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Trade Paperback : $19.95 Buy	American Aurora A Democratic-Republican Returns: The Suppressed History of Our Nation's Beginnings and the Heroic Newspaper That Tried to Report It Richard N. Rosenfeld; Foreword by Edmund S. Morgan St. Martin's Griffin 200 Years ago a Philadelphia newspaper claimed George Washington wasn't the "father of his country." It claimed John Adams really wanted to be king. Its...

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Legends and Lies

Great Mysteries of the American West

Dale L. Walker; Foreword by John Jakes Forge Books

"All of history is mystery," Dale L. Walker says, and he proves his point in this lively, humorous--and rational--approach to the West's greatest puzzles. Did...

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The American Century, Volume I

Harold Evans with Gail Buckland and Kevin Baker; Read by Ira Claffey Macmillan Audio

The amazing adventure that is the American century begins -- and what an adventure it is! The Land Rush sweeps thousands of settlers into the Great Plains,...

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The American Century, Volume II

Harold Evans with Gail Buckland and Kevin Baker; Read by Ira Claffey Macmillan Audio

The winds began to blow in the spring and summer of 1929. nobody took much notice. The stock market soared from peak to peak, and President Hoover foresaw a...

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The American Century, Volume III

Harold Evans with Gail Buckland and Kevin Baker; Read by Ira Claffey Macmillan Audio

Franklin D. Roosevelt's World War II dream of one world living in peace and prosperity, its quarrels settled in a United Nations, did not long survive. Almost...

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The American Century: Volume IV

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The American Century: 1963-1989, the watershed of Vietnam, the New Conservatism--and beyond . . . The "noble cause" of Vietnam was the longest war in...

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The Boys of '98

Theodore Roosevelt and the Rough Riders

Dale L. Walker Forge Books

Spur Awardwinning author Dale Walker tells the colourful story of Americas most memorable fighting force, the volunteer cavalry known as the Rough Riders. From...

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Paper Over Board : $17.95 Buy	In Old New York A Classic History of New York City Thomas A. Janvier, with an introduction by Edwin Burrows St. Martin's Press

Trade Paperback : $18.00 Buy	To Be Young Was Very Heaven Women in New York Before the First World War Sandra E. Adickes Palgrave Macmillan A great history of the important women living in New York City before WWI who helped to shape the social consciousness of the twentieth century.

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The Hairstons

An American Family in Black and White

Henry Wiencek St. Martin's Griffin

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award The Hairstons is the extraordinary story of the largest family in America, the Hairston clan. With several...

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Hardcover : $30.00 Buy	My Soul Is a Witness A Chronology of the Civil Rights Era, 1954-1965 Bettye Collier-Thomas and V. P. Franklin Henry Holt and Co. A powerful and inspiring record of one of the most significant periods in America's history, which presents the full historic scope of the hard-fought battle...

Hardcover : $39.95 Buy	At the Plaza An Illustrated History of the World's Most Famous Hotel Curtis Gathje St. Martin's Press At The Plaza is a pictorial record and an anecdotal history of the world's most famous hotel: New York's Plaza. As a story, it traverses the breadth and scope...

Trade Paperback : $32.00 Buy	Sentimental Democracy The Evolution of America's Romantic Self-Image Andrew Burstein Hill and Wang The provocative interpretation of American political rhetoric Americans like to use words of sentiment and sympathy, passion and power, to explain their...

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The Real Wild West

The 101 Ranch and the Creation of the American West

Michael Wallis St. Martin's Griffin

Winner of the Western Heritage Award from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame Oklahoma Book Award from the Oklahoma Center for the Book Spur Award from the...

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Southern Invincibility

A History of the Confederate Heart

Wiley Sword St. Martin's Griffin

Southern pride-the notion that the South's character distinguishes it from the rest of the country-had a profound impact on how and why Confederates fought the...

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Hardcover : $27.50 Buy	NYPD A City and Its Police Thomas Reppetto and John Lardner A John Macrae Book An insider takes us behind the blue wall of America's biggest, baddest police force Founded in 1845, the NYPD is the biggest municipal police force in the...

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Moonlight

Abraham Lincoln and the Almanac Trial

John Evangelist Walsh Palgrave Macmillan

Walsh makes a strong case for viewing Honest Abe in a different light in this tale of murder and moonlight.

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Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	A Short History of Rudeness Manners, Morals, and Misbehavior in Modern America Mark Caldwell Picador The perceived breakdown of civility has in recent years become a national obsession, and our modern climate of boorishness has cultivated a host of etiquette...

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Bear Flag Rising

The Conquest of California, 1846

Dale L. Walker Forge Books

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Hardcover : $17.95 Buy	Vaqueros America's First Cowmen Martin W. Sandler Henry Holt and Co. The untold story of the Hispanic riders and ropers who created the cowboy. "The men who rode the mustangs, tended the cattle, and invented all the...

Trade Paperback : $21.99 Buy	The Hungry Years A Narrative History of the Great Depression in America T. H. Watkins Holt Paperbacks It was the worst of times and the best of times. It was an era of unprecedented crisis and a time of unprecedented courage. In a single, comprehensive volume,...

Trade Paperback : $23.99 Buy	The Year of Decision 1846 Bernard DeVoto; With a New Introduction by Stephen E. Ambrose St. Martin's Griffin Year of Decision 1846 tells many fascinating stories of the U.S. explorers who began the western march from the Mississippi to the Pacific, from Canada to the...

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Standing on Holy Ground

A Triumph over Hate Crime in the Deep South

Sandra E. Johnson St. Martin's Press

A sweeping epidemic of hate crime targeted over one hundred Southern Black Churches between 1995 and 1996, leaving them in charred ruins. St. John Baptist...

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Trade Paperback : $15.95 Buy	FDR and His Enemies Albert Fried Palgrave Macmillan Albert Fried brings out the tremendous drama in Roosevelt's ideological and personal struggle with five influential men: Al Smith, Father Charles E. Coughlin,...

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