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4th of July, Asbury Park
A History of the Promised Land
Daniel Wolffe
Bloomsbury USA
"Wonderfully evocative . . . a grand, sad story of racism and real estate, political hardball and seaside pleasure-seeking."—
A.O. Scott,
The New York Times Book Review
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After 9/11
America's War on Terror (2001- )
Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón
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“Jacobson said, 'The
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After 9/11
makes intelligible—in a way that even an overtaxed Presidential candidate can grasp—the tribal and religious-factional complexities within Iraq and Afghanistan.”—
Mark Singer,
The New Yorker
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American Jesus
How the Son of God Became a National Icon
Stephen Prothero
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"[Prothero presents] a cultural history of Jesus as American image and icon [in] vivid, engrossing detail . . . Within his narrative, ostensibly a popular and often entertaining account of the rendering of Jesus in song, story, and spirituality, [the author] has embedded a fairly detailed history of American religion itself."—
R. Scott Appleby,
The New York Times
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American Mafia
A History of Its Rise to Power
Thomas Reppetto
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"Reppetto's book earns its place among the best . . . he brings fresh context to a familiar story worth retelling." —The New York Times Book...
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Americans
A Collision of Histories
Edward Countryman
Hill and Wang
In this social history, Edward Countryman shows how interactions among America's different ethnic groups have contributed to our sense of nationality. From the...
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Assembling California
John McPhee
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At various times in a span of fifteen years, John McPhee made geological field surveys in the company of Eldridge Moores, a tectonicist at the University of...
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Black Mass
Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia
John Gray
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
"'Modern politics is a chapter in the history of religion,' Gray, a British philosopher, insists in this outspoken attack on utopianism and the ‘faith-based violence’ it has inspired. History, Gray writes, offers no new dawns or sharp breaks, and, from the French Revolution to the war on terror, he is as critical of the humanist belief in progress as of the ‘belligerent optimism’ of neoconservatives. Sketching the roots of utopianism, he emphasizes the similarities between seemingly disparate movements: radical Islam, he suggests, might best be thought of as ‘Islamo-Jacobinism.’ Taking the Iraq war as an object lesson, he argues for an acknowledgment that the ‘local pieties of Atlantic democracy’ are not the only way to govern. Gray’s writing has a bracing clarity."—
The New Yorker
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Change Up
An Oral History of 8 Key Events That Shaped Baseball
Larry Burke and Peter Thomas Fornatale with Jim Baker
Rodale Books
Change Up is every fan’s box-seat ticket to a remarkable baseball event: a round-table conversation among the participants themselves about pivotal...
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Chasing the Red, White, and Blue
A Journey in Tocqueville's Footsteps Through Contemporary America
David Cohen
Picador
Using Democracy in America as his model, acclaimed British and South African journalist David Cohen retraces Alexis de Tocqueville’s journey around the...
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Children of Fire
A History of African Americans
Thomas C. Holt
Hill and Wang
“A brilliant, sweeping portrait of Afro-American history that transports the reader from the first arrival of slaves in Virginia in 1619 to the election of President Barack Obama. Like Alex Haley’s
Roots
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is a monumental work that should be required reading for every American.”—
William Ferris, Professor of History, University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill
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Common as Air
Revolution, Art, and Ownership
Lewis Hyde
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Common as Air offers a stirring defense of our cultural commons, that vast store of art and ideas we have inherited from the past and continue to enrich in the...
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The Culture of Defeat
On National Trauma, Mourning, and Recovery
Wolfgang Schivelbusch; Translated by Jefferson Chase
Picador
"Compelling . . . It might seem strange, just after an American military victory, to submit to the brooding brilliance of this book,
The Culture of Defeat
. But that sort of irony is one of the book's points. In this wide-ranging study, Wolfgang Schivelbusch, a cultural historian who has in previous books teased hidden meanings out of the origins of coffee or the onset of domestic lighting, incorporates a cautionary note. He points out that if history demonstrates anything, it is that 'what triumphs today will be defeated tomorrow.' The arrogance of power can be tempered, he argues, by an 'empathetic philosophy of defeat.'"—
Edward Rothstein,
The New York Times
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The Father of Us All
War and History, Ancient and Modern
Victor Davis Hanson
Bloomsbury Press
Victor Davis Hanson has long been acclaimed as one of our leading scholars of ancient history. In recent years he has also become a trenchant voice on current...
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The Feminization of American Culture
Ann Douglas; With a New Preface by the Author
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This modern classic by one of our leading scholars seeks to explain the values prevalent in today's mass culture by tracing them back to their roots in the...
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The First World War, Second Edition
A Complete History
Martin Gilbert
Holt Paperbacks
The acclaimed British historian offers a majestic, single-volume work incorporating all major fronts-domestic, diplomatic, military-for "a stunning achievement...
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Flag
An American Biography
Marc Leepson; Foreword by Nelson DeMille
St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
The thirteen-stripe, fifty-star flag is as familiar an American icon as any that has existed in the nation’s history. Yet the history of the flag, especially...
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The Founding Fish
John McPhee
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John McPhee's twenty-sixth book is a braid of personal history, natural history, and American history, in descending order of volume. Each spring, American...
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Freethinkers
A History of American Secularism
Susan Jacoby
A Metropolitan/Holt Paperbacks Book
"[Jacoby] accomplishes her task with clarity, thoroughness, and an engaging passion."—
The Los Angeles Times
"A gutsy, passionate, intelligent book . . . A must read for those interested in the ways our nation's most cherished traditions of freedom evolved."—
The Boston Globe
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The Great American Citizenship Quiz
Revised and Updated
Solomon M. Skolnick
Walker & Company
The ultimate civics lesson for citizens and would-be citizens alike—now completely revised and updated for the new citizenship test. Do you think you know...
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Great Plains
Ian Frazier
Picador
National Bestseller With his unique blend of intrepidity, tongue-in-cheek humor, and wide-eyed wonder, Ian Frazier takes us on a journey of more than 25,000...
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Guarding the Golden Door
American Immigration Policy and Immigrants since 1882
Roger Daniels
Hill and Wang
"Ambitious . . . Both an introductory survey of immigration policy and a masterful assessment of the state of the field by one of its founders . . . [Daniels] provides a much-needed perspective on both the continuities and changes in the United States' efforts to regulate immigration . . .
Guarding the Golden Door
is rich with details, statistics, and the author's own unique viewpoint. The book is exemplary."—
Erika Lee,
Reviews in American History
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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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The Historical Atlas of New York City, Second Edition
A Visual Celebration of 400 Years of New York City's History
Eric Homberger; Alice Hudson, Cartographic Consultant
Holt Paperbacks
A New York Public Library Outstanding Reference Book The rich and eminently browsable visual guide to the history of New York, in an all-new second...
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History Wars
The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past
Edited by Edward T. Linenthal and Tom Engelhardt
A Metropolitan/Holt Paperbacks Book
From the “taming of the West” to the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the portrayal of the past has become a battleground at the heart of...
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