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Abe Lincoln's Hatby Martha Brenner, Donald CookISBN 0679849777 (0-679-84977-7)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Abe Lincoln's Hat'Book summary:Illus. in full color. Abraham Lincoln, one of our greatest presidents, started out in life as an absent-minded frontier lawyer. How did he nudge his memory? He stuck letters, court notes, contracts, and even his checkbook in his trademark top hat. When he took off his hat, it was all there! [via]
Abraham Lincoln: A Penguin Lifeby Thomas KeneallyISBN 0670031755 (0-670-03175-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Abraham Lincoln and the Unionby Oscar HandlinISBN 0673393402 (0-673-39340-2)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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Across the Linesby Carolyn ReederISBN 0689811330 (0-689-81133-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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America's First Dynastyby Richard BrookhiserISBN 0684868644 (0-684-86864-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'America's First Dynasty'Book summary:In the spirit of his earlier books, Alexander Hamilton: American and Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington, Richard Brookhiser produces an elegant, concise volume drawing on previous scholarship but offering a fresh perspective on four prickly generations of Adamses. Until David McCullough's John Adams became a surprise bestseller, the United States' second president and his descendants seldom had good press. Acknowledging John's essential role in the American Revolution and his son John Quincy's principled fight against slavery, contemporaries and historians nonetheless judged both men poor presidents, characterized by haughty pride and stiff-necked dislike of compromise. Charles Francis Adams, John Quincy's son, lost an almost certain chance to run for president as a Republican in 1872 by disdainfully announcing "that he would reject any nomination that had to be negotiated for;" the most famous book by Charles's son, The Education of Henry Adams (1907), implicitly blames Henry's failure to achieve the prominence of his forefathers on the loss of meaning and coherence in the modern, fragmented world. Tracing the lives and careers of these four men, Brookhiser strikes a balance between their struggles with a daunting heritage and battles with the often unappreciative outer world, identifying "the constant companion of the Adamses" as "the idea of greatness. Am I as great as my ancestors? As great as my contemporaries? Why doesn't the world recognize my greatness?" This proves a sensible organizing principle for his graceful reappraisal of a well-known but not often well-understood family. --Wendy Smith [via]
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American Gothic: The Story of America's Legendary Theatrical Family-Junius, Edwin, and John Wilkes Boothby Gene SmithISBN 0671873016 (0-671-87301-6)
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The Banished Children of Eveby Peter QuinnISBN 0670850764 (0-670-85076-4)
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Behind the Linesby Isabelle HollandISBN 0590451146 (0-590-45114-6)
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Beyond the River: The Untold Story of the Heroes of the Underground Railroadby Ann HagedornISBN 0684870665 (0-684-87066-5)
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Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Eraby Nicole EtchesonISBN 0700614923 (0-7006-1492-3)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Kansas
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era'Book summary:Few people would have expected bloodshed in Kansas Territory. After all, it had few slaves and showed few signs that slavery would even flourish. But civil war tore this territory apart in the 1850s and 60s, and "Bleeding Kansas" became a forbidding symbol for the nationwide clash over slavery that followed.
Many free-state Kansans seemed to care little about slaves, and many proslavery Kansans owned not a single slave. But the failed promise of the Kansas-Nebraska Act--when fraud in local elections subverted the settlers' right to choose whether Kansas would be a slave or free state--fanned the flames of war. Nicole Etcheson seeks to revise our understanding of this era by focusing on whites' concerns over their political liberties. The first comprehensive account of "Bleeding Kansas" in more than thirty years, her study re-examines the debate over slavery expansion to emphasize issues of popular sovereignty rather than slavery's moral or economic dimensions.
The free-state movement was a coalition of settlers who favored black rights and others who wanted the territory only for whites, but all were united by the conviction that their political rights were violated by nonresident voting and by Democratic presidents' heavy-handed administration of the territories. Etcheson argues that participants on both sides of the Kansas conflict believed they fought to preserve the liberties secured by the American Revolution and that violence erupted because each side feared the loss of meaningful self-governance.
