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1897 Sears, Roebuck Catalogueby Fred L. IsraelISBN 0877540454 (0-87754-045-4)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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Abraham Lincoln Wisdom and Witby Abraham Lincoln, Louise BachelderISBN 088088066X (0-88088-066-X)
Hardcover, Peter Pauper Pr
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Advance to Revolution, 1760-1775by Murray N. RothbardISBN 0870003437 (0-87000-343-7)
Hardcover, Arlington House Publishers
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American Foreign Policy since World War IIby John W. Spanier, John Spanier, Steven W. HookISBN 0871878194 (0-87187-819-4)
Softcover, Cq Pr
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The American Irish: A Political and Social Portraitby William V. ShannonISBN 087023689X (0-87023-689-X)
Softcover, Univ of Massachusetts Pr
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The American Republic: Primary Sourcesby Bruce FrohnenISBN 0865973334 (0-86597-333-4)
Softcover, Liberty Fund
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And Still They Come: Immigrants and American Society, 1920 to the 1990sby Elliott Robert BarkanISBN 088295928X (0-88295-928-X)
Softcover, Harlan Davidson
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Arundelby Kenneth Lewis RobertsISBN 0892723645 (0-89272-364-5)
Softcover, Down East Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arundel'Book summary:This is the classic series from Pulitzer Prize-winning historical novelist Kenneth Roberts, all featuring characters from the town of Arundel, Maine. Arundel follows Steven Nason as he joins Benedict Arnold in his march to Quebec during the American Revolution. [via]
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Battles and Leaders of the Civil War Vol. 2: The Struggle Intensifiesby Robert U. JohnsonISBN 0890095701 (0-89009-570-1)
Hardcover, Book Sales, Incorporated
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Best Evidence: Disguise and Deceptions in the Assassination of John F. Kennedyby David S. LiftonISBN 0881844381 (0-88184-438-1)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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The Big Fourby Oscar LewisISBN 0891740422 (0-89174-042-2)
Softcover, Comstock Book Distributors
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Biology: Cust Core&study Companionby Emory M. ThomasISBN 0872497801 (0-87249-780-1)
Softcover, Univ of South Carolina Pr
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Bloody Bunaby Lida MayoISBN 0872168794 (0-87216-879-4)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Blue and the Grayby Thomas B. Allen, Leah Bendavid-Val, Mary Ann Harrell, Sam Abell, Shelby FooteISBN 0870448765 (0-87044-876-5)
Hardcover, National Geographic Society
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Bruce Catton Reflections on the Civil Warby John LeekleyISBN 0883941015 (0-88394-101-5)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Combined Operations in the Civil Warby Rowena ReedISBN 0870211226 (0-87021-122-6)
Hardcover, Naval Inst Pr
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Conceived in Libertyby Murray N. Rothbard, Leonard P. LiggioISBN 0870002627 (0-87000-262-7)
Hardcover, Arlington House Publishers
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Confederate Shipbuildingby William N. StillISBN 0872495116 (0-87249-511-6)
Hardcover, Univ of South Carolina Pr
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Congress and Its Membersby Roger H. Davidson, Walter J. OleszekISBN 0871877260 (0-87187-726-0)
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Cotton Mather on Witchcraftby Cotton MatherISBN 0880296720 (0-88029-672-0)
Hardcover, Dorset Press
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Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedyby Jim MarrsISBN 0881846481 (0-88184-648-1)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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The Divided Unionby Peter J. Parish, Peter BattyISBN 0881622346 (0-88162-234-6)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Domestic Manners of the Americansby Frances Milton TrollopeISBN 0876360002 (0-87636-000-2)
Hardcover, Imprint Society
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Dynamite: The Story of Class Violence in Americaby Louis AdamicISBN 0877543615 (0-87754-361-5)
Softcover, Chelsea House
