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1876by Gore VidalISBN 0375708723 (0-375-70872-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: '1876'Book summary:The more things change, the more they stay the same: "The last few days would have brought down any parliamentary government. As it is, the Grant Administration is a shambles, and there is even talk that the President may resign."
Charles Schuyler, the narrator of Burr, returns to the United States after an absence of nearly 40 years, with his widowed daughter, Emma, in tow. While they try to find a suitably rich husband for Emma among the New York social set, Charles concentrates on the scandals in Washington--including accusations of corruption and obstruction of justice against Ulysses S. Grant--and the presidential race between Rutherford B. Hayes and Democrat Samuel Tilden (Tilden apparently, in fact, won the election, only to have it taken away because of electoral fraud). Cameo appearances by Chester A. Arthur, Mark Twain, Charles Nordhoff, and others enliven the proceedings. --Ron Hogan [via]
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Softcover, Random House Publishing Group - 1876: ISBN 0394406516 (0-394-40651-6)
Hardcover, Random House - 1876 a Novel: ISBN 0394497503 (0-394-49750-3)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - 1876: ISBN 0434829633 (0-434-82963-3)
Hardcover, Heinemann - 1876 (Modern Library): ISBN 0679602941 (0-679-60294-1)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - 1876: ISBN 0375708723 (0-375-70872-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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1968: The Year That Rocked The Worldby Mark KurlanskyISBN 0345455827 (0-345-45582-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: '1968: The Year That Rocked The World'Book summary:Given its broad and vibrant subject, it would be quite difficult for a writer of any proficiency to pen a boring book on 1968, and Mark Kurlansky has indeed pulled together an entertaining and enlightening popular history with 1968: The Year That Rocked the World. With the Vietnam War and Soviet repression providing sparkplugs in the East and West, student movements heated up in Berkeley, Prague, Mexico City, Paris, and dozens of other hotspots. With youth in ascendancy, music, film, and athletics became generational battlegrounds between opposition forces that couldn't be more appalled with one another. Not so fortuitously, the Summer Olympics in Mexico City and a presidential election in the United States conspired to elevate the tension higher as months passed. Kurlansky is skilled at concisely capturing the personalities behind the conflicts, whether they be heartbroken Czech leader Alexander Dubcek as Eastern Bloc troops violently suppress his nation's uprising or respected veteran newsman Walter Cronkite reluctantly editorializing against the war in Vietnam. The author is more than willing to choose heroes (the doomed Robert Kennedy) and villains (victorious presidential candidate Richard Nixon), and clearly sides with the rebels in most cases. In general, Kurlansky is more adept at covering the political front than he is the equally revolutionary arts world, and it's apparent that any chapter in this book could be expanded into a book of its own. One's expectation is that captivated readers will view 1968 as a portal into a deeper exploration of a fascinating time. --Steven Stolder [via]
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Abraham Lincolnby Carl SandburgISBN 0156027526 (0-15-602752-6)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Abraham Lincoln'Book summary:1970 hardcover with dust jacket as shown. Book in Mint condition. Jacket is stained in new archival jacket cover. Large coffee table book. [via]
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Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Yearsby Carl SandburgISBN 0156026112 (0-15-602611-2)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years'Book summary:Originally published in six volumes, Sandburgs Abraham Lincoln was called the greatest historical biography of our generation. Sandburg distilled this work into one volume that became the definitive life of Lincoln. Index; photographs.[via]More editions of Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years:
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Age of Homespun : Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Mythby Laurel Thatcher UlrichISBN 0679766448 (0-679-76644-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth'Book summary:They began their existence as everyday objects, but in the hands of Bancroft Award-winning historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, fourteen domestic items from preindustrial Americaranging from a linen tablecloth to an unfinished sockrelinquish their stories and offer profound insights into our history.
In an age when even meals are rarely made from scratch, homespun easily acquires the glow of nostalgia. The objects Ulrich investigates unravel those simplified illusions, revealing important clues to the culture and people who made them. Ulrich uses an Indian basket to explore the uneasy coexistence of native and colonial Americans. A piece of silk embroidery reveals racial and class distinctions, and two old spinning wheels illuminate the connections between colonial cloth-making and war. Pulling these divergent threads together, Ulrich demonstrates how early Americans made, used, sold, and saved textiles in order to assert their identities, shape relationships, and create history. [via]More editions of Age of Homespun : Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth:
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All for the Union : The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodesby Robert H. Rhodes, Geoffrey C. Ward, Elisha Hunt RhodesISBN 0517584271 (0-517-58427-1)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All for the Union : The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes'Book summary:All for the Union is the eloquent and moving diary of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, who enlisted into the Union Army as a private in 1861 and left it four years later as a 23-year-old lieutenant colonel after fighting hard and honorably in battles from Bull Run to Appomattox. Anyone who heard these diaries excerpted on the PBS-TV series The Civil War will recognize his accounts of those campaigns, which remain outstanding for their clarity and detail. Most of all, Rhodes's words reveal the motivation of a common Yankee foot soldier, an otherwise ordinary young man who endured the rigors of combat and exhausting marches, short rations, fear, and homesickness for a salary of $13 a month and the satisfaction of giving "all for the union."
