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Joseph J. Ellis and Runger Nelson - Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
In a landmark work of history, the National Book Award&#8212;winning author of <b>American Sphinx</b><i> </i>explores how a group of greatly gifted but deeply flawed men&#8211;Hamilton, Burr, Jefferson, Franklin, Washington, Adams, and Madison&#8211;set the course for our nation.<br><br>Joseph Ellis ... More
Score: 4.6 10 Reviews
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Joseph J. Ellis - Founding Brothers
This group portrait of the Founding Fathers emphasizes the sometimes intense associations and rivalries among Jefferson, Hamilton, Burr, Adams, Franklin, Madison, and Washington.The author examines six defining moments when the personal and the political collided, and shows how their distinctive sty ... More
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Herbert P. Bix - Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
This biography of the emperor of Japan examines his formative years and how they shaped his character, his deft grasp of both the imperial system and modernity, his wielding of power and influence within his country, and that country's conflicts with major powers such as China and the United States. ... More
Score: 5.0 2 Reviews
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Katharine Graham - Personal History
In this critically acclaimed memoir, the woman who piloted the "Washington Post" through the crises of the Pentagon Papers, Watergate, and a pressmen's strike and turned it into a great newspaper now tells her story with courage, candor, and dignity. "Captivating . . . distinguished by a level of in ... More
Score: 5.0 4 Reviews
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John W. Dower - Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
<B>Winner of the 1999 National Book Award for Non-Fiction</B>, finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, <I>Embracing Defeat</I> is John W. Dower's brilliant examination of Japan in the immediate, shattering aftermath of World War II. Drawing on a vast range of Ja ... More
Score: 5.0 2 Reviews
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Doris Kearns Goodwin - No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt The Home Front in World War II
Presenting an aspect of American history that has never been fully told, this Pulitzer Prize-winning work paints a detailed, intimate portrait of FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt and provides a brilliant narrative account of America during wartime. of photos.
Score: 4.9 10 Reviews
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Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace - Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898
As ever more people crammed into ever more dilapidated quarters, the consequences of crowding became blatantly apparent--to both eye and nose. New York, it was widely agreed, was the filthiest urban center in the United States; Boston and Philadelphia gleamed by comparison. This dubious distinction, ... More
Score: 4.0 1 Review
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Gordon S. Wood - Radicalism of the American Revolution
In a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a prize-winning historian depicts much more than a break with England. He gives readers a revolution that transformed an almost feudal society into a democratic one, whose emerging realities someti ... More
Score: 4.0 1 Review
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David Fromkin - Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East
This history charts the post-World War I efforts by the Allies to deal with the fall of the Ottoman Empire, and how decisions made then influenced the region's history and geopolitics for the rest of the century (and beyond). These efforts included creating new states and entities, including what wa ... More
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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Neil Sheehan - A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
Through a portrait of military advisor John Paul Vann, a journalist traces the arc of Americans' disillusionment and ambivalence about the War in Vietnam.
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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Carl N. Degler - Neither Black Nor White: Slavery and Race Relations in Brazil and the United States
Release Date: July 01, 1986
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Richard Hofstadter - Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
A book which throws light on many features of the American character. Its concern is not merely to portray the scorners of intellect in American life, but to say something about what the intellectual is, and can be, as a force in a democratic society.
Score: 5.0 3 Reviews
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Tina Rosenberg - The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism
The Pulitzer Prize-winning look at the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe
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Alan Taylor - William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic
WILLIAM COOPER'S TOWN is the story of a father and son who embodied many of the contradictions that divided the United States during the early years of the Republic. William Cooper founded Cooperstown, New York, and his son, James Fenimore Cooper, became a successful novelist. Their story shows how ... More
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Gene Roberts Jr. and Hank Klibanoff - The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, And the Awakening of a Nation
Two journalists who covered the Civil Rights movement over two decades tell the stories behind the stories in this panoramic account of how reporters, photographers, editors, and others brought the events of that time to America?s homes through its newspapers, magazines, and television. The media we ... More
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Daniel Walker Howe - What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
A panoramic history of the United States ranges from the 1815 Battle of New Orleans to the end of the Mexican-American War and chronicles the dramatic changes that took place in America during the period, interweaving political and military events with social, economic, and cultural history to addre ... More
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David Halberstam - The Coldest Winter: American and the Korean War
The late David Halberstam brings to this history of the Korean War the same combination of research, analysis, and narrative skill he delivered in THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST, his Pulitzer Prize-winning book on the Vietnam War. THE COLDEST WINTER chronicles the political and military missteps by the ... More
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Carl E. Schorske - Fin-De-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture
A landmark book from one of the truly original scholars of our time; a magnificent revelation of turn-of-the-century Vienna where out of a crisis of political and social disintegration so much of modern art and thought was born.
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John E. MacK - A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T.E. Lawrence
Mack explores the relationship between Lawrence's inner life and his historically significant actions. Mack uses interviews, far-flung correspondence, access to War Office dispatches and unpublished letters for his basis.
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Jack N. Rakove - Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution
From abortion to same-sex marriage, today's most urgent political debates will hinge on this two-part question: What did the United States Constitution originally mean and who now understands its meaning best? Rakove chronicles the Constitution from inception to ratification and, in doing so, traces ... More
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Frances Fitzgerald - Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
A new edition of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning portrait of Vietnam seeks to inform readers on its cultural traditions, political and religious conflicts, and historical events as experienced by its citizens, what the author believes to be American missteps that contributed to cu ... More
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J. William Harris - Deep Souths: Delta, Piedmont, and Sea Island Society in the Age of Segregation
DEEP SOUTHS tells the stories of three southern regions from Reconstruction to World War II: the Mississippi-Yazoo Delta, the eastern Piedmont of Georgia, and the Georgia Sea Islands and Atlantic coast. Though these regions initially shared the histories and populations we associate with the idea of ... More
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Mary Beth Norton - Founding Mothers & Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society
In this pioneering study of the ways in which the first settlers defined the power, prerogatives, and responsibilities of the sexes, one of our most incisive historians opens a window onto the world of Colonial America. Drawing on a wealth of contemporary documents, Mary Beth Norton tells the story ... More
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Francis Paul Prucha - The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians
'The author's detailed analysis of two centuries of federal policy makes The Great Father indispensable reading for anyone interested in understanding the complexities of American Indian policy.' - Journal of American History.
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Daniel K. Richter - Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America
Release Date: February 01, 2003
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J. Anthony Lukas - Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Struggle for the Soul of America
A Pulitzer Prize-winning author weaves what may be his most brilliant narrative, dramatizing the class struggle of turn-of-the-century America as it frames a sensational 1905 murder case. 24-page photo insert.
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Thomas P. Hughes - The American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm 1870-1970
Release Date: June 12, 2004
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Sumner Chilton Powell - Puritan Village; The Formation of a New England Town
The crucial split in the town of Sadbury illustrates the grave difficulties which the early leaders and inhabitants experienced in substituting a new social structure and a new spirit for the old 'hierarchy, hold days, etc.' which they undoubtedly hoped would be absent in the New England common-weal ... More
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Rhys L. Isaac - The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790
In this Pulitzer Prize@-winning book, Rhys Isaac describes and analyzes the dramatic confrontations -- primarily religious and political -- that transformed Virginia in the second half of the eighteenth century. Making use of the observational techniques of the cultural anthropologist, Isaac vividly ... More
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Bernard Bailyn - Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution
The winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in History is reinterpreted by the foremost colonial historian of American history, using the perspective of migration as an organizing principle. 32 photos, 19 maps.
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