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Years of Lyndon Johnson Volume 1: The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. 1 by Robert Caro Publisher Comments This is the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill Country. The Path to Power reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy, and ambition that set LBJ apart. It follows... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin Publisher Comments "This shit would be really interesting if we weren't in the middle of it." Barack Obama, September 2008 In 2008, the presidential election became blockbuster entertainment. Everyone was watching as the race for the White House unfolded like something... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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Nonprofit Kit for Dummies - With CD (3RD 10 Edition) by Stan Hutton Publisher Comments Tips and techniques to help your nonprofit thrive in any economy Due to the recent downturn in the economy, a significant number of nonprofit organizations have experienced a major decrease in funding and contributions. Nonprofit Kit for Dummies, 3rd... (read more) List Price $34.99 Your price: $18.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Revolution Will Not Be Funded (07 Edition) by Incite! Women Of Color Against Violence (ed.) Publisher Comments A $1.3 trillion industry, the US nonprofit sector is the world's seventh largest economy. From art museums and university hospitals to think tanks and church charities, over 1.5 million organizations of staggering diversity share the tax-exempt 501(c)(3)... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $10.00 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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The Image of the City by Kevin Lynch Publisher Comments What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Trial of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens Publisher Comments Drawing on first-hand testimony, previously unpublished documentation and broad sweeps through material released under the Freedom of Information Act, Christopher Hitchens mounts a devastating indictment of a man whose ambition and ruthlessness have... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Hitler's Private Library: The Books That Shaped His Life by Timothy W Ryback Publisher Comments A brilliantly original exploration of some of the formative influences in Hitlers life—the books he most revered, and how they shaped the man and his thinking. Hitlers education and worldview were formed largely from the books in his private... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Years of Lyndon Johnson : Means of Ascent (90 Edition) by Robert A. Caro Publisher Comments Robert A. Caro's life of Lyndon Johnson, which began with the greatly acclaimed The Path to Power, also winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, continues -- one of the richest, most intensive and most revealing examinations ever undertaken of... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph by T E Lawrence Publisher Comments The monumental work that assured T.E. Lawrence's place in history as "Lawrence of Arabia." Not only a consummate military history, but also a colorful epic and a lyrical exploration of the mind of a great man who helped shape the Middle East as... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Game Change (10 Edition) by John Heilemann Publisher Comments In 2008, the presidential election became blockbuster entertainment. Everyone was watching as the race for the White House unfolded like something from the realm of fiction. The meteoric rise and historic triumph of Barack Obama. The shocking fall of... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Power Broker : Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (74 Edition) by Robert A. Caro Publisher Comments One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and the Francis Parkman prizes, The Power Broker tells the hidden story behind the shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York (city and state) and makes public what few... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Reagan Revolution (09 Edition) by Gil Troy Publisher Comments "They called it the Reagan revolution," Ronald Reagan noted in his Farewell Address. "Well, I'll accept that, but for me it always seemed more like the great rediscovery, a rediscovery of our values and our common sense." Nearly two decades after that... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $7.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate (A Progressive Guide to Action) by George Lakoff Publisher Comments Don't Think of An Elephant! is the antidote to the last forty years of conservative strategizing and the right wing?s stranglehold on political dialogue in the United States. Author George Lakoff explains how conservatives think, and how to counter... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price: $6.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable Publisher Comments Unabridged, 10 CDs, 13 hours Read by TBA Years in the making-the definitive biography of the legendary black activist.... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $15.00 Used - Hardcover
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Legacy of Ashes: the History of the Cia (07 Edition) by Tim Weiner Publisher Comments For the last sixty years, the CIA has managed to maintain a formidable reputation in spite of its terrible record, burying its blunders in top-secret archives. Its mission was to know the world. When it did not succeed, it set out to change the world... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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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
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Pedagogy of Freedom : Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage (98 Edition) by Paulo Freire Publisher Comments This book displays the striking creativity and profound insight that characterized Freire's work to the very end of his life-an uplifting and provocative exploration not only for educators, but also for all that learn and live.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $15.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West by Hampton Sides Publisher Comments In the summer of 1846, the Army of the West marched through Santa Fe, en route to invade and occupy the Western territories claimed by Mexico. Fueled by the new ideology of “Manifest Destiny,” this land grab would lead to a decades-long... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Churchill: A Life by Martin Gilbert Publisher Comments Distilled from years of meticulous research and documentation, filled with material unavailable when the earliest books of the official biography's eight volumes went to press, Churchill is a brilliant marriage of the hard facts of the public life and... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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