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102 Minutes: The Untold Story of The Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towersby Kevin FlynnISBN 0805080325 (0-8050-8032-5)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: '102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers'Book summary:In 102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers, New York Times writers Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn vividly recreate the 102-minute span between the moment Flight 11 hit the first Twin Tower on the morning of September 11, 2001, and the moment the second tower collapsed, all from the perspective of those inside the buildings--the 12,000 who escaped, and the 2,749 who did not. It's becoming easier, years later, to forget the profound, visceral responses the Trade Center attacks evoked in the days and weeks following September 11. Using hundreds of interviews, countless transcripts of radio and phone communications, and exhaustive research, Dwyer and Flynn bring that flood of responses back--from heartbreak to bewilderment to fury. The randomness of death and survival is heartbreaking. One man, in the second tower, survived because he bolted from his desk the moment he heard the first plane hit; another, who stayed at his desk on the 97th floor, called his wife in his final moments to tell her to cancel a surprise trip he had planned. In many cases, the deaths of those who survived the initial attacks but were killed by the collapse of the towers were tragically avoidable. Building code exemptions, communication breakdowns between firefighters and police, and policies put in place by building management to keep everyone inside the towers in emergencies led, the authors argue, to the deaths of hundreds who might otherwise have survived. September 11 is by now both familiar and nearly mythological. Dwyer and Flynn's accomplishment is recounting that day's events in a style that is stirring, thorough, and refreshingly understated. --Erica C. Barnett [via]
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark TwainISBN 0743487575 (0-7434-8757-5)
Softcover, Pocket Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'Book summary:"A GOLD MINE FOR SCHOLARS." *Deidre Carmody The New York Times Now, in this extraordinary literary uncovering, the original first half of Mark Twain's American masterpiece is available for the first time ever to a general readership. Lost for more than a century, the passages reinstated in this edition reveal a novel even more controversial than the version Twain published in 1885 and provide an invaluable insight into his creative process. A breakthrough of unparalleled impact, this comprehensive edition of an American classic is the final rebuttal in the tireless debate of "what Twain really meant." "[A] MASTERLY RESTORATION . . . I wish this new version of Huckleberry Finn would be distributed to all the nation's classrooms as the basic text and lead to a badly needed reconsideration of the questions it raises." *James A. McPherson Chicago Tribune "THOUGHTFULLY RESPECTS TWAIN'S INTENTIONS." *Gary Lee Stonum The Cleveland Plain Dealer With a Foreword and Addendum by Victor Doyno [via]
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- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0804115710 (0-8041-1571-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0701112565 (0-7011-1256-5)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0766607208 (0-7666-0720-8)
Hardcover, Modern Pub - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 079109426X (0-7910-9426-X)
Hardcover, Facts on File - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0804900043 (0-8049-0004-3)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0762405414 (0-7624-0541-4)
Hardcover, Courage Books - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0743487575 (0-7434-8757-5)
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The American Presidencyby Clinton Lawrence RossiterISBN 0801835453 (0-8018-3545-3)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The American Presidency'Book summary:Political Science. "The American Presidency is quite possibly the best general on the Presidency that has been written. It is certainly the most readable." Robert K. Carr. New Your Times book Review [via]
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American Reformers 1815-1860by Ronald G. WaltersISBN 0809001306 (0-8090-0130-6)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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American Reformers 1815-1860by Eric Foner, Ronald G. WaltersISBN 0809015889 (0-8090-1588-9)
Softcover, Hill & Wang Pub
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Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Centuryby John F. KassonISBN 0809001330 (0-8090-0133-0)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Andrew Jackson: The Course of American Democracy, 1833-1845by Robert V. ReminiISBN 0801859131 (0-8018-5913-1)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Andrew Jackson: The Course of American Empire, 1767-1821by Robert V. ReminiISBN 0801859115 (0-8018-5911-5)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Andrew Jackson: The Course of American Freedom, 1822-1832by Robert V. ReminiISBN 0801859123 (0-8018-5912-3)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraqby George PackerISBN 078628451X (0-7862-8451-X)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq'Book summary:As the death toll mounts in the Iraq War, Americans are agonizing over how the mess started and what to do now. George Packer, a staff writer at The New Yorker, joins the debate with his thoughtful book The Assassins' Gate. Packer describes himself as an ambivalent pro-war liberal "who supported a war [in Iraq] by about the same margin that the voting public had supported Al Gore." He never believed the argument that Iraq should be invaded because of weapons of mass destruction. Instead, he saw the war as a way to get rid of Saddam Hussein and build democracy in Iraq, in the vein of the U.S. interventions in Haiti and Bosnia.