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Eric Sloane's Sketches of America Pastby Eric SloaneISBN 0883940655 (0-88394-065-5)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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The Farmby James E. Knight, Karen DuganISBN 0893757314 (0-89375-731-4)
Softcover, Troll Communications Llc
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Fathers and Children: Andrew Jackson and the Subjugation of the American Indianby Michael Paul RoginISBN 0887388868 (0-88738-886-8)
Softcover, Transaction Pub
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Fighting for Liberty and Virtue: Political and Cultural Wars in Eighteenth-Century Americaby Marvin OlaskyISBN 0891078487 (0-89107-848-7)
Hardcover, Good News Pub
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Garfield: A Biographyby Allan PeskinISBN 0873382102 (0-87338-210-2)
Hardcover, Kent State Univ Pr
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Gate of Hell: Campaign for Charleston Harbor, 1863by Stephen R. WiseISBN 0872499855 (0-87249-985-5)
Hardcover, Univ of South Carolina Pr
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George Whitefield: The Life and Times of the Great Evangelist of the Eighteenth-Century Revivalby Arnold A. DallimoreISBN 0891071679 (0-89107-167-9)
Hardcover, Good News Pub
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Glory Days of Loggingby R. W. AndrewsISBN 087564905X (0-87564-905-X)
Hardcover, Darwin Pubns
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The Great Gatsbyby F. Scott FitzgeraldISBN 0891906797 (0-89190-679-7)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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It's also a love story, of sorts, the narrative of Gatsby's quixotic passion for Daisy Buchanan. The pair meet five years before the novel begins, when Daisy is a legendary young Louisville beauty and Gatsby an impoverished officer. They fall in love, but while Gatsby serves overseas, Daisy marries the brutal, bullying but extremely rich Tom Buchanan. After the war, Gatsby devotes himself blindly to the pursuit of wealth by whatever means--and to the pursuit of Daisy, which amounts to the same thing. "Her voice is full of money," Gatsby says admiringly, in one of the novel's more famous descriptions. His millions made, Gatsby buys a mansion across Long Island Sound from Daisy's patrician East Egg address, throws lavish parties and waits for her to appear. When s he does, events unfold with all the tragic inevitability of a Greek drama, with detached, cynical neighbour Nick Carraway acting as chorus throughout. Spare, elegantly plotted and written in crystalline prose, The Great Gatsby is as perfectly satisfying as the best kind of poem. Perry Freeman, Amazon.com [via]
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In Red and Black: Marxian Explorations in Southern and Afro-American Historyby Eugene D. GenoveseISBN 0870494287 (0-87049-428-7)
Hardcover, Univ of Tennessee Pr
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In the Footsteps of Lewis and Clarkby Gerald S. SnyderISBN 087044087X (0-87044-087-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nationsby Adam Smith, Laurence DickeyISBN 0872202046 (0-87220-204-6)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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Inventing the American Woman: A Perspective on Women's Historyby Glenda RileyISBN 0882958461 (0-88295-846-1)
Softcover, Harlan Davidson
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Inventing the American Woman: A Perspective on Women's History 1865 to the Presentby Glenda RileyISBN 0882958380 (0-88295-838-0)
Softcover, Harlan Davidson
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Inventing the American Woman: An Inclusive History To 1877by Glenda RileyISBN 0882959220 (0-88295-922-0)
Softcover, Harlan Davidson
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Island of the Blue Dolphinsby Scott O'DellISBN 0881030279 (0-88103-027-9)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Island of the Blue Dolphins'Book summary:Scott O'Dell won the Newbery Medal for Island of the Blue Dolphins in 1961, and in 1976 the Children's Literature Association named this riveting story one of the 10 best American children's books of the past 200 years. O'Dell was inspired by the real-life story of a 12-year-old American Indian girl, Karana. The author based his book on the life of this remarkable young woman who, during the evacuation of Ghalas-at (an island off the coast of California), jumped ship to stay with her young brother who had been abandoned on the island. He died shortly thereafter, and Karana fended for herself on the island for 18 years.
