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The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
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The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
by David McCullough

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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...
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Panama Fever: The Epic Story of One of the Greatest Human Achievements of All Time—The Building of the Panama Canal
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Panama Fever: The Epic Story of One of the Greatest Human Achievements of All Time—The Building of the Panama Canal
by Matthew Parker

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A thrilling tale of exploration, conquest, money, politics, and medicine. The Panama Canal was the costliest undertaking in human history. It literally required moving mountains, breaking the back of the great range that connects North and South America....
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How Wall Street Created a Nation: J.P. Morgan, Teddy Roosevelt, and the Panama Canal
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How Wall Street Created a Nation: J.P. Morgan, Teddy Roosevelt, and the Panama Canal
by Ovidio Diaz Espino

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JP Morgan, Teddy Roosevelt and the Panama Canal....
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Six Minutes to Freedom: How a Band of Heroes Defied a Dictator and Helped Free a Nation
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Six Minutes to Freedom: How a Band of Heroes Defied a Dictator and Helped Free a Nation
by Kurt Muse

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This highly personal narrative is the gripping true story of civilian Kurt Muse, a real-life hero at the center of an international crisis in Panama, and the Delta Force team that helped him to freedom. 16-page photo insert....
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The Darkest Jungle: The True Story of the Darien Expedition and America's Ill-Fated Race to Connect the Seas
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The Darkest Jungle: The True Story of the Darien Expedition and America's Ill-Fated Race to Connect the Seas
by Todd Balf

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-320) and index....
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The Building of the Panama Canal in Historic Photographs
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The Building of the Panama Canal in Historic Photographs
by Ulrich Keller

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Extensive text and 164 historic photographs tell the compelling story of the Canal's construction: dredging, housing, internal government, engineering feats, failures, and final success....
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Panama Canal: The Crisis in Historical Perspective
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Panama Canal: The Crisis in Historical Perspective
by Walter Lafeber

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A superb treatment of the evolution of U.S.-Panama relations, Walter LaFeber's The Panama Canal was praised by The Nation as "a balanced, unemotional indictment of the history of the United States in Panama". History hailed it as "the best overall...
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Drawing the Line at the Big Ditch: The Panama Canal Treaties and the Rise of the Right
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Drawing the Line at the Big Ditch: The Panama Canal Treaties and the Rise of the Right
by Adam Clymer

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Considered one of America's engineering marvels, the Panama Canal sparked intense debates in the 1970s over the decision to turn it back over to Panama. In this remarkable and revealing tale, noted journalist Adam Clymer shows how the decision to give up...
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Shooting the Moon: The True Story of an American Manhunt Unlike Any Other, Ever
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Shooting the Moon: The True Story of an American Manhunt Unlike Any Other, Ever
by David Harris

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Like the best of thrillers, this is a tale of betrayal and murder, of drug-smuggling and arms-dealing, of a powerful international crime syndicate and the key players who help unload millions of tons of cocaine on the American market and live large on...
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Emperors in the Jungle: The Hidden History of the U.S. in Panama (American Encounters/Global Interactions)
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Emperors in the Jungle: The Hidden History of the U.S. in Panama (American Encounters/Global Interactions)
by John Lindsay Poland

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Emperors in the Jungle is an expose of key episodes in the military involvement of the United States in Panama. Investigative journalism at its best, this book reveals how U.S. ideas about taming tropical jungles and people, combined with commercial and...
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Shooting the Moon the True Story of An
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Shooting the Moon the True Story of An
by David Harris

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Now in paperback, the acclaimed nonfiction thriller that takes us behind the scenes and reveals what really happened in 1989 when 20,000 American soldiers invaded Panama, arrested that nation's leader, and hauled him back to Miami to stand trial for...
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We Answer Only to God: Politics and the Military in Panama, 1903-1947
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We Answer Only to God: Politics and the Military in Panama, 1903-1947
by Thomas Pearcy

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Who can forget the televised drama of American troops tracking down Panama's ruler, General Noriega, in 1989? How did that event come to pass? Narcopolitics--or money from illegal drugs influencing national affairs--is not the sole answer. The...
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Case Against the General: Manuel Noriega & the Politics of American Justice
by Steve Albert

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Documents the first trial of a foreign leader in an American court--General Manuel Noriega, captured in December 1989 during the US invasion of Panama and tried and convicted for drug trafficking and money laundering. Albert draws on thousands of...
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Panama
by Kevin Buckley

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Written by a seasoned journalist and updated to include Noriega's trial, this account of U.S. involvement in Panama "reads like a spy thriller" (Publishers Weekly). Buckley shows that U.S. policymakers were fully aware of Noriega's drug-trafficking...
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In the time of the tyrants :Panama, 1968-1990
by R M Koster

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [399]-411) and index....
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Jottings on the West Indies and Panama
by Alfred Radford



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People of Panama
by John Biesanz



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Death Knell of the Panama Canal
by Russell G. Evans



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Portrait of the Panama Canal
by William Friar



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Path Between the Seas Creation of the Pa
by David Mccullough



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