In this volume in the Oxford History of the United States series, the eminent historian Gordon S. Wood presents essays on the rich social, cultural and political climate of the early years of the new nation, beginning in 1789. Wood examines the many and varied hopes and aspirations of those involved... Read more

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Relates an account of the 1937 massacre of 250,000 Chinese civilians in Nanking by the invading Japanese military, a carnage for which the Japanese government has never admitted responsibility. ... Read more

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In AD 70, when the Second Temple was destroyed, a handful of visionaries saved Judaism by reinventing it--by taking what had been a national religion, identified with a particular place, and turning it into an idea. Jews no longer needed Jerusalem to be Jews. Whenever a Jew studied--wherever he was-... Read more

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist brings together an oral history of the American Dust Bowl that devastated the Great Plains during the Great Depression, following several families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region and their desperate struggle to persevere despite the... Read more

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Journalist Dexter Filkins provides a long view of the conflict with Islamofascism, before and after 9/11. Filkins reports on the rise of the Taliban in the '90s, the attacks of September 11, the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, and their aftermath. He covers a great deal of territory, reporting fr... Read more

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This handy reference provides full access to the 1,200 years of Roman rule from the 8th century B.C. to the 5th century A.D., including information on art, literature, law, and engineering. 150 illustrations. ... Read more

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The author of For the Glory of God puts forth a controversial argument that the Crusades were a justified war against Muslim terror and aggression, in a book that reviews the history of the seven major crusades from 1095 to 1291. 35,000 first printing. ... Read more

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Journalist Bryan Burrough, grandson of an FBI agent, details the spread of both a new type of crime and a new type of crime-catcher in the early 1930s. The socioeconomic conditions in the U.S. during the Great Depression facilitated the rise in flashy, bloody crime sprees across state lines, committ... Read more

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Highlighted by one thousand color and black-and-white photographs, including ten foldouts, an overview of more than 150 years of history reproduces more than three hundred of the most significant front page spreads from The New York Times, accompanied by insightful essays by William Safire, Gina Kol... Read more

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The history-making 2008 Presidential campaign is compared by many to that other historical election, that between Kennedy and Nixon in 1960. Just as that earlier campaign provoked a bestselling historical account--THE MAKING OF THE PRESIDENT, 1960, by T. H. White--the 2008 election is covered here b... Read more

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In 2005, Marcus Luttrell and his four-man Navy SEAL team were in the mountains along the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan hunting down a dangerous al Qaeda leader. The mission, Operation Redwing, suddenly came into jeopardy when they stumbled into a group of goat herders. They had two choices: kil... Read more

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To live in a pristine land unchanged by man ... to roam a wilderness through which few other humans have passed ... to choose an idyllic site, cut trees, and build a log cabin ... to be a self-sufficient craftsman, making what is needed from materials available ... to be not at odds with the world, ... Read more

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