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The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America by Timothy Egan Staff Pick In this remarkable tale of the nation's largest forest fire ... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $18.90 Sale - Hardcover 
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Worst Hard Time: Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (06 Edition) by Timothy Egan Publisher Comments The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. Timothy Egan's critically acclaimed account rescues this iconic chapter of American history from the shadows in a tour de... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Edie: American Girl by Jean Stein Publisher Comments When Edie was first published a decade ago, it quickly became an international bestseller. In the sixties Edie Sedgwick exploded into the public eye like a comet--aristocratic, glamorous, and Andy Warhol's superstar. Then at 28 her light fizzled and died... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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And the Dead Shall Rise by Steve Oney Publisher Comments In 1913, 13-year-old Mary Phagan was found brutally murdered in the basement of the Atlanta pencil factory where she worked. The factory manager, a college-educated Jew named Leo Frank, was arrested, tried, and convicted in a trial that seized national... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Great Influenza : the Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History (Rev 06 Edition) by John M. Barry Publisher Comments At the height of WWI, historys most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in twenty-four months than AIDS killed in... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters by Frances S Saunders Publisher Comments Shocking evidence of cultural manipulation during the Cold War is presented as Saunders' book draws together newly declassified documents and interviews with cultural figures such as George Orwell and Gloria Steinem to expose the CIA's astonishing... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families by James Agee and Walker Evans Publisher Comments This handsome new paperback edition of an American classic is an invaluable document of the human and religious meaning of the lives of sharecroppers in the impoverished South. It follows on the heels of a national exhibition of Evans's photographs... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy by David Hoffman Publisher Comments This riveting narrative history of the end of the arms race sheds new light on the frightening last chapters of the Cold War and the legacy of the nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons that remain a threat today. During the Cold War, world... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $23.95 Used - Hardcover
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Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert D Putnam Publisher Comments Once we bowled in leagues, usually after work -- but no longer. This seemingly small phenomenon symbolizes a significant social change that Robert Putnam has identified in this brilliant volume, Bowling Alone, which The Economist hailed as "a prodigious... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters by James W. Douglass Book News Annotation Douglass (a longtime peace activist with the Catholic Workers) borrows the term "the Unspeakable" from Catholic philosopher Thomas Merton in order to point towards a form of systemic evil that he believes resulted in the death of John F. Kennedy. He... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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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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Legacy of Secrecy: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination by Lamar Waldron Synopsis This work reveals the attempts by Robert Kennedy to expose John F. Kennedy's killers--attempts that led to RFK's own murder. Interviews and newly declassified files document how three mob bosses and a few CIA operatives were able to prevent the truth... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide (P.S.) by Samantha Power Publisher Comments In this pathbreaking interrogation of the last century of American history, Power draws upon her own reporting from the modern killing fields to tell the story of American indifference and American courage in the face of the worst massacres of the 20th... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Power Broker : Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (74 Edition) by Robert A. Caro Publisher Comments One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and the Francis Parkman prizes, The Power Broker tells the hidden story behind the shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York (city and state) and makes public what few... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Timberline Lodge: The History, Art, and Craft of an American Icon by Sarah Baker Munro Publisher Comments Timberline Lodge -- the magnificent Oregon icon on Mount Hood -- is one the few twentieth-century American buildings of its size constructed and furnished entirely by hand. Dedicated by Franklin D. Roosevelt in September 1937 and a National Landmark... (read more) Your price: $34.95 New - Hardcover
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Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies by M. Stanton Evans Publisher Comments Accused of creating a bogus Red Scare and smearing countless innocent victims in a five-year reign of terror, Senator Joseph McCarthy is universally remembered as a demagogue, a bully, and a liar. History has judged him such a loathsome figure that even... (read more) Your price: $18.00 New - Trade Paper
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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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Refusing War, Affirming Peace: A History of Civilian Public Service Camp #21 at Cascade Locks by Jeffrey Kovac Publisher Comments One of the untold stories of Americaas World War II experience belongs to the thousands who refused military service for reasons of conscience, instead serving their country through non-military alternate service. Refusing War, Affirming Peace offers an... (read more) Your price: $21.95 New - Trade Paper
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Getting Out: Your Guide to Leaving America (Process Self-Reliance) by Mark Ehrman Publisher Comments Had enough? Whether you find the governmentoppressive, the economy spiraling out of control, or if you simply wantadventure, you're not alone. In increasing numbers, the idea is talkedabout openly: Expatriate. Over three hundred thousand Americans... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy by Jim Marrs Publisher Comments "The big daddy of the conspiracy books on the JFK assassination, and one that can't be taken lightly. A sheer tour de force that may be the final word until 2039--when government files on the case can be unlocked".--Kirkus Reviews.... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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