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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
by Charles C. Mann  
Powells.com Staff Pick Charles C. Mann has pulled off an impressive feat — a scholarly, thorough work of history that's almost compulsively readable. In 1491, he summarizes and examines the last thirty years of research into the pre-Columbian Americas, and comes to...
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Worst Hard Time: Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (07 Edition)
by Timothy Egan
Powells.com Staff Pick A fresh, stirring look at the Dust Bowl and Depression, Timothy Egan follows the personal dramas of a handful of families, allowing their voices to reveal the environmental and human tragedies that rocked the nation. Grippingly detailed, this exciting...
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1776 (05 Edition)
by David Mccullough Publisher Comments In this masterful book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence -- when the whole American cause was riding on their success, without which all...
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Electric Kool-aid Acid Test (68 Edition)
by Tom Wolfe Publisher Comments Tom Wolfe's much-discussed kaleidoscopic non-fiction novel chronicles the tale of novelist Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters. In the 1960s, Kesey led a group of psychedelic sympathizers around the country in a painted bus, presiding over LSD...
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Washington's Crossing (Pivotal Moments in American History)
by David Hacke Fischer Publisher Comments Six months after the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution was all but lost. A powerful British force had routed the Americans at New York, occupied three colonies, and advanced within sight of Philadelphia. Yet, as David Hackett Fischer...
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Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63
by Taylor Branch
Publisher Comments Hailed as the most masterful story ever told of the American civil rights movement, Parting the Waters is destined to endure for generations. Moving from the fiery political baptism of Martin Luther King, Jr., to the corridors of Camelot where the...
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Powells.com Staff Pick A first rate biography by the brilliant historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, this landmark book details Lincoln's political acumen and remarkable leadership style. Recommended by Ted, Powells.com...
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Achilles in Vietnam : Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character (94 Edition)
by Jonathan Shay Publisher Comments In this strikingly original and groundbreaking book, Dr. Shay examines the psychological devastation of war by comparing the soldiers of Homer's Iliad with Vietnam veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. Although the Iliad was written...
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Pillar of Fire : America in the King Years 1963-64 (98 Edition)
by Taylor Branch Publisher Comments In the second volume of his three-part history, a monumental trilogy that began with Parting the Waters, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, Taylor Branch portrays the Civil Rights Movement at its zenith, recounting...
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House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest (08 Edition)
by Craig Childs
Powells.com Staff Pick Craig Childs has written a cracking good history disguised as an adventure! The book is filled with physical adventure on an Indiana Jones scale and scholarly detection worthy of Sherlock Holmes. The mystery of the Anasazi has intrigued historians for...
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Band of Brothers
by Stephen E. Ambrose Publisher Comments As good a rifle company as any in the world, Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, U.S. Army, kept getting the tough assignments -- responsible for everything from parachuting into France early D-Day morning to the capture of Hitler's Eagle's Nest at...
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Sacred Hoop : Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions : With a New Preface ((Rev)92 Edition)
by Paula Gunn Allen Publisher Comments 'This pioneering work, first published in 1986, documents the continuing vitality of American Indian traditions and the crucial role of women in those traditions.'...
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Geronimo Campaign (93 Edition)
by Odie B. Faulk Publisher Comments The surrender of the great Apache leader Geronimo to U.S Army Lieutenant Charles B. Gatewood in August of 1886 brought to an end a struggle that had begun in the early years of the century, and had figured prominently in the western campaign of the Civil...
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Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1940
by David E. Kyvig Publisher Comments In this fascinating book, David Kyvig describes everyday life in the 20s-40s decade, when automobiles and home electricity became commonplace, and radio and the movies became popular. The details of work life, domestic life, and leisure activities make...
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Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich
by Kevin Phillips Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 447-455) and index....
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Hard Times : an Oral History of the Great Depression, With a New Introduction By the Author ((Rev)86 Edition)
by Studs Terkel Publisher Comments A reissue of Terkel's classic work, with a new introduction by the author. "HARD TIMES doesn't render the time of the Depression or historicize about it - it is that time, its lingo, mood, its tragic and hilarious stories..." - Arthur Miller....
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
by Nathaniel Philbrick Publisher Comments In the Heart of the Sea brings to new life the incredible story of the wreck of the whaleship Essex — an event as mythic in its own century as the Titanic disaster in ours, and the inspiration for the climax of Moby-Dick. In a harrowing page-turner,...
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Breakout: The Chosin Reservoir Campaign, Korea 1950
by Martin Russ Synopsis "Breakout" is the riveting saga of one of the most heroic campaigns in American military history, masterfully told by the author of "The Last Parallel." It is the gripping story of the 1950 campaign of American Marines as they faced sudden death in the...
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Cycles of American History - With New Forewd (99 Edition)
by Arthur M. Jr. Schlesinger Publisher Comments Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., first revealed the sequences that governed American politics over the past two centuries in The Cycles of American History. In this updated edition, the prominent political historian continues to reflect on the "recurring...
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Latin American Literature & Culture #0010: Castaways
by A N Cabeza De Vaca Synopsis One of the first narratives of the exploration of North America by Europeans, this is the first-hand account of a fortune-seeking Spanish nobleman whose shipwreck on the south-east coast of North America forced him and his crew to walk across the...
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