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The Abandonment of the Jewsby David S. WymanISBN 0394740777 (0-394-74077-7)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Abandonment of the Jews'Book summary:It has long been alleged that officials in the Roosevelt administration knew, in surprising detail, about Adolf Hitler's plans to exterminate all the Jews in Nazi Europe--and that these officials did little to prevent the massacre, refusing asylum to shiploads of Jewish refugees and failing to order the bombing of railway lines leading to Auschwitz, Treblinka, and other concentration camps. David S. Wyman examines the evidence, concluding that senior American officials could indeed have saved many thousands, if not millions, of European Jews by intervening earlier. In this controversial work, he suggests, with good cause, that a combination of anti-Semitism and indifference to anything not perceived as being of direct strategic importance to the United States indirectly led to countless deaths. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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The Abandonment of the Jews : America and the Holocaust, 1941-1945by David S. WymanISBN 0394428137 (0-394-42813-7)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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After the Fact: American Historians and Their Methodsby James West Davidson, Mark H. LytleISBN 0394321294 (0-394-32129-4)
Hardcover, Knopf
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After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detectionby James West Davidson, Mark H. LytleISBN 0394329651 (0-394-32965-1)
Hardcover, Knopf
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› Find signed collectible books: 'After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection'Book summary:This text uses 15 dramatic episodes in American history to show students how historians go about the business of interpreting the past. It discusses historical methods within the context of an historical narrative so that students may learn about American history at the same time as seeing how historians use a variety of evidence (diaries, letters, photographs and records) and methods to explain the past. This edition contains a new chapter on the Vietnam experience that examines how Hollywood incorporated the horror of My Lai into their mythic formulations and how dramatic films can be used as historical evidence. Some chapters have been substantially revised or rewritten to take into account recently published material - "The Invisible Pioneers" (chapter 5), "Sacco and Vanzetti" (chapter 10), "The Decision to Drop the Bomb" (chapter 12). [via]
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After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detectionby Mark H. Lytle, James West DavidsonISBN 0394354753 (0-394-35475-3)
Softcover, Knopf
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› Find signed collectible books: 'After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection'Book summary:This text uses 15 dramatic episodes in American history to show students how historians go about the business of interpreting the past. It discusses historical methods within the context of an historical narrative so that students may learn about American history at the same time as seeing how historians use a variety of evidence (diaries, letters, photographs and records) and methods to explain the past. This edition contains a new chapter on the Vietnam experience that examines how Hollywood incorporated the horror of My Lai into their mythic formulations and how dramatic films can be used as historical evidence. Some chapters have been substantially revised or rewritten to take into account recently published material - "The Invisible Pioneers" (chapter 5), "Sacco and Vanzetti" (chapter 10), "The Decision to Drop the Bomb" (chapter 12). [via]
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Alexander Hamiltonby Henry Cabot LodgeISBN 040450857X (0-404-50857-X)
Hardcover, Ams Pr Inc
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America in Our Time : From World War II to Nixon--What Happened and Whyby Godfrey HodgsonISBN 0394725174 (0-394-72517-4)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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American Dreams: Lost and Foundby Studs TerkelISBN 0394507932 (0-394-50793-2)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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American History: A Surveyby Richard Nelson CurrentISBN 0394365356 (0-394-36535-6)
Hardcover, Knopf
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American History: A Surveyby T. Harry Williams, Richard Nelson Current, Frank Burt FreidelISBN 0394322398 (0-394-32239-8)
