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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
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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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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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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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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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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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Louis Menand - The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America
Written in the spirit of an idea about ideas, a narrative about personalities and American history is told through the story of an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1872 to talk about ideas and whose members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., William James, Charles Sanders Pei ... More
Score: 5.0 3 Reviews
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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
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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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Paul Horgan - Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History/2 Volumes in 1/Vol 1 Indians and Spain, Vol 2 Mexico and the United States
This book is an epic history of four civilizations--Native American, Spanish, Mexican, and Anglo-American--that peopled the Southwest through ten centuries.
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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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
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Leonard Williams Levy - Origins of the Fifth Amendment: The Right Against Self-Incrimination
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in history and a landmark in the study of constitutional origins, Leonard Levy's now-classic study appears for the first time in paperback. Origins probes the intentions of the framers of the Fifth Amendment.
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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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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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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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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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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James M. McPherson - Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Freedom will unquestionably become the standard one-volume history of the Civil War. A fast-paced narrative integrates the political, social and military events from the outbreak in Mexico ... More
Score: 4.7 3 Reviews
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David Halberstam - War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals
The author of The Best and the Brightest explores the complex dynamics of foreign policy in post-Cold War America, profiling Washington decision makers and providing an analysis of the Clinton and Bush presidencies, and includes a new chapter on America's war against terrorism.
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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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Kevin Phillips - The Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics, and the Triumph of Anglo-America
Why and how did Anglo-America become the dominant cultural and political force in the world? Kevin Phillips answers this question by examining history, with a focus on the English Civil War, the American Revolution, and the U.S. Civil War. A New York Times Notable Book of 1999.
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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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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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George Dangerfield - The Era of Good Feelings
This is a prize-winning history of the years between the terms of Presidents Jefferson and Jackson.
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George F. Kennan - Russia Leaves the War
The first volume of George F. Kennan's SOVIET-AMERICAN RELATIONS 1917-1920 won a Pulitzer Prize in history in 1957. RUSSIA LEAVES THE WAR is Kennan's study of the events from the 1917 November Revolution to Russia's decision, in March 1918, to sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, withdrawing from Wor ... More
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Akira Iriye - Power and Culture
Akira Iriye examines the Japanese-American war for the first time from the cultural perspectives of both countries, arguing that it was more a search for international order than a ruthless pursuit of power.
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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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Eric Foner - Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
<p align="left">This "masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history" (<i>New Republic</i>) made history when it was originally published in 1988. It redefined how Reconstruction was viewed by historians and people everywhere in its chronicling of how Americans -- black a ... 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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David Montgomery - The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925
'This book offers the most sweeping portrait of working-class life yet to emerge from the new labor history. It is a subtle, complex, often brilliant study, which demonstrates how far labor scholarship has moved in a generation.' --Alan Brinkley, New Republic
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