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Conscience: Two Soldiers, Two Pacifists, One Family--A Test of Will Andfaith in World War I by Louisa Thomas Publisher Comments It was a time of testing and uncertainty. Even before World War I, there was a sense that country was changing. As Louisa Thomas reveals in Conscience, for the Thomas brothers, the struggle did not only take place on the battlefields. It was within... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper 
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Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America by John M Barry Staff Pick "An account of the Mississippi flood of 1927 and how it changed America. When the river flooded, it was possible to travel in a boat, east to west in the South, two hundred miles. The book is an account of how engineers had tried to control the... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 by David McCullough Publisher Comments From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Truman, here is the national bestselling epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal. In The Path Between the Seas, acclaimed historian David McCullough delivers a first-rate drama of the sweeping human... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War by James Bradley Publisher Comments On the success of his two bestselling books about World War II, James Bradley began to wonder what the real catalyst was for the Pacific War. What he discovered shocked him. In 1905 President Teddy Roosevelt dispatched Secretary of War William Taft, his... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II by Arthur Herman Publisher Comments Remarkable as it may seem today, there once was a time when the president of the United States could pick up the phone and ask the president of General Motors to resign his position and take the reins of a great national enterprise. And the CEO would... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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Guest of Honor: Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and the White House Dinner That Shocked a Nation by Deborah Davis Publisher Comments In this revealing social history, one remarkable White House dinner becomes a lens through which to examine race, politics, and the lives and legacies of two of America’s most iconic figures. In 1901, President Theodore Roosevelt invited Booker T... (read more) Your price: $26.00 New - Hardcover
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The New Deal: A 75th Anniversary Celebration by Kathy Flynn Publisher Comments 2008 marks the 75th anniversary of the New Deal, the series of programs initiated by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to help Americans recover during the Great Depression. Programs such as the Civilian Conservation Corps, the Civil Works... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $5.98 Sale - Hardcover
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A Secret Gift: How One Man's Kindness -- And a Trove of Letters -- Revealed the Hidden History of the Great Depression by Ted Gup Publisher Comments An inspiring account of America at its worst — and Americans at their best — woven from the stories of Depression-era families who were helped by gifts from the author's generous and secretive grandfather. Shortly before Christmas 1933 in... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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At the Edge of the Precipice: Henry Clay and the Compromise That Saved the Union by Robert V Remini Publisher Comments In 1850, America hovered on the brink of disunion. Tensions between slave-holders and abolitionists mounted, as the debate over slavery grew rancorous. An influx of new territory prompted Northern politicians to demand that new states remain free; in... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Impending Crisis by David M Potter Publisher Comments David M. Potter's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Impending Crisis is the definitive history of antebellum America. Potter's sweeping epic masterfully charts the chaotic forces that climaxed with the outbreak of the Civil War: westward expansion, the... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The State of Jones: The Small Southern County That Seceded from the Confederacy by Sally Jenkins Publisher Comments New York Times bestselling author Sally Jenkins and distinguished Harvard professor John Stauffer mine a nearly forgotten piece of Civil War history and strike gold in this surprising account of the only Southern county to secede from the Confederacy... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression by Amity Shlaes Publisher Comments It's difficult today to imagine how America survived the Great Depression. Only through the stories of the common people who struggled during that era can we really understand how the nation endured. In The Forgotten Man, Amity Shlaes offers a striking... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Great Depression and the New Deal: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Eric Rauchway Publisher Comments The New Deal shaped our nation's politics for decades, and was seen by many as tantamount to the "American Way" itself. Now, in this superb compact history, Eric Rauchway offers an informed account of the New Deal and the Great Depression, illuminating... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign by Edward J. Larson Publisher Comments "They could write like angels and scheme like demons." So begins Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward Larson's masterful account of the wild ride that was the 1800 presidential election — an election so convulsive and so momentous to the future of American... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $4.25 Sale - Hardcover
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The American Home Front: 1941-1942 by Alistair Cooke Publisher Comments Unearthed shortly before Cookes death, this unique record of American life shows a nation switching from civilian pursuits to military engagement, and from the production of consumer goods to materials of war.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Great Decision: Jefferson, Adams, Marshall, and the Battle for the Supreme Court by Cliff Sloan Publisher Comments Following the bitterly contested election between Adams and Jefferson in 1800, the United States teetered on the brink of a second revolution. When Adams sought to prolong his policies in defiance of the electorate by packing the courts, it became... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Kearny's March: The Epic Creation of the American West, 1846-1847 by Winston Groom Publisher Comments In June 1846, General Stephen Watts Kearny rode out of Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, with two thousand soldiers, bound for California. At the time, the nation was hell-bent on expansion: James K. Polk had lately won the presidency by threatening England over... (read more) Your price: $27.95 New - Hardcover
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Colossus: The Turbulent, Thrilling Saga of the Building of Hoover Dam by Michael Hiltzik Publisher Comments As breathtaking today as when it was completed, Hoover Dam ranks among Americas most awe-inspiring, if dubious, achievements. This epic story of the dam—from conception to design to construction—by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln by Sean Wilentz Publisher Comments "Monumental..."--Gordon Wood, "New York Times Book Review." Acclaimed as the definitive study of the period by one of the greatest American historians, "The Rise of American Democracy" traces a historical arc from the earliest days of the republic to the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Bonus Army: An American Epic by Paul Dickson Publisher Comments In the summer of 1932, at the height of the Depression, some forty-five thousand World War I veteranswhites and blacks togetherdescended on Washington D.C., from all over the country to demand the bonus promised them eight years earlier for their wartime... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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