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American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900From the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil War: a "first-rate" narrative history (The New York Times) that brilliantly portrays the emergence, in a remarkably short time, of a recognizably modern America. American Colossus captures the decades between...
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Soviet Partisan 1941-44From the start of Barbarossa, large numbers of Soviet troops and civilians were cut off behind Nazi German lines in what Stalin termed the Great Patriotic War. We know this in the West as the Russo-German part of World War II, but for many...
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Aaron's Rod: Cambridge Lawrence Edition; RevisedBased on the only authoritative surviving manuscript of the 1921 novel, this Cambridge edition restores many passages censored from previous editions in its depiction of Everyman's quest for a meaningful existence. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic...
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French Musketeer 1622-1775In 1884 the French novelist Alexandre Dumas published The Three Musketeers, followed by Twenty Years After (1845) and The Vicomte de Bragelonne: Ten Years Later (1847-50). This trilogy of works, reproduced in countless forms and media, most recently in a Hollywood film of 2011,...
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The Americans: The Democratic ExperienceFinal volume in a trilogy, the first of which is the author's The Americans: the colonial experience, and the second of which is his The Americans: the national experience.Author: Daniel J. BoorstinPublisher: VintagePublished: 07/12/1974Pages: 717Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.21lbsSize: 8.02h x 5.22w x 1.64dISBN: 9780394710112About...
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A Nation Without Borders: The United States and Its World in an Age of Civil Wars, 1830-1910A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian's breathtakingly original (Junot Diaz) reinterpretation of the eight decades surrounding the Civil War. Capatious and] buzzing with ideas. --The Boston Globe Volume 3 in the Penguin History of the United States, edited by Eric Foner In this ambitious story of...
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I Will Run Wild: The Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to MidwayThis fascinating volume--now available in paperback offers a vivid narrative history of the early stages of the Pacific War, as US and Allied forces desperately tried to slow the Japanese onslaught that began with the sudden attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941. In...
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US Army Long-Range Patrol Scout in Vietnam 1965-71Osprey's survey of the Long-Range Patrol Scouts of the US Army during the Vietnam War (1955-1975). The Vietnamese knew the Long-Range Patrol Scouts as "the men with green faces," a reference to the camouflage paint that they used. Operating in patrols of four to...
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The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He MadeAcclaimed author Patricia O'Toole's "superb" (The New York Times) account of Woodrow Wilson, one of the most high-minded, consequential, and controversial US presidents. A "gripping" (USA TODAY) biography, The Moralist is "an essential contribution to presidential history" (Booklist, starred review). "In graceful prose and...
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William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American RepublicWilliam Cooper and James Fenimore Cooper, a father and son who embodied the contradictions that divided America in the early years of the Republic, are brought to life in this Pulitzer Prize-winning book. William Cooper rose from humble origins to become a wealthy land...
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Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American CultureThis monumental work of cultural history was nominated for a National Book Award. It chronicles America's transformation, beginning in 1880, into a nation of consumers, devoted to a cult of comfort, bodily well-being, and endless acquisition. 24 pages of photos.Author: William R. LeachPublisher: VintagePublished:...
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Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the MoonA New York Times Bestseller Celebrates a bold era when voyaging beyond the Earth was deemed crucial to national security and pride. -The Wall Street Journal Restoring the drama, majesty, and sheer improbability of an American triumph, this is award-winning historian Craig Nelson's definitive...
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The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of AmericaOne of New York Magazine's best books on Silicon Valley The true, behind-the-scenes history of the people who built Silicon Valley and shaped Big Tech in America Long before Margaret O'Mara became one of our most consequential historians of the American-led digital revolution, she...
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James Madison: A Life ReconsideredA major new biography of the fourth U.S. president, from New York Times-bestselling author Lynne Cheney James Madison was a true genius of the early republic, the leader who did more than any other to create the nation we know today. This majestic new...
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Collision of Empires: The War on the Eastern Front in 1914The fighting that raged in the East during the First World War was every bit as fierce as that on the Western Front, but the titanic clashes between three towering empires--Russia, Austro-Hungary, and Germany--remains a comparatively unknown facet of the Great War. With the...
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The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American DreamFrom the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil War--the epic story of the California Gold Rush, "a fine, robust telling of one of the greatest adventure stories in history" (David McCullough, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of John Adams). The...
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Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to WarFrom the acclaimed military historian, a history of the outbreak of World War I: the dramatic stretch from the breakdown of diplomacy to the battles--the Marne, Ypres, Tannenberg--that marked the frenzied first year before the war bogged down in the trenches. In Catastrophe 1914,...
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Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New AmericaWinner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for History In this magisterial biography, T. J. Stiles paints a portrait of Custer both deeply personal and sweeping in scope, proving how much of Custer's legacy has been ignored. He demolishes Custer's historical caricature, revealing a capable...
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The Barbary Pirates 15th-17th CenturiesFor the best part of three centuries the "corsairs," or pirates, from the "Barbary" coasts of North Africa dominated the western and central Mediterranean, making forays far into the Atlantic and preying on the shipping and coastal settlements across Christian Europe, ranging from Greece...
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The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of RageSay "the Sixties" and the images start coming, images of a time when all authority was defied and millions of young Americans thought they could change the world--either through music, drugs, and universal love or by "putting their bodies on the line" against injustice...
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