How did such lofty aims get so derailed? How did the U.S. get stuck in a quagmire in the Middle East? Packer traces the roots of the war back to a historic shift in U.S. policy that President Bush made immediately after 9/11. No longer would the U.S. be hamstrung by multilateralism or working through the UN. It would act unilaterally around the world--forging temporary coalitions with other nations where suitable--and defend its status as the sole superpower. But when it came to Iraq, even Bush administration officials were deeply divided. Packer takes readers inside the vicious bureaucratic warfare between the Pentagon and State Department that turned U.S. policy on Iraq into an incoherent mess. We see the consequences in the second half of The Assassins' Gate, which takes the reader to Iraq after the bombs have stopped dropping. Packer writes vividly about how the country deteriorated into chaos, with U.S. authorities in Iraq operating in crisis mode. The book fails to capture much of the debate about the war among Iraqis themselves--instead relying mostly on the views of one prominent Iraqi exile--but it is an insightful contribution to the debate about the decisions--and blunders--behind the war. --Alex Roslin [via]
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Bad Landby Jonathan RabanISBN 0786214287 (0-7862-1428-7)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Battle of the Wilderness May 5-6, 1864by Gordon C. RheaISBN 0807130214 (0-8071-3021-4)
Softcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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Belovedby Toni MorrisonISBN 0701130601 (0-7011-3060-1)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beloved'Book summary:Toni Morrison gently reads her own Pulitzer Prize-winning work in the unabridged version of this riveting tale of ex-slave Sethe and the beloved ghost that haunts her. While Morrison makes occasional odd pauses in her reading, what is lost in smoothness is more than made up for in quiet intensity as the author reads words obviously deeply felt. Her intimate knowledge of the characters and their motivations lends this reading an authority that helps the listener sort out the breaks in time and dialogue in this complex story of a woman coming to terms with her enslaved past and the loss of her husband and baby daughter. (Running time: 12 hours, eight cassettes) --Kimberly Heinrichs [via]
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Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionageby Christopher Drew, Sherry Sontag, Annette Lawrence DrewISBN 0786218762 (0-7862-1876-2)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage'Book summary:Little is known--and less has been published--about American submarine espionage during the Cold War. These submerged sentinels silently monitored the Soviet Union's harbors, shadowed its subs, watched its missile tests, eavesdropped on its conversations, and even retrieved top-secret debris from the bottom of the sea. In an engaging mix of first-rate journalism and historical narrative, Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew, and Annette Lawrence Drew describe what went on.
"Most of the stories in Blind Man's Bluff have never been told publicly," they write, "and none have ever been told in this level of detail." Among their revelations is the most complete accounting to date of the 1968 disappearance of the U.S.S. Scorpion; the story of how the Navy located a live hydrogen bomb lost by the Air Force; and a plot by the CIA and Howard Hughes to steal a Soviet sub. The most interesting chapter reveals how an American sub secretly tapped Soviet communications cables beneath the waves. Blind Man's Bluff is a compelling book about the courage, ingenuity, and patriotism of America's underwater spies. --John J. Miller [via]
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Born Fighting: How The Scots-Irish Shaped Americaby James WebbISBN 0767916891 (0-7679-1689-1)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Born Fighting: How The Scots-Irish Shaped America'Book summary:More than 27 million Americans today can trace their lineage to the Scots, whose bloodline was stained by centuries of continuous warfare along the border between England and Scotland, and later in the bitter settlements of Englands Ulster Plantation in Northern Ireland. Between 250,000 and 400,000 Scots-Irish migrated to America in the eighteenth century, traveling in groups of families and bringing with them not only long experience as rebels and outcasts but also unparalleled skills as frontiersmen and guerrilla fighters. Their cultural identity reflected acute individualism, dislike of aristocracy and a military tradition, and, over time, the Scots-Irish defined the attitudes and values of the military, of working class America, and even of the peculiarly populist form of American democracy itself.
Born Fighting is the first book to chronicle the full journey of this remarkable cultural group, and the profound, but unrecognized, role it has played in the shaping of America. Written with the storytelling verve that has earned his works such acclaim as captivating . . . unforgettable (the Wall Street Journal on Lost Soliders), Scots-Irishman James Webb, Vietnam combat veteran and former Naval Secretary, traces the history of his people, beginning nearly two thousand years ago at Hadrians Wall, when the nation of Scotland was formed north of the Wall through armed conflict in contrast to Englands formation to the south through commerce and trade. Webb recounts the Scots odysseytheir clashes with the English in Scotland and then in Ulster, their retreat from one war-ravaged land to another. Through engrossing chronicles of the challenges the Scots-Irish faced, Webb vividly portrays how they developed the qualities that helped settle the American frontier and define the American character.
