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Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid by Jimmy Carter Publisher Comments Following his #1 New York Times bestseller Our Endangered Values, the former president, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, offers an assessment of what must be done to bring permanent peace to Israel with dignity and justice to Palestine. President... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard Powells.com Staff Pick This true story traces the exploration of a previously un-navigated tributary of the Amazon River by Theodore Roosevelt, accompanied by his son Kermit. The trip was extremely dangerous, and Candice Millard tells the story with detail that makes you... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list John Adams by David McCullough From Powells.com David McCullough is our most dependable presidential biographer. Each of his efforts has been a resounding success, combining popular appeal with literary accolades. Mornings on Horseback, about Teddy Roosevelt, won the National Book Award, his... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton Publisher Comments The Phenomenal #1 Worldwide Bestseller WITH A NEW AFTERWORD Hillary Rodham Clinton is known to hundreds of millions of people around the world. Yet few beyond her close friends and family have ever heard her account of her extraordinary journey. She... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J Ellis Publisher Comments In this landmark work of history, the National Book Award—winning author of American Sphinx explores how a group of greatly gifted but deeply flawed individuals–Hamilton, Burr, Jefferson, Franklin, Washington, Adams, and Madison–... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush by Kevin P. Phillips Publisher Comments The Bushes are the family nobody really knows, says Kevin Phillips. This popular lack of acquaintance — nurtured by gauzy imagery of Maine summer cottages, gray-haired national grandmothers, July Fourth sparklers, and cowboy boots — has let... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army by Jeremy Scahill Publisher Comments Meet Blackwater USA, the powerful private army that the U.S. government has quietly hired to operate in international war zones and on American soil. With its own military base, a fleet of twenty aircraft, and twenty-thousand troops at the ready... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin Publisher Comments No Ordinary Time is a monumental work, a brilliantly conceived chronicle of one of the most vibrant and revolutionary periods in the history of the United States. With an extraordinary collection of details, Goodwin masterfully weaves together a striking... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 by David McCullough Publisher Comments From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Truman, here is the national bestselling epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal. In The Path Between the Seas, acclaimed historian David McCullough delivers a first-rate drama of the sweeping human... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Democracy in America by Alex De Tocqueville Publisher Comments The complete edition based on the revised and corrected text of the 1961 French edition Originally penned in the mid-eighteenth century by Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America remains the most penetrating and astute picture of American... (read more) List Price $21.50 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

Sign up for our Recently Arrived Used Books newsletter service and find great used titles in US History on the very day they're added to our shelves. email address   The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson Powells.com Staff Pick An amazing history that recounts the inconceivable events surrounding the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, Larson's tale captures a time and place that vividly come to life. The central characters in this tale are Daniel H. Burnham, the architect... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list 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... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Lincoln by David H Donald Publisher Comments David Herbert Donald's Lincoln is a stunningly original portrait of Lincoln's life and presidency. Donald brilliantly depicts Lincoln's gradual ascent from humble beginnings in rural Kentucky to the ever- expanding political circles in Illinois, and... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans: Pirates, Skinflints, Patriots, and Other Colorful Characters Stuck in the Footnotes of History by Michael Farquhar Synopsis Farquhar scours the annals and rescues 30 of the most intriguing, unusual, and memorable Americans from obscurity. From the mother of Mother's Day to Paul Revere's rival rider, these figures are more than historical runners-up.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic (American Empire Project) by Chalmers Johnson Publisher Comments The long-awaited final volume of Chalmers Johnson's bestselling Blowback trilogy confronts the overreaching of the American empire and the threat it poses to the republic. In his prophetic book Blowback, Chalmers Johnson linked the CIA's clandestine... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Don't Know Much About History: Everything You Need to Know About American History but Never Learned by Kenneth C. Davis Synopsis Using a question-and-answer format, this chronological overview offers an informal introduction to American history and features annotated reading lists and biographical profiles.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $4.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Truman by David McCullough Publisher Comments The life of Harry S. Truman is one of the greatest of American stories, filled with vivid characters -- Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Wallace Truman, George Marshall, Joe McCarthy, and Dean Acheson -- and dramatic events. In this... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin by Gordon S Wood Publisher Comments From the most respected chronicler of the early days of the Republicand winner of both the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizescomes a landmark work that rescues Benjamin Franklin from a mythology that has blinded generations of Americans to the man he really... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list We the People: A Call to Take Back America by Thom Hartmann Synopsis America's remarkable 230-year experiment in republican democracy is in grave danger. Its inspired vision and values have been corrupted, and the government is increasingly alienating both its own citizens and its global neighbors. Thom Hartmann -- our... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present (Revised) by Howard Zinn Publisher Comments Few works of American history have done more to change the way in which recent generations have looked at their past than Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States. Currently in its twenty-fifth printing, with more than 450,000 copies sold... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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