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American History:a Survey: A Surveyby T. Harry Williams, Richard Nelson Current, Frank Burt FreidelISBN 0394318633 (0-394-31863-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American History:a Survey: A Survey'Book summary:This survey aims to balance social and cultural with the political and diplomatic history. It aims to help instructor to organize his or her course in many different ways confident that the text will support both the topics discussed in class and provide students with the ideal book for self-study. Every chapter begins with a summary of major themes and ends with a boxed chronology entitled "Significant Events", noting the major events discussed in the chapter. "Where Historians Disagree" essays describe major histographical debates. Greater attention is given to native American history, and there are revised sections on women's history. [via]
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Atlas of American Historyby Martin GilbertISBN 0415136245 (0-415-13624-5)
Softcover, Routledge
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The Battle of the Bulgeby John TolandISBN 0394904141 (0-394-90414-1)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Behind the Scenes: Thirty Years a Slave & Four Years in the White Houseby Elizabeth KeckleyISBN 040501824X (0-405-01824-X)
Hardcover, Ayer Co Pub
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Bold Dragoon: The Life of J.E.B. Stuartby Emory M. ThomasISBN 0394757750 (0-394-75775-0)
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The Boys on the Busby Timothy CrouseISBN 0394484436 (0-394-48443-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Boys on the Bus'Book summary:Political spin-doctoring has become something of an art form in the last few decades. It was less artful in the early years of the information age, and Crouse's entertaining look at the attempts of both the Nixon and McGovern '72 campaign staffs to control the media seems almost comical, so poor were they at the image-and-sound bite manipulation that now defines our politics. Crouse is a serious-minded journalist, however, and his firsthand report on how political news is made and shaped remains important reading. Check out Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 for a more madcap view of the same matters. [via]
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Chesapeakeby James A. MichenerISBN 0394500792 (0-394-50079-2)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chesapeake'Book summary:One of James A. Michener's grandest most loved, #1 best-selling works: the huge, enthralling novel, set amid the natural and historic riches of the Chesapeake, which dramatically brings to life -- through almost four centuries -- our land, our history, our people. [via]
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The Civil War in the American Westby Josephy, Alvin M., Jr.ISBN 0394564820 (0-394-56482-0)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Civil War in the American West'Book summary:The first comprehensive history of the Civil War as it was fought in the West. A leading historian fills a large gap in our knowledge of the Civil War as it was fought on the far side of the Mississippi, as well as the personalities and issues involved. 20 maps. [via]
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Coming of the New Dealby Arthur M. SchlesingerISBN 0395489059 (0-395-48905-9)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Decline of Aristocracy in the Politics of New Yorkby Dixon R. FoxISBN 0404511988 (0-404-51198-8)
Hardcover, Ams Pr Inc
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Empireby Gore Vidal, Edgar BoxISBN 0394561236 (0-394-56123-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Empire'Book summary:"Mr. Vidal demonstrates a political imagination and insider's sagacity equaled by no other practicing fiction writer I can think of. And like the earlier novels in his historical cycle, Empire is a wonderfully vivid documentary drama." The New York Times Book Review
In this extraordinarily powerful epic Gore Vidal recreates America's Gilded Agea period of promise and possibility, of empire-building and fierce political rivalries. In a vivid and beathtaking work of fiction, where the fortunes of a sister and brother intertwine with the fates of the generation, their country, and some of the greatest names of their day, including President McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Jennings Bryan, William and Henry James, the Astors, the Vanderbilts, and the Whitneys, Gore Vidal sweeps us from the nineteenth century into the twentieth, from the salvaged republic of Lincoln to a nation boldly reaching for the world.