Born Fighting shows that the Scots-Irish were 40 percent of the Revolutionary War army; they included the pioneers Daniel Boone, Lewis and Clark, Davy Crockett, and Sam Houston; they were the writers Edgar Allan Poe and Mark Twain; and they have given America numerous great military leaders, including Stonewall Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, Audie Murphy, and George S. Patton, as well as most of the soldiers of the Confederacy (only 5 percent of whom owned slaves, and who fought against what they viewed as an invading army). It illustrates how the Scots-Irish redefined American politics, creating the populist movement and giving the country a dozen presidents, including Andrew Jackson, Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton. And it explores how the Scots-Irish culture of isolation, hard luck, stubbornness, and mistrust of the nations elite formed and still dominates blue-collar America, the military services, the Bible Belt, and country music.
Both a distinguished work of cultural history and a human drama that speaks straight to the heart of contemporary America, Born Fighting reintroduces America to its most powerful, patriotic, and individualistic cultural groupone too often ignored or taken for granted. [via]More editions of Born Fighting: How The Scots-Irish Shaped America:
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Cold Mountainby Charles FrazierISBN 0802142842 (0-8021-4284-2)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cold Mountain'Book summary:The hero of Charles Frazier's beautifully written and deeply-imagined first novel is Inman, a disillusioned Confederate soldier who has failed to die as expected after being seriously wounded in battle during the last days of the Civil War. Rather than waiting to be redeployed to the front, the soul-sick Inman deserts, and embarks on a dangerous and lonely odyssey through the devastated South, heading home to North Carolina, and seeking only to be reunited with his beloved, Ada, who has herself been struggling to maintain the family farm she inherited. Cold Mountain is an unforgettable addition to the literature of one of the most important and transformational periods in American history. [via]
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Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919by Stephen PuleoISBN 0807050210 (0-8070-5021-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919'Book summary:Around noon on January 15, 1919, a group of firefighters was playing cards in Boston's North End when they heard a tremendous crash. It was like roaring surf, one of them said later. Like a runaway two-horse team smashing through a fence, said another. A third firefighter jumped up from his chair to look out a window-"Oh my God!" he shouted to the other men, "Run!"
A 50-foot-tall steel tank filled with 2.3 million gallons of molasses had just collapsed on Boston's waterfront, disgorging its contents as a 15-foot-high wave of molasses that at its outset traveled at 35 miles an hour. It demolished wooden homes, even the brick fire station. The number of dead wasn't known for days. It would be years before a landmark court battle determined who was responsible for the disaster. [via]More editions of Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919:
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The Dawn's Early Lightby Walter LordISBN 0801848644 (0-8018-4864-4)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dawn's Early Light'Book summary:Walter Lordauthor of such best-sellers as A Night to Remember and A Day of Infamybrings to life the remarkable events of what we now call The War of 1812including the burning of Washington and the attack on Baltimore's Fort McHenry that inspired the Francis Scott Key to write what would become our national anthem. Lord gives readers a dramatic account of how a new sense of national identity emerged from the smoky haze of what Francis Scott Key so lyrically called "the dawn's early light."
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Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harborby Robert B. StinnettISBN 0743201299 (0-7432-0129-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor'Book summary:It was not long after the first Japanese bombs fell on the American naval ships at Pearl Harbor that conspiracy theories began to circulate, charging that Franklin Roosevelt and his chief military advisors knew of the impending attack well in advance. Robert Stinnett, who served in the U.S. Navy with distinction during World War II, examines recently declassified American documents and concludes that, far more than merely knowing of the Japanese plan to bomb Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt deliberately steered Japan into war with America.
