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The 103rd Ballot: Democrats and the Disaster in Madison Square Gardenby Robert K. MurrayISBN 0060131241 (0-06-013124-1)
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Abandon Ship!: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis, the Navy's Greatest Sea Disasterby Richard F. Newcomb, Peter MaasISBN 006018471X (0-06-018471-X)
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After the Ball: Gilded Age Secrets, Boardroom Betrayals, and the Party That Ignited the Great Wall Street Scandal of 1905by Patricia BeardISBN 0060199393 (0-06-019939-3)
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After the Dancing Daysby Margaret I. RostkowskiISBN 006025078X (0-06-025078-X)
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American Education: The Metropolitan Experience, 1876-1980by Lawrence Arthur CreminISBN 0060158042 (0-06-015804-2)
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An American Postal Portrait: A Photographic Legacyby William J. Henderson, James L. BrunsISBN 0060199008 (0-06-019900-8)
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American Victorian: A Style and Source Bookby Lawrence Grow, Dina Von ZweckISBN 0060152095 (0-06-015209-5)
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Battle Flagby Bernard CornwellISBN 0060176342 (0-06-017634-2)
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The Beechers: An American Family in the Nineteenth Centuryby Milton Allan RugoffISBN 0060148594 (0-06-014859-4)
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The Bell Jarby Sylvia PlathISBN 0060174900 (0-06-017490-0)
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Black Hills, White Justice: The Sioux Nation Versus the United States, 1775 to the Presentby Edward LazarusISBN 006016557X (0-06-016557-X)
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The Bloody Groundby Bernard CornwellISBN 0060175001 (0-06-017500-1)
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Caleb's Storyby Patricia MacLachlanISBN 0060236051 (0-06-023605-1)
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Caleb's Story continues the saga begun by the Newbery Medal-winning Sarah, Plain And Tall and its sequel, Skylark, spinning a tale of love, forgiveness, and the ties that bind a family together. [via]
In Anna's journal the words walk across the page like bird prints in the mud. But it is hard for me. It is hard for me to find things to write about."It's your job now," Anna says as she hands Caleb her journals, asking him to continue writing the family story. But Sarah, Jacob, Anna, Caleb, and their new little sister, Cassie, have already formed a family, and Caleb fears there will be nothing left to write about. But that is before Cassie discovers a mysterious old man in the barn and everything changes. Everyone is excited about the arrival of a new family member -- except for Jacob, who holds a bitter grudge. Only the special love of Caleb, and the gift he offers, can help to mend the pain of the past. 
Clara and the Bookwagonby Nancy Smiler Levinson, Carolyn CrollISBN 0060238372 (0-06-023837-2)
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Confederate Goliath: The Battle of Fort Fisherby Rod GraggISBN 0060160969 (0-06-016096-9)
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The Constitution in Crisis Times 1918-1969by Paul L. MurphyISBN 0060131187 (0-06-013118-7)
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Copperheadby Bernard CornwellISBN 0060177667 (0-06-017766-7)
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Crossingsby Walt HarringtonISBN 0060165588 (0-06-016558-8)
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Delivered from Evil: The Saga of World War IIby Robert LeckieISBN 0060158123 (0-06-015812-3)
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Divided Waters: The Naval History of the Civil Warby Ivan MusicantISBN 0060164824 (0-06-016482-4)
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Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhoodby Rebecca WellsISBN 0060173289 (0-06-017328-9)
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Dragon's Gateby Laurence YepISBN 0060229713 (0-06-022971-3)
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Dragonwingsby Laurence YepISBN 0060267380 (0-06-026738-0)
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A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in Americaby Shelby SteeleISBN 0060168234 (0-06-016823-4)
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The Drinking Gourdby F. N. Monjo, Fred BrennerISBN 0060243295 (0-06-024329-5)
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Duty First: West Point and the Making of American Leadersby Ed RuggeroISBN 0060193174 (0-06-019317-4)
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The Encyclopedia of Bad Tasteby Michael Stern, Jane SternISBN 0060164700 (0-06-016470-0)
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Equal Justice Under Law: Constitutional Development, 1835-1875by William M. Wiecek, Harold Melvin HymanISBN 006014937X (0-06-014937-X)
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Escape from Slaveryby Doreen Rappaport, Charles LillyISBN 006021631X (0-06-021631-X)