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All for the Union: The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodesby Robert Hunt RhodesISBN 0679738282 (0-679-73828-2)
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America Enters the World: A People's History of the Progressive Era and World War Iby Page SmithISBN 014012263X (0-14-012263-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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American Caesar : Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964by William ManchesterISBN 0440304245 (0-440-30424-5)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Caesar : Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964'Book summary:Inspiring, outrageous... A thundering paradox of a man. Douglas MacArthur, one of only five men in history to have achieved the rank of General of the United States Army. He served in World Wars I, II, and the Korean War, and is famous for stating that "in war, there is no substitute for victory." AMERICAN CAESAR exaines the exemplary army career, the stunning successes (and lapses) on the battlefield, and the turbulent private life of the soldier-hero whose mystery and appeal created a uniquely American legend. [via]
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American Caesar, Douglas Macarthur, 1880-1964by William Raymond ManchesterISBN 0316544981 (0-316-54498-1)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Caesar, Douglas Macarthur, 1880-1964'Book summary:MacArthur, the public figure, the private man, the soldier-hero whose mystery and appeal created a uniquely American legend, portrayed in a brilliant biography that will challenge the cherished myths of admirers and critics alike. [via]
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The American Presidentsby David C. Whitney, Robin Vaughn WhitneyISBN 0130285986 (0-13-028598-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Campaigning With Grantby Horace PorterISBN 0306802775 (0-306-80277-5)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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Churchill's History of the English-Speaking Peoplesby Winston Churchill, Henry Steele CommagerISBN 0517422832 (0-517-42283-2)
Hardcover, Greenwich House
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The Civil Warby Bruce CattonISBN 007010266X (0-07-010266-X)
Hardcover, American Heritage Press
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The Civil War: Strange and Fascinating Factsby Burke DavisISBN 0517371510 (0-517-37151-0)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Civil War: Strange and Fascinating Facts'Book summary:A confederate cornet player played so well that both sides would temporarily cease fire to hear his music! The town of Winchester, Virginia changed hands sevent-six times during the war. converted from an old boiler, the Confederate H.L. Huxley became the first submarine to sink a ship. A truly fascinating book!!! [via]
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Crossroads of Freedom: Antietamby James M. McPhersonISBN 0195173309 (0-19-517330-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam'Book summary:The bloodiest day in United States history was September 17, 1862, when, during the Civil War battle at Antietam, close to 6,500 soldiers were killed or mortally wounded and another 15,000 were seriously wounded. Moreover, James M. McPherson states in his concise chronicle of the event Crossroads of Freedom, it may well have been the pivotal moment of the war and possibly of the young republic itself. The South, after a series of setbacks in the spring of 1862, had reversed the war's momentum during the summer, and was on not only on the "brink of military victory" but about to achieve diplomatic recognition by European nations, most notably England and France. Though the bulk of his book concerns itself with the details--and incredible carnage--of the battle itself, McPherson raises it above typical military histories by placing it in its socio-political context: The victory prodded Abraham Lincoln to announce his "preliminary" Emancipation Proclamation, freeing slaves. England and France deferred their economic alliance with the battered secessionists. Most importantly, it kept Lincoln's party, the Republicans, in control of Congress. McPherson's account is accessible, elegant, and economical. --H. O'Billovich [via]
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Discovering Americas Pastby William WheelerISBN 0395668654 (0-395-66865-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Discovering the American Pastby William WheelerISBN 0395871883 (0-395-87188-3)
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Discovering the American Past: A Look at the Evidenceby Susan D. Becker, William Bruce WheelerISBN 061852259X (0-618-52259-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Discovering the American Past: A Look at the Evidence Volume 1'Book summary:This primary source reader in the popular discovering series contains a multi-part pedagogical framework that guides students through the process of historical inquiry and explanation. The text emphasizes historical study as interpretation rather than memorization of data.the sixth edition integrates new documents and revised coverage throughout. Appearing in volumes i and ii, the reconstruction chapter uncovers the work ethic of farmers and workers in the west and north following the civil war. Each chapter is organized within the same pedagogical framework: the problem, background, the method, the evidence, questions to consider, and epilogue [via]