Bleeding Kansas is a gripping account of events and people--rabble-rousing Jim Lane, zealot John Brown, Sheriff Sam Jones, and others--that examines the social milieu of the settlers along with the political ideas they developed.
As Etcheson demonstrates, the struggle over the political liberties of whites may have heightened the turmoil but led eventually to a broadening of the definition of freedom to include blacks. Her insightful re-examination sheds new light on this era and is essential reading for anyone interested in the ideological origins of the Civil War. [via]
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The Brothers' War: Civil War Letters to Their Loved Ones from the Blue and Grayby Annette TapertISBN 0679722114 (0-679-72211-4)
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Caesar: The Civil Warsby Julius CaesarISBN 0674990439 (0-674-99043-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Caesar: The Civil Wars'Book summary:Caesar (C. Iulius, 10244 BCE), statesman and soldier, defied the dictator Sulla; served in the Mithridatic wars and in Spain; pushed his way in Roman politics as a 'democrat' against the senatorial government; was the real leader of the coalition with Pompey and Crassus; conquered all Gaul for Rome; attacked Britain twice; was forced into civil war; became master of the Roman world; and achieved wide-reaching reforms until his murder. We have his books of Commentarii (notes): eight on his wars in Gaul, 5852 BC, including the two expeditions to Britain 5554, and three on the civil war of 4948. They are records of his own campaigns (with occasional digressions) in vigorous, direct, clear, unemotional style and in the third person, the account of the civil war being somewhat more impassioned.
The Loeb Classical Library edition of Caesar is in three volumes. Volume I is his Gallic War. The Alexandrian War, the African War and the Spanish War, commonly ascribed to Caesar by our manuscripts but of uncertain authorship, are collected in Volume III.
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The Causes of the American Civil Warby Edwin Charles RozwencISBN 0669827274 (0-669-82727-4)
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Citizen Shermanby Michael FellmanISBN 0679429662 (0-679-42966-2)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Citizen Sherman'Book summary:Bright, compulsively articulate, famous, loved, hated, and deeply troubled, William T. Sherman was perhaps one of the most compelling personalities in American history. This groundbreaking, in-depth portrait of this significant Civil War figure reveals much about Sherman--and about the concept of manliness in his culture. 8 pages of photos. [via]
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Citizen Sherman: A Life of William Tecumseh Shermanby Michael FellmanISBN 0700608400 (0-7006-0840-0)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Kansas
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Civil War Kansas: Reaping the Whirlwindby Albert CastelISBN 0700608729 (0-7006-0872-9)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Kansas
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Civil War Memoirsby Philip SheridanISBN 0553293796 (0-553-29379-6)
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Clash of Kingsby George R.R. MartinISBN 0553579908 (0-553-57990-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Clash of Kings'Book summary:How does he do it? George R.R. Martin's high fantasy weaves a spell sufficient to seduce even those who vowed never to start a doorstopper fantasy series again (the first book--A Game of Thrones--runs over 700 pages). A Clash of Kings is longer and even more grim, but Martin continues to provide compelling characters in a vividly real world.
The Seven Kingdoms have come apart. Joffrey, Queen Cersei's sadistic son, ascends the Iron Throne following the death of Robert Baratheon, the Usurper, who won it in battle. Queen Cersei's family, the Lannisters, fight to hold it for him. Both the dour Stannis and the charismatic Renly Baratheon, Robert's brothers, also seek the throne. Robb Stark, declared King in the North, battles to avenge his father's execution and retrieve his sister from Joffrey's court. Daenerys, the exiled last heir of the former ruling family, nurtures three dragons and seeks a way home. Meanwhile the Night's Watch, sworn to protect the realm from dangers north of the Wall, dwindle in numbers, even as barbarian forces gather and beings out of legend stalk the Haunted Forest.
