher Comments Winner of the 1982 National Book Award for Biography, Mornings on Horseback is the brilliant biography of the young Theodore Roosevelt. Hailed as a masterpiece by Newsday, it also won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography. Now with a new... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America by Rick Perlstein Publisher Comments Told with urgency and sharp political insight, Nixonland recaptures America's turbulent 1960s and early 1970s and reveals how Richard Nixon rose from the political grave to seize and hold the presidency. Perlstein's epic account begins in the blood and... (read more) List Price $20.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick Publisher Comments Nathaniel Philbrick became an internationally renowned author with his National Book Award? winning In the Heart of the Sea, hailed as ?spellbinding? by Time magazine. In Mayflower, Philbrick casts his spell once again, giving us a fresh and... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
add to wish list |
Don't Miss
