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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: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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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: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $6.50 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 $28.50 Your price: $11.00 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 $17.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric Foner Publisher Comments ADVANCE PRAISE FOR THE FIERY TRIAL: “While many thousands of books deal with Lincoln and slavery, Eric Foner has written the definitive account of this crucial subject, illuminating in a highly original and profound way the interactions of race... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $15.00 Used - Hardcover
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Better, Not Bigger: How to Take Control of Urban Growth and Improve Your Community by Eben V Fodor About the Author Eben Fodor has a background in renewable energy, specializing in high efficiency passive solar heating systems and solar-heated saunas. His professional work is as a community planning consultant based in Eugene... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Years of Lyndon Johnson Volume 1: The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. 1 by Robert A 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: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Robert's Rules of Order in Brief by Henry M Robert Publisher Comments A concise and user-friendly guide to how to conduct a meeting is delivered by the official Robert's Rules of Order authorship committee.... (read more) List Price $6.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Bill of Rights : Creation and Reconstruction (98 Edition) by Akhil Reed Amar Publisher Comments A leading scholar of constitutional law delivers an incisive and brilliant new account of the Bill of Rights and explodes conventional wisdom about our most basic charter of liberty.... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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What It Takes (93 Edition) by Richard B. Cramer Publisher Comments An American Iliad in the guise of contemporary political reportage, What It Takes penetrates the mystery at the heart of all presidential campaigns: How do presumably ordinary people acquire that mixture of ambition, stamina, and pure shamelessness that... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $13.00 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: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism by Susan Jacoby Publisher Comments Jacoby accomplishes her task with clarity, thoroughness, and an engaging passion. -Los Angeles Times Book Review At a time when the separation of church and state is under attack as never before, Freethinkers offers a powerful defense of the secularist... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D Levitt Publisher Comments Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? How did the legalization of abortion affect the rate of... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $5.75 Used - Hardcover
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Long Haul : an Autobiography (98 Edition) by Myles Horton Publisher Comments In his own direct, modest, plain-spoken style, Myles Horton tells the story of the Highlander Folk School. A major catalyst for social change in the United States for more than sixty years, this school has touched the lives of so many people, Martin... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $18.00 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: $18.00 Used - Hardcover
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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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His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis Staff Pick Few biographies so completely capture their multifaceted subjects. With fresh insight, Joseph Ellis's well-researched book gives readers a personal look at America's premier Founding Father.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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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 $15.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Gandhi Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth by Mohandas K Gandhi Publisher Comments Personal account of the life of the man who freed India from colonization through the Satyagraha — nonviolent protest — movement. His early boyhood life, legal studies, purification, and ultimate salvation of his homeland is... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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