Sound complicated? It is, but fine writing makes this a thoroughly satisfying stew of dark magic, complex political intrigue, and horrific bloodshed. --Nona Vero [via]
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Commander of All Lincoln s Armies: A Life of General Henry W. Halleckby John F. MarszalekISBN 0674014936 (0-674-01493-6)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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The Confederates and Federals at Warby H.C.B. RogersISBN 0711004064 (0-7110-0406-4)
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Confessions of Nat Turnerby William StyronISBN 0679736638 (0-679-73663-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Confessions of Nat Turner'Book summary:In the late summer of 1831, in a remote section of southeastern Virginia, there took place the only effective, sustained revolt in the annals of American Negro slavery...
The revolt was led by a remarkable Negro preacher named Nat Turner, an educated slave who felt himself divinely ordained to annihilate all the white people in the region.
The Confessions of Nat Turner is narrated by Nat himself as he lingers in jail through the cold autumnal days before his execution. The compelling story ranges over the whole of Nat's Life, reaching its inevitable and shattering climax that bloody day in August.
The Confessions of Nat Turner is not only a masterpiece of storytelling; is also reveals in unforgettable human terms the agonizing essence of Negro slavery. Through the mind of a slave, Willie Styron has re-created a catastrophic event, and dramatized the intermingled miseries, frustrations--and hopes--which caused this extraordinary black man to rise up out of the early mists of our history and strike down those who held his people in bondage.
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Controversies & Commanders: Dispatches from the Army of the Potomacby Stephen W. SearsISBN 0618057064 (0-618-05706-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Deeds of Valor: How America's Civil War Heroes Won the Congressional Medal of Honorby W.F. Beyer, O.F. Keydel, Walter F. Beyer, Oscar F. KeydelISBN 0681415673 (0-681-41567-3)
Hardcover, Longmeadow Pr
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The Emancipator's Wifeby Barbara HamblyISBN 0553381938 (0-553-38193-8)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Emancipator's Wife'Book summary:As a girl growing up in Kentucky, she lived a sheltered, privileged life filled with picnics and plantation balls. Vivacious, impulsive, and intoxicated by politics, she is a Todd of Lexington, an aristocratic family whose ancestors defeated the British. But no one knows her secret fears and anxieties. Although she is courted by the most eligible suitors in the land, including future senator Stephen Douglas, it is a gangly lawyer from Illinois who captures her heart. After a stormy courtship and a broken engagement, Abraham Lincoln will marry twenty-four-year-old Mary Todd and give her a ring inscribed with the words Love Is Eternal.
But their happiness wont last nearly so long. Their first child will be born under the gathering clouds of a civil war, and three more follow. As Lincolns star rises, the pleasure-loving Mary learns, often the hard way, the rules of being a politicians wife. But by the time the fiery storm of war passes, tragedy will have claimed two sons, scandal will shadow her days as First Lady, and an assassins bullet will take Lincoln himself, leaving Mary alone and all but forgotten by the nation that owed her husband its survival.
Yet it is in the years to come that Mary Todd Lincoln will truly come into her own. In public, she will fight to preserve Lincolns memory even as she battles a bitterly contested insanity trial. In private, she will struggle with depression and addiction as she endures the betrayalsboth real and imaginedof family and friends.
With a gifted novelists imagination and a historians eye for detail, Barbara Hambly tells a story of astonishing scope, richly peopled with real-life characters and their fictional counterparts, a tour-de-force tale of power, politics, and the role of women in nineteenth- century America. The result is a Mary Todd Lincoln few have seen and none will forgetthe fascinating, controversial woman of whom her husband could say: My wife is as handsome as when she was a girl and I fell in love with her; and what is more, I have never fallen out Mary Todd, the woman who loved Abraham Lincoln.
