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Tecumseh and the Prophet: The Heroic Struggle for America's Heartland"An insightful, unflinching portrayal of the remarkable siblings who came closer to altering the course of American history than any other Indian leaders." --H.W. Brands, author of The Zealot and the Emancipator The first biography of the great Shawnee leader to make clear that...
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His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a LifeFrom one of America's most respected journalists and modern historians comes the highly acclaimed, "splendid" (The Washington Post) biography of Jimmy Carter, the thirty-ninth president of the United States and Nobel Prize-winning humanitarian. Jonathan Alter tells the epic story of an enigmatic man of...
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Hitler: Downfall: 1939-1945A riveting account of the dictator's final years, when he got the war he wanted but led his nation, the world, and himself to catastrophe--from the author of Hitler: Ascent "Skillfully conceived and utterly engrossing." --The New York Times Book Review In the summer...
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The Best and the BrightestDavid Halberstam's masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy, with a new Foreword by Senator John McCain. A rich, entertaining, and profound reading experience."--The New York Times Using portraits of America's flawed policy makers and accounts of the forces that...
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Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to ReconstructionThe half-century before the Civil War was beset with conflict over equality as well as freedom. Beginning in 1803, many free states enacted laws that discouraged free African Americans from settling within their boundaries and restricted their rights to testify in court, move freely...
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Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar ExpeditionNational Outdoor Book Awards Winner Winner of the BANFF Adventure Travel Award"A thrilling and harrowing story. If it's a cliche to say I couldn't put this book down, well, too bad: I couldn't put this book down." --Jess Walter, bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins...
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JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR - A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian takes us as close as we have ever been to the real John F. Kennedy in this revelatory biography of the iconic, yet still elusive, thirty-fifth president. "An utterly incandescent...
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The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard KeynesNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - An "outstanding new intellectual biography of John Maynard Keynes [that moves] swiftly along currents of lucidity and wit" (The New York Times), illuminating the world of the influential economist and his transformative ideas "A timely, lucid and compelling portrait...
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Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In this brilliant biography, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham chronicles the life of George Herbert Walker Bush. NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF...
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Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet EmpireWinner of the Pulitzer PrizeOne of the Best Books of the Year: The New York Times From the editor of The New Yorker a riveting account of the collapse of the Soviet Union, which has become the standard book on the subject. Lenin's Tomb...
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Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American WarriorsThe full story of what led Crazy Horse and Custer to that fateful day at the Little Bighorn, from bestselling historian Stephen E. Ambrose. On the sparkling morning of June 25, 1876, 611 U.S. Army soldiers rode toward the banks of the Little Bighorn...
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The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962--1976The concluding volume--following Mao's Great Famine and The Tragedy of Liberation--in Frank Dik tter's award-winning trilogy chronicling the Communist revolution in China. After the economic disaster of the Great Leap Forward that claimed tens of millions of lives from 1958-1962, an aging Mao Zedong...
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American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850In this beautifully written history of America's formative period, a preeminent historian upends the traditional story of a young nation confidently marching to its continent-spanning destiny. The newly constituted United States actually emerged as a fragile, internally divided union of states contending still with...
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Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War IINEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - SELECTED BY THE ECONOMIST AS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR "A rambunctious book that is itself alive with the animal spirits of the marketplace."--The Wall Street Journal Freedom's Forge reveals how two extraordinary American businessmen--General Motors...
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Crusade in Europe: A Personal Account of World War IIA classic of World War II literature, an incredibly revealing work that provides a near comprehensive account of the war and brings to life the legendary general and eventual president of the United States. - "Gives the reader true insight into the most difficult...
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The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter"Important . . . [a] landmark presidential biography . . . Bird is able to build a persuasive case that the Carter presidency deserves this new look."--The New York Times Book Review An essential re-evaluation of the complex triumphs and tragedies of Jimmy Carter's...
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The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil WarOne of the best history books I've read in the last few years. --Chris HayesA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR ONE OF SMITHSONIAN'S BEST HISTORY BOOKS OF THE YEARThe previously untold story of the...
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A Worse Place Than Hell: How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a NationDecember 1862 drove the United States toward a breaking point. The Battle of Fredericksburg shattered Union forces and Northern confidence. As Abraham Lincoln's government threatened to fracture, this critical moment also tested five extraordinary individuals whose lives reflect the soul of a nation. The...
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Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil WarFrom the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of Empire of the Summer Moon and Rebel Yell comes "a masterwork of history" (Lawrence Wright, author of God Save Texas), the spellbinding, epic account of the last year of the Civil War. The fourth...
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We Were Soldiers Once...and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle That Changed the War in VietnamEach year, the Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps selects one book that he believes is both relevant and timeless for reading by all Marines. The Commandant's choice for 1993 was We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young. In November 1965, some...
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