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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) List Price $29.99 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover 
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Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery by Leon F Litwack Publisher Comments Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award Based on hitherto unexamined sources: interviews with ex-slaves, diaries and accounts by former slaveholders, this " rich and admirably written book" (Eugene Genovese, "The New... (read more) List Price $20.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Search for Order, 1877-1920 by Robert H Wiebe Publisher Comments At the end of the Reconstruction, the spread of science and technology, industrialism, urbanization, immigration, and economic depressions eroded Americans' conventional beliefs in individualism and a divinely ordained social system. In The Search for... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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U. S. Grant: American Hero, American Myth (Civil War America) by Joan Waugh Publisher Comments At the time of his death, Ulysses S. Grant was the most famous person in America, considered by most citizens to be equal in stature to George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Yet today his monuments are rarely visited, his military reputation is... (read more) Your price: $30.00 New - Hardcover
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Penguin American Library) by Frederick Douglass Publisher Comments Written more than a century ago by Frederick Douglass, a former slave who went on to become a famous orator, U.S. minister, and a leader of his people, this masterpiece is one of the most eloquent indictments of slavery ever recorded. Douglass's shocking... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Short History of Reconstruction (90 Edition) by Eric Foner Publisher Comments The World the War Made The Coming of Emancipation On January 1, 1863, after a winter storm swept up the east coast of the United States, the sun rose in a cloudless sky over Washington, D.C. At the White House, Abraham Lincoln spent most of the day... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Good Old Days They Were Terrible by Otto L. Bettmann Publisher Comments This book explains why the "good old days" were only good for a priviledged few and why they were unrelentingly hard for most. Sobering, actually. Check it out.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Blast: The Complete Collection by Alexander (edt) Berkman Publisher Comments "The pages of The Blastseem to smell of black powder, or better, seem to have blown out of the eye of a social hurricane. A sense of absolute emergency pervades almost every column."-Richard Drinnon After serving as editor for Emma Goldman's Mother Earth,... (read more) Your price: $21.95 New - Trade Paper
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Buried in the Bitter Waters: The Hidden History of Racial Cleansing in America by Eliot Jaspin Publisher Comments Leave now, or die! From the heart of the Midwest to the Deep South, from the mountains of North Carolina to the Texas frontier, words like these have echoed through more than a century of American history. The call heralded not a tornado or a hurricane... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $13.46 Used - Hardcover
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The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T. J. Stiles Publisher Comments A gripping, groundbreaking biography of the combative man whose genius and force of will created modern capitalism. Founder of a dynasty, builder of the original Grand Central, creator of an impossibly vast fortune, Cornelius Commodore Vanderbilt is an... (read more) Your price: $37.50 New - Hardcover
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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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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) List Price $15.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Transformed America by Les Standiford Publisher Comments Here is history that reads like fiction: the riveting story of two founding fathers of American industry — Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick — and the bloody steelworkers' strike that transformed their fabled partnership into a furious... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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Frederick Douglass: Race and the Rebirth of American Liberalism (American Political Thought) by Peter C. Myers Publisher Comments For Frederick Douglass, the iconic nineteenth-century slave and abolitionist, the foundations for his arguments in support of racial equality rested on natural rights and natural law--and the bold proclamation of the Declaration of Independence that all... (read more) List Price $40.25 Your price: $36.25 New - Hardcover
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Robber Barons (62 Edition) by Matthew Josephson Publisher Comments Rockefeller, Morgan, Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Harriman, Gould, Frick...this is the story of the giant american capitalists who seized economic power after the Civil War and altered the shape of american life forever. Index.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Theodore Roosevelt, the Progressive Party, and the Transformation of American Democracy (American Political Thought) by Sidney M Milkis Publisher Comments Led by Theodore Roosevelt, the Progressive Party made the 1912 campaign a passionate contest for the soul of the American people. Promoting an ambitious program of economic, social, and political reform--New Nationalism--that posed profound challenges to... (read more) List Price $40.25 Your price: $34.95 New - Hardcover
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Signet Classics) by Frederick Douglass Publisher Comments In his wrenching, classic autobiography--one of the most important documents in American history--Douglass describes himself as a man who became a slave and, later, a slave who became a man. Reissue.... (read more) List Price $4.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Mass Market
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Thaddeus Stevens :scourge of the South by Fawn M Brodie Publisher Comments In this biography of the chief architect of Reconstruction after the Civil War, Fawn Brodie seeks to explain the basis for his actions, the nature of his economic radicalism, and the emotional forces that resulted in his becoming one of the most... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Andrew Johnson a Biographical Companion by Glen Schroeder-lein Publisher Comments Features: - Presents a wealth of intriguing facts about our 17th president -- the first to be impeached- Includes chronology, documents, bibliography, and... (read more) List Price $68.50 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Harding Affair: Love and Espionage During the Great War by James Robenalt Publisher Comments Warren Harding fell in love with his beautiful neighbor, Carrie Phillips, in the summer of 1905, almost a decade before he was elected a United States Senator and fifteen years before he became the 29th President of the United States. When the two lovers... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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