Stinnett's argument draws on both circumstantial evidence--the fact, for example, that in September 1940 Roosevelt signed into law a measure providing for a two-ocean navy that would number 100 aircraft carriers--and, more importantly, on American governmental documents that offer apparently incontrovertible proof that Roosevelt knowingly sacrificed American lives in order to enter the war on the side of England. Although obviously troubled by his discovery of a systematic plan of deception on the part of the American government, Stinnett does not take deep issue with its outcome. Roosevelt, he writes, faced powerful opposition from isolationist forces, and, against them, the Pearl Harbor attack was "something that had to be endured in order to stop a greater evil--the Nazi invaders in Europe who had begun the Holocaust and were poised to invade England." Sure to excite discussion, Stinnett's book offers what may be the final word on the terrible matter of Pearl Harbor. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Decision in the West: The Atlanta Campaign of 1864by Albert E. CastelISBN 070060748X (0-7006-0748-X)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Kansas
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Eleanor Rooseveltby Blanche Wiesen CookISBN 074754980X (0-7475-4980-X)
Hardcover, Bloomsbury Pub Ltd
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FDR's Folly : How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depressionby Jim PowellISBN 0761501657 (0-7615-0165-7)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'FDR's Folly : How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression'Book summary:Admirers of FDR credit his New Deal with restoring the American economy after the disastrous contraction of 192933. Truth to tellas Powell demonstrates without a shadow of a doubtthe New Deal hampered recovery from the contraction, prolonged and added to unemployment, and set the stage for ever more intrusive and costly government. Powells analysis is thoroughly documented, relying on an impressive variety of popular and academic literature both contemporary and historical.
Milton Friedman, Nobel Laureate, Hoover Institution
There is a critical and often forgotten difference between disaster and tragedy. Disasters happen to us all, no matter what we do. Tragedies are brought upon ourselves by hubris. The Depression of the 1930s would have been a brief disaster if it hadnt been for the national tragedy of the New Deal. Jim Powell has proven this.
P.J. ORourke, author of Parliament of Whores and Eat the Rich
The material laid out in this book desperately needs to be available to a much wider audience than the ranks of professional economists and economic historians, if policy confusion similar to the New Deal is to be avoided in the future.
James M. Buchanan, Nobel Laureate, George Mason University
I found Jim Powells book fascinating. I think he has written an important story, one that definitely needs telling.
Thomas Fleming, author of The New Dealers War
Jim Powell is one tough-minded historian, willing to let the chips fall where they may. Thats a rare quality these days, hence more valuable than ever. He lets the history do the talking.
David Landes, Professor of History Emeritus, Harvard University
Jim Powell draws together voluminous economic research on the effects of all of Roosevelts major policies. Along the way, Powell gives fascinating thumbnail sketches of the major players. The result is a devastating indictment, compellingly told. Those who think that government intervention helped get the U.S. economy out of the depression should read this book.
David R. Henderson, editor of The Fortune Encyclopedia of Economics and author of The Joy of Freedom
The Great Depression and the New Deal. For generations, the collective American consciousness has believed that the former ruined the country and the latter saved it. Endless praise has been heaped upon President Franklin Delano Roosevelt for masterfully reining in the Depressions destructive effects and propping up the
country on his New Deal platform. In fact, FDR has achieved mythical status in American history and is considered to be, along with Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln, one of the greatest presidents of all time. But would the Great Depression have been so catastrophic had the New Deal never been implemented?
In FDRs Folly, historian Jim Powell argues that it was in fact the New Deal itself, with its shortsighted programs, that deepened the Great Depression, swelled the federal government, and prevented the country from turning around quickly. Youll discover in alarming detail how FDRs federal programs hurt America more than helped it, with effects we still feel today, including:
" How Social Security actually increased unemployment
" How higher taxes undermined good businesses
" How new labor laws threw people out of work
" And much more
This groundbreaking book pulls back the shroud of awe and the cloak of time enveloping FDR to prove convincingly how flawed his economic policies actually were, despite his good intentions and the astounding intellect of his circle of advisers. In todays turbulent domestic and global environment, eerily similar to that of the 1930s, its more important than ever before to uncover and understand the truth of our history, lest we be doomed to repeat it. [via]More editions of FDR's Folly : How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression:
Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris, the Rake Who Wrote the Constitutionby Richard BrookhiserISBN 0743256026 (0-7432-5602-6)
Softcover, Free Pr
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Gettysburgby C. ClarkISBN 0809447576 (0-8094-4757-6)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Gettysburg: The Confederate High Tideby Champ ClarkISBN 0809447568 (0-8094-4756-8)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Great Rehearsal: The Story of the Making and Ratifying of the Constitution of the United Statesby Carl C. Van Doren, United StatesISBN 0809436183 (0-8094-3618-3)
Hardcover, Time-Life Books
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The Grimke Sisters from South Carolina: Pioneers for Women's Rights and Abolitionby Gerda LernerISBN 0807855669 (0-8078-5566-9)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century Americaby Richard SlotkinISBN 0806130318 (0-8061-3031-8)
Softcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America'Book summary:Gunfighter Nation concludes Richard Slotkin's three-volume study, which began in 1973 with the publication of Regeneration Through Violence, of the significance of the frontier in the American imagination. Looking primarily at pulp novels and films, Slotkin takes a painstakingly thorough look at the relationship between imagery of the West in industrial mass culture and U.S. foreign policy during the 20th century. Specifically, he looks at how the previous century's "frontier aristocrat" served as the model diplomat for America's agenda of economic imperialism from the Spanish American War to the "police action" in Vietnam.
