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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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