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Follow the Drinking Gourdby Jeanette WinterISBN 0679819975 (0-679-81997-5)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Follow the Drinking Gourd'Book summary:Illus. in full color. "Winter's story begins with a peg-leg sailor who aids slaves on their escape on the Underground Railroad. While working for plantation owners, Peg Leg Joe teaches the slaves a song about the drinking gourd (the Big Dipper). A couple, their son, and two others make their escape by following the song's directions. Rich paintings interpret the strong story in a clean, primitive style enhanced by bold colors. The rhythmic compositions have an energetic presence that's compelling. A fine rendering of history in picturebook format."--(starred) Booklist. [via]
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Frederick Douglass Fights for Freedomby Margaret DavidsonISBN 0590422189 (0-590-42218-9)
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A Game of Thronesby George R.R. MartinISBN 0553381687 (0-553-38168-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Game of Thrones'Book summary:Readers of epic fantasy series are: (1) patient--they are left in suspense between each volume, (2) persistent--they reread or at least review the previous book(s) when a new installment comes out, (3) strong--these 700-page doorstoppers are heavy, and (4) mentally agile--they follow a host of characters through a myriad of subplots. In A Game of Thrones, the first book of a projected six, George R.R. Martin rewards readers with a vividly real world, well-drawn characters, complex but coherent plotting, and beautifully constructed prose, which Locus called "well above the norms of the genre."
Martin's Seven Kingdoms resemble England during the Wars of the Roses, with the Stark and Lannister families standing in for the Yorks and Lancasters. The story of these two families and their struggle to control the Iron Throne dominates the foreground; in the background is a huge, ancient wall marking the northern border, beyond which barbarians, ice vampires, and direwolves menace the south as years-long winter advances. Abroad, a dragon princess lives among horse nomads and dreams of fiery reconquest.
There is much bloodshed, cruelty, and death, but A Game of Thrones is nevertheless compelling; it garnered a Nebula nomination and won the 1996 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel. So, on to A Clash of Kings! --Nona Vero [via]
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Ghost Cadetby Elaine Marie AlphinISBN 0590452444 (0-590-45244-4)
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Grant's Lieutenants: From Cairo to Vicksburgby Steven E. WoodworthISBN 0700611274 (0-7006-1127-4)
Hardcover, Univ Pr of Kansas
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The Greatest Nation of the Earth: Republican Economic Policies During the Civil Warby Heather Cox RichardsonISBN 0674362136 (0-674-36213-6)
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Harriet Tubman: Freedom's Trailblazerby Kathleen Kudlinski, Robert BrownISBN 0689848668 (0-689-84866-8)
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Honor's Voice : The Transformation of Abraham Lincolnby Douglas L. WilsonISBN 067940788X (0-679-40788-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Illustrated History of the Civil Warby Henry Steele CommagerISBN 0671068067 (0-671-06806-7)
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In a Dark Gardenby Frank Gill SlaughterISBN 0671803948 (0-671-80394-8)
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John Brownby W. E. B. Du Bois, David R. RoedigerISBN 0679783539 (0-679-78353-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'John Brown'Book summary:A moving cultural biography of abolitionist martyr John Brown, by one of the most important African-American intellectuals of the twentieth century.
In the history of slavery and its legacy, John Brown looms large as a hero whose deeds partly precipitated the Civil War. As Frederick Douglass wrote: "When John Brown stretched forth his arm ... the clash of arms was at hand." DuBois's biography brings Brown stirringly to life and is a neglected classic. [via]
Joseph E. Johnston and the Defense of Richmondby Steven H. NewtonISBN 0700609210 (0-7006-0921-0)
Hardcover, Univ Pr of Kansas