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Discovering the American Past: A Look At The Evidenceby William Bruce WheelerISBN 0618805451 (0-618-80545-1)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Discovering the American Past: A Look at the Evidence Volume 2by Wheeler, Susan D. BeckerISBN 0618522603 (0-618-52260-3)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Discovering the American Past: A Look at the Evidence Volume 2'Book summary:This primary source reader in the popular Discovering series contains a multi-part pedagogical framework that guides students through the process of historical inquiry and explanation. The text emphasizes historical study as interpretation rather than memorization of data.The Sixth Edition integrates new documents and revised coverage throughout. Appearing in Volumes I and II, the Reconstruction chapter uncovers the work ethic of farmers and workers in the West and North following the Civil War. Each chapter is organized within the same pedagogical framework: The Problem, Background, The Method, The Evidence, Questions to Consider, and Epilogue. [via]
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Discovering the American Past: Since 1865by Susan D. Becker, William Bruce WheelerISBN 0618102256 (0-618-10225-6)
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Discovering the American Past Vol. 1 : A Look at the Evidence to 1877by William Bruce Wheeler, Susan D. BeckerISBN 0618102248 (0-618-10224-8)
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Farewell to Manzanarby Jeanne W. HoustonISBN 0553272586 (0-553-27258-6)
Softcover, Skylark
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Farewell to Manzanar'Book summary:Jeanne Wakatsuki was seven years old in 1942 when her family was uprooted from their home and sent to live at Manzanar internment camp--with 10,000 other Japanese Americans. Along with searchlight towers and armed guards, Manzanar ludicrously featured cheerleaders, Boy Scouts, sock hops, baton twirling lessons and a dance band called the Jive Bombers who would play any popular song except the nation's #1 hit: "Don't Fence Me In."
Farewell to Manzanar is the true story of one spirited Japanese-American family's attempt to survive the indignities of forced detention . . . and of a native-born American child who discovered what it was like to grow up behind barbed wire in the United States.
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Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internmentby James D. Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki HoustonISBN 0618216200 (0-618-21620-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment'Book summary:During World War II a community called Manzanar was hastily created in the high mountain desert country of California, east of the Sierras. Its purpose was to house thousands of Japanese American internees. One of the first families to arrive was the Wakatsukis, who were ordered to leave their fishing business in Long Beach and take with them only the belongings they could carry. For Jeanne Wakatsuki, a seven-year-old child, Manzanar became a way of life in which she struggled and adapted, observed and grew. For her father it was essentially the end of his life.[via]
At age thirty-seven, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston recalls life at Manzanar through the eyes of the child she was. She tells of her fear, confusion, and bewilderment as well as the dignity and great resourcefulness of people in oppressive and demeaning circumstances. Written with her husband, Jeanne delivers a powerful first-person account that reveals her search for the meaning of Manzanar.
Farewell to Manzanar has become a staple of curriculum in schools and on campuses across the country. Last year the San Francisco Chronicle named it one of the twentieth centurys 100 best nonfiction books from west of the Rockies.More editions of Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment:
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Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraqby Thomas E. RicksISBN 0143038915 (0-14-303891-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq'Book summary:Fiasco is a more strongly worded title than you might expect a seasoned military reporter such as Thomas E. Ricks to use, accustomed as he is to the even-handed style of daily newspaper journalism. But Ricks, the Pentagon correspondent for the Washington Post and the author of the acclaimed account of Marine Corps boot camp, Making the Corps (released in a 10th anniversary edition to accompany the paperback release of Fiasco), has written a thorough and devastating history of the war in Iraq from the planning stages through the continued insurgency in early 2006, and he does not shy away from naming those he finds responsible. His tragic story is divided in two. The first part--the runup to the war and the invasion in 2003--is familiar from books like Cobra II and Plan of Attack, although Ricks uses his many military sources to portray an officer class that was far more skeptical of the war beforehand than generally reported. But the heart of his book is the second half, beginning in August 2003, when, as he writes, the war really began, with the bombing of the Jordanian embassy and the emergence of the insurgency. His strongest critique is that the U.S. military failed to anticipate--and then failed to recognize--the insurgency, and tried to fight it with conventional methods that only fanned its flames. What makes his portrait particularly damning are the dozens of military sources--most of them on record--who join in his critique, and the thousands of pages of internal documents he uses to make his case for a war poorly planned and bravely but blindly fought.