O'Dell tells the miraculous story of how Karana forages on land and in the ocean, clothes herself (in a green-cormorant skirt and an otter cape on special occasions), and secures shelter. Perhaps even more startlingly, she finds strength and serenity living alone on the island. This beautiful edition of Island of the Blue Dolphins is enriched with 12 full-page watercolor paintings by Ted Lewin, illustrator of more than 100 children's books, including Ali, Child of the Desert. A gripping story of battling wild dogs and sea elephants, this simply told, suspenseful tale of survival is also an uplifting adventure of the spirit. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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John Adams: A Lifeby John E. FerlingISBN 0870497308 (0-87049-730-8)
Hardcover, Univ of Tennessee Pr
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The Last Full Measure: The Life and Death of the First Minnesota Volunteersby Richard MoeISBN 0873514068 (0-87351-406-8)
Softcover, Minnesota Historical Society Pr
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The Last of the Mohicansby James Fenimore Cooper, E.N. Feltskog, James A. SappenfieldISBN 087395470X (0-87395-470-X)
Softcover, State Univ of New York Pr
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The Life and Letters of Robert Edward Lee: Soldier and Manby J. William JonesISBN 0873779592 (0-87377-959-2)
Hardcover, Hess Pubns
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Lifeline of the Confederacy: Blockade Running During the Civil Warby Stephen R. WiseISBN 0872497992 (0-87249-799-2)
Softcover, Univ of South Carolina Pr
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The Lively Ladyby Kenneth Lewis RobertsISBN 0892724250 (0-89272-425-0)
Softcover, Down East Books
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The Making of America: The Substance and Meaning of the Constitutionby W. Cleon SkousenISBN 0880800178 (0-88080-017-8)
Hardcover, Natl Center for Constitutional
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For many years in the United States, there has been a gradual drifting away from the Founding Fathers' original success formula. This has resulted in some of their most unique contributions for a free and prosperous society becoming lost or misunderstood. Therefore, there has been a need to review the history and development of the making of America in order to recapture the brilliant precepts which made Americans the first free people in modern times.
The Making of America provides a wealth of material on the Founding Father's intentions when drafting the American Constitution. It is one of the most thorough compilations of statements by the Framers relating to constitutional interpretation, and addresses the Constitution clause by clause -- providing resources on the Founder's intent of each clause. The National Center for Constitutional Studies, a nonprofit educational foundation, was created in order to revive those original American concepts in all of their initial brilliance and vitality. The very fact that many of them are becoming obscure and misunderstood emphasizes the urgency of the task. The study for The Making of America extended over a period of nearly 40 years, and an organized effort to present this information in a published text was a concerted endeavor of nearly 14 years.
It will be observed that many new insights are provided in the writings of the Founders for the solution to serious economic, political and social problems plaguing the world today. It is felt that a study of The Making of America can be of lasting value to all who have a serious concern for the general welfare of not only America but all mankind.
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Martin & Malcolm & America: A Dream or a Nightmareby James H. ConeISBN 0883448246 (0-88344-824-6)
Softcover, Orbis Books
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Men Against the State the Expositors of Individualist Anarchismby James J. MartinISBN 0879260068 (0-87926-006-8)
Softcover, Ralph Myles Pub
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My Antoniaby Willa CatherISBN 0881032514 (0-88103-251-4)
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Ántonia, who, even as a grown woman somewhat downtrodden by circumstance and hard work, "had not lost the fire of life," lies at the center of almost every human condition that Cather's novel effortlessly untangles. She represents immigrant struggles with a foreign land and tongue, the restraints on women of the time (with which Cather was very much concerned), the more general desires for love, family, and companionship, and the great capacity for forbearance that marked the earliest settlers on the frontier.
