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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: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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46 Pages: Thomas Paine, Common Sense, and the Turning Point to American Independence by Scott Liell Publisher Comments Thomas Paine, a native of Thetford, England, arrived in America's colonies with little in the way of money, reputation, or prospects, though he did have a letter of recommendation in his pocket from Benjamin Franklin. Paine also had a passion for... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge (Touchstone Books) by David McCullough Publisher Comments This monumental book tells the enthralling story of one of the greatest accomplishments in our nations history, the building of what was then the longest suspension bridge in the world. The Brooklyn Bridge rose out of the expansive era following the... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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John Adams by David McCullough From Powells.com David McCullough is our most dependable presidential biographer. Each of his efforts has been a resounding success, combining popular appeal with literary accolades. Mornings on Horseback, about Teddy Roosevelt, won the National Book Award, his... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam by Frances Fitzgerald Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [479]-485) and index.... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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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
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War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges Publisher Comments General George S. Patton famously said, "Compared to war all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God, I do love it so!" Though Patton was a notoriously single-minded general, it is nonetheless a sad fact that war gives meaning to many... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Brave Companions by David McCullough Publisher Comments The bestselling author of Truman and John Adams, David McCullough has written profiles of exceptional men and women past and present who have not only shaped the course of history or changed how we see the world but whose stories express much that is... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Generation Kill by Evan Wright Publisher Comments Visit HBO’s Generation Kill website here. The New York Times bestseller—"one of the best books to come out of the second Iraq war." (Financial Times) Within hours of 9/11, America's war on terrorism fell to those like the 23 Marines of the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Alexander Hamilton: A Life by Willard Ste Randall Publisher Comments Chapter One The Wish of My Heart Alexander Hamilton realized instantly that he would die. Before he even heard the shot, the oversize lead ball had torn into his right side just above the hip, crashed through a rib, sliced through his liver, shattering a... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Faber Book of Exploration by Benedict Allen Publisher Comments An anthology of human exploration which showcases the writings of those who have dared to set off into the unknown, and who have returned to tell the tale. Covering a broad range of exploits and historical periods, it brings together botanists, Vikings... (read more) Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt (03 Edition) by Conrad Black Publisher Comments Franklin Delano Roosevelt stands astride American history like a colossus, having pulled the nation out of the Great Depression and led it to victory in the Second World War. Elected to four terms as president, he transformed an inward-looking country... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Evil: An Investigation by Lance Morrow Publisher Comments At the beginning of the twenty-first century, evil remains as potent and radical a force in the world as it has ever been. We all know evil when we encounter it-in the villains of history like Hitler and Stalin, in the routine brutality that makes the... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $3.75 Sale - Trade Paper
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D-Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II by Stephen E Ambrose Publisher Comments Stephen E. Ambrose draws from more than 1,400 interviews with American, British, Canadian, French, and German veterans to create the preeminent chronicle of the most important day in the twentieth century. Ambrose reveals how the original plans for the... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History by George Crile Publisher Comments A bestseller in hardcover, "Charlie Wilsons War" tells what became of the largest covert operation in history. Moving from the back rooms of the Capitol to arms-dealer conventions to the Khyber Pass, this is a compulsively readable account of the inside... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Howard Hughes the Untold Story by Peter Harry Brown Publisher Comments Howard Hughes was one of the most amazing, intriguing, and controversial figures of the twentieth century. He was the billionaire head of a giant corporation, a genius inventor, an ace pilot, a matinee-idol-handsome playboy, a major movie maker who... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Because He Could by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann Publisher Comments Who is Bill Clinton? A man whose presidency was disgraced by impeachment — yet who remains one of the most popular presidents of our time. A man whose autobiography, My Life, was panned by critics as a self-indulgent daily diary — but... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Command of Office: How War, Secrecy and Deception Transformed the Presidency, from Theodore Roosevelt to George W. Bush by Steven Graubard Publisher Comments The modern presidency really begins on September 14, 1901, argues Stephen Graubard, with the assassination of William McKinley and the succession of Teddy Roosevelt. TR's vigorous presidency foretold the expansion of wartime authority under Wilson; the... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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On American Soil: How Justice Became a Casualty of World War II by Jack Hamann Staff Pick Returning to a forgotten incident in local WW II history, Jack Hamann reintroduces the story of a horrible injustice influenced by the racial prejudices of the American prosecution. Skillfully told, this gripping work of military history couldn't come at... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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