The paperback edition of Fiasco includes a new postscript in which Ricks looks back on the year since the book's release, a year in which the intensity and frequency of attacks on American soldiers only increased and in which Ricks's challenging account became accepted as conventional wisdom, with many of the dissident officers in his story given the reins of leadership, although Ricks still finds the prospects for the conflict grim. --Tom Nissley
A Fiasco, a Year Later
With the paperback release of Thomas Ricks's Fiasco, a year after the book became a #1 New York Times bestseller and an influential force in transforming the public perception (and the perception within the military and the civilian government as well) of the war in Iraq, we asked Ricks in the questions below to look back on the book and the year of conflict that have followed. On our page for the hardcover edition of Fiasco you can see our earlier Q&A with Ricks, and you can also see two lists he prepared for Amazon customers: his choices for the 10 books for understanding Iraq that aren't about Iraq, a collection of studies of counterinsurgency warfare that became surprisingly popular last year as soldiers and civilians tried to understand the nature of the new conflict, and, as a glimpse into his writing process, a playlist of the music he listened to while writing and researching the book. Amazon.com: When we spoke with you a year ago, you said that you thought you were done going back to Baghdad. But that dateline is still showing up in your reports. How have things changed in the city over the past year?
Thomas E. Ricks: Yes, I had promised my wife that I wouldnt go back. Iraq was taking a toll on both of us--I think my trips of four to six weeks were harder on her than on me.
But I found I couldn't stay away. The Iraq war is the most important event of our time, I think, and will remain a major news story for years to come. And I felt like everything I had done for the last 15 years--from deployments I'd covered to books and military manuals Id read (and written)--had prepared me to cover this event better than most reporters. So I made a deal with my wife that I would go back to Iraq but would no longer do the riskiest things, such as go on combat patrols or on convoys. I used to have a rule that I would only take the risks necessary to "get the story." Now I don't take even those risks if I can see them, even if that means missing part of a story. Also, I try to keep my trips much shorter.
How is Baghdad different? It is still a chaotic mess. But it doesn't feel quite as Hobbesian as it did in early 2006. That said, it also feels a bit like a pause--with the so-called "surge," Uncle Sam has put all his chips on the table, and the other players are waiting a bit to see how that plays out.
Amazon.com: One of the remarkable things over the past year for a reader of Fiasco has been how much of what your book recommends has, apparently, been taken to heart by the military and civilian leadership. As you write in your new postscript to the paperback edition, the war has been "turned over to the dissidents." General David Petraeus, who was one of the first to put classic counterinsurgency tactics to use in Iraq, is now the top American commander there, and he has surrounded himself with others with similar views. What was that transformation like on the inside?
Ricks: I was really struck when I was out in Baghdad two months ago at how different the American military felt. I used to hate going into the Green Zone because of all the unreal happy talk I'd hear. It was a relief to leave the place, even if being outside it (and contrary to popular myth, most reporters do live outside it) was more dangerous.
There is a new realism in the U.S. military. In May, I was getting a briefing from one official in the Green Zone and I thought, "Wow, not only does this briefing strike me as accurate, it also is better said than I could do." That feeling was a real change from the old days.
The other thing that struck me was the number of copies I saw of Fiasco as I knocked around Iraq. When I started writing it, the title was controversial. Now generals say things to me like, "Got it, understand it, agree with it." I am told that the Army War College is making the book required reading this fall.
Amazon.com: And what are its prospects at this late date?
Ricks: The question remains, Is it too little too late? It took the U.S. military four years to get the strategy right in Iraq--that is, to understand that their goal should be to protect the people. By that time, the American people and the Iraqi people both had lost of lot of patience. (And by that time, the Iraq war had lasted longer than American participation in World War II.) Also, it isn't clear that we have enough troops to really implement this new strategy of protecting the people. In some parts of Baghdad where U.S. troops now have outposts, the streets are quieter. Yet we're seeing more violence on the outskirts of Baghdad. And the cities of Mosul and Kirkuk make me nervous. I am keeping an eye on them this summer and fall.
The thing to watch in Iraq is whether we see more tribes making common cause with the U.S. and the Iraqi government. How long will it last? And what does it mean in the long term for Iraq? Is it the beginning of a major change, or just a prelude to a big civil war?
Amazon.com: You've been a student of the culture of the military for years. How has the war affected the state of the American military: the redeployments, the state of Guard and Reserves troops and the regular Army and Marines, and the relationship to civilian leadership?
