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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 : $20.00 Buy	NYPD A City and Its Police John Lardner and Thomas Reppetto A John Macrae/Holt Paperbacks Book NYPD details episodes as fresh as the shootings of unarmed men that have triggered mass protests against Mayor Rudy Giuliani. It also tells of forgotten but no...

Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow The Epic Story of the Transcontinental Railroads Dee Brown Holt Paperbacks From the author of the best-selling Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Dee Brown's classic account of the building of the transcontinental railroad. In February...

Trade Paperback : $18.00 Buy	The Price of Citizenship Redefining the American Welfare State Michael B. Katz A Metropolitan/Holt Paperbacks Book The culmination of twenty years of research and writing, The Price of Citizenship traces the evolution of the welfare state from colonial relief programs to...

Trade Paperback : $21.99 Buy	Saratoga Turning Point of America's Revolutionary War Richard M. Ketchum A John Macrae/Holt Paperbacks Book In the summer of 1777 (twelve months after the Declaration of Indepence) the British launched an invasion from Canada under General John Burgoyne. It was the...

Trade Paperback : $19.00 Buy	The Winter Soldiers The Battles for Trenton and Princeton Richard M. Ketchum A John Macrae/Holt Paperbacks Book In the fall of 1776 the British delivered a crushing blow. New York fell and the anguished retreat through New Jersey followed. Winter came with a vengeance,...

Trade Paperback : $18.99 Buy	Decisive Day The Battle for Bunker Hill Richard M. Ketchum A John Macrae/Holt Paperbacks Book Boston, 1775: A town occupied by General Thomas Gage's redcoats and groaning with Tory refugees from the Massachusetts countryside. Besieged for two months by...

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Jefferson and Monticello

The Biography of a Builder

Jack McLaughlin Holt Paperbacks

This book, a National Book Award nominee in 1988, is the life of Thomas Jefferson as seen through the prism of his love affair with Monticello. For over half a...

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Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	A Perfect Fit Clothes, Character, and the Promise of America Jenna Weissman Joselit A Metropolitan/Holt Paperbacks Book While fashions of the rich and famous have been endlessly chronicled, little attention has been paid to the meaning of clothes for everyone else. Yet between...

Trade Paperback : $22.00 Buy	The Historical Atlas of New York City A Visual Celebration of Nearly 400 Years of New York City's History Eric Homberger; Alice Hudson, Cartographic Consultant Holt Paperbacks A New York Public Library Outstanding Reference Book A visual celebration of nearly 400 years of New York City's history. To celebrate the one-hundredth...

Trade Paperback : $14.00 Buy	Area 51 The Dreamland Chronicles David Darlington Holt Paperbacks Area 51, Dreamland, Groom Lake, Paradise Ranch, Watertown Strip, the Box: all refer to the top-secret research installation, located a hundred miles north of...

Trade Paperback : $18.99 Buy	Firestorm at Peshtigo A Town, Its People, and the Deadliest Fire in American History Denise Gess and William Lutz Holt Paperbacks “Novelist Denise Gess and historian William Lutz brilliantly restore the event to its rightful place in the forefront of American historical...

Trade Paperback : $14.00 Buy	American Road The Story of an Epic Transcontinental Journey at the Dawn of the Motor Age Pete Davies Holt Paperbacks On July 7, 1919, a cavalcade of sixty-nine military motor vehicles set off from the White House on an epic journey. Their goal was California, and ahead of...

Trade Paperback : $17.00 Buy	Divided Loyalties How the American Revolution Came to New York Richard M. Ketchum A John Macrae/Holt Paperbacks Book Years of neglect in the mother country had allowed America's fledgling democracy to gain power, but by 1760 America had become the biggest and fastest-growing...

Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	The Lewis and Clark Companion An Encyclopedic Guide to the Voyage of Discovery Stephenie Ambrose Tubbs with Clay Jenkinson; With a Foreword by Stephen E. Ambrose Holt Paperbacks An indispensable guide to our nation’s epic adventure The years 2003–2006 mark the bicentennial of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark’s...

Trade Paperback : $18.00 Buy	The Guardians Kingman Brewster, His Circle, and the Rise of the Liberal Establishment Geoffrey Kabaservice Holt Paperbacks "This deftly woven portrait of Brewster and his close friends . . . is among the most revealing books ever written about the liberal establishment . . ....

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The House the Rockefellers Built

A Tale of Money, Taste, and Power in Twentieth-Century America

Robert F. Dalzell and Lee Baldwin Holt Paperbacks

“The Dalzells . . . do an astonishing job of placing Kykuit in historical context while weaving the larger-than-life Rockefeller personalities into its very...

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A Great Improvisation

Franklin, France, and the Birth of America

Stacy Schiff Holt Paperbacks

In this dazzling work of history, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author follows Benjamin Franklin to France for the crowning achievement of his career In December...

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Empire's Workshop

Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism

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Greg Grandin A Metropolitan/Holt Paperbacks Book

“Grandin has always been a brilliant historian; now he uses his detective skills in a book that is absolutely crucial to understanding our present.” —Naomi...

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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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A Question of Torture

CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror

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Alfred McCoy A Metropolitan/Holt Paperbacks Book

“An indispensable and riveting account” of the CIA’s development and use of torture, from the cold war to Abu Ghraib and beyond (Naomi Klein, The Nation) In...

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Trade Paperback : $18.00 Buy	Disaster Hurricane Katrina and the Failure of Homeland Security Christopher Cooper and Robert Block Holt Paperbacks “[A] tightly crafted, very readable book . . . the best in-depth contemporary analysis we are going to get.” —Stephen Flynn, The Washington Post When...

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The Price of Liberty

Paying for America's Wars from the Revolution to the War on Terror

Robert D. Hormats Holt Paperbacks

“Admirably comprehensive . . . The Price of Liberty shows that [Hormats] knows his history.”—Niall Ferguson, The Wall Street Journal America’s first...

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The Shipwreck That Saved Jamestown

The Sea Venture Castaways and the Fate of America

Lorri Glover and Daniel B. Smith Holt Paperbacks

“A rip-snortin’ story of shipwreck, intrigue, horror, courage, risk, luck and will . . . gripping.”—Publishers Weekly The English were latecomers to America,...

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