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Michelle Obama: First Lady of Hope by Elizabeth Lightfoot Publisher Comments No silver spoons. Down-to-earth. Witty. Honest. One-of-a-kind. There is no one quite like her. Michelle Obama. This is the first book to tell the astonishing story of a woman whose intellect, verbal flair, and poise are certain to make her one of... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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The China Diary of George H. W. Bush: The Making of a Global President by Jeffrey A Engel Publisher Comments "When George Bush went to China in 1974, our two countries were still very much in the discovery stage of our relationship. His honest and personal reflections provide a rare, almost 'behind the scenes' window into that fascinating time period, and are a... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $5.75 Used - Hardcover
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Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick Publisher Comments Nathaniel Philbrick became an internationally renowned author with his National Book Award? winning In the Heart of the Sea, hailed as ?spellbinding? by Time magazine. In Mayflower, Philbrick casts his spell once again, giving us a fresh and... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House by Valerie Plame Wilson and Laura Rozen Publisher Comments On July 6, 2003, four months after the United States invaded Iraq, former ambassador Joseph Wilson's now historic op-ed, "What I Didn't Find in Africa," appeared in The New York Times. A week later, conservative pundit Robert Novak revealed in his... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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How Lincoln Learned to Read: Twelve Great Americans and the Educations That Made Them by Daniel Wolff Publisher Comments An engaging, provocative history of American ideas, told through the educations (both in and out of school) of twelve great figures, from Benjamin Franklin to Elvis Presley. How Lincoln Learned to Read tells the American story from a fresh and unique... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Children's Blizzard (P.S.) by David Laskin Publisher Comments Thousands of impoverished Northern European immigrants were promised that the prairie offered "land, freedom, and hope." The disastrous blizzard of 1888 revealed that their free homestead was not a paradise but a hard, unforgiving place governed by... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother by Janny Scott Publisher Comments The New York Times bestseller-an unprecedented look into the life and character of the woman who raised a president. Barack Obama has written extensively about his father but credited his mother for "what is best in me." Still, little is known... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Poisoning the Press: Richard Nixon, Jack Anderson, and the Rise of Washington's Scandal Culture (10 Edition) by Mark Feldstein Publisher Comments A Washington Post Best Book of 2010 A Denver Post Best Book of 2010 A Kansas City Star Best Book of 2010 Poisoning the Press recounts the bitter quarter-century battle between the postwar eras most contentious politician and its most reviled newsman... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $15.00 Used - Hardcover
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Habits of Empire: A History of American Expansion by Walter Nugent Publisher Comments Discussions abound today about the state of the union, its place in the world, and the founding fathers intentions. Did they want the United States to become a republic or an empire? Thomas Jefferson, after all, called the young nation an “empire... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Pretensions to Empire: Notes on the Criminal Folly of the Bush Administration by Lewis Lapham Publisher Comments A preeminent political essayist writes about the perversion of America's democratic legacy under George W. Bush and makes a compelling case for impeachment.... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $3.98 Used - Hardcover
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Did Lincoln Own Slaves?: And Other Frequently Asked Questions about Abraham Lincoln (Vintage Civil War Library) by Gerald Prokopowicz Publisher Comments In the bicentennial year of Lincoln's birth, here is the one indispensable book that provides all you need to know about our most revered president in a lively and memorable question-and-answer format. You will learn whether Lincoln could dunk a... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Madam Secretary: A Biography of Madeleine Albright by Thomas Blood Publisher Comments No American envoy has ever burst on the diplomatic scene and grabbed center stage in the theater of foreign relations like Madeleine Albright. Navigating difficult terrain as few can, Thomas Blood provides exclusive interviews with, and revealing... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Ike's Spies: Eisenhower and the Espionage Establishment by Stephen E Ambrose Publisher Comments Behind Ike's grandfatherly mask, the free world's foremost... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W Loewen Synopsis Based on careful research at the Smithsonian Institution, here is a bold, direct challenge to the errors, misrepresentations, and ommissions of the leading American history textbooks. In fascinating detail, James W. Loewen offers a wonderful retelling of... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Come to the Edge: A Memoir by Christina Haag Publisher Comments The Love Story of JFK Jr. and Christina Haag An elegy to first love, a lost New York, and a young man who led his life with surprising and abundant grace When Christina Haag was growing up on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, John F. Kennedy, Jr.,... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger Publisher Comments In a brilliant, controversial, and profoundly incisive book, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger explains the art of diplomacy and reveals why Americans have historically repudiated both the style and substance of diplomacy as it is practiced... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Measuring America by Andro Linklater Publisher Comments In 1790, America was in enormous debt, having depleted what money it had during its fight for independence. "Measuring America" tells the fascinating story of how the nation gained the American Customary System.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century by Scott Miller Publisher Comments A SWEEPING TALE OF TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY AMERICA AND THE IRRESISTIBLE FORCES THAT BROUGHT TWO MEN TOGETHER ONE FATEFUL DAY In 1901, as America tallied its gains from a period of unprecedented imperial expansion, an assassin’s bullet shattered... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow Staff Pick Ron Chernow's gripping biography covers George Washington's many facets, some previously unexplored and all penned with the author's literary acuteness. By delving into the personal, as well as the political, Chernow successfully paints an unprecedented... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Federalist Papers (Signet Classics) by Alexander Hamilton Publisher Comments The dissenting opinions of Patrick Henry and others who saw the Constitution as a threat to our hard-won rights and liberties.... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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