Ricks: I think there is general agreement that there is a huge strain on the military. Essentially, one percent of the nation--soldiers and their families--is carrying the burden. We are now sending soldiers back for their third year-long tours. We've never tried to fight a lengthy ground war overseas with an all-volunteer force. Nor have we ever tried to occupy an Arab country.
What the long-term effect is on the military will depend in part on how the war ends for us, and for Iraq. But I think it isn't going to be good. Today I was talking to a retired officer and asked him what he was hearing from his friends in Iraq about troop morale. "It's broken," he said. Meanwhile, he said, soldiers he knows who are back home from Iraq "wonder why they were there." Not everyone is as morose as this officer, but the trend isn't good.
Amazon.com: You quote Gen. Anthony Zinni in your postscript as saying the U.S. is "drifting toward containment" in Iraq. What does containment of what will likely remain a very hot conflict look like? You've written in your postscript and elsewhere that you think we are only in act III of a Shakespearean tragedy. I wouldn't describe Shakespeare's fifth acts as particularly well contained.
Ricks: I agree with you. Containment would mean some sort of stepping back from the war, probably beginning by halving the American military presence. You'd probably still have U.S. troops inside Iraq, but disengaged from daily fighting. Their goals would be negative ones: prevent genocide, prevent al Qaeda from being able to operate in Iraq, and prevent the war from spreading to outside Iraq. (This was laid out well in a recent study by James Miller and Shawn Brimley, readable at http://www.cnas.org/en/cms/?368.)
Containment probably would be a messy and demoralizing mission. No one signs up in the U.S. military to stand by as innocents are slaughtered in nearby cities. Yet that might be the case if we did indeed move to this stance and a full-blown civil war (or a couple) ensued. And there surely would be refugees from such fighting. Either they would go to neighboring countries, and perhaps destabilize them, or we would set up "refugee catchment" areas, as another study, by the Brookings Institute, proposed. The open-ended task of guarding those new refugee camps likely would fall to U.S. troops.
The more you look at Iraq, the more worrisome it gets. As I noted in the new postscript in the paperback edition, many strategic experts I talk to believe that the consequences of the Iraq war are going to be worse for the United States than was the fallout from the Vietnam War.
Amazon.com: A year and a half is a long time, but let's say that we have a Democratic president in January 2009: President Clinton, or Gore, or Obama. What prospect would a change in administration have for a new strategic opening? Or would the new president likely wind up like Nixon in Vietnam, owning a war he or she didn't begin?
Ricks: Not such a long time. President Bush has made his major decisions on Iraq. Troop levels are going to have to come down next year, because we don't have replacements on the shelf. So the three big questions for the U.S. government are going to be: How many troops will be withdrawn, what will be the mission of those who remain, and how long will they stay? Those questions are going to be answered by the next president, not this one.
My gut feeling is the latter: I think we are going to have troops in Iraq through 2009, and probably for a few years beyond that. Indeed, I wouldn't be surprised if U.S. troops were there in 15 years. But as I say in Fiasco, that's kind of a best-case scenario.
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The First Americansby Joy HakimISBN 0195153200 (0-19-515320-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Flyboys: A True Story of Courageby James BradleyISBN 031610728X (0-316-10728-X)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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Hidden Historyby Daniel J. Boorstin, Ruth Frankel BoorstinISBN 0679722238 (0-679-72223-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hidden History'Book summary:In this provocative new collection, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Daniel J. Boorstin explores the essential "hidden history" of the American experience that is overlooked by most historians. In twenty-four essays -- divided into five sections, "The Quest for History," "A By-Product Nation," "The Rhetoric of Democracy," "Unsung Experiments," and "The Momentum of Technology" -- Daniel J. Boorstin examines significant rhythms, patterns, and institutions of everyday American life: from his intimate portraits of such legendary figures as Paul Revere, Abigail Adams, and Thomas Jefferson, to more expansive discussions of historical phenomena, such as the Therapy of Distance and the Law of Survival of the Unread. [via]
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History of the English Speaking Peoplesby Winston ChurchillISBN 0396082750 (0-396-08275-0)
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In Small Things Forgotten: An Archaeology of Early American Lifeby James DeetzISBN 0385483996 (0-385-48399-6)
Softcover, Anchor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In Small Things Forgotten: An Archaeology of Early American Life'Book summary:History is recorded in many ways. According to author James Deetz, the past can be seen most fully by studying the small things so often forgotten. Objects such as doorways, gravestones, musical instruments, and even shards of pottery fill in the cracks between large historical events and depict the intricacies of daily life. In his completely revised and expanded edition of In Small Things Forgotten, Deetz has added new sections that more fully acknowledge the presence of women and African Americans in Colonial America. New interpretations of archaeological finds detail how minorities influenced and were affected by the development of the Anglo-American tradition in the years following the settlers' arrival in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620. Among Deetz's observations:
Subtle changes in building long before the Revolutionary War hinted at the growing independence of the American colonies and their desire to be less like the British.
