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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: $24.00 Used - Hardcover 
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The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris by David McCullough Publisher Comments As David McCullough writes, “Not all pioneers went west.” In The Greater Journey, he tells the enthralling, inspiring—and until now, untold—story of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, and... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $14.00 Sale - Trade Paper
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How the States Got Their Shapes Too: The People Behind the Borderlines by Mark Stein Publisher Comments Was Roger Williams too pure for the Puritans, and what does that have to do with Rhode Island? Why did Augustine Herman take ten years to complete the map that established Delaware? How did Rocky Mountain rogues help create the state of... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Dreaming in French: The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis by Alice Yaeger Kaplan Publisher Comments A year in Paris . . . since World War II, countless American students have been lured by that vision—and been transformed by their sojourn in the City of Light. Dreaming in French tells three stories of that experience, and how it changed the... (read more) Your price: $26.00 New - Hardcover
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Reporting America by Alistair Cooke Publisher Comments Over fifty years of reportage on American life by one of the 20th century's greatest broadcasters for nearly sixty years, Alistair Cooke reported on American life for the BBC. Reporting America is a fascinating account of history in the making. His... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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Known and Unknown: A Memoir by Donald Rumsfeld Publisher Comments With the same directness that defined his career in public service, Rumsfeld's memoir is filled with previously undisclosed details and insights about the Bush administration, 9/11, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. It also features Rumsfeld's unique... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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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Independence: The Struggle to Set America Free by John Ferling Publisher Comments With magisterial command and an unmatched sense of drama, John Ferling traces the political journey from protest to Revolution. Independence takes readers from the battlefields of Bunker Hill to the cobblestones of Philadelphia and into the halls of... (read more) Your price: $20.00 New - Trade Paper
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A Place Called Peculiar: Stories about Unusual American Place-Names by Frank K. Gallant Publisher Comments From Bug Tussle, Alabama, to Donnybrook, New York, this pop-culture history offers a highly entertaining survey of America's most unusual place-names and their often-humorous origins. The author traveled the country, recording the best stories... (read more) Your price: $9.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Last Gunfight: The Real Story of the Shootout at the O.K. Corral-And How It Changed the American West by Jeff Guinn Publisher Comments Now in paperback, bestselling author Jeff Guinn’s definitive, myth-busting account of the most famous shoot-out in American history—“A terrific read” (Clive Cussler). The so-called Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (which was... (read more) Your price: $16.99 New - Trade Paper
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Mrs. Kennedy and Me by Clint Hill Publisher Comments HE CALLED HER MRS. KENNEDY. SHE CALLED HIM MR. HILL. For four years, from the election of John Fitzgerald Kennedy in November 1960 until after the election of Lyndon Johnson in 1964, Clint Hill was the Secret Service agent assigned to guard the glamorous... (read more) Your price: $26.00 New - Hardcover
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How Italian Food Conquered the World by John F. F. Mariani Publisher Comments Not so long ago, Italian food was regarded as a poor mans gruel—little more than pizza, macaroni with sauce, and red wines in a box. Here, John Mariani shows how the Italian immigrants to America created, through perseverance and sheer... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge by David Mccullough Publisher Comments This monumental book tells the enthralling story of one of the greatest accomplishments in our nations history, the building of what was then the longest suspension bridge in the world. The Brooklyn Bridge rose out of the expansive era following the... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Hardcover
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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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John F. Kennedy (American Presidents) by Alan Brinkley Publisher Comments The young president who brought vigor and glamour to the White House while he confronted cold war crises abroad and calls for social change at home John Fitzgerald Kennedy was a new kind of president. He redefined how Americans came to see the nation's... (read more) Your price: $23.00 New - Hardcover
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In Hock: Pawning in America from Independence Through the Great Depression by Wendy A. Woloson Publisher Comments The definitive history of pawnbroking in the United States from the nation’s founding through the Great Depression, In Hock demonstrates that the pawnshop was essential to the rise of capitalism. The class of working poor created by this economic... (read more) Your price: $27.75 New - Trade Paper
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The American Road to Capitalism: Studies in Class-Structure, Economic Development and Political Conflict, 1620-1877 (Historical Materialism Book) by Charles Post Publisher Comments Short Listed for the 2011 Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize Unable to analyze the dynamics of specific forms of social labour in the antebellum U.S., most historians of the US Civil War have ignored its deep social roots. To search out these... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Trade Paper
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School, Society, & State: A New Education to Govern Modern America, 1890-1940 by Tracy L. Steffes Publisher Comments “Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife,” wrote John Dewey in his classic work The School and Society. In School, Society, and State, Tracy Steffes places that idea at the center of her exploration... (read more) Your price: $40.95 New - Hardcover
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Mary's Mosaic: The CIA Conspiracy to Murder John F. Kennedy, Mary Pinchot Meyer, and Their Vision of World Peace by Peter Janney Publisher Comments Who really murdered Mary Pinchot Meyer in the fall of 1964? Why was there a mad rush by CIA counterintelligence chief James Angleton to locate and confiscate her diary? What in that diary was so explosive? Had Mary Meyer finally put together the... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - Hardcover
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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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