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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 $35.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover 
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Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America Forever by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard Publisher Comments The anchor of The O'Reilly Factor recounts one of the most dramatic stories in American history — how one gunshot changed the country forever. In the spring of 1865, the bloody saga of America's Civil War finally comes to an end after a series of... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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1861: The Civil War Awakening (Vintage Civil War Library) by Adam Goodheart Publisher Comments An epic of courage and heroism beyond the battlefields, 1861 is Adam Goodheart’s account of how the Civil War began and a second American revolution unfolded, setting Abraham Lincoln on the path to greatness and millions of slaves on the road to... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Shiloh, 1862 by Winston Groom Publisher Comments A main selection in History Book-of-the-Month Club and alternate selection in Military Book-of-the-Month Club. In the spring of 1862, many Americans still believed that the Civil War, "would be over by Christmas." The previous summer in Virginia, Bull... (read more) Your price: $30.00 New - Hardcover
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Oxford History of the United States #06: Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M Mcpherson Publisher Comments Now featuring a new Afterword by the author, this handy paperback edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Battle Cry of Freedom is without question the definitive one-volume history of the Civil War. James McPherson's fast-paced narrative fully integrates... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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This Birth Place of Souls: The Civil War Nursing Diary of Harriet Eaton by Jane E. (edt) Schultz Publisher Comments After the battle of Antietam in 1862, Harriet Eaton traveled to Virginia from her home in Portland, Maine, to care for soldiers in the Army of the Potomac. Portland's Free Street Baptist Church, with liberal ties to abolition, established the Maine Camp... (read more) Your price: $30.50 New - Trade Paper
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The New York Times the Complete Civil War 1861-1865 by Harold Holzer Publisher Comments The Civil War as you've never experienced it before, through original, first-hand reportage of The New York Times, the country's newspaper of record. Available for the first time in a unique book/DVD package The New York Times, established in 1851,... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics by James Oakes Publisher Comments My husband considered you a dear friend, Mary Todd Lincoln wrote to FrederickDouglass in theweeks afterLincoln's assassination. The frontier lawyer and the former slave, thecautious politician and thefiery reformer, thePresidentand the most famous black... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Richard Taylor and the Red River Campaign of 1864 by Samuel Mitcham Publisher Comments One of the most shocking and humiliating defeats in the United States' military history, the Red River Campaign narrowly missed turning the tide of the entire Civil War. The daring military operation took place in north Louisiana, in April of 1864... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - Hardcover
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Battle Cry of Freedom: The Era of the Civil War by James M Mcpherson Publisher Comments Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Freedom will unquestionably become the standard one-volume history of the Civil War. James McPherson's fast-paced narrative fully integrates... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $24.00 Used - Hardcover
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A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent (Simon & Schuster America Collection) by Robert W Merry Publisher Comments ROBERT MERRYS BRILLIANT AND HIGHLY ACCLAIMED HISTORY OF A CRUCIAL EPOCH IN U.S. HISTORY. In a one-term presidency, James K. Polk completed the story of Americas Manifest Destiny—extending its territory across the continent by threatening... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Ruin Nation: Destruction and the American Civil War (Uncivil Wars) by Megan Kate Nelson Publisher Comments During the Civil War, cities, houses, forests, and soldiers’ bodies were transformed into “dead heaps of ruins,” novel sights in the southern landscape. How did this happen, and why? And what did Americans—northern and southern... (read more) Your price: $26.25 New - Trade Paper
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Ruin Nation: Destruction and the American Civil War (Uncivil Wars) by Megan Kate Nelson Publisher Comments During the Civil War, cities, houses, forests, and soldiers’ bodies were transformed into “dead heaps of ruins,” novel sights in the southern landscape. How did this happen, and why? And what did Americans—northern and southern... (read more) Your price: $81.50 New - Hardcover
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H. L. Hunley (10 Edition) by Tom Chaffin Publisher Comments On the evening of February 17, 1864, the Confederacy's H. L. Hunley sank the Union's formidable sloop of war the USS Housatonic and became the first submarine in world history to sink an enemy ship. But after accomplishing such a feat, the Hunley and her... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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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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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 $16.99 Your price: $5.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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A Disposition to Be Rich: How a Small-Town Pastor's Son Ruined an American President, Brought on a Wall Street Crash, and Made Himself the Best- by Geoffrey C. Ward Publisher Comments Ferdinand Ward was the greatest swindler of the Gilded Age. Through his unapologetic villainy, he bankrupted Ulysses S. Grant and ran roughshod over the entire world of finance. Now, his compelling, behind-the-scenes story is told—told by his great-... (read more) Your price: $28.95 New - Hardcover
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Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South by Stephanie Mccurry Publisher Comments The story of the Confederate States of America, the proslavery, antidemocratic nation created by white Southern slaveholders to protect their property, has been told many times in heroic and martial narratives. Now, however, Stephanie McCurry tells a... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Abolitionist Imagination (Alexis de Tocqueville Lectures on American Politics) by Andrew Delbanco Publisher Comments The abolitionists of the mid-nineteenth century have long been painted in extremes--vilified as reckless zealots who provoked the catastrophic bloodletting of the Civil War, or praised as daring and courageous reformers who hastened the end of slavery... (read more) Your price: $24.50 New - Hardcover
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Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz Publisher Comments When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for a peaceful corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he thinks he's put war zones behind him. But awakened one morning by the crackle of musket fire... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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