Records of estate auctions show that many households in Colonial America contained only one chair--underscoring the patriarchal nature of the early American family. All other members of the household sat on stools or the floor.
The excavation of a tiny community of freed slaves in Massachusetts reveals evidence of the transplantation of African culture to North America.
Simultaneously a study of American life and an explanation of how American life is studied, In Small Things Forgotten, through the everyday details of ordinary living, colorfully depicts a world hundreds of years in the past. [via]More editions of In Small Things Forgotten: An Archaeology of Early American Life:
A Little Commonwealth: Family Life in Plymouth Colonyby John DemosISBN 0195128907 (0-19-512890-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Little Commonwealth: Family Life in Plymouth Colony'Book summary:The customary modern image of the New England Puritans is a dark one: the Puritans, religious dissenters who valued propriety and order, are seen as a witch-hunting, suspicious tribe, and their very name carries connotations of grimness and primness.
Thirty years ago, at the outset of his career as a historian, John Demos decided to reexamine that view in light of the evidence. Among the findings that he reports in A Little Commonwealth is the surprising discovery that the Puritans were not so, well, puritanical. They were not, Demos argues, especially consumed by ideology, and in their daily lives, "religion seems to figure in a somewhat haphazard and occasional way." The Puritans, he continues, had no unusual objections to sexuality or fun-seeking, except where such activities endangered social harmony--and the Puritans were indeed fiercely protective of group stability. Demos examines such documents as the transcripts of divorce proceedings to suggest that Puritan women enjoyed, if not equal rights, then better consideration than most women in other English colonies in the New World. He looks closely into the material culture of the Puritans, which shows some odd discrepancies: for instance, although few households possessed more than a single chair (usually reserved for the elderly), many contained elaborate wardrobes--for, Demos writes, "clothing was not only a good investment for a man of some means; it was also a way of demonstrating his standing in the larger community and of confirming his own self-image."
In questioning the view of the Puritans as a plain-dressing, plain-living, haunted, and repressed sect, Demos provides a close and intriguing look at the New England past. Reissued on the 30th anniversary of its first publication, A Little Commonwealth deserves a wide audience today. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Little Town on the Prairieby Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth WilliamsISBN 0064400077 (0-06-440007-7)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Town on the Prairie'Book summary:The little settlement that weathered the long, hard winter of 1880-81 is now a growing town. Laura is growing up, and she goes to her first evening social. Mary is at last able to go to a college for the blind. Best of all, Almanzo Wilder asks permission to walk home from church with Laura. And Laura, now fifteen years old, receives her certificate to teach school. [via]
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Mr. Lincoln's Armyby Bruce CattonISBN 0385043104 (0-385-04310-4)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mr. Lincoln's Army'Book summary:Author of more than a dozen books on Civil War history, Catton is renowned for his vivid and lyrical narratives. The Army of the Potomac Trilogy, Catton's most widely ready work, is recounts the bitter struggle between the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Virginia, and this first volume chronicles the early years under the command of General McClellan. [via]
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Never Call Retreatby Bruce CattonISBN 0671638831 (0-671-63883-1)
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Origins of American Politicsby Bernard BailynISBN 0394708652 (0-394-70865-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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"He produces historical analysis which is as revealing to the political scientist or sociologist as to the historian, of the significance of social and cultural forces on political changes in eighteenth-century America."
John D. Lees, Cambridge University Press
"...these well-argued essays represent the first sustained and systematic attempt to provide a comprehensive and integrated analysis of all elements of American political life during the late colonial period...the author has once again put all students concerned with colonial America heavily in his intellectual debt."
Jack P. Greene, The New York Historical Society Quarterly
"...Mr. Bailyn brings to his effort a splendid gift for pertinent curiosity. What he has found, and what patterns he has made of his findings, light our way through his longitudes and latitudes of scholarly precision."
