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A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present (P.S.) by Howard Zinn Publisher Comments Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History of the United States is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of — and in the words of — America's women, factory workers, African... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson Staff Pick An amazing history that recounts the inconceivable events surrounding the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, Larson's tale captures a time and place that vividly come to life. The central characters in this tale are Daniel H. Burnham, the architect... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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
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A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide (P.S.) by Samantha Power Publisher Comments In her award-winning interrogation of the last century of American history, Samantha Power—a former Balkan war correspondent and founding executive director of Harvard's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy—asks the haunting question: Why do... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Children's Blizzard (P.S.) by David Laskin Publisher Comments Thousands of impoverished Northern European immigrants were promised that the prairie offered "land, freedom, and hope." The disastrous blizzard of 1888 revealed that their free homestead was not a paradise but a hard, unforgiving place governed by... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 (P.S.) by Simon Winchester Staff Pick "If you liked Krakatoa, The Professor and the Madman, or any of Winchester's other works, you'll like this one. He explains geological ideas well, and is well on his way to being the new ambassador of geology's influence on human history. He places... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800 by Jay Winik Publisher Comments It is an era that redefined history. As the 1790s began, a fragile America teetered on the brink of oblivion, Russia towered as a vast imperial power, and France plunged into revolution. But in contrast to the way conventional histories tell it, none of... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Manhunt: The Twelve-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer (P.S.) by James L Swanson Publisher Comments The murder of Abraham Lincoln set off the greatest manhunt in American history — the pursuit and capture of John Wilkes Booth. From April 14 to April 26, 1865, the assassin led Union cavalry and detectives on a wild twelve-day chase through the... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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1812: The War That Forged a Nation (P.S.) by Walter R Borneman Publisher Comments < p> Although frequently overlooked between the American Revolution and the Civil War, the War of 1812 tested a rising generation of American leaders; unified the United States with a renewed sense of national purpose; and set the stage for... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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John Adams by David Mccullough Publisher Comments In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution; who rose... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Every Man a Speculator: A History of Wall Street in American Life by Steve Fraser Publisher Comments Americans have experienced a love-hate relationship with Wall Street for two hundred years. Long an object of suspicion, fear, and even revulsion, the Street eventually came to be seen as an alluring pathway to wealth and freedom. Steve Fraser tells the... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Profiles in Courage (P.S.) by John F Kennedy Publisher Comments Written in 1955 by the then junior senator from the state of Massachusetts, John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage served as a clarion call to every American. The inspiring true accounts of eight unsung heroic acts by American patriots at different... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Democracy in America (P.S.) by Alex De Tocqueville Publisher Comments The abridged edition of the enduring masterwork—a classic portrait of America's culture and people Originally penned in the mid-nineteenth century by Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America remains the most comprehensive, penetrating,... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser Staff Pick "What we eat has changed more in the last forty years than in the last forty thousand," Schlosser observes, yet most Americans know very little about how that food is made, where, by whom, and at what cost. Fast Food Nation traces the industry's... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Bobby Fischer Goes to War: How a Lone American Star Defeated the Soviet Chess Machine by David Edmonds and John Eidinow Publisher Comments In the summer of 1972, with a presidential crisis stirring in the United States and the cold war at a pivotal point, the Soviet world chess champion, Boris Spassky,and his American challenger, Bobby Fischer, met in Reykjavik, Iceland, for the most... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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April 1865: The Month That Saved America (P.S.) by Jay Winik Publisher Comments This gripping, panoramic narrative takes readers on a breathless ride through 30 tumultuous days at the end of the Civil War, showing that the nation's future rested on a few crucial decisions and twists of fate. 16-page insert.... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima (P.S.) by Stephen Walker Publisher Comments A riveting, minute-by-minute account of the momentous event that changed our world forever On a quiet Monday morning in August 1945, a five-ton bomb—dubbed Little Boy by its creators—was dropped from an American plane onto the Japanese city... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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An Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Power (P.S.) by John Steele Gordon Publisher Comments Throughout time, from ancient Rome to modern Britain, the great empires built and maintained their domination through force of arms and political power. But not the United States. America has dominated the world in a new, peaceful, and pervasive way... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties (P.S.) by Robert Stone Publisher Comments From the New York City of Kline and De Kooning to the jazz era of New Orleans's French Quarter, to Ken Kesey's psychedelic California, Prime Green explores the 1960s in all its weird, innocent, turbulent, and fascinating glory. Building on personal... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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