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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann Staff Pick Charles C. Mann has pulled off an impressive feat — a scholarly, thorough work of history that's almost compulsively readable. In 1491, he summarizes and examines the last thirty years of research into the pre-Columbian Americas, and comes to some... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin Publisher Comments Soon to be a major motion picture, Lincoln, from Steven Spielberg, with a screenplay by Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning writer Tony Kushner, and starring Daniel Day-Lewis as the President and Sally Field as Mary Todd Lincoln. In this mega... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Warmth of Other Suns (10 Edition) by Isabel Wilkerson Staff Pick The Warmth of Other Suns is a fascinating epic narrative of the Great Migration by the brilliant and beautiful Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson.... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $15.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan Publisher Comments At the end of World War II, nearly three million Jews were trapped inside the Soviet Union. They lived a paradoxunwanted by a repressive Stalinist state, yet forbidden to leave. When They Come for Us, Well Be Gone is the astonishing and inspiring story... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Tears in the Darkness (10 Edition) by Michael Norman Publisher Comments For the first four months of 1942, American, Filipino, and Japanese soldiers fought America's first major land battle of World War II: the battle for the tiny Philippine peninsula of Bataan. It ended with the single largest defeat in American military... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Freedom From Fear : the American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (99 Edition) by David M. Kennedy Publisher Comments Between 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depression and World War II. Freedom From Fear tells the story of how Americans endured, and eventually prevailed, in the face of those unprecedented calamities... (read more) List Price $53.50 Your price: $34.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe Publisher Comments Tom Wolfe's much-discussed kaleidoscopic non-fiction novel chronicles the tale of novelist Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters. In the 1960s, Kesey led a group of psychedelic sympathizers around the country in a painted bus, presiding over LSD... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America by Rick Perlstein Publisher Comments Told with urgency and sharp political insight, Nixonland recaptures America's turbulent 1960s and early 1970s and reveals how Richard Nixon rose from the political grave to seize and hold the presidency. Perlstein's epic account begins in the blood and... (read more) List Price $20.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Rise & Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930-1980 by Steve Fraser Publisher Comments 'The New Deal Order is dead, ' the editors of this book write, offering their collection of provocative essays as 'a historical autopsy.' --The... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West by Wallace Stegner Publisher Comments In this book Wallace Stegner recounts the successes and frustrations of John Wesley Powell, the distinguished ethnologist and geologist who explored the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon, and the homeland of Indian tribes of the American Southwest. A... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Dispatches by Michael Herr Publisher Comments "He seems to have brought to this book the ear of a musician and the eye of a painter . . . the premier war correspondence of Vietnam."--Washington Post. "The best book I have ever read on men and war in our time."--John le Carre... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World by David E Stannard Publisher Comments For four hundred years--from the first Spanish assaults against the Arawak people of Hispaniola in the 1490s to the U.S. Army's massacre of Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee in the 1890s--the indigenous inhabitants of North and South America endured an... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Dereliction of Duty by H. R. Mcmaster Publisher Comments "The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the New York Times or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C." - H. R. McMaster (from the Conclusion) Dereliction Of Duty is a stunning new analysis of how... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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California Natural History Guides #46: Natural World of the California Indians by Robert Flemi Heizer Publisher Comments This information-packed guide describes patterns of village life, and covers such subjects as Indian tools and artifacts, hunting techniques, and food.... (read more) List Price $23.75 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Street Without Joy (94 Edition) by Bernard B. Fall Publisher Comments Originally published in 1961, before the United States escalated its involvement in South Vietnam, Street without Joy offered a clear warning about what American forces would face in the jungles of Southeast Asia: a costly and protracted revolutionary... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Pegasus Bridge by Stephen E Ambrose Publisher Comments In the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, a small detachment of British airborne troops stormed the German defense forces and paved the way for the Allied invasion of Europe. Pegasus Bridge was the first engagement of D-Day, the turning point of World... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Long Twentieth Century (2ND 09 Edition) by Giovanni Arrighi Publisher Comments The Long Twentieth Century traces the relationship between capital accumulation and state formation over a 700-year period. Arrighi argues that capitalism has unfolded as a succession of "long centuries," each of which produced a new world power that... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $14.00 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 Sixties: From Memory to History by David Farber Publisher Comments This collection of original essays represents some of the most exciting ways in which historians are beginning to paint the 1960s onto the larger canvas of American history. While the first literature about this turbulent period was written largely by... (read more) List Price $32.75 Your price: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War by David Halberstam Staff Pick In researching the career of David Halberstam for our Out of the Book project, I came across a description of the author by Doris Kearns Goodwin that gets to the heart of Halberstam's masterful approach: "A gifted storyteller," she called him. "He told... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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