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The Religious History of America: The Heart of the American Story from Colonial Times to TodayA Dynamic Account of Religion's Central Role in American HistoryAuthor: Edwin S. Gaustad, Leigh SchmidtPublisher: HarperOnePublished: 07/06/2004Pages: 464Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.10w x 1.22dISBN: 9780060630560About the AuthorGaustad, Edwin S.: - Edwin S. Gaustad is a professor of history at the University of...
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Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the 20th CenturyFrom Freud to Babbitt, from Animal Farm to Sartre to the Great Society, from the Theory of Relativity to counterculture to Kosovo, The Modern Mind is encyclopedic, covering the major writers, artists, scientists, and philosophers who produced the ideas by which we live. Peter...
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Coolidge"Amity Shlaes's new biography carries a different and highly relevant message. . . . Read Coolidge, and better understand the forces bearing on the President and Congress almost a century later." -- Paul VolckerFrom the bestselling author of The Forgotten Man comes a brilliant...
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Stokely: A LifeFrom the author of The Sword and the Shield, this definitive biography of the Black Power activist Stokely Carmichael offers "an unflinching look at an unflinching man" (Daily Beast). Stokely Carmichael, the charismatic and controversial Black activist, stepped onto the pages of history when...
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New DealIn this timely new P.I. Guide, Murphy reveals the stark truth: free market failure didn't cause the Great Depression and the New Deal didn't cure it. Shattering myths and politically correct lies, he tells why World War II didn t help the economy or...
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Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award* *A New York Times Notable Book* *Winner of the Texas Book Award and the Oklahoma Book Award* This New York Times bestseller and stunning historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche...
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Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of ViennaFollowing Napoleon's defeat and exile in 1814, the future of the European continent hung in the balance. Eager to negotiate a lasting, workable peace, representatives of Britain, Austria, Prussia, and Russia--along with a host of lesser nations--gathered in Vienna for an eight-month-long political carnival,...
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Why We Fought: Inspiring Stories of Resisting Hitler and Defending FreedomThe struggle to combat the Nazis during World War II encompassed front lines far beyond conventional battlefields. In a panoramic and compelling account, author Jerry Borrowman shares seven largely untold stories of people who undertook extraordinary efforts to defeat the Third Reich at enormous...
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Trained to Kill: The Inside Story of CIA Plots Against Castro, Kennedy, and CheExplosive account of the intrigue, hit men, and Cuban exiles in the CIA's war to destroy Fidel Castro Antonio Veciana fought on the front lines of the CIA's decades-long secret war to destroy Fidel Castro, the bearded bogeyman who haunted America's Cold War dreams....
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The Lives of Mountain Men: A Fully Illustrated Guide to the History, Skills, and Lifestyle of the American Backwoodsmen and FrontiersmenDiscover the history of one of the most exciting eras in the history of the United States and some of its most fascinating characters . . . the mountain men They were the first white men to penetrate the continent, and they soon lost...
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H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against LifeBest-selling French novelist Michel Houellebecq pays tribute to the master of horror, H. P. LovecraftPart biographical sketch, part pronouncement on existence and literature, the best-selling French novelist Michel Houellebecq's H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life, was published in France in 1991 and...
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The Real Watergate Scandal: Collusion, Conspiracy, and the Plot That Brought Nixon Down*Inspiration for the Major Off-Broadway Show, Trial on the Potomac.* "It's the biggest Watergate bombshell to hit since the Nixon tapes in 1973--with implications at once historic and relevant today." --JAMES ROSEN, national bestselling author and legendary journalist THESE JUDGES AND PROSECUTORS WERE DETERMINED...
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Rightful Heritage: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Land of AmericaDouglas Brinkley's The Wilderness Warrior celebrated Theodore Roosevelt's spirit of outdoor exploration and bold vision to protect 234 million acres of wild America. Now, in Rightful Heritage, Brinkley turns his attention to another indefatigable environmental leader--Teddy's distant cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt--chronicling his essential yet...
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Leadership: In Turbulent TimesThe New York Times bestselling book about the early development, growth, and exercise of leadership from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin "should help us raise our expectations of our national leaders, our country, and ourselves" (The Washington Post). "After five decades of magisterial...
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American VaudevilleA dreamlike, evocative reckoning with a lost epoch in popular culture--and with old, weird America. At the heart of American Vaudeville is one strange, unsettling fact: for nearly fifty years, from the late nineteenth century to the 1930s, vaudeville was everywhere--then, suddenly, it was...
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Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in PowerIn this epic dual biography, one of our most distinguished scholars--the bestselling author of An Unfinished Life--probes the lives and times of two unlikely leaders whose partnership dominated American and world affairs and changed the course of history Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger were...
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The Venona Secrets: The Definitive Exposé of Soviet Espionage in AmericaThe Venona Secrets presents one of the last great, untold stories of World War II and the Cold War. In 1995, secret Soviet cable traffic from the 1940s that the United States intercepted and eventually decrypted finally became available to American historians. Now, after...
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Hell in the Pacific: A Marine Rifleman's Journey from Guadalcanal to PeleliuIn what may be the last memoir to be published by a living veteran of the pivotal invasion of Guadalcanal, which occurred almost seventy years ago, Marine Jim McEnery has teamed up with author Bill Sloan to create an unforgettable chronicle of heroism and...
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Uncommon Friends: Life with Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Alexis Carrel, and Charles LindberghJames Newton's Uncommon Friends is "a delightful portrayal of five great men who shared special friendships and common visions" (Booklist).Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Alexis Carrel, and Charles Lindbergh were twentieth century giants known personally by very few. In this compelling memoir, James...
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Louis l'Amour's Wild West: An Illustrated Celebration of America's Favorite Writer of WesternsJoin beloved Western author Louis L'Amour (320 million books sold) in the beautiful and bold American West. Louis L'Amour, one of American's most beloved Western writers, wrote over 100 novels in a thirty-year career. With over 320 million books sold, he is one of...
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