As if all this humanity weren't enough, Cather paints her descriptions of the vastness of nature--the high, red grass, the road that "ran about like a wild thing," the endless wind on the plains--with strokes so vivid as to make us feel in our bones that we've just come in from a walk on that very terrain ourselves. As the story progresses, Jim goes off to the University in Lincoln to study Latin (later moving on to Harvard and eventually staying put on the East Coast in another neat encompassing of a stage in America's development) and learns Virgil's phrase "Optima dies ... prima fugit" that Cather uses as the novel's epigraph. "The best days are the first to flee"--this could be said equally of childhood and the earliest hours of this country in which the open land, much like My Ántonia, was nothing short of a rhapsody in prairie sky blue. --Melanie Rehak [via]
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My Life on the Plains: General George A. Custerby Milo Milton QuaifeISBN 0883940914 (0-88394-091-4)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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National Geographic Picture Atlas of Our Fifty Statesby National Geographic Society (U.S). Book Division, Margaret SedeenISBN 0870448595 (0-87044-859-5)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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National Geographic Picture Atlas of Our Fifty Statesby National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C. Book ServiceISBN 0870442163 (0-87044-216-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Naval War of 1812by Theodore Roosevelt, Jack SweetmanISBN 0870214454 (0-87021-445-4)
Hardcover, Naval Institute Press
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The Oregon Trail: Yesterday and Today A Brief History and Pictorial Journal Along the Wagon Tracks of Pioneersby William E. HillISBN 0870043196 (0-87004-319-6)
Softcover, Caxton Printers Ltd
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Our Countrys Presidentsby Frank Burt Freidel, National Geographic Society (U.S.) Special Publications DivisionISBN 0870440241 (0-87044-024-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Our Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln, John Brown and the Civil War Eraby Stephen B. OatesISBN 0870233971 (0-87023-397-1)
Softcover, Univ of Massachusetts Pr
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Pocahontas, Girl of Jamestownby Allan Eitzen, Kate JassemISBN 0893751529 (0-89375-152-9)
Hardcover, Troll Communications Llc
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Pocahontas, Girl of Jamestownby Kate JassemISBN 0893751421 (0-89375-142-1)
Softcover, Troll Communications L.L.C.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pocahontas, Girl of Jamestown'Book summary:The "Native American Biographies" series features the stories of famous Native American men and women and their heroic struggles to protect their land and their freedom. These inspirational accounts of the first Americans are effective tools in helping young readers understand and appreciate different cultures. Illustrated throughout. [via]
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Power Governments Cannot Suppressby Howard ZinnISBN 0872864758 (0-87286-475-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Power Governments Cannot Suppress'Book summary:"Thank you, Howard Zinn. Thank you for telling us what none of our leaders are willing to: The truth. And you tell it with such brilliance, such humanity. It is a personal honor to be able to say I am a better citizen because of you."[via]
-- Michael Moore, director of the film Fahrenheit 9/11, and author of the New York Times bestseller, Stupid White Men ...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!
"This strong, incisive book by Howard Zinn provides us with a penetrating critique of current U.S. policies and embraces the sweep of history. Zinn's inspired voice sets him apart & which is why so many of us look to Howard as a modern-day Thoreau. As always with Zinn's work, A Power Governments Cannot Suppress leaves us with the faith that citizens have what it takes to confront power and to reverse the dangerous and unjust acts of our government."
-- Jonathan Kozol, author of The Shame of The Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America
"Find here the voice of the well-educated and honorable and capable and human United States of America, which might have existed if only absolute power had not corrupted its third-rate leaders so absolutely."
-- Kurt Vonnegut, author of A Man Without a Country
"Howard Zinn is a unique voice of sanity, clarity and wisdom who reads history not only to understand the present but to shape the future. &Profoundly insightful& A Power Governments Cannot Suppress should be read by every American, over and over again."
-- Michael Lerner, editor of Tikkun Magazine, author of The Left Hand of God: Taking Back our Country from the Religious Right
This brilliant new booklike Howard Zinns presence, and his whole life, is the best possible antidote to political despair. Read it, and rejoin the struggle for a human world and a foreign policy thats good for children.
Daniel Ellsberg released the Pentagon Papers in 1971 and is author of Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers
A Power Governments Cannot Suppress, is a major new collection of essays on American history, class, immigration, justice, and ordinary citizens who have made a difference. Zinn addresses America's current political/ethical crisis using lessons learned from our nations history. Zinn brings a profoundly human, yet uniquely American perspective to each subject he writes about, whether its the abolition of war, terrorism, the Founding Fathers, the Holocaust, defending the rights of immigrants, or personal liberties. Written in an accessible, personal tone, Zinn approaches the telling of U.S. history from an active, engaged point of view. "America's future is linked to how we understand our past, writes Zinn; "For this reason, writing about history, for me, is never a neutral act."