As the U.S. gained international stature, the archetype of the frontier aristocrat articulated the goals and ideals of the American populace. But Slotkin shows how, as time progressed, the increasing irrelevance of the frontier myth on foreign soil foiled the prowess of the U.S. war machine. At the book's conclusion, in which images of the My Lai Massacre are juxtaposed against the final shootout of Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch, the contradiction between faith and experience becomes painfully evident. Gunfighter Nation delivers the satisfaction of a historian with the acquired wisdom to address directly the issues that inspired his lifelong work. --John M. Anderson [via]
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How We Got Here: The 70's, The Decade That Brought You Modern Life For Better Or Worseby David FrumISBN 0756772338 (0-7567-7233-8)
Hardcover, Diane Pub Co
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The Incorporation of America: Culture And Society in the Gilded Ageby Alan TrachtenbergISBN 0809058286 (0-8090-5828-6)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Ageby Eric Foner, Alan Trachtenberg, Alan TrachenburgISBN 0809001454 (0-8090-0145-4)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age'Book summary:Alan Trachtenberg presents a balanced analysis of the expansion of capitalist power in the last third of the nineteenth century and the cultural changes it brought in its wake. In America's westward expansion, labor unrest, newly powerful cities, and newly mechanized industries, the ideals and ideas by which Americans lived were reshaped, and American society became more structured, with an entrenched middle class and a powerful business elite. This is a brilliant, essential work on the origins of America's corporate culture and the formation of the American social fabric after the Civil War.[via]More editions of The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age:
The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660-1783by Alfred T. MahanISBN 0760754993 (0-7607-5499-3)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble Books
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The Jacksonian Promise: America 1815-1840by Daniel FellerISBN 0801851688 (0-8018-5168-8)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Jefferson's Demons : Portrait of a Restless Mindby Michael Knox BeranISBN 0743232798 (0-7432-3279-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jefferson's Demons : Portrait of a Restless Mind'Book summary:"I have often wondered for what good end the sensations of Grief could be intended."
-- Thomas JeffersonThomas Jefferson suffered during his life from periodic bouts of dejection and despair, shadowed intervals during which he was full of "gloomy forebodings" about what lay ahead.
Not long before he composed the Declaration of Independence, the young Jefferson lay for six weeks in idleness and ill health at Monticello, paralyzed by a mysterious "malady." Similar lapses were to recur during anxious periods in his life, often accompanied by violent headaches. In Jefferson's Demons, Michael Knox Beran illuminates an optimistic man's darker side -- Jefferson as we have rarely seen him before.
The worst of these moments came after his wife died in 1782. But two years later, after being dispatched to Europe, Jefferson recovered nerve and spirit in the salons of Paris, where he fell in love with a beautiful young artist, Maria Cosway. When their affair ended, Jefferson's health again broke down. He set out for the palms and temples of southern Europe, and though he did not know where the therapeutic journey would take him or where it would end, his encounter with the old civilizations of the Mediterranean was transformative. The Greeks and Romans taught him that a man could make productive use of his demons.
Jefferson's immersion in the mystic truths of the Old World gave him insights into mysteries of life and art that Enlightenment philosophy had failed to supply. Beran skillfully shows how Jefferson drew on the esoteric lore he encountered to transform anxiety into action. On his return to America, Jefferson entered the most productive period of his life: He created a new political party, was elected president, and doubled the size of the country. His private labors were no less momentous...among them, the artistry of Monticello and the University of Virginia.