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream,by Hunter S. ThompsonISBN 0394464354 (0-394-46435-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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On assignment from a sports magazine to cover "the fabulous Mint 400"--a free-for-all biker's race in the heart of the Nevada desert--the drug-a-delic duo stumbles through Vegas in hallucinatory hopes of finding the American dream (two truck-stop waitresses tell them it's nearby, but can't remember if it's on the right or the left). They of course never get the story, but they do commit the only sins in Vegas: "burning the locals, abusing the tourists, terrifying the help." For Thompson to remember and pen his experiences with such clarity and wit is nothing short of a miracle; an impressive feat no matter how one feels about the subject matter. A first-rate sensibility twinger, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a pop-culture classic, an icon of an era past, and a nugget of pure comedic genius. --Rebekah Warren [via]
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Gettysburgby MacKinlay KantorISBN 0394891813 (0-394-89181-3)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gettysburg'Book summary:When troops entered Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the South seemed to be winning the Civil War. But Gettysburg was a turning point. After three bloody days of fighting, the Union finally won the battle. Inspired by the valor of the many thousands of soldiers who died there, President Lincoln visited Gettysburg to give a brief but moving tribute. His Gettysburg Address is one of the most famous speeches in American history. [via]
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Great Issues in American History: From Reconstruction to the Present Day, 1864-1981by Richard Hofstadter, K. Beatrice, Beatrice K. HofstadterISBN 0394708423 (0-394-70842-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Great Little Madisonby Jean FritzISBN 0399217681 (0-399-21768-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself: An Authoritative Textby Olaudah Equiano, Werner SollorsISBN 0393974944 (0-393-97494-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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It is accompanied by an introduction, maps, illustrations, and annotations. "Contexts" provides essential public writings on the autobiography, general and historical background, related travel and scientific literature, other eighteenth-century works by authors of African ancestry, and works debating the slave trade. "Criticism" includes six contemporary reviews and nine modern essays on the narrative by Paul Edwards, Charles T. Davis, Houston A. Baker, Jr., Angelo Costanzo, Catherine Obianju Acholonu, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Geraldine Murphy, Adam Potkay, and Robert J. Allison. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are included. Illustrations, maps [via]More editions of The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself: An Authoritative Text:
The Lewis and Clark Expeditionby Richard L. NeubergerISBN 0394903153 (0-394-90315-3)
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Lincoln : A Novelby Gore VidalISBN 0394528956 (0-394-52895-6)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lincoln : A Novel'Book summary:Lincoln is a masterwork of historical fiction, in which Gore Vidal combines a comprehensive knowledge of Civil War America with 20th-century literary technique, probing the minds and motives of the men surrounding Abraham Lincoln, including personal secretary John Hay and scheming cabinet members William Seward and Salmon P. Chase, as well as his wife, Mary Todd. It is a book monumental in scope that never loses sight of the intimate and personal in its depiction of the power struggles that accompanied Lincoln's efforts to preserve the Union at all costs--efforts in which the eradication of slavery was far from the president's main objective. As usual, there's plenty of room for Vidal's wickedly humorous deflation of American icons, including a comic interlude in a Washington bordello in which Lincoln's former law partner informs Hay that Lincoln had contracted syphilis as a young man and had, just before marrying Mary Todd, suffered what can only be described as a nervous breakdown. (Protestors should note that Vidal is only passing along what that former partner had written in his own biography of Lincoln.) Don't be intimidated by the size of Lincoln; if you like historical fiction, you should read this book at the first opportunity. --Ron Hogan [via]
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Lindberghby A. Scott BergISBN 0399144498 (0-399-14449-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lindbergh'Book summary:Charles Lindbergh's solo flight from New York to Paris captured the imagination of a postwar generation hungry for heroes, and cemented an exalted spot for the 25-year-old pilot from Minnesota in the collective American imagination. A. Scott Berg's thorough new biography of the aviator suggests that despite the public scrutiny that accompanied his every move until his death in 1974, Lindbergh remained an intensely private man. The son of ill-matched parents who separated when he was 6, he was painfully shy and emotionally guarded. "Aviation created a brotherhood of casual acquaintances ... in which he felt comfortable," writes Berg with characteristic perceptiveness.