Zinn frames the book with an opening essay titled "If History is to be Creative," a reflection on the role and responsibility of the historian. "To think that history-writing must aim simply to recapitulate the failures that dominate the past," writes Zinn, "is to make historians collaborators in an endless cycle of defeat." "If history is to be creative, to anticipate a possible future without denying the past, it should, I believe, emphasize new possibilities by disclosing those hidden episodes of the past when, even if in brief flashes, people showed their ability to resist, to join together, and occasionally win. I am supposing, or perhaps only hoping, that our future may be found in the pasts fugitive moments of compassion rather than in its solid centuries of warfare."
Buzzing with stories and ideas, Zinn draws upon fascinating, little-known historical anecdotes spanning from the Declaration of Independence to the USA PATRIOT Act to comment on the most controversial issues facing us today: government dishonesty, how to respond to terrorism, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the loss of our liberties, immigration, and the responsibility of the citizen to confront power for the common good.
Considered a "modern-day Thoreau" by Jonathon Kozol, Zinn's inspired writings address the reader as an active participant in history making. "We live in a beautiful country, writes Zinn, in the books opening chapter. But people who have no respect for human life, freedom, or justice have taken it over. It is now up to all of us to take it back."
Featuring essays penned over an eight-year period, A Power Governments Cannot Suppress is Howard Zinns first writerly work in several years, an invaluable post-9/11-era addition to the themes that run through his bestselling classic, A Peoples History Of the United States.
Howard Zinn is a veteran of World War II and author of many books and plays, including the million-selling classic, A Peoples History of the United States. For more information about Howard and his speaking schedule see www.citylights.comMore editions of Power Governments Cannot Suppress:
Printing in Deseret: Mormons, Economy, Politics and Utah's Incunabula, 1849-1851by Richard L. SaundersISBN 0874806631 (0-87480-663-1)
Hardcover, Univ of Utah Pr
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Radicalism in Americaby Sidney LensISBN 0870734741 (0-87073-474-1)
Hardcover, Schenkman Pub Co
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Review Text in American Historyby Irving L. GordonISBN 0877206066 (0-87720-606-6)
Softcover, Amsco School Pubns Inc
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Roughing Itby Mark TwainISBN 0870527088 (0-87052-708-8)
Softcover, Hippocrene Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Roughing It'Book summary:There is no nicer surprise for a reader than to discover that an acknowledged classic really does deliver the goods. Mark Twain's Roughing It is just such a book. The adventure tale is a delight from start to finish and is just as engrossing today as it was 125 years ago when it first appeared.
Roughing It tells the true-ish escapades of Twain in the American West. Although he clearly "speaks with forked tongue," Roughing It is informative as well as humorous. From stagecoach travel to the etiquette of prospecting, the modern reader gains considerable insight into that much-fictionalized time and place. Do you know about sagebrush, for example?
Sage-brush is very fair fuel, but as a vegetable it is a distinguished failure. Nothing can abide the taste of it but the jackass and his illegitimate child, the mule. But their testimony to its nutritiousness is worth nothing, for they will eat pine knots, or anthracite coal, or brass filings, or lead pipe, or old bottles, or anything that comes handy, and then go off looking as grateful as if they had had oysters for dinner.