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The Essential Lewis and Clarkby Landon Y. JonesISBN 0060196009 (0-06-019600-9)
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The Expansion of Everyday Life, 1860-1876by Daniel E. SutherlandISBN 0060160233 (0-06-016023-3)
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The Far West and the Great Plains in Transition, 1859-1900by Rodman W. PaulISBN 0060158360 (0-06-015836-0)
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A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Rooseveltby Geoffrey C. WardISBN 0060160667 (0-06-016066-7)
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From Sea to Shining Sea: From the War of 1812 to the Mexican War, the Saga of America's Expansionby Robert LeckieISBN 0060168021 (0-06-016802-1)
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George the Drummer Boyby Don Bolognese, Nathaniel BenchleyISBN 0060205016 (0-06-020501-6)
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The Guns of Cedar Creekby Thomas A. LewisISBN 0060159413 (0-06-015941-3)
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In Search of History: A Personal Adventureby Theodore Harold WhiteISBN 0060145994 (0-06-014599-4)
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Indian in Americaby Wilcomb E. WashburnISBN 006014534X (0-06-014534-X)
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James Madison: A Biography in His Own Wordsby James Madison, Merrill D. PetersonISBN 0060133325 (0-06-013332-5)
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John Adams: A Biography in His Own Wordsby John Adams, James Bishop PeabodyISBN 0060133082 (0-06-013308-2)
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John Jay, the Making of a Revolutionaryby John JayISBN 0060130806 (0-06-013080-6)
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Knight's Crossby David FraserISBN 0060182229 (0-06-018222-9)
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La Storia: Five Centuries of the Italian American Experienceby Jerre Mangione, Ben MorrealeISBN 0060167785 (0-06-016778-5)
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The Last Face You'll Ever See: The Private Life of the American Death Penaltyby Ivan SolotaroffISBN 006017448X (0-06-017448-X)
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Solotaroff creates an intimate picture of these men's lives while presenting an unflinching account of execution. His purpose is not to argue for or against the death penalty, but rather to question the real motive behind it: do Americans pursue the death penalty for deterrence or punishment, to rid a society of a blight, or is it "something altogether different--an expression of an irrational urge far more subterranean than the will to justice"? This is a finely written and humane examination of a rare breed of people and of an act clouded by a strange brew of sensationalism and obscurity. Solotaroff has grappled with the hardest questions--of vengeance and responsibility--and though he doesn't pretend to have found the answers, what he does reveal is thought-provoking and indelibly unsettling. --Lesley Reed [via]
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Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Biographyby William T. AndersonISBN 0060201134 (0-06-020113-4)
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The Lincoln-Douglas Debates: The First Complete, Unexpurgated Textby Harold Holzer, Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold DouglasISBN 0060168102 (0-06-016810-2)
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Little Farm in the Ozarksby Roger Lea MacBride, David GilleeceISBN 0060242450 (0-06-024245-0)
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Little House by Boston Bayby Melissa Wiley, Dan AndreasenISBN 006027011X (0-06-027011-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little House by Boston Bay'Book summary:It's 1814 and five-year-old Charlotte Tucker lives with her family in the town of Roxbury, near the bustling city of Boston.Life in the Tucker's little house has always been pleasant and merry, but Charlotte's family worries more and more about the war that's been going on since 1812.Now the British have gone and blockaded Boston harbor, and that means no molasses for supper.Charlotte is just beginning to realize that events happening far away can change things at her very own dinner table.What will the rest of the year bring for Charlotte and the Tucker family?The Little House saga continues!
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Saturday night had a cozy, comfortable feeling. A Saturday supper meant thick slices of brown bread on the plates beside the baked beans. It meant coffee for Mama and Papa instead of tea. And it meant three things in the middle of the dining-room table--the three members of what Charlotte privately thought of as "the Saturday family." There was the mother, a tall, delicately curved cruet of cider vinegar; the father, a squat redware molasses jug with a jaunty handle and a friendly chip on the rim; and between them, cradled in a glass dish, the butter baby.
