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David Willis McCullough and Nelson Runger - John Adams
The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author of Truman sheds new light on America's second president, chronicling the life and times of Adams's youth, his career as a Massachusetts farmer and lawyer, his marriage to Abigail, his rivalry with Thomas Jefferson, and his remarkable influence on the b ... More
Score: 4.9 18 Reviews
$16.00 - $63.00
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Richard White - The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815
This book seeks to step outside the simple stories of Indian/white relations--stories of conquest and assimilation and stories of cultural persistence. It is, instead, about a search for accommodation and common meaning. It tells how Europeans and Indians met, regarding each other as alien, as virtu ... More
Score: 5.0 1 Review
$9.00 - $84.00
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Richard Rhodes - The Making of the Atomic Bomb
A gripping, authoritative account of the men, women, science, drama and intrigue behind the single most important event of the century: the discovery of nuclear energy and construction of the atomic bomb. 32 pages of black-and-white photographs.
Score: 4.7 3 Reviews
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Stephen Jay Gould - Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
"Luminous. . .Filled with profound and upsetting ideas like the Burgess Shale itself and just as solid. It is surely one of nature's best stories, told with a light touce by a master of the field".--Lewis Thomas, M.D.
Score: 4.0 4 Reviews
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Robert Middlekauff - The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789
A panoramic history of the conflict between England and America highlights the political and personal aspects of the colonial struggle for independence, provides a defintive overview of the events leading up to the Revolution, and discusses the major leaders, campaigns, battles, and repercussions of ... More
Score: 5.0 1 Review
$23.00 - $23.00
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John David Unruh - The Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants and the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-60
The most honored book ever released by the University of Illinois Press, The Plains Across was the result of more than a decade's work by its author. Here, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the opening of the Oregon Trail, is a paperback reissue that includes the notes, bibliography, and i ... More
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Saul Friedlander - The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945
With THE YEARS OF EXTERMINATION, Saul Friedldnder completes his major historical work on Nazi Germany and the Jews. The book describes and interprets the persecution and murder of the Jews throughout occupied Europe. The enactment of German extermination policies and measures depended on the coopera ... More
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Leon F. Litwack - Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery
<b>Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award</b><br>Based on hitherto unexamined sources: interviews with ex-slaves, diaries and accounts by former slaveholders, this "rich and admirably written book" (Eugene Genovese, <i>The New York Times Book Review</i>) aims to show how, during th ... More
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William H. Goetzmann - Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West
From early mountain men searching for routes through the Rockies to West Point soldier-engineers conducting topographical expeditions, the exploration of the American West mirrored the development of a fledgling nation. In his Pulitzer Prize-winning Exploration and Empire, William H. Goetzmann analy ... More
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Peter Gay Ph.D. - The Cultivation of Hatred
The author of the bestseller Freud presents a close examination of the aggression--and debate about aggression--that raged through the Victorian Age. Gay looks at the works of such figures as Theodore Roosevelt and Nietzsche to present penetrating new insights.
$24.00 - $24.00
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Lance Banning - The Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the Founding of the Federal Republic
James Madison was the finest democratic theorist that the United States has ever produced. His was the pivotal philosophical role in framing the Constitution and establishing the principles on which a wholly new form of government was to be based. Yet this widely informed and profoundly original thi ... More
$24.00 - $92.00
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Walter Jackson Bate - Samuel Johnson
In this biography - a work that won three of the most prestigious literary prizes this country offers - W. Jackson Bate delves deep into the character that formed Johnson's awesome intellect and fueled his prodigious output. The first great modern biography of Johnson, it confirms that his statement ... More
$22.00 - $23.00
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