Roughing It is informally structured around the narrator's attempts to strike it rich. He meets a motley, colorful crew in the process; many mishaps occur, and it shouldn't surprise you that Twain does not emerge a man of means. But he withstands it all in such a relentless good humor that his misfortune inspires laughter. Roughing It is wonderful entertainment and reminds you how funny the world can be--even its grimmer districts--when you're traveling with the right writer. [via] 
Seacoast Fortifications of the United States: An Introductory Historyby Emmanuel LewisISBN 0891412573 (0-89141-257-3)
Softcover, Naval Inst Pr
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Shay's Rebellion: The Making of an Agrarian Insurrectionby David SzatmaryISBN 0870234196 (0-87023-419-6)
Softcover, Univ of Massachusetts Pr
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A Sketch of the Life of Thomas Skidmoreby Amos GilbertISBN 0882860615 (0-88286-061-5)
Softcover, Charles H Kerr Pub Co
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The Spirit of St. Louisby Charles Augustus LindberghISBN 087351288X (0-87351-288-X)
Softcover, Minnesota Historical Society Pr
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The Story of Americaby John A. Scott, Elizabeth L. Newhouse, Alistair CookeISBN 0870448870 (0-87044-887-0)
Hardcover, National Geographic Society
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The Story of America: A National Geographic Picture Atlasby John Anthony ScottISBN 0870445081 (0-87044-508-1)
Hardcover, Natl Geographic Soc Childrens books
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The Story of America: A National Geographic Picture Atlasby National Geographic Society (U.S.), John Anthony Scott, National Geographic Book ServiceISBN 0870448889 (0-87044-888-9)
Hardcover, National Geographic Society
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Theological Interpretation of American Historyby C. Gregg SingerISBN 0875524265 (0-87552-426-5)
Softcover, Presbyterian & Reformed Pub Co
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The Tragedy of American Compassionby Charles Murray, Marvin N. OlaskyISBN 0891078630 (0-89107-863-0)
Softcover, Crossway Books
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The Tragedy of American Compassionby Marvin N. OlaskyISBN 0891076549 (0-89107-654-9)
Hardcover, Good News Pub
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Understanding America's Terrorist Crisis: What Should be Doneby Murray N. RothbardISBN 087000316X (0-87000-316-X)
Hardcover, Arlington House
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Victims: A True Story of the Civil Warby Phillip S. PaludanISBN 0870494422 (0-87049-442-2)
Softcover, Univ of Tennessee Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Victims: A True Story of the Civil War'Book summary:"Phillip Paludan has combined the findings of the social sciences with an exercise in la petite histoire to create an intriguing study. From his base point, the massacre of thirteen Unionist mountaineers at Shelton Laurel, North Carolina, the author expands the investigation to embrace larger issues, such as the impact of the Civil War on small communities, the causation and characteristics of guerrilla warfare, and the focus underlying human perversity." -Civil War History". . . the definitive history of the Shelton Laurel Massacre, but more important it is a pathbreaking study of a principal theater of the guerrilla aspect of the Civil War. Paludan has succeeded admirably in rooting a historically neglected topic in the lives of ordinary people." -Frank L. Byrne, American Historical Review"The questions Paludan asks about Shelton Laurel in 1863 are appropriate to My Lai in 1968 and Auschwitz in 1944. Victims is not only a good book; it is also an important book. And it is a profoundly disturbing book."-Emory M. Thomas, Georgia Historical Quarterly"Outwardly a superb analysis of the impact of war and war-time atrocity on the life of a remote mountain community, this slim volume harbors far-reaching implications for the study of class conflict and the modernization process in the Appalachian region." -Ron Eller, Appalachian JournalPhillip S. Paludan is a professor of history at the University of Illinois at Springfield. His previous books include War and Home: The Civil War Encounter, A People's Contest: The Union and the Civil War, and The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln.[via]More editions of Victims: A True Story of the Civil War:
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Waldenby Henry David ThoreauISBN 0879050934 (0-87905-093-4)
Softcover, Gibbs Smith
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Walden, or Life in the Woods : Selections from the American Classicby Henry David ThoreauISBN 0877736855 (0-87773-685-5)
Softcover, Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
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Wealth of Nationsby Adam SmithISBN 0879757051 (0-87975-705-1)
Hardcover, Prometheus Books, Publishers
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The Winter at Valley Forge, Survival and Victoryby James E. Knight, George GuzziISBN 089375739X (0-89375-739-X)
Softcover, Troll Communications Llc
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