Charlotte had never told anyone about the Saturday family--it was nice to have a secret all her own. Besides, her brothers would tease her about it. Twelve-year-old Lewis would tease because he was a teasing kind of person, and Tom, who was seven, would tease because he did everything Lewis did. Lydia never teased, but she would either be not at all interested in the secret, or much too interested, and she would take over the game and change it. Charlotte did not want it to be changed. Like Saturday night itself, the Saturday family was perfect just as it was.
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Little Town at the Crossroadsby Maria D. Wilkes, Dan AndreasenISBN 0060269952 (0-06-026995-2)
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The Livingby Annie DillardISBN 0060168706 (0-06-016870-6)
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Living Dangerouslyby Doreen RappaportISBN 0060251085 (0-06-025108-5)
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Loss of Eden: A Biography of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindberghby Joyce MiltonISBN 0060165030 (0-06-016503-0)
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May-Day: Eisenhower, Khrushchev, and the U-2 Affairby Michael R. BeschlossISBN 0060155655 (0-06-015565-5)
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Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Eightiesby Paul JohnsonISBN 0060151595 (0-06-015159-5)
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My Danielby Pam ConradISBN 0060213140 (0-06-021314-0)
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1989 Best Books for Young Adults (ALA) [via]
1989 Children's Editors' Choices (BL)
1990 Teachers' Choices (IRA)
1989 Notable Children's Trade Books in Social Studies (NCSS/CBC)
1989 Silver Spur Award, Best Juvenile Fiction (Western Writers of America)
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North America from Earliest Discovery to First Settlements: The Norse Voyages to 1612by David Beers QuinnISBN 0060134585 (0-06-013458-5)
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Now Is Your Time!by Walter Dean MyersISBN 0060243716 (0-06-024371-6)
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On Tide Mill Laneby Melissa Wiley, Dan AndreasenISBN 0060270136 (0-06-027013-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On Tide Mill Lane'Book summary:The Little House books have captivated millions of readers with their story of Laura Ingalls, a little pioneer girl growing up on the American frontier. Now travel back two generations before Laura's and read the story of Charlotte Tucker, the little eastern girl who would grow up to move west to the frontier and who would become Laura Ingalls Wilder's grandmother.
Winter is coming to Roxbury, and Charlotte's days are filled with cornhusking and candle dipping and helping Mama- mind baby Mary. But the war is still going on, and Charlotte worries about Will, Papa's striker from the blacksmith shop, who is marching north with the militia. Then one day Charlotte hears bells ringing all the way from Boston, and that night every building in the town common is lit up with candles. Could it be that peace has finally come?
On tide Mill Lane is the second book in The Charlotte Years, an ongoing series about another spirited girl from America's most beloved pioneer family. [via]
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Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Classby Lawrence Otis GrahamISBN 0060183527 (0-06-018352-7)
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This is the world of the black upper classan exclusive, mostly hidden group that lives awkwardly between white America and mainstream black America.
Our Kind of People is the first book written about the insular world of the black upper class by a member of this hard-to-penetrate group. A conservative network of families dating back to the first black millionaires of the 1880s, the black elite has developed its own rules for membership and for maintaining a place in a world that is unaware of its vast contributions.
Through six years of interviews with more than three hundred prominent families and individuals, journalist and commentator Lawrence Otis Graham weaves together the revealing stories and fascinating experiences of upper-class blacks who grew up with privilege and power. Best known for his provocative New York magazine exposé of elite golf clubs, when he left his law firm and went undercover as a busboy at an all-white Connecticut country club, Graham now turns his attention to the black elite.
Sometimes gossipy and always poignant, Graham visits and profiles upper-class families and institutions in New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Detroit, Nashville, Memphis, Los Angeles, and New Orleansalways revealing who passes the "brown paper bag and ruler test" and who doesn't. With photographs and stories, the author takes us to the mansions they built in the 1880s, as well as to black-tie debutante cotillions and dinners hosted by the "best" families and social groups.