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Julius Caesarby William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine, Barbara A. MowatISBN 0671722719 (0-671-72271-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Julius Caesar'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's most political plays, Julius Caesar continued Shakespeare's interest in Roman history, first developed in Titus Andronicus. Drawing on Plutarch, the great historian of Rome, Shakespeare dramatises one of the most crucial moments in Roman history--the assassination of Julius Caesar. Loved by the Roman crowd but increasingly feared by the Senators, Caesar increasingly shows signs of his desire to abolish the Republic and crown himself emperor. A conspiracy is hatched, led by Cassius and Brutus, who murder Caesar on the steps of the Capitol. Mourning over his dead friend's body, Mark Antony gives one of the famous rhetorical speeches in literature, asking "Friends, Romans, Countrymen" to lament Caesar's death, privately vowing to "let slip the dogs of war" against those who have shed Caesar's blood. Antony joins forces with Caesar's son Octavius to defeat Cassius and Brutus in battle, and establish an uneasy alliance whose collapse is dramatised in Shakespeare's later play Antony and Cleopatra. Written at the end of Queen Elizabeth's reign, Julius Caesar has been seen by many as a radically pro-Republican play which sailed close to the political wind of the time. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Leeby Douglas Southall FreemanISBN 0684829533 (0-684-82953-3)
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Lee: An Abridgment in One Volume of the Four-Volume R.E. Lee by Douglas Southall Freemanby Douglas Southall Freeman, Richard Barksdale HarwellISBN 0684174278 (0-684-17427-8)
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The Long Road to Gettysburgby Jim MurphyISBN 0618051570 (0-618-05157-0)
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Major Problems in the Civil War and Reconstructionby Michael PermanISBN 0669201480 (0-669-20148-0)
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Meet John Trowby Thomas DyjaISBN 0670030996 (0-670-03099-6)
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Momentous Events, Vivid Memoriesby David B. PillemerISBN 0674004183 (0-674-00418-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Momentous Events, Vivid Memories'Book summary:The bombing of Pearl Harbor, the assassination of President Kennedy, the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger: every generation has unforgettable events, the shared memory of which can create fleeting intimacy among strangers. These public memories, combined with poignant personal moments--the first day of college, a baseball game with one's father, praise from a mentor--are the critical shaping events of individual lives.
Although experimental memory studies have long been part of empirical psychology, and psychotherapy has focused on repressed or traumatizing memories, relatively little attention has been paid to the inspiring, touching, amusing, or revealing moments that highlight most lives. What makes something unforgettable? How do we learn to share the significance of memories?
David Pillemer's research, brought together in this gracefully written book, extends the current study of narrative and specific memory. Drawing on a variety of evidence and methods--cognitive and developmental psychology, cross-cultural study, psychotherapy case studies, autobiographies and diaries--Pillemer elaborates on five themes: the function of memory; how children learn to construct and share personal memories; memory as a complex interactive system of image, emotion, and narrative; individual and group differences in memory function and performance; and how unique events linger in memory and influence lives. A provocative last chapter, full of striking examples, considers potential variations in memory across gender, culture, and personality. Momentous Events, Vivid Memories is itself a compelling and memorable book.
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Monitor Chronicles : One Sailor's Account:Today's Campaign to Recover the Civil War Wreckby Mariners' Museum Newport News, Va. Staff, Denise RoyISBN 0684869977 (0-684-86997-7)
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My Brother Sam Is Deadby Christopher Collier, James Lincoln CollierISBN 059042792X (0-590-42792-X)
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The Narrative of Sojourner Truthby Margaret WashingtonISBN 067974035X (0-679-74035-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Narrative of Sojourner Truth'Book summary:Narrative of Sojourner Truth is one of the most important documents of slavery ever written, as well as being a partial autobiography of the woman who became a pioneer in the struggles for racial and sexual equality. With an eloquence that resonates more than a century after its original publication in 1850, the narrative bears witness to Sojourner Truth's thirty years of bondage in upstate New York and to the mystical revelations that turned her into a passionate and indefatigable abolitionist.
