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The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression
by Amity Shlaes  Publisher Comments In The Forgotten Man, Amity Shlaes, one of the nation's most-respected economic commentators, offers a striking reinterpretation of the Great Depression. She traces the mounting agony of the New Dealers and the moving stories of individual citizens who...
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Bobby and J. Edgar: The Historic Face-Off Between the Kennedys and J. Edgar Hoover That Transformed America
by Burton Hersh Publisher Comments In this riveting account of the explosive relationship between Robert F. Kennedy and J. Edgar Hoover, renowned journalist and author Burton Hersh sets their highly publicized clashes in the context of Joe Kennedy’s ongoing manipulation of Congress...
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Names on the Land: A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States
by George R. Stewart Publisher Comments This beloved classic about place-naming in the United States was written during World War II in a conscious effort to pay tribute to the heritage of the nation's peoples. George R. Stewart's love of the surprising story, and his focus not just on...
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The Road to Monticello: The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson
by Kevin J. Hayes Publisher Comments The sheer variety of Jefferson's many pursuits - he was an inventor, horticulturist, statesman, architect, and philosopher, among many other things - almost mask the singularity of his genius. But there is little doubt that our third president was also...
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The Forgotten Terrorist: Sirhan Sirhan and the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
by Mel Ayton Publisher Comments Robert F. Kennedy??'s assassination in 1968 seemed like it should be an open-and-shut case. Many people crowded in the small room at Los Angeles??'s famed Ambassador Hotel that fateful night and saw Sirhan Sirhan pull the trigger. Sirhan was also...
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Voices of Emancipation: Understanding Slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction Through the U.S. Pension Bureau Files
by Elizabeth Regosin Publisher Comments "This collection will speak in an entirely unique way. . . . There is no question that this will be an important contribution to historians." —Stephanie Camp, University of Washington Voices of Emancipation seeks to recover the lives and words of...
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Failures of the Presidents: Our Leaders' Worst Decisions from the Dred Scott Case to Watergate to the Bay of Pigs to Iraq
by Thomas J. Craughwell Publisher Comments Rare gift book for history buffs Stories of the disastrous blunders of American presidents will show readers the inner workings of the White House and how some of our greatest leaders could make decisions that were terribly wrong. The fascinating stories...
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Eden's Castaways: The Shipwreck That Made America
by Lorri Glover Publisher Comments A freshly researched account of the dramatic rescue of the Jamestown settlers The English had long dreamed of colonizing America, especially after Sir Francis Drake brought home Spanish treasure and dramatic tales from his raids in the Caribbean...
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The Age of Lincoln
by Orville Vernon Burton Publisher Comments Stunning in its breadth and conclusions, The Age of Lincoln is a fiercely original history of the five decades that pivoted around the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. Abolishing slavery, the age’s most extraordinary accomplishment, was not its most...
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Vietnam: Explaining America's Lost War (Contesting the Past)
by Gary R. Hess Publisher Comments In Vietnam, Gary R. Hess describes and evaluates the main arguments of scholars, participants, and journalists, both revisionist and orthodox in their approach, as they try to answer fundamental questions of the Vietnam War. Clearly examines the...
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One Continuous Fight: The Retreat from Gettysburg and the Pursuit of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, July 4-14, 1863
by Eric J. Wittenburg Publisher Comments The titanic three-day battle of Gettysburg left 50,000 casualties in its wake, a battered Southern army far from its base of supplies, and a rich historiographic legacy. Thousands of books and articles cover nearly every aspect of the battle, but not a...
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One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
by Michael Dobbs Publisher Comments In October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union appeared to be sliding inexorably toward a nuclear conflict over the placement of missiles in Cuba. Veteran Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs has pored over...
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A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign
by Edward J. Larson Publisher Comments "They could write like angels and scheme like demons." So begins Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward Larson's masterful account of the wild ride that was the 1800 presidential election -- an election so convulsive and so momentous to the future of American...
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The Slaves' War: The Civil War in the Words of Former Slaves
by Andrew Ward Synopsis Groundbreaking, compelling, and poignant, The Slaves' War delivers an unprecedented vision of the nation's bloodiest conflict, as acclaimed historian Andrew Ward gives us the first narrative of the Civil War told from the perspective of those whose...
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Uncle Sam's America
by David Hewitt Publisher Comments A rousing history of the good old U.S.A. Since he first appeared in the 1800's, Uncle Sam has inspired our nation. A symbol of patriotic duty and national pride, Uncle Sam has witnessed our history, from the victory over the British in the War of 1812...
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King George: What Was His Problem?: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You about the American Revolution
by Steve Sheinkin Publisher Comments KING GEORGE NEVER DID UNDERSTAND AMERICANS “Entire books have been written about the causes of the American Revolution. This isn’t one of them.” What it is, instead, is utterly interesting, antedotes (John Hancock fixates on...
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Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign That Changed America
by Craig Shirley Publisher Comments In his previous, widely praised book, Reagan’s Revolution, Craig Shirley told the story of Ronald Reagan’s insurgent campaign to wrest the GOP nomination from Gerald Ford in 1976. Now, in Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the...
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Forts of the Northern Plains
by Jeffrey S. Barnes Synopsis A guide to 51 Plains Indian Wars-era fort sites in Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, and Montana. Histories, photos, and visitors information are included for each post....
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Men-At-Arms #446: The Confederate Army 1861-65 (6): Missouri, Kentucky & Maryland
by Ron Field Publisher Comments Despite the overwhelming image of Confederate soldiers dressed in their drab butternut and gray, the Southern states which formed the Confederacy in 1861 fielded many units of volunteer troops wearing a remarkably wide variety of uniforms, often...
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English Colonies in America
by Rebecca Fishkin Synopsis - Maps - Timeline - Historic Sites - Table of Contents, Glossary, and Index - Relevant Web sites at www.FactHound.com - National Center for History in the Schools. National Standards for History. Los Angeles, CA: National Center for History in the...
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