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Read, White, and Blue
This Independence Day, travel from the battlefields of the Civil War through the plains of the Western frontier to the West Wing of the White House...all without leaving your beach chair! Pick up some of the following patriotic reads this July 4th to honor those unforgettable personalities who helped found our nation, contributed to its development, and continue to shape it today.
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Palgrave Macmillan
One Nation Under SexHow the Private Lives of Presidents, First Ladies and Their Lovers Changed the Course of American HistoryIn One Nation Under Sex, free speech activist and notorious Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt teams up with Columbia University history professor David... |
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Paul Jennings was born into slavery on the plantation of James and Dolley Madison in Virginia, later becoming part of the Madison household staff at the White... |
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“I have a dream.” When those words were spoken on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, the crowd stood, electrified, as Martin Luther King,... |
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Palgrave Macmillan
UncompromisedThe Rise, Fall, and Redemption of an Arab American Patriot in the CIA“Nada Prouty served her country loyally, with distinction, and, as universally acknowledged by her colleagues, with great personal courage as a CIA covert... |
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The forty-year love affair between Rachel and Andrew Jackson parallels a tumultuous period in American history. Andrew Jackson was at the forefront of the... |
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The closing of Ted Kennedy’s chapter in America’s political and cultural life means that, for the first time perhaps, the real measure of the Kennedy legacy... |
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In 1921, Franklin Delano Roosevelt—the 1920 vice presidential candidate on the losing Democratic ticket—was overcome by an illness that left him unable to... |
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Palgrave Macmillan
FDR's Funeral TrainA Betrayed Widow, a Soviet Spy, and a Presidency in the BalanceIn April 1945, the funeral train carrying the body of Franklin D. Roosevelt embarked on a three-day, thousand-mile odyssey through nine states before reaching... |
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Palgrave Macmillan
The Unexpected PatriotHow an Ordinary American Mother Is Bringing Terrorists to JusticeAfter 9/11, when the nation was still in shock over the unprecedented attack on U.S. soil, Shannen Rossmiller, a country judge and mother of three in rural... |
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Winner of the 2007 Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award! Samuel Adams is perhaps the most unheralded and overshadowed of the founding fathers, yet without him... |
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When the Revolutionary War began, Nathanael Greene was a private in the militia, the lowest rank possible, yet he emerged from the war with a reputation as... |
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Mark Puls delivers a compelling portrait of the Revolutionary War general who played a key role in all of George Washington’s battles. During the Siege of... |
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George Washington influenced every phase of the Revolutionary war, from beginning to end. He deftly handled the "political realm" by convincing Congress to... |
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Palgrave Macmillan
Lincoln and McClellanThe Troubled Partnership between a President and His GeneralThere was no more remarkable pair in the Civil War than Abraham Lincoln and George McClellan. At only 35 years old, McClellan commanded the Ohio troops early... |
