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Joseph J. Ellis - Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation

In a landmark work of history, the National Book Award—winning author of American Sphinx explores how a group of greatly gifted but deeply flawed men–Hamilton, Burr, Jefferson, Franklin, Washington, Adams, and Madison–set the course for our nation.Joseph Ellis illuminat... Read more

Stores Selling: 9

$5.00 - $21.00

Jon Meacham - American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House

Jon Meacham's account of the White House years of Andrew Jackson shows him to be a man of principle as well as of passion. Even in those days, says Meacham, Washington was a hardball town, and he recounts how factions, rivalries, and revenge-taking sometimes ruled the day. But Meacham shows, through... Read more

Stores Selling: 5

$6.56 - $12.96

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. ... Read more

Stores Selling: 5

$7.00 - $20.00

H. W. Brands - Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt

A best-selling biography of the life and career of Franklin Delano Roosevelt draws on archival materials, public speeches, interviews with family and colleagues, and personal correspondence to examine his political leadership and legacy. Reprint. A Washington Post Best Book of the Year. ... Read more

Stores Selling: 5

$7.00 - $13.00

Douglas A. Blackmon - Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II

Bringing to light a shameful chapter in American history, a shocking study reveals how, from the late 1870s through the mid-twentieth century, thousands of African-American men were arrested and forced to work off the outrageous fines by serving as unpaid labor to small-town businesses, provincial f... Read more

Stores Selling: 5

$5.89 - $12.20

Jon Meacham - American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House

Jon Meacham's account of the White House years of Andrew Jackson shows him to be a man of principle as well as of passion. Even in those days, says Meacham, Washington was a hardball town, and he recounts how factions, rivalries, and revenge-taking sometimes ruled the day. But Meacham shows, through... Read more

Stores Selling: 6

$17.00 - $25.00

H. W. Brands - Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt

A sweeping biography of the life and political career of Franklin Delano Roosevelt draws on archival materials, public speeches, interviews with family and colleagues, and personal correspondence to examine FDR's political leadership in a dark time of Depression and war, his championship of the poor... Read more

Stores Selling: 5

$17.00 - $31.00

Drew Gilpin Faust - This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War

In this illuminating Civil War history, Drew Gilpin Faust examines a little-studied aspect of the war: the effects that death and dying (and killing) had on soldiers, their kin, and society as a whole. The visible presence of the dead bodies (often in damaged or mangled form, gravely wounded or deco... Read more

Stores Selling: 5

$5.24 - $11.48

Carl N. Degler - Neither Black Nor White: Slavery and Race Relations in Brazil and the United States

Stores Selling: 2

$10.00 - $15.00

Jared Diamond - Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

An evolutionary biologist dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors he feels are responsible for history's broadest patterns. Read by Grover Gardner. ... Read more

Stores Selling: 6

$11.00 - $23.00

David Halberstam - The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist explores the lesser-known elements of heroism and pathos that marked the Korean War, in a narrative successor to The Best and the Brightest that evaluates political decisions and miscalculations on both sides of the conflict. ... Read more

Stores Selling: 3

$7.00 - $35.00

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. ... Read more

Stores Selling: 3

$.00 - $51.00

Annette Gordon-Reed - The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

Traces the history of the Hemings family from its origins in early eighteenth-century Virginia to its dispersal after Jefferson's death in 1826, in an account that describes their family ties to the third president. Reprint. A best-selling National Book Award winner and New York Times and Publisher... Read more

Stores Selling: 3

$12.00 - $14.00

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,... Read more

Stores Selling: 3

$23.00 - $26.00

Annette Gordon-Reed - The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

Historian Annette Gordon-Reed continues the meticulous and eye-opening investigation of the relationship between Thomas Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemings she began in her previous book (THOMAS JEFFERSON AND SALLY HEMINGS) by tracking the lives of the Hemings family in a variety of locations, bot... Read more

Stores Selling: 3

$20.00 - $25.00

Drew Gilpin Faust - This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War

In this illuminating Civil War history, Drew Gilpin Faust examines a little-studied aspect of the war: the effects that death and dying (and killing) had on soldiers, their kin, and society as a whole. The visible presence of the dead bodies (often in damaged or mangled form, gravely wounded or deco... Read more

Stores Selling: 5

$13.00 - $18.00

Douglas A. Blackmon - Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black People in America From The Civil War to World War II

Bringing to light a shameful chapter in American history, a shocking study reveals how, from the late 1870s through the mid-twentieth century, thousands of African-American men were arrested and forced to work off the outrageous fines by serving as unpaid labor to small-town businesses, provincial f... Read more

Stores Selling: 5

$14.00 - $20.00

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... Read more

Stores Selling: 4

$17.00 - $25.00

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... Read more

Stores Selling: 6

$22.00 - $30.00

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... Read more

Stores Selling: 4

$6.55 - $12.23

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