Lindbergh's wife, the writer Anne Morrow Lindbergh, gave Berg unrestricted access to her husband's and her own voluminous personal papers--and he made good use of them to assess both the couple's relationship and their activities. Probably the most startling revelation is a brief but candid discussion of Anne's affair in the late 1950s with a New Jersey doctor, which helped assuage her need to vent emotions in a way her buttoned-up husband found insupportable. (During the horrendous days in 1932 when their 20-month-old son was kidnapped and killed, Berg notes, she never once saw Charles cry.) The biography is solid on all aspects of Lindbergh's career, including his notorious urging that America stay out of World War II; Berg rebuts charges that Lindbergh was a Nazi or a traitor, but rightly criticizes the anti-Semitism latent in some of his speeches. With this book, Berg succeeds in surveying Lindbergh's fascinating life and assessing its historic impact. [via]
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The Long Surrenderby Burke DavisISBN 0394520831 (0-394-52083-1)
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Looking Backward, 2000-1887by Edward BellamyISBN 0394329805 (0-394-32980-5)
Hardcover, Modern Library
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Making America: A History of the United States to 1877by Christopher L. Miller, Robert W. Cherny, James L. Gormly, Carol BerkinISBN 0395894867 (0-395-89486-7)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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The Marble Man, Robert E. Lee and His Image in American Societyby Thomas Lawrence ConnellyISBN 0394471792 (0-394-47179-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Matchlock Gunby Walter D. Edmonds, Paul LantzISBN 0399219110 (0-399-21911-0)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Minn of the Mississippiby Holling C. HollingISBN 0395273994 (0-395-27399-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Moby Dickby Herman MelvilleISBN 0395051088 (0-395-05108-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moby Dick'Book summary:Ishmael, a sailor, recounts the ill-fated voyage of a whaling ship led by the fanatical Captain Ahab in search of the white whale that had crippled him. Presented in comic book format. [via]
Museum Of Early American Toolsby Eric SloaneISBN 0396083366 (0-396-08336-6)
Hardcover, Dodd, Mead
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Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhullby Barbara GoldsmithISBN 0394555368 (0-394-55536-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Our Independence and the Constitutionby Dorothy Canfield FisherISBN 0394891759 (0-394-89175-9)
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Patton: The Man Behind the Legend 1885 1945by Martin BlumensonISBN 042509703X (0-425-09703-X)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Patton: The Man Behind the Legend 1885 1945'Book summary:[Audiobook CASSETTE Library Edition in vinyl case.]
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This magnificent biography by the world's foremost expert on the life of George S. Patton portrays the many faces of the general with uncompromising insight: the gruff, demanding public front known (and feared) by millions; the sensitive, intellectual visage shown to intimates; and the self-conscious, emotional, religious man only a handful of people ever met. Martin Blumenson deftly explores the life of this American hero, a paradoxical man who inspired others to greatness but who sometimes questioned the greatness within himself. Patton: The Man Behind the Legend, 1885-1945 is a dramatic and memorable portrait of a complex American hero, a man called ''the greatest combat general of modern times.'' [via]More editions of Patton: The Man Behind the Legend 1885 1945:
A People and a Nation: A History of the United Statesby Mary Beth NortonISBN 0395473020 (0-395-47302-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin Co
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A People and a Nationby Howard P. Chudacoff, Thomas G. Paterson, David M. Katzman, William J. Brophy, Paul D. Escott, Mary Beth Norton, William M. TuttleISBN 0395433096 (0-395-43309-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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- A People and a Nation: A History of the United States To 1877: ISBN 0395788838 (0-395-78883-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div - A People and a Nation: A History of the United State Since 1865: ISBN 0395788846 (0-395-78884-6)
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A People and a Nation: A History of the United Statesby David M. Katzman, Mary Beth NortonISBN 0395379377 (0-395-37937-7)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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People and a Nation: A History of the United States/Complete Editionby Mary B. Norton, David M. Katzman, Paul D. EscottISBN 039535952X (0-395-35952-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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A People and a Nation: A History of the United States to 1877by Norton Katzman, Escott Chudacoff, Paterson TuttleISBN 0395433088 (0-395-43308-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilizationby Michael G. KammenISBN 0394460774 (0-394-46077-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Peopling of British North America: An Introductionby Bernard BailynISBN 0394757793 (0-394-75779-3)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Peopling of British North America: An Introduction'Book summary:In this introduction to his large-scale work The Peopling of British North America, Bernard Bailyn identifies central themes in a formative passage of our history: the transatlantic transfer of people from the Old World to the North American continent that formed the basis of American society. Voyagers to the West, which covers the British migration in the years just before the American Revolution and is the first major volume in the Peopling project, is also available from Vintage Books. [via]
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Personal Politics: The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement and the New Leftby Sara EvansISBN 0394742281 (0-394-74228-1)
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Pickett's Charge: A Microhistory of the Final Attack at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863by George R. StewartISBN 0395597722 (0-395-59772-2)
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Political Economy of Slavery : Studies in Economy and Society of the Slave Southby Eugene D. GenoveseISBN 0394704002 (0-394-70400-2)
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The premodern quality of the Southern world was imparted to it by its dominant slaveholding class. Slavery has existed in many places, side by side with other labor systems, without producing anything like the civilization of the South. Slavery gave the South a special way of life because it provided the basis for a regional social order in which the slave labor system could dominate all others. Southern slavery was not mere slavery to recall Louis Hartzs luckless term but the foundation on which rose a powerful and remarkable social class: a class constituting only a tiny portion of the white population and yet so powerful and remarkable as to try, with more success than our neo-abolitionists care to see, to build a new, or rather to rebuild an old, civilization.
