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Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt's America
by Eric Rauchway  Publisher Comments When President McKinley was murdered at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York on September 6, 1901, Americans were bereaved and frightened. Rumor ran rampant: A wild-eyed foreign anarchist with an unpronounceable name had killed the Commander...
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Oxford History of the United States #06: Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
by James M Mcpherson Publisher Comments Now featuring a new Afterword by the author, this handy paperback edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Battle Cry of Freedom is without question the definitive one-volume history of the Civil War. James McPherson's fast-paced narrative fully integrates...
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Standing at Armageddon: A Grassroots History of the Progressive Era
by Nell Irvin Painter Publisher Comments "A consistently engrossing, occasionally irreverent, always smoothly written history of America's painful entry into the modern age."—Kirkus Reviews Standing at Armageddon is a comprehensive and lively historical account of America's shift from a...
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Savage Peace: Hope and Fear in America, 1919
by Ann Hagedorn Publisher Comments Written with the sweep of an epic novel and grounded in extensive research into contemporary documents, Savage Peace is a striking portrait of American democracy under stress. It is the surprising story of America in the year 1919. In the aftermath of an...
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Rutherford B. Hayes (02 Edition)
by Hans L. Trefousse Publisher Comments A leader of the Reconstruction era, whose contested election eerily parallels the election debacle of 2000 The disputed election of 1876 between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel Tilden, in which Congress set up a special electoral commission, handing the...
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Frontier Regulars: The United States Army and the Indian, 1866-1891
by Robert M. Utley Publisher Comments In Frontier Regulars Robert M. Utley combines scholarship and drama to produce an impressive history of the final, massive drive by the Regular Army to subdue and control the American Indians and open the West during the twenty-five years following ...
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The Rise and Fall of the White Republic: Class Politics and Mass Culture in Nineteenth-Century America (Haymarket)
by Alexander Saxton Synopsis In this historical study, Saxton asks why white racism remained an idealogical force in America long after the need to justify slavery and Western conquest had disappeared. It examines images of race at a popular level, from blackfaced minstrels to dime...
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Stricken Field: The Little Bighorn Since 1876
by Jerome A Greene Book News Annotation Greene, a retired research historian for the US National Park Service, explains how the Indian Memorial at Little Bighorn came to be after generations of debate, digging, and changing attitudes on the parts of the National Park Service and the nation...
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Morgan: American Financier
by Jean Strouse Publisher Comments History has remembered J. Pierpont Morgan as a complex and contradictory figure, part robber baron and part patron saint. Now this magisterial biography, based extensively on new material, draws a definitive, full-scale portrait of Morgan's tumultuous...
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West From Appomattox : Reconstruction of America After the Civil War (07 Edition)
by Heather Cox Richardson Publisher Comments The story of Reconstruction is not simply about the rebuilding of the South after the Civil War. Instead, the late nineteenth century defined modern America, as Southerners, Northerners, and Westerners gradually hammered out a national identity...
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America, 1908: The Dawn of Flight, the Race to the Pole, the Invention of the Model T, and the Making of a Modern Nation
by Jim Rasenberger Publisher Comments A breathtaking ride through the highs and lows of one spectacular, pivotal year in American history. As the earth turned toward the sun on the first morning of 1908, human flight remained, for most Americans, in the realm of myth and dream. But before...
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Search for Order, 1877-1920 (67 Edition)
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...
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Reforging the White Republic: Race, Religion, and American Nationalism, 1865-1898 (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War)
by Edward J. Blum Publisher Comments During Reconstruction, former abolitionists in the North had a golden opportunity to pursue true racial justice and permanent reform in America. But why, after the sacrifice made by thousands of Civil War patriots to arrive at this juncture, did the...
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Age of Betrayal: The Triumph of Money in America, 1865-1900 (Vintage)
by Jack Beatty Publisher Comments Age of Betrayal is a brilliant reconsideration of America's first Gilded Age, when war-born dreams of freedom and democracy died of their impossibility. Focusing on the alliance between government and railroads forged by bribes and campaign contributions,...
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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...
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Andrew Carnegie
by David Nasaw Publisher Comments A National Book Critics Circle Award-nominated biographer chronicles the life of the iconic business titan from his modest upbringing in mid-1800s Scotland through his rise to one of the world's richest men, offering insight into his work as a peace...
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First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power
by Warren Zimmermann Publisher Comments “We were sure that we would win, that we should score the first great triumph in a mighty world-movement.”—Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 Americans like to think they have no imperial past. In fact, the United States became an imperial nation...
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The Five of Hearts: An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends, 1880-1918
by Patricia Otoole Publisher Comments The Five of Hearts, who first gathered in Washington in the Gilded Age, included Henry Adams, historian and scion of America's first political dynasty; his wife, Clover, gifted photographer and tragic victim of depression; John Hay, ambassador and...
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Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction
by Eric Mckitrick Synopsis This examination of the American Civil War challenges the myth that Andrew Johnson was a misunderstood statesman, and reveals him as a vindictive and stubborn man whose rigidity thwarted the post-war reunion of the North and South in the Reconstruction...
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Age of Betrayal (07 Edition)
by Beatty Publisher Comments A brilliant reconsideration of the Gilded Age in America, when an oligarchy of wealth triumphed over democracy, when dreams of freedom and equality died of their impossibility. Jay Gould, the “Mephisto of Wall Street,” never runs for office...
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