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A Remarkable Mother
by Jimmy Carter  Publisher Comments A Remarkable Mother is President Carter's loving, admiring, wry homage to Miss Lillian Carter, who championed the underdog always, even when her son was president. A registered nurse, pecan grower, university housemother, Peace Corps volunteer...
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Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation
by Cokie Roberts Publisher Comments In Founding Mothers, Cokie Roberts paid homage to the heroic women whose patriotism and sacrifice helped create a new nation. Now the number one New York Times bestselling author and renowned political commentator—praised in USA Today as a...
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Moyers on Democracy
by Bill Moyers Publisher Comments Bill Moyers on America today: “Here in the first decade of the twenty-first century the story that becomes America’s dominant narrative will shape our collective imagination and our politics for a long time to come. In the searching of our...
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America's Hidden History: Untold Tales of the First Pilgrims, Fighting Women, and Forgotten Founders Who Shaped a Nation
by Kenneth C. Davis Publisher Comments Kenneth C. Davis, author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller Don't Know Much About History, presents a collection of extraordinary stories, each detailing an overlooked episode that shaped the nation's destiny and character. Davis's dramatic...
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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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Bush's Law: The Remaking of American Justice
by Eric Lichtblau Publisher Comments In the aftermath of 9/11, President Bush and his top advisors declared that the struggle against terrorism would be nothing less than a war–a new kind of war that would require new tactics, new tools, and a new mind-set. Bush’s Law is the...
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Heads in the Sand: How the Republicans Screw Up Foreign Policy and Foreign Policy Screws Up the Democrats
by Matthew Yglesias Publisher Comments Praise for Heads In the Sand A very serious, thoughtful argument that has never been made in such detail or with such care. --Ezra Klein, staff writer at The American Prospect Matt Yglesias is one of the smartest voices in the blogosphere. He knows a lot...
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And His Lovely Wife: A Campaign Memoir from the Woman Beside the Man
by Connie Schultz Publisher Comments Writing with warmth and humor, Connie Schultz reveals the rigors, joys, and absolute madness of a new marriage at midlife and campaigning with her husband, Sherrod Brown, now the junior senator from Ohio. She describes the chain of events leading up to...
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Fdr
by Jean Edward Smith Publisher Comments One of today's premier biographers has written a modern, comprehensive, indeed ultimate book on the epic life of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In this superlative volume, Jean Edward Smith combines contemporary scholarship and a broad range of primary...
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1858: Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant and the War They Failed to See
by Bruce Chadwick Publisher Comments 1858 explores the events and personalities of the year that would send the America's North and South on a collision course culminating in the slaughter of 630,000 of the nation's young men, a greater number than died in any other American conflict. The...
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White House Ghosts: Presidents and Their Speechwriters
by Robert Schlesinger Publisher Comments In White House Ghosts, veteran Washington reporter Robert Schlesinger opens a fresh and revealing window on the modern presidency from FDR to George W. Bush. This is the first book to examine a crucial and often hidden role played by the men and women...
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Wall Street: America's Dream Palace (American Icons)
by Steve Fraser Publisher Comments Wall Street: no other place on earth is so singularly identified with money and the power of money. And no other American institution has inspired such deep moral, cultural, and political ambivalence. Is the Street an unbreachable bulwark defending...
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Sea Venture: Shipwreck, Survival, and the Salvation of Jamestown
by Kieran Doherty Publisher Comments In one of the most triumphant high sea stories ever told, Kieran Doherty brings to life the remarkable true story of the ship that rescued the struggling Jamestown settlement in 1610 and single-handedly ensured England's place in the New World...
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The Irony of American History
by Reinhold Niebuhr Publisher Comments Niebuhr] is one of my favorite philosophers. I take away from his works] the compelling idea that there's serious evil in the world, and hardship and pain. And we should be humble and modest in our belief we can eliminate those things. But we shouldn't...
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The Thirteen American Arguments: Enduring Debates That Define and Inspire Our Country
by Howard Fineman Publisher Comments Howard Fineman is one of our best-known and most trusted political journalists. Mixing vivid scenes and figures from the campaign trail with forays into four hundred years of American history, Fineman shows that every debate, from our nation’s...
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Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man
by Hu Sebag Montefiore Publisher Comments In May of 1940, the armies of Nazi Germany were marching through France. In the face of this devastating advance, one of World War IIandrsquo;s greatest acts of heroism would be a retreat: the evacuation of the British Army from Dunkirk. In Dunkirk...
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An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King
by William F Pepper Publisher Comments The definitive account of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr, published on the 40th anniversary of his death. Martin Luther King, Jr. was the most powerful and eloquent champion of the poor and oppressed in US history, and at the height of his...
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Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi's Life, Times, and Rise to Power
by Marc Sandalow Publisher Comments Unthinkable just a generation ago, Hillary Clinton's run for the presidency and Nancy Pelosi's ascension to Speaker of the House have cast the spotlight on American political women as never before. In the 230 years of this country's history, never has a...
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Patriot Battles: How the War of Independence Was Fought
by Michael Stephenson Publisher Comments Michael Stephenson's Patriot Battles is a comprehensive and richly detailed study of the military aspects of the War of Independence, and a fascinating look at the nuts and bolts of eighteenth-century combat. Covering everything from what motivated those...
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The West the Railroads Made
by Carlos Schwantes Synopsis Railroads were second only to the federal government in shaping the West, and nowhere was that shaping more visible than on the Great Plains and in large parts of the Pacific Northwest. Filled with contemporary accounts, illustrations, and photographs...
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