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Prairyerthby William Least Heat MoonISBN 039563752X (0-395-63752-X)
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Prairyerth: (A Deep Map)by William Least Heat MoonISBN 039592569X (0-395-92569-X)
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The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed Americaby Nicholas LemannISBN 0394269675 (0-394-26967-5)
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Robert Kennedy and His Timesby Arthur SchlesingerISBN 0395248973 (0-395-24897-3)
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cryby Mildred D. TaylorISBN 0395775302 (0-395-77530-2)
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The Rosenberg File: A Search for the Truthby Joyce Milton, Ronald RadoshISBN 0394725948 (0-394-72594-8)
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The Routledge Atlas Of American Historyby Martin GilbertISBN 0415281520 (0-415-28152-0)
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A Short History of the United Statesby Allan Nevins, Henry Steele CommagerISBN 0394408926 (0-394-40892-6)
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To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done for America - A Historyby Lillian FadermanISBN 039585010X (0-395-85010-X)
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To Kill a Mockingbirdby Harper LeeISBN 0397001517 (0-397-00151-7)
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Set in the small Southern town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Depression, To Kill a Mockingbird follows three years in the life of 8-year-old Scout Finch, her brother, Jem, and their father, Atticus--three years punctuated by the arrest and eventual trial of a young black man accused of raping a white woman. Though her story explores big themes, Harper Lee chooses to tell it through the eyes of a child. The result is a tough and tender novel of race, class, justice, and the pain of growing up.
Like the slow-moving occupants of her fictional town, Lee takes her time getting to the heart of her tale; we first meet the Finches the summer before Scout's first year at school. She, her brother, and Dill Harris, a boy who spends the summers with his aunt in Maycomb, while away the hours reenacting scenes from Dracula and plotting ways to get a peek at the town bogeyman, Boo Radley. At first the circumstances surrounding the alleged rape of Mayella Ewell, the daughter of a drunk and violent white farmer, barely penetrate the children's consciousness. Then Atticus is called on to defend the accused, Tom Robinson, and soon Scout and Jem find themselves caught up in events beyond their understanding. During the trial, the town exhibits its ugly side, but Lee offers plenty of counterbalance as well--in the struggle of an elderly woman to overcome her morphine habit before she dies; in the heroism of Atticus Finch, standing up for what he knows is right; and finally in Scout's hard-won understanding that most people are essentially kind "when you really see them." By turns funny, wise, and heartbreaking, To Kill a Mockingbird is one classic that continues to speak to new generations, and deserves to be reread often. --Alix Wilber [via]
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To the Gates of Richmond: The Peninsula Campaignby Stephen W. SearsISBN 0395701015 (0-395-70101-5)
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Trouble in Mind : Black Southerners in Age of Jim Crowby Leon F. LitwackISBN 039452778X (0-394-52778-X)
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Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in U.S. Women's Historyby Vicki Ruiz, Ellen Carol DuboisISBN 0415925177 (0-415-92517-7)
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Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in U.S. Women's Historyby Ellen Carol Dubois, Vicki RuizISBN 0415908922 (0-415-90892-2)
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Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolutionby Bernard BailynISBN 0394757785 (0-394-75778-5)
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Walden And Civil Disobedienceby Henry David Thoreau, Paul LauterISBN 0395980771 (0-395-98077-1)
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When Harlem Was in Vogueby David L. LewisISBN 0394710657 (0-394-71065-7)
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When Harlem Was in Vogueby David Levering LewisISBN 0394495721 (0-394-49572-1)
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Where Was Patrick Henry on the 29th of May?by Jean Fritz, Margot TomesISBN 0399233059 (0-399-23305-9)
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The Witchcraft of Salem Villageby Shirley JacksonISBN 0394891767 (0-394-89176-7)
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