US History
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A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present (P.S.)
by Howard Zinn  
Powells.com Staff Pick For anyone who sat in a high school history class feeling like there was something more going on than you were being told, this book is a revelation. As engaging as a white-knuckled novel, Zinn's astonishing record of U.S. history from the perspective of...
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
by Eric Schlosser
Powells.com Staff Pick "What we eat has changed more in the last forty years than in the last forty thousand," Schlosser observes, yet most Americans know very little about how that food is made, where, by whom, and at what cost. Fast Food Nation traces the industry's...
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Profiles in Courage (P.S.)
by John Fitzgerald Kennedy Publisher Comments Written in 1955 by the then junior senator from the state of Massachusetts, John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage served as a clarion call to every American. The inspiring true accounts of eight unsung heroic acts by American patriots at different...
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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...
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Every Man a Speculator: A History of Wall Street in American Life
by Steve Fraser Publisher Comments Americans have experienced a love-hate relationship with Wall Street for two hundred years. Long an object of suspicion, fear, and even revulsion, the Street eventually came to be seen as an alluring pathway to wealth and freedom. Steve Fraser tells the...
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An Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Power (P.S.)
by John Steele Gordon Publisher Comments Throughout time, from ancient Rome to modern Britain, the great empires built and maintained their domination through force of arms and political power. But not the United States. America has dominated the world in a new, peaceful, and pervasive way...
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The Children's Blizzard (P.S.)
by David Laskin Publisher Comments The gripping story of an epic prairie snowstorm that killed hundreds of newly arrived settlers and cast a shadow on the promise of the American frontier. January 12, 1888, began as an unseasonably warm morning across Nebraska, the Dakotas, and Minnesota,...
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April 1865: The Month That Saved America (P.S.)
by Jay Winik Publisher Comments This gripping, panoramic narrative takes readers on a breathless ride through 30 tumultuous days at the end of the Civil War, showing that the nation's future rested on a few crucial decisions and twists of fate. 16-page insert....
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Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima (P.S.)
by Stephen Walker Publisher Comments A British filmmaker and documentary director tells the story of the bombing of Hiroshima in a new and dramatic way: a minute-by-minute account told from multiple perspectives, including American soldiers, Los Alamos scientists, and Japanese survivors. 16-...
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