Jefferson's Demons is an elegantly composed account of the strangeness and originality of one Founder's genius. Michael Knox Beran uncovers the maps Jefferson used to find his way out of dejection and to forge a new democratic culture for America. Here is a Jefferson who, with all his failings, remains one of his country's greatest teachers and prophets. [via]
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Journals of Lewis and Clark SPEC HCby Thomas SchmidtISBN 079226620X (0-7922-6620-X)
Hardcover, National Geographic Society
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This single-volume, landmark edition of the famous journals is the first abridgement to be published in at least a decade. [via]More editions of Journals of Lewis and Clark SPEC HC:
Legacy of the Civil Warby Robert Penn WarrenISBN 0803298013 (0-8032-9801-3)
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Letters of a Nation: A Collection of Extraordinary American Lettersby Andrew CarrollISBN 0767903315 (0-7679-0331-5)
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Lincoln and His Generalsby T. Harry WilliamsISBN 0756766559 (0-7567-6655-9)
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The Long, Bitter Trail: Andrew Jackson and the Indiansby Eric Foner, Anthony F. C. WallaceISBN 0809015528 (0-8090-1552-8)
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This account of Congress's Indian Removal Act of 1830 focuses on the plight of the Indians of the Southeast--Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws, Chickasaws, and Seminoles--who were forced to leave their ancestral lands and relocate to what is now the state of Oklahoma. Revealing Andrew Jackson's central role in the government's policies, Wallace examines the racist attitudes toward Native Americans that led to their removal and, ultimately, their tragic fate.More editions of The Long, Bitter Trail: Andrew Jackson and the Indians:
Look Away!: A History of the Confederate States of Americaby William C. DavisISBN 0743234995 (0-7432-3499-5)
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The Lost German Slave Girl: The Extraordinary True Story of Sally Miller And Her Fight for Freedom in Old New Orleansby John BaileyISBN 080214229X (0-8021-4229-X)
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Main Currents in American Thought: The Colonial Mind, 1620-1800by Vernon Louis ParringtonISBN 0806120800 (0-8061-2080-0)
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The Making of the President 1789: The Unauthorized Campaign Biographyby Marvin KitmanISBN 0802137350 (0-8021-3735-0)
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Naming Names: With a New Afterword by the Authorby Victor S. NavaskyISBN 0809001837 (0-8090-0183-7)
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A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of the State of Tennesseeby David CrockettISBN 0803263252 (0-8032-6325-2)
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The Nez Perce Indians and the Opening of the Northwestby Alvin M. JosephyISBN 080327551X (0-8032-7551-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Nez Perce Indians and the Opening of the Northwest'Book summary:[via]"One of the classics of Indian history. The author describes the Nez Perce tribe, its confrontations with whites, and the beginnings of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana. It has been one of the standards in the field of Western and Indian history since it was first published in 1965. Lake Charles American Press
"This magnificent book . . . is superb. English Westerners Tally Sheet
"Big, splendidly researched history. . .colorfully documented account."Time
"A big book, a good book, an authentic source book. . . . This is a book the Indians will long remember and deeply appreciate. It tells the truth."Indian Historian
"The fullest account of the tribe's epic struggle to preserve their identity."New York Times Book Review
"A must for every student of the west or of the American Indian. It should long be standard in the field."California Historical Society Quarterly
"Alvin Josephy has brought extraordinary skill and patience to the task of discovering the realities of the Nez Perce world from the time of Lewis and Clark. . .until it dissolved in gunfire and driving snow in Montana."Nation
The abridged edition of Alvin Josephy's classic work retains the entire and continuous account as it was presented in the original 1965 edition; quotations and descriptions have been condensed or deleted and end notes and plates are omitted.
Alvin M. Josephy is Chairman of the Board of the National Museum of the American Indian and an eminent historian. Among his books are Civil War in the American West (1991), Now That the Buffalo's Gone (1982), Red Power (1971), reprinted as a Bison Book.
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The Official Military Atlas of the Civil Warby George B. Davis, U.s. War Dept, Leslie J. Perry, Joseph W. KirkleyISBN 0760750440 (0-7607-5044-0)
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One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964by Timothy J. Naftali, Aleksandr FursenkoISBN 0788197584 (0-7881-9758-4)
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Ordeal by Hungerby George R. StewartISBN 080329171X (0-8032-9171-X)
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Our Dumb CenturyISBN 0762418664 (0-7624-1866-4)
Hardcover, Running Pr Book Pub
Find This BookBook summary:Every Wednesday, work at Amazon.com--along with just about every other company connected to the fantastical "information superhighway" invented by Vice President Al Gore and actress Hedy Lamarr--grinds to a halt as employees hasten to read the latest issue of The Onion, America's most popular newspaper based in Madison, Wisconsin. But most of the paper's fans have started reading it only within the last few years, and are sadly unaware of The Onion's mighty journalistic legacy. To combat this cultural illiteracy, Editor in Chief Scott Dikkers and his writing staff have assembled this collection of great front pages from the last hundred years. Here is just a sampling of the headlines:
