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The New Left: A History by William L Oneill Publisher Comments In his latest publication, William L. O'Neill presents a concise critical history of the New Left, the thinking, people, and events that helped shape the 1960s in America, and its principal heir, the Academic Left. The first two chapters of this lively... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made by Walter Isaacson Publisher Comments Six close friends shaped the role their country would play in the dangerous years following World War II. They were the original best and brightest, whose towering intellects, outsize personalities, and dramatic actions would bring order to the postwar... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Hardcover
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The Fifties by David Halberstam Publisher Comments The Fifties is a sweeping social, political, economic, and cultural history of the ten years that Halberstam regards as seminal in determining what our nation is today. Halberstam offers portraits of not only the titans of the age: Eisenhower Dulles... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Time of Our Lives by Tom Brokaw Publisher Comments Tom Brokaw, known and beloved for his landmark work in American journalism and for the New York Times bestsellers The Greatest Generation and Boom!, now turns his attention to the challenges that face America in the new millennium, to offer reflections... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Long Way from Home: Growing Up in the American Heartland in the Forties and Fifties by Tom Brokaw Publisher Comments In A Long Way from Home, Tom Brokaw describes his childhood and youth in South Dakota, and the people and places in the American heartland of the 1940s and 1950s that continue to shape his life today. As he reflects on the American experience as he lived... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Brilliant Disaster: JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs by Jim Rasenberger Publisher Comments Now in paperback, a “balanced, engrossing account” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) of the Bay of Pigs Crisis drawing on long-hidden CIA documents and delivering the vivid truth of five pivotal days in April 1961. The U.S.-backed military... (read more) Your price: $18.00 New - Trade Paper
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Two Americans: Truman, Eisenhower, and a Dangerous World by William Lee Miller Publisher Comments Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower, consecutive presidents of the United States, were midwesterners alike in many ways—except that they also sharply differed. Born within six years of each other (Truman in 1884, Eisenhower in 1890), they came... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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Boom!: Voices of the Sixties: Personal Reflections on the '60s and Today by Tom Brokaw Publisher Comments In The Greatest Generation, his landmark bestseller, Tom Brokaw eloquently evoked for America what it meant to come of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War. Now, in Boom!, one of America's premier journalists gives us an epic portrait... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $6.75 Used - Hardcover
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The Greatest Generation Speaks: Letters and Reflections by Tom Brokaw Synopsis Brokaw wrote the bestselling "The Greatest Generation" and now the subjects have written back. This book of letters and reflections allows members of the World War II generation and their families to speak for themselves.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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American Dreams: the United States Since 1945 (11 Edition) by H. W. Brands Publisher Comments The story of our nation from the A-bomb to the iPhone-from bestselling historian H.W. Brands With keen insight and an impeccable sense of the spirit of the times, H. W. Brands, one of today's preeminent historians, captures the American experience... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis by Robert F Kennedy Publisher Comments In October 1962, when the United States confronted the Soviet Union over its installation of missiles in Cuba, few people shared the behind-the-scenes story as it is told here by the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy. In this unique account, he describes... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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America Between the Wars: From 11/9 to 9/11: The Misunderstood Years Between the Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Start of the War on Terror by Chollet Chollet Publisher Comments On November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall collapsed, taking the Cold War down with it. The next twelve years passed in a haze of self-congratulation, Republican confusion, and angst, and economic prosperity—until they ended abruptly with a stunning... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Fear Within: Spies, Commies, and American Democracy on Trial by Scott Martelle Publisher Comments Sixty years ago political divisions in the United States ran even deeper than today's name-calling showdowns between the left and right. Back then, to call someone a communist was to threaten that person's career, family, freedom, and, sometimes, life... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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9/11: The World Speaks by Tribute Wtc Visitor Center Publisher Comments Almost two million people from across the United States and around the world have come through the museum galleries of the Tribute WTC Visitor Center since it opened in September 2006 right across the street from the World Trade Center site. Many of... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.00 Used - Hardcover
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American Cold War Strategy: Interpreting Nsc 68 (Bedford Books in American History) by Ernest R May Publisher Comments Written in 1950, NSC 68 laid out the rationale for American Cold War strategy. This volume includes the complete text of NSC 68, followed by commentaries from former officials, specialists on American foreign policy, and American and foreign... (read more) List Price $19.20 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A World of Trouble: The White House and the Middle East--From the Cold War to the War on Terror by Patrick Tyler Publisher Comments The White House and the Middle East—from the Cold War to the War on Terror The Middle East is the beginning and the end of U.S. foreign policy: events there influence our alliances, make or break presidencies, govern the price of oil, and draw... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Secret Plot to Make Ted Kennedy President: Inside the Real Watergate Conspiracy by Geoff Shepard Publisher Comments The controversial book that will change how people think about Watergate Drawing on his insider knowledge and previously unpublished documents, Geoff Shepard shows that it didnt take long for Ted Kennedy and his allies to smell blood after the... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Other Eighties by Bradford D Martin Publisher Comments In this engaging book, Bradford Martin illuminates a different 1980s than many remember—one whose history has been buried under the celebratory narrative of conservative ascendancy. Ronald Reagan looms large in most accounts of the period... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw Publisher Comments "In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the fortieth anniversary of D-Day, the massive and daring Allied invasion of Europe that marked the beginning of the end of Adolf Hitler's Third... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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09/11 8:48 AM: Documenting America's Greatest Tragedy by BlueEar.com Publisher Comments A stirring oral history capturing America's most tragic day. Edited by BlueEar.com and written in the voices of the survivors, witnesses and helpless onlookers of the "Attack on America", this chronicle has a raw style that captures the fragile humanity... (read more) Your price: $1.50 Used - Trade Paper
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