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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: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric Foner Publisher Comments Selected as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, this landmark work gives us a definitive account of Lincoln's lifelong engagement with the nation's critical issue: American slavery. A master historian, Eric Foner draws Lincoln... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis Publisher Comments In this landmark work of history, the National Book Award-winning author of American Sphinx explores how a group of greatly gifted but deeply flawed individuals — Hamilton, Burr, Jefferson, Franklin, Washington, Adams, and Madison-confronted the... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - 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 Mornings on Horseback is the brilliant biography of the young Theodore Roosevelt. Hailed as "a masterpiece" (John A. Gable, Newsday), it is the winner of the Los Angeles Times 1981 Book Prize for Biography and the National Book Award for Biography... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Portable Machiavelli by Niccolo Machiavelli Publisher Comments In the four and a half centuries since Machiavelli’s death, no single and unanimously accepted interpretation of his ideas has succeeded in imposing itself upon the lively debate over the meaning of his works. Yet there has never been any doubt... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America Forever by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard Publisher Comments A riveting historical narrative of the heart-stopping events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and the first work of history from mega-bestselling author Bill O'Reilly The anchor of The O'Reilly Factor recounts one of the most dramatic... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin Publisher Comments Winner of the Pulitzer Prize No Ordinary Time is a monumental work, a brilliantly conceived chronicle of one of the most vibrant and revolutionary periods in the history of the United States. With an extraordinary collection of details, Goodwin... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power by Rachel Maddow Publisher Comments "One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier," Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1792. Neither Jefferson nor the other Founders could ever have envisioned the modern national security state, with its tens of thousands of "privateers"; its... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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Prince a Rev Translation Backgrounds 2ND Edition by Machiavelli/adams Publisher Comments Accurate, highly readable, and thoroughly revised for the Second Edition, this translation renders Machiavelli"s 1513 political tract into clear and concise English."Backgrounds" relies entirely upon Machiavelli"s other writings to place this central... (read more) List Price $19.90 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Leviathan (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Hobbes Publisher Comments Its appeal to the twentieth century lies not just in its elevation of politics to a science, but in its overriding concern for peace. Its argument that the state of nature, in which life is 'nasty, brutish and short (and patriarchal), is important, but... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $6.50 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: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 4 by Robert A. Caro Publisher Comments Book Four of Robert A. Caro's monumental The Years of Lyndon Johnson displays all the narrative energy and illuminating insight that led the Times of London to acclaim it as "one of the truly great political biographies of the modern age. A... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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Rousseau's Political Writings (88 Edition) by Jean-jacques Rousseau Publisher Comments This Norton Critical Edition includes the three most important of Rousseau"s political writings: Discourse on Inequality, Discourse on Political Economy, and On Social Contract. Each piece is fully annotated. Backgrounds includes a sketch of Rousseau"s... (read more) List Price $18.75 Your price: $15.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela Publisher Comments These are riveting memoirs of one of the great moral and political figures of our time, an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Discourses (70 Edition) by Niccolo Machiavelli Publisher Comments Classic political theory.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Penguin Classics #286: The Age of Alexander: Nine Greek Lives by Plutarch Publisher Comments The nine Lives in this selection trace a crucial phase in ancient history. Plutarch's Lives of the great Greek statesmen and men of action were designed to pair with the now better-known Roman portraits and contain many of his finest descriptions of war,... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams Publisher Comments As a journalist, historian, and novelist born into a family that included two past Presidents, Henry Adams was forever focused on the experiences and expectations unique to America. A prompt bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winner, The Education of Henry... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Peter the Great by Robert K Massie Publisher Comments "Enthralling...As fascinating as any novel and more so than most!" THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia, unfolds the magnificent story of Peter the Great. He... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman Publisher Comments This 1988 Newbery Medal Book tells the story of Abraham Lincoln with photographs and prints, providing a vivid look at the life and times of one of the nation's great leaders.... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $1.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West by Hampton Sides Publisher Comments Praise for Blood and Thunder “Kit Carson’s role in the conquest of the Navajo during and after the Civil War remains one of the most dramatic and significant episodes in the history of the American West. Hampton Sides portrays Carson in the... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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