A New Century Dawns! McKinley Ushers in Bold New "Coal Age"
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria Boasts: "No Man Can Stop Me"
AWESOME! Nation Wowed by Tremendous Hindenburg Explosion
Martin Luther King: "I Had a Really Weird Dream Last Night"
Clinton Denies Lewinsky Allegations: "We Did Not Have Sex, We Made Love," He Says
And those are just the headlines; the stories themselves are all masterpieces of the journalist's trade. Of course, readers with delicate sensibilities may find some of these accounts a bit too risqué, and perhaps even tasteless. (Among the potential offenders: Rosa Parks's decision to "screw this bus shit" and take a cab.) But if you're looking for an antidote to all the 20th-century hoopla promulgated by stuffed shirts like Peter Jennings and Harold Evans--not to mention the best history book since 1066 and All That--then Our Dumb Century is the one for you. --Ron Hogan [via]
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Paul Revereby Augusta StevensonISBN 0808513397 (0-8085-1339-7)
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Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Centuryby Laura ShapiroISBN 0805002286 (0-8050-0228-6)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Beginning with portraits of early domestic movement reformers such as Catherine Beecher and Mary Lincoln, and investigating institutions like the Boston Cooking School, home of Fannie Farmer, the Mother of Level Measurements, the book then pursues "scientific cookery" into its mid-20th-century manifestation. "With the help of the new industry of advertising," Shapiro writes, "the food business was able to reflect Mrs. Lincoln's values [of food-production uniformity] by keeping its achievements in packing, sanitation, convenience, and novelty at the forefront." But greater ills ensued: the effect of the reformers, Shapiro contends, was to encourage women to become docile consumers tethered to commercial interests--and to rob our vigorous cooking and eating traditions of their rich life. In making that point, Perfection Salad reveals its true subject: the cultural priorities that defined American 20th-century life and, finally, the sorry nature of the order they established. --Arthur Boehm [via]
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Peter Oliver's Origin and Progress of the American Rebellion and a Tory Viewsby Peter OliverISBN 0804706018 (0-8047-0601-8)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kiddby Richard ZacksISBN 0786884517 (0-7868-8451-7)
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Captain Kidd has gone down in history as America's most ruthless buccaneer, fabulously rich, burying dozens of treasure chests up and down the eastern seaboard. But it turns out that most everyone, even many respected scholars, have the story all wrong. Captain William Kidd was no career cut-throat; he was a tough, successful New York sea captain who was hired to chase pirates. His three-year odyssey aboard the aptly named Adventure galley pitted him against arrogant Royal Navy commanders, jealous East India Company captains, storms, starvation, angry natives, and, above all, flesh-and-blood pirates. Superbly written and impeccably researched, The Pirate Hunter is one ripping good yarn. [via]
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The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politicsby Dan T. CarterISBN 0807125970 (0-8071-2597-0)
Softcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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The Presidents Of The United States Of Americaby Frank FreidelISBN 0788170279 (0-7881-7027-9)
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Pursuits of Happiness: The Social Development of Early Modern British Colonies and the Formation of American Cultureby Jack P. GreeneISBN 0807842273 (0-8078-4227-3)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Social Darwinism in American Thoughtby Richard HofstadterISBN 0807055034 (0-8070-5503-4)
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They Marched Into Sunlight: War And Peace Vietnam And America October 1967by David MaranissISBN 0743261046 (0-7432-6104-6)
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In the Long Nguyen Secret Zone of Vietnam, a renowned battalion of the First Infantry Division is marching into a devastating ambush that will leave sixty-one soldiers dead and an equal number wounded. On the University of Wisconsin campus in Madison, students are staging an obstructive protest at the Commerce Building against recruiters for Dow Chemical Company, makers of napalm and Agent Orange, that ends in a bloody confrontation with club-wielding Madison police. And in Washington, President Lyndon Johnson is dealing with pressures closing in on him from all sides and lamenting to his war council, "How are we ever going to win this war?"
Based on thousands of primary documents and 180 on-the-record interviews, the story unfolds day by day, hour by hour, and at times minute by minute, with a rich cast of characters as they move toward battles that forever shaped their lives and evoked cultural and political conflicts that reverberate still. [via]
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This Country of Oursby Henrietta Elizabeth MarshallISBN 0722272219 (0-7222-7221-9)
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Thomas Paine And the Promise of Americaby Harvey J. KayeISBN 0809093448 (0-8090-9344-8)
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The revolutionary spirit that runs through American history and whose founding father and greatest advocate was Thomas Paine is fiercely traced in Thomas Paine and the Promise of America. Showing how Paine turned Americans into radicalsand how we have remained radicals at heart ever sinceHarvey J. Kaye presents the nations democratic story with wit, subtlety, and, above all, passion.
