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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: $9.95 Used - 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: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War by James Bradley Synopsis In 1905 President Teddy Roosevelt dispatched Secretary of War William Howard Taft on the largest U.S. diplomatic mission in history to Hawaii, Japan, the Philippines, China, and Korea. Roosevelt's glamorous twenty-one year old daughter Alice served as... (read more) Your price: $29.99 New - Hardcover
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Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression by Morris Dickstein Publisher Comments In this timely and long-awaited cultural history of the 1930s, Morris Dickstein, whom Norman Mailer called one of our best and most distinguished critics of American literature, explores the anxiety and hope, the despair and surprising optimism of... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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Hard Times: An Oral History of Great Depression by Studs Terkel Publisher Comments In this unique re-creation of one of the most dramatic periods in modern American history, Studs Terkel recaptures the Great Depression of the 1930s in all its complexity. The book is a mosaic of memories from those who were richest to those who were... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, and the Birth of Hollywood by Howard Blum Publisher Comments It was an explosion that reverberated across the country--and into the very heart of early-twentieth-century America. On the morning of October 1, 1910, the walls of the Los Angeles Times Building buckled as a thunderous detonation sent men, machinery... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (Vintage Civil War Library) by Drew Gilpin Faust Publisher Comments More than 600,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be six million. In This Republic of Suffering, Drew Gilpin Faust reveals the ways that death on such a scale changed not only... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - 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: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson by David S Reynolds Publisher Comments America experienced unprecedented growth and turmoil in the years between 1815 and 1848. It was an age when Andrew Jackson redefined the presidency and James K. Polk expanded the nation's territory. Bancroft Prize-winning historian and literary critic... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Mothers of Invention : Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War (96 Edition) by Drew Gilpin Faust Publisher Comments A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize Winner of the Avery Craven Prize In the ante-bellum South, women from elite slaveholding families were raised to consider themselves not so much as "women" but as "ladies... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877-1920 (American History) by Jackson Lears Publisher Comments In the half-century between the Civil War and World War I, widespread yearning for a new beginning permeated American public life. Dreams of spiritual, moral, and physical rebirth formed the foundation for the modern United States, inspiring its leaders... (read more) Your price: $27.99 New - Hardcover
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The Exchange Artist: A Tale of High-Flying Speculation and America's First Banking Collapse by Jane Kamensky Publisher Comments The startling story of an early American dreamer whose wily schemes made him a founding father of our speculation nation. Rediscover a lost chapter in early American history: the story of financial-pioneer-turned-confidence-man Andrew Dexter, Jr... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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Woman Behind the New Deal: the Life of Frances Perkins, FDR's Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience (09 Edition) by Kirstin Downey Publisher Comments Frances Perkins is no longer a household name, yet she was one of the most influential women of the twentieth century. Based on eight years of research, extensive archival materials, new documents, and exclusive access to Perkins’s family members... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $18.00 Used - Hardcover
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American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA: When FDR Put the Nation to Work by Nick Taylor Publisher Comments Seventy-five years after Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, here for the first time is the remarkable story of one of its enduring cornerstones, the Works Progress Administration (WPA): its passionate believers, its furious critics, and its amazing... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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State of Jones (09 Edition) by John Stauffer Publisher Comments THE STATE OF JONES is a true story about the South during the Civil War—the real South. Not the mythologized South of romantic lost causes but a hardscrabble place where poor men were forced to fight a rich man's war for slavery and cotton. In... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century by Howard Blum Staff Pick American Lightning is history at its most gripping. Fans of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood will not want to miss this one. The subject is the 1910 bombing of the Los Angeles Times offices, and Howard Blum... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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1912 : Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Debs : Election That Changed the Country (04 Edition) by James Chace Publisher Comments Beginning with former president Theodore Roosevelt's return in 1910 from his African safari, Chace brilliantly unfolds a dazzling political circus that featured four extraordinary candidates. When Roosevelt failed to defeat his chosen successor, William... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The American Home Front: 1941-1942 by Alistair Cooke Publisher Comments In nearly three thousand BBC broadcasts over fifty-eight years, Alistair Cooke reported on America, illuminating our country for a global audience. He was one of the most widely read and widely heard chroniclers of America—the Twentieth Century... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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1812: The War That Forged a Nation (P.S.) by Walter R Borneman Publisher Comments < p> Although frequently overlooked between the American Revolution and the Civil War, the War of 1812 tested a rising generation of American leaders; unified the United States with a renewed sense of national purpose; and set the stage for... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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