He visits families that trace their lineage to prominent whites, profiles major politicians, and interviews guests who attended a famous $60,000 wedding held in 1923 by New York's wealthiest black family. He takes us on a limousine ride with the richest black man in America and introduces us to socialites who are adept at screening celebrities, Baptists, and "new money" blacks out of their circles. Graham reveals the history of the black summer camps and boarding schools that opened in the 1920s, and the black insurance firms and banks that were founded in the 1930s. Our Kind of People even takes us into the Wall Street offices and Fifth Avenue apartments of today's millionaire black bankers and entrepreneur, who make up the new wave of elite African Americans.
Weaving together these stories with his own first-person narrativeone that tells of his childhood experiences in black elite social clubs and of wealthy family friends who "passed" for white in order to gain access to better jobsGraham reveals a group that has been simultaneously heroic, snobbish, generous, and ambitious.
Both poignant and inspirational, Our Kind of People gives readers a firsthand look into a very private community that has played a major role in American history. [via]
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A People's Contest: The Union and Civil War, 1861-1865by Phillip S. PaludanISBN 0060159030 (0-06-015903-0)
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Pioneersby Martin W. SandlerISBN 0060230231 (0-06-023023-1)
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Prairie Visionsby Pam ConradISBN 0060213736 (0-06-021373-6)
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Prime Green: Remembering the Sixtiesby Robert StoneISBN 0060198168 (0-06-019816-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties'Book summary:From the New York City of Kline and De Kooning to the jazz era of New Orleans's French Quarter, to Ken Kesey's psychedelic California, Prime Green explores the 1960s in all its weird, innocent, turbulent, and fascinating glory. Building on personal vignettes from Robert Stone's travels across America, the legendary novelist offers not only a riveting and powerful memoir but also an unforgettable inside perspective on a unique moment in American history.
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Radical Visions and American Dreams: Culture and Social Thought in the Depression Yearsby Richard H. PellsISBN 0060133317 (0-06-013331-7)
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Reader's Encyclopedia of the American Westby Howard R. LamarISBN 0060157267 (0-06-015726-7)
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Rebelby Bernard CornwellISBN 0060177136 (0-06-017713-6)
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Reconstructionby Allen W. TreleaseISBN 0060261226 (0-06-026122-6)
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The Revolutionary Age of Andrew Jacksonby Robert Vincent ReminiISBN 0060248564 (0-06-024856-4)
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Sacco & Vanzetti: The Case Resolvedby Francis RussellISBN 0060155248 (0-06-015524-8)
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Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacyby Jane LeavyISBN 0060195339 (0-06-019533-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy'Book summary:In an era when too many heroes have been toppled from too many pedestals, Sandy Koufax stands apart and alone, a legend who declined his own celebrity. As a pitcher, he was sublime, the ace of baseball lore. As a human being, he aspired to be the one thing his talent and his fame wouldn't allow: a regular guy. A Brooklyn kid, he was the product of the sedate and modest fifties who came to define and dominate baseball in the sixties. In Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy, former award-winning Washington Post sportswriter Jane Leavy delivers an uncommon baseball book, vividly re-creating the Koufax era, when presidents were believed and pitchers aspired to go the distance.
He was only a teenager when Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley proclaimed him "the Great Jewish Hope" of the franchise. But it wasn't until long after the team had abandoned Brooklyn that the man became the myth. Old-fashioned in his willingness to play when he was injured and in his acute sense of responsibility to his team, Koutax answered to an authority higher than manager Walter Alston. When he refused to pitch the opening game of the 1965 World Series because it fell on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, he inadvertently made himself a religious icon and an irrevocably public figure. A year later, he was gone -- done with baseball at age thirty. No other sports hero had retired so young, so well, or so completely.
Despite Sandy Koufax's best efforts to protect his privacy, his legend has grown larger ever since. Part biography, part cultural history, Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy gets as close to that legend as he will allow. Through meticulous reporting and interviews with five hundred of his friends, teammates, and opponents, Leavy penetrates the mythology to discover a man more than worthy of myth.