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The Penguin History of the United States of Americaby Hugh BroganISBN 014025255X (0-14-025255-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Penguin History of the United States of America'Book summary:Hugh Brogan's The Penguin History of the USA has established itself as the definitive and most readable work available on America. It brilliantly captures the dynamic events and personalities that shaped the nation's triumphant progress to global superpower: in Brogan's words, "for good and evil, a power and civilization that surpasses . . . all empires of the past." In this new edition, Brogan makes numerous revisions to earlier chapters, taking into account the most up-to-date research into American history.[via]More editions of The Penguin History of the United States of America:
- The Penguin History of the United States of America: ISBN 0140134603 (0-14-013460-3)
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- The Penguin History of the United States of America: ISBN 0140134603 (0-14-013460-3)
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A Pocket History of the United Statesby Allan Nevins, Henry Steele Commager, Jeffrey Brandon MorrisISBN 067163268X (0-671-63268-X)
Softcover, Washington Square Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Pocket History of the United States'Book summary:A concise history of the United States chronicles American history and culture from the earliest settlements to the present, discussing foreign and domestic politics and more. Reprint. [via]
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Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Departmentby Dean AchesonISBN 0393304124 (0-393-30412-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department'Book summary:Dean Acheson joined the U.S. Department of State in 1941 as an assistant secretary for economic affairs. Shortly after the end of World War II, he attempted to resign, but was persuaded to come back as under secretary of state; Harry Truman eventually rewarded Acheson's loyalty by picking him to run the State Department during his second term (1949 to 1953).
"The period covered in this book was one of great obscurity to those who lived through it," Acheson wrote at the beginning of his memoirs, first published in 1969. "The period was marked by the disappearance of world powers and empires ... and from this wreckage emerged a multiplicity of states, most of them new, all of them largely underdeveloped politically and economically. Overshadowing all loomed two dangers to all--the Soviet Union's new-found power and expansive imperialism, and the development of nuclear weapons." Present at the Creation is a densely detailed account of Acheson's diplomatic career, delineated in intricately eloquent prose. Going over the origins of the cold war--the drawing of lines among the superpowers in Europe, the conflict in Korea--Acheson discusses how he and his colleagues came to realize "that the whole world structure and order that we had inherited from the nineteenth century was gone," and that the old methods of foreign policy would no longer apply. Among the accolades Acheson garnered for his candid self-assessment was the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for history. [via]
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President Kennedy: Profile of Powerby Richard ReevesISBN 0671892894 (0-671-89289-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'President Kennedy: Profile of Power'Book summary:President Kennedy is the compelling, dramatic history of JFK's thousand days in office. It illuminates the presidential center of power by providing an indepth look at the day-by-day decisions and dilemmas of the thirty-fifth president as he faced everything from the threat of nuclear war abroad to racial unrest at home. [via]
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Redcoats and Rebels: The American Revolution Through British Eyesby Christopher HibbertISBN 0393322939 (0-393-32293-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Redcoats and Rebels: The American Revolution Through British Eyes'Book summary:Historian Hibbert corrects many fallacies that exist in the history of the American Revolution and portrays the realities of a war in which the British rarely lost a battle until the French helped the rebels defeat Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown in 1781. Captures the flavor, energy, and language of the period with colorful anecdotes and quotations. 16 pages of illustrations and maps. [via]
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Rights of Manby Thomas PaineISBN 0140390154 (0-14-039015-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rights of Man'Book summary:In this book, Paine says that revolution is acceptable when the government does not respect the natural rights and interests of its people. Man "deposits this right in the common stock of society, and takes the arm of society, of which he is a part, in preference and in addition to his own. Society grants him nothing. Every man is a proprietor in society, and draws on the capital as a matter of right." [via]
The Rise of Industrial America: A People's History of the Post-Reconstruction Eraby Page SmithISBN 0140122621 (0-14-012262-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rise of Industrial America: A People's History of the Post-Reconstruction Era'Book summary:From Wikipedia: Steel is often cited as the first of several new areas for industrial mass-production, which are said to characterise a "Second Industrial Revolution", beginning around 1850, although a method for mass manufacture of steel was not invented until the 1860s, when Sir Henry Bessemer invented a new furnace which could convert wrought iron into steel in large quantities. However, it only became widely available in the 1870s after the process was modified to produce more uniform quality. ~~~ This second Industrial Revolution gradually grew to include the chemical industries, petroleum refining and distribution, electrical industries, and, in the 20th century, the automotive industries, and was marked by a transition of technological leadership from Britain to the United States and Germany. ~~~ The introduction of hydroelectric power generation in the Alps enabled the rapid industrialisation of coal-deprived northern Italy, beginning in the 1890s. The increasing availability of economical petroleum products also reduced the importance of coal and further widened the potential for industrialisation. ~~~ By the 1890s, industrialisation in these areas had created the first giant industrial corporations with burgeoning global interests, as companies like U.S. Steel, General Electric, Standard Oil and Bayer AG joined the railroad companies on the world's stock markets. [via]
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The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journeyby CANDICE MILLARDISBN 0385507968 (0-385-50796-8)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey'Book summary:At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The River of Doubt is the true story of Theodore Roosevelts harrowing exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth.