Paine was one of the most remarkable political writers of the modern world and the greatest radical of a radical age. Through writings like Common Senseand words such as The sun never shined on a cause of greater worth, We have it in our power to begin the world over again, and These are the times that try mens souls he not only turned Americas colonial rebellion into a revolutionary war but, as Kaye demonstrates, articulated an American identity charged with exceptional purpose and promise.
Beginning with Paines life and ideas and following their vigorous influence through to our own day, Thomas Paine and the Promise of America reveals how, while the powers that be repeatedly sought to suppress, defame, and most recently co-opt Paines memory, generations of radical and liberal Americans turned to Paine for inspiration as they endeavored to expand American freedom, equality, and democracy.More editions of Thomas Paine And the Promise of America:
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Triangle: The Fire That Changed Americaby David Von DrehleISBN 080214151X (0-8021-4151-X)
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On March 25, 1911, at quitting time, a fire broke out in the Triangle shirtwaist factory in New York's Greenwich Village. Within minutes the building's upper three stories were consumed. Firemen's ladders weren't tall enough to rescue those trapped inside. In the worst workplace disaster in the city's history, 146 died - 123 of them women. This harrowing yet compulsively readable chronicle of that tragedy is also a vibrant portrait of an entire age. [via]
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War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generalsby David HalberstamISBN 0743223233 (0-7432-2323-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Halberstam is a master at presenting well-rounded portraits and telling anecdotes of the personalities that have created U.S. policy, casting new light on well-known figures such as Clinton, Colin Powell, and George H.W. Bush, as well as supporting players such as Anthony Lake, Richard Holbrooke, James Baker, Madeleine Albright, General Wesley Clark, Al Gore, and many other influential American leaders of the past decade. Having covered many aspects of American history and foreign policy since the early 1960s, Halberstam is uniquely qualified to report on an era in which the U.S., and the world, has changed so dramatically. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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We Are Lincoln Men: Abraham Lincoln and His Friendsby David Herbert DonaldISBN 0743254708 (0-7432-5470-8)
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When The Mississippi Ran Backwards: Empire, Intrigue, Murder, And The New Madrid Earthquakesby Jay FeldmanISBN 0743242785 (0-7432-4278-5)
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White over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812by Winthrop D. JordanISBN 0807845507 (0-8078-4550-7)
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Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old Southby Elizabeth Fox-GenoveseISBN 080784232X (0-8078-4232-X)
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Women of the Republic: Intellect, and Ideology in Revolutionary Americaby Linda K. KerberISBN 0807846325 (0-8078-4632-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Women of the Republic: Intellect, and Ideology in Revolutionary America'Book summary:Women of the Republic views the American Revolution through women's eyes. Previous histories have rarely recognized that the battle for independence was also a woman's war. The "women of the army" toiled in army hospitals, kitchens, and laundries. Civilian women were spies, fund raisers, innkeepers, suppliers of food and clothing. Recruiters, whether patriot or tory, found men more willing to join the army when their wives and daughters could be counted on to keep the farms in operation and to resist enchroachment from squatters. "I have Don as much to Carrey on the warr as maney that Sett Now at the healm of government," wrote one impoverished woman, and she was right.
Women of the Republic is the result of a seven-year search for women's diaries, letters, and legal records. Achieving a remarkable comprehensiveness, it describes women's participation in the war, evaluates changes in their education in the late eighteenth century, describes the novels and histories women read and wrote, and analyzes their status in law and society. The rhetoric of the Revolution, full of insistence on rights and freedom in opposition to dictatorial masters, posed questions about the position of women in marriage as well as in the polity, but few of the implications of this rhetoric were recognized. How much liberty and equality for women? How much pursuit of happiness? How much justice?
When American political theory failed to define a program for the participation of women in the public arena, women themselves had to develop an ideology of female patriotism. They promoted the notion that women could guarantee the continuting health of the republic by nurturing public-spirited sons and husbands. This limited ideology of "Republican Motherhood" is a measure of the political and social conservatism of the Revolution. The subsequent history of women in America is the story of women's efforts to accomplish for themselves what the Revolution did not. [via]
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- Women of the Republic: Intellect, and Ideology in Revolutionary America: ISBN 0807814407 (0-8078-1440-7)
Hardcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr - Women of the Republic: Intellect, and Ideology in Revolutionary America: ISBN 0807840653 (0-8078-4065-3)
Softcover, Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press - Women of the Republic: Intellect, and Ideology in Revolutionary America: ISBN 0807846325 (0-8078-4632-5)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
- Women of the Republic: Intellect, and Ideology in Revolutionary America: ISBN 0807814407 (0-8078-1440-7)
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The World's Great ClassicsISBN 0717200019 (0-7172-0001-9)
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