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The Senator And the Socialite: The True Story of America's First Black Dynastyby Lawrence Otis GrahamISBN 0060184124 (0-06-018412-4)
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Sherman: A Soldier's Lifeby Lee B. KennettISBN 0060174951 (0-06-017495-1)
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Now, in Sherman, Lee Kennett offers a brilliant new interpretation of the general's life and career, one that embraces his erratic, contradictory nature. Here we see the making of a true soldier, beginning with a colorful view of Sherman's rich family tradition, his formative years at West Point, and the critical period leading up to the Civil War, during which Sherman served in the small frustrated peacetime army and saw service in the South and California, and in the Mexican War Trying to advance himself, Sherman resigned from the army and he soon began to distinguish hiniself as a general known for his tenacity, vision, and mercurial temper. Throughout the spirited Battles of Bull Run and Shiloh, the siege of Vicksburg, and ultimately the famous march to the sea through Georgia, no one displayed the same intensity as did Sherman.
From the heights of success to the depths of his own depression, Sherman managed to forge on after the war with barely a moment of slowing down. Born to fight, he was also born to lead and to provoke, traits he showed by serving as commanding general of the army, cutting a wide swath through the western frontier, and finally writing his classic -- and highly controversial -- memoirs. Eventually Sherman would die famous, well-to-do, and revered -- but also deeply misunderstood.
By drawing on previously unexploited materials and maintaining a sharp, lively narrative, Lee Kennett presents a rich, authoritative portrait of Sherman, the man and the soldier, who emerges from this work more human and more fascinating than ever before. [via]
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Skylarkby Patricia MacLachlanISBN 0060233281 (0-06-023328-1)
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Small Wolfby Nathaniel Benchley, Joan SandinISBN 0060204923 (0-06-020492-3)
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Snowshoe Thompsonby Nancy Smiler Levinson, Joan SandinISBN 0060238011 (0-06-023801-1)
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Sounderby William Armstrong, James BarkleyISBN 0060201436 (0-06-020143-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sounder'Book summary:Sounder is no beauty. But as a coon dog, this loyal mongrel with his cavernous bark is unmatched. When the African American sharecropper who has raised Sounder from a pup is hauled off to jail for stealing a hog, his family must suffer their humiliation and crushing loss with no recourse. To make matters worse, in the fracas, Sounder is shot and disappears. The eventual return of a tattered and emaciated Sounder doesn't change the fact that the sharecropper's oldest son is forced to take on man's work to help support the family. His transition to adulthood is paved by the rocks and taunts hurled at him by convicts and guards as he searches for his father. But along this rough road he ultimately finds salvation as well.
William H. Armstrong's Newbery Award-winning novel quickly became a classic as a moving portrayal of resilience and hope in the face of profound human tragedy. Decades later, the bittersweet story still rings true, as strong-spirited individuals continue to battle the evil of prejudice. (Ages 9 to 12) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Triumph in Paris: The Exploits of Benjamin Franklinby David SchoenbrunISBN 0060138548 (0-06-013854-8)
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Trumanby Roy JenkinsISBN 0060155809 (0-06-015580-9)
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Truth at Any Cost : Ken Starr and the Unmaking of Bill Clintonby Susan Schmidt, Michael WeisskopfISBN 0060194855 (0-06-019485-5)
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Wagon Wheelsby Barbara Brenner, Don BologneseISBN 0060206683 (0-06-020668-3)
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Walk the World's Rimby Betty BakerISBN 0060203811 (0-06-020381-1)
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A Way Through the Wilderness: The Natchez Trace and the Civilization of the Southern Frontierby William C. DavisISBN 0060169214 (0-06-016921-4)
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The Way to the Western Sea: Lewis and Clark Across the Continentby David LavenderISBN 0060159820 (0-06-015982-0)
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Without Reservation: The Making of America's Most Powerful Indian Tribe and Foxwoods, the World's Largest Casinoby Jeff BenedictISBN 0060193670 (0-06-019367-0)
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The World of Tomorrow: The 1939 New York World's Fairby Larry Zim, Herbert Rolfes, Mel LernerISBN 0060159235 (0-06-015923-5)
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The Year of the Barricades : A Journey Through 1968by David CauteISBN 0060158700 (0-06-015870-0)
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