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The Civil War: A Narrative: Volume 3: Red River to Appomattox by Shelby Foote Publisher Comments An unparalleled achievement, an American Iliad, a unique work uniting the scholarship of the historian and the high readability of the first-class novelist. --Walker Percy I have never read a better, more vivid, more understandable account of the savage... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Civil War a Narrative Fredericksbur Volume 2 by Shelby Foote Publisher Comments This, then, is narrative history--a kind of history that goes back to an older literary tradition.... The writing is superb...one of the historical and literary achievements of our time. --The Washington Post Book World Gettysburg...is described with... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Civil War a Narrative Fort Sumter Volume 1 by Shelby Foote Publisher Comments Here, for a certainty, is one of the great historical narratives of our century, a unique and brilliant achievement, one that must be firmly placed in the ranks of the masters.--Van Allen Bradley, Chicago Daily News A stunning book full of color, life... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearn Goodwin Publisher Comments Acclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political genius in this highly original work, as the one-term congressman and prairie lawyer rises from obscurity to prevail over three gifted rivals of national reputation to become... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America by Garry Wills Publisher Comments The power of words has rarely been given a more compelling demonstration than in the Gettysburg Address. Lincoln was asked to memorialize the gruesome battle. Instead, he gave the whole nation "a new birth of freedom" in the space of a mere 272 words... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields: Discovering America's Hallowed Ground by Jeff Shaara Publisher Comments Featuring maps and photos, this authoritative history is a practical guide to the ten most significant Civil War sites from "New York Times" bestselling author Jeff Shaara.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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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: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The American Civil War: A Military History by John Keegan Publisher Comments For the past half century, John Keegan, the greatest military historian of our time, has been returning to the scenes of America's most bloody and wrenching war to ponder its lingering conundrums: the continuation of fighting for four years between such... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Hardcover
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Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln by John Stauffer Publisher Comments Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln were the preeminent self-made men of their time. In this masterful dual biography, award-winning HarvardUniversity scholar John Stauffer describes the transformations in the lives of these two giants during a major... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Lincoln for President: An Unlikely Candidate, an Audacious Strategy, and the Victory No One Saw Coming by Bruce Chadwick Publisher Comments The untold story of the drama, controversy, and incredible political genius of Lincoln's first presidential campaign In May of 1860, Republican delegates gathered in Chicago for their second-ever convention, with the full expectation of electing William... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $19.95 Sale - Hardcover
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Fields of Blood: The Prairie Grove Campaign (Civil War America) by William L Shea Publisher Comments On Sunday, December 7, 1862, two armies collided at an obscure Arkansas hamlet named Prairie Grove in a desperate battle that effectively ended Confederate offensive operations west of the Mississippi River. In Fields of Blood, historian William L. Shea... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $22.95 Used - Hardcover
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West Pointers and the Civil War: The Old Army in War and Peace (Civil War America) by Wayne Wei Sia Hsieh Publisher Comments Most Civil War generals were graduates of West Point, and many of them helped transform the U.S. Army from what was little better than an armed mob that performed poorly during the War of 1812 into the competent fighting force that won the Mexican War... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover
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Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 by Stephen E Ambrose From Powells.com Abraham Lincoln, prior to being elected president and at the time working as a railway lawyer, met future Civil War hero General Grenville Dodge, in Council Bluffs, Iowa in 1859. According to historian Stephen Ambrose, Lincoln's first words were "Dodge... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $5.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Lincoln's Proclamation: Emancipation Reconsidered (Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era) by William A Blair Publisher Comments Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation is popularly regarded as a heroic act by a great American president. Widely remembered as the document that ended slavery, the proclamation in fact freed slaves only in the rebellious South (and not in the... (read more) List Price $35.95 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover
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Our Lincoln: New Perspectives on Lincoln and His World by Eric Foner Publisher Comments These eloquent, compelling essays show why Lincoln was a man of his time and a man for all time. There is no better introduction to the complexities of his life and to why he still holds a spell over America and the world.-Library Journal Among these... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.50 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 In 1800, the United States teetered on the brink of a second revolution. The presidential election between Adams and Jefferson was a bitterly contested tie, and the government neared collapse. The Supreme Court had no clear purpose or powerno one had... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - Hardcover
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Jim Bridger: Mountain Man by Stanley Vestal Publisher Comments Other Bison Books by Stanley Vestal includes: "Dodge City: Queen of Cowtowns"; "Joe Meek: The Merry Mountain Man"; "The Missouri"; "The Old Santa Fe Trail"; "Warpath: The True Story of the Fighting Sioux Told in a Biography of Chief White Bull".... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Library of Congress Civil War Desk Reference by Margaret Wagner Publisher Comments The bloody conflict that sundered the United States from 1861 to 1865 took 620,000 lives, laid waste to large sections of the American South, and decided the future course of the nation. Its reverberations are still felt in American life. Now from the... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $20.00 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation's Call to Greatness by Harlow Giles Unger Publisher Comments In this lively and compelling biography Harlow Giles Unger reveals the dominant political figure of a generation. A fierce fighter in four critical Revolutionary War battles and a courageous survivor of Valley Forge and a near-fatal wound at the Battle... (read more) Your price: $26.00 New - Hardcover
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Journal of a Trapper by Osborne Russell Publisher Comments 'Reader, if you are in search of a Classical and Scientific tourist, please to lay this Volume down, and pass on, for this simply informs you what a Trapper has seen and experienced. But if you wish to peruse a Hunter's rambles among the wild regions of... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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