The River of Doubtit is a black, uncharted tributary of the Amazon that snakes through one of the most treacherous jungles in the world. Indians armed with poison-tipped arrows haunt its shadows; piranhas glide through its waters; boulder-strewn rapids turn the river into a roiling cauldron.
After his humiliating election defeat in 1912, Roosevelt set his sights on the most punishing physical challenge he could find, the first descent of an unmapped, rapids-choked tributary of the Amazon. Together with his son Kermit and Brazils most famous explorer, Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon, Roosevelt accomplished a feat so great that many at the time refused to believe it. In the process, he changed the map of the western hemisphere forever.
Along the way, Roosevelt and his men faced an unbelievable series of hardships, losing their canoes and supplies to punishing whitewater rapids, and enduring starvation, Indian attack, disease, drowning, and a murder within their own ranks. Three men died, and Roosevelt was brought to the brink of suicide. The River of Doubt brings alive these extraordinary events in a powerful nonfiction narrative thriller that happens to feature one of the most famous Americans who ever lived.
From the soaring beauty of the Amazon rain forest to the darkest night of Theodore Roosevelts life, here is Candice Millards dazzling debut. [via]More editions of The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey:
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Thinking: Psychological Perspectives on Reasoning, Judgment, and Decision Makingby David Hardman, Laura MacchiISBN 0471494577 (0-471-49457-7)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Thinking: Psychological Perspectives on Reasoning, Judgment, and Decision Making'Book summary:The first international handbook to bring the areas of reasoning, judgment and decision making together, now in paperback format.
The book brings three of the important topics of thinking together - reasoning, judgment and decision making ??? and discusses key issues in each area. The studies described range from those that are purely laboratory based to those that involve experts making real world judgments, in areas such as medical and legal decision making and political and economic forecasting.
- International collection of original chapters by leading researchers in the field
- Several chapters contain important new theoretical perspectives
- Paperback version is more affordable for individual researchers
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Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisisby Robert F. Kennedy, Arthur Meier SchlesingerISBN 0393318346 (0-393-31834-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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This Hallowed Groundby Bruce CattonISBN 067163884X (0-671-63884-X)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'This Hallowed Ground'Book summary:The Wordsworth Military Library covers the breadth of military history, including studies of individual leaders and accounts of major campaigns and great conflicts. [via]
The War That Made America: A Short History of the French And Indian Warby Fred Anderson, R. Scott StephensonISBN 0143038044 (0-14-303804-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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What Ifs? Of American History: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Beenby Antony Beevor, Robert CowleyISBN 0425198189 (0-425-19818-9)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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What Ifs? of American History: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Beenby Robert Cowley, Antony Beevor, Robert Dallek, John Lukacs, Jay Winik, Calebert CarrISBN 0399150919 (0-399-15091-9)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What Ifs? of American History: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been'Book summary:An all-American collection of essays on the pivotal moments in our nation's history by award-winning historians, the third in the bestselling series.
The "what if" concept is one of the most original and engaging on the current history bookshelf. The essays are chock-full of provocative ideas; they are as accessible to the general reader as they are to the scholar; and they are the perfect gift for the dedicated history buff on anyone's list.
In this new collection of never-before-published essays, our brightest historians speculate about some of America's more intriguing crossroads. Some irresistible highlights include: Caleb Carr (The Alienist) on America had there been no Revolution; Tom Wicker on the first time a vice president, John Tyler, succeeded a deceased president and its surprising ramifications; Jay Winik (April 1865) on the havoc that might have resulted if Booth had succeeded in his plan to assassinate Johnson and Seward as well as Lincoln; Antony Beevor (The Fall of Berlin 1945) on the possibility of Eisenhower's capture of Berlin before the Soviets' arrival there in 1945; and Robert Dallek (the upcoming An Unfinished Life about John F. Kennedy) on one of the most agonizing American "what if"s of all: what might have happened if JFK hadn't been assassinated. [via]More editions of What Ifs? of American History: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been:
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What's the Big Idea, Ben Franklin?by Jean Fritz, Margot TomesISBN 039923487X (0-399-23487-X)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What's the Big Idea, Ben Franklin?'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A brief biography of the 18th-century printer, inventor, and statesman who played an influential role in the early history of the United States. [via]
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