In this new edition, which has been edited and extensively annotated by the distinguished scholar and biographer of Sojourner Truth, Margaret Washington, Truth's testimony takes on added dimensions: as a lens into the little-known world of northern slavery; as a chronicle of spiritual conversion; and as an inspiring account of a black woman striving for personal and political empowerment. [via]More editions of The Narrative of Sojourner Truth:
Over Lincoln's Shoulder: The Committee on the Conduct of the Warby Bruce TapISBN 0700608710 (0-7006-0871-0)
Hardcover, Univ Pr of Kansas
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The Passionate War: The Narrative History of the Spanish Civil Warby Peter WydenISBN 067125331X (0-671-25331-X)
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The Passionate War: The Narrative History of the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939by Peter WydenISBN 0671253301 (0-671-25330-1)
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The Portable Abraham Lincolnby Andrew DelbancoISBN 0670840882 (0-670-84088-2)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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The Presidency of Abraham Lincolnby Phillip S. PaludanISBN 0700606718 (0-7006-0671-8)
Hardcover, University Press of Kansas
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The Presidency of Abraham Lincolnby Phillip Shaw PaludanISBN 0700607455 (0-7006-0745-5)
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Quinn's Bookby William KennedyISBN 0670804371 (0-670-80437-1)
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Red Victory: A History of the Russian Civil Warby W. Bruce LincolnISBN 0671732862 (0-671-73286-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Red Victory: A History of the Russian Civil War'Book summary:Using material from newly-opened archives, the author explores the years from 1918 to 1921 when the Russians came to know the full dimensions of the revolution that had begun in 1917. This book traces the story of Russia's passage through the shattering crises that ravaged their land. [via]
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River Run Red: The Fort Pillow Massacre In The American Civil Warby Andrew WardISBN 0670034401 (0-670-03440-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Road to Appomattoxby Bill I. WileyISBN 0689702108 (0-689-70210-8)
Softcover, Macmillan Pub Co
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Selected Speeches and Writingsby Abraham LincolnISBN 0679737316 (0-679-73731-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Sheridan : The Life and Wars of General Phil Sheridanby Morris, Roy, Jr.ISBN 0679743987 (0-679-74398-7)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Sherman's Marchby Cynthia BassISBN 0553375474 (0-553-37547-4)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Silence On The Mountain: Stories Of Terror, Betrayal, And Forgetting In Guatemalaby Daniel WilkinsonISBN 0618221395 (0-618-22139-5)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Silentby Jack DannISBN 0553380389 (0-553-38038-9)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Silent'Book summary:Civil War fiction of the 1990s, following the lead of filmmaker Ken Burns and historian Shelby Foote, tends to explore hagiographic themes, espousing platitudes about political self-determination, national reconciliation, and the liberation of those in bondage. Jack Dann's The Silent is a wildly eccentric exception to this rule that reads like a prequel to R.E.M.'s Fables of the Reconstruction. The novel's narrator, Mundy McDowell, is a 14-year-old witness to the fighting in the second year of what his neighbors would call "the War of the Rebellion." After sneaking away to watch the boys in gray fall in battle, Mundy returns in time to see his house burned and his mother raped and murdered by bloodthirsty Yankees. From this point on, he refrains from speaking to the strange visitors--including soldiers and the spirits of dead slaves--who start inhabiting the environs around his home.
Although written in the coarse first-person style associated with Huckleberry Finn, The Silent has a structure and imagery that can accommodate the psychological realism of Gunter Grass and Jerzy Kosinski. (In fact, Dann cites Kosinski's The Painted Bird as one of his inspirations.) If you enjoy Civil War novels but are tired of sermonizing, The Silent may be the treat you are looking for. --John M. Anderson [via]
Smithsonian's Great Battles & Battlefields of the Civil War: A Definitive Field Guide Based on the Award-Winning Television Series by Mastervisionby Edwin C. Bearss, Jay WertzISBN 0688135498 (0-688-13549-8)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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A Song of Stoneby Iain M. BanksISBN 0684855364 (0-684-85536-4)
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Stonewallby Stephen Gammell, Jean FritzISBN 069811552X (0-698-11552-X)
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Thunder along the Mississippi : The River Battles That Split the Confederacyby Jack D. CoombeISBN 0553379674 (0-553-37967-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Tragedy of Julius Caesarby William Shakespeare, David M. BevingtonISBN 0553212966 (0-553-21296-6)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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The Union Divided: Party Conflict in the Civil War Northby Mark E. NeelyISBN 0674007425 (0-674-00742-5)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Unto This Hourby Tom WickerISBN 0670521930 (0-670-52193-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Voices from the Civil Warby Milton MeltzerISBN 0690048025 (0-690-04802-5)
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The War for the Unionby Allan NevinsISBN 0684104296 (0-684-10429-6)
Hardcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The War for the Union'Book summary:With The Organized War to Victory: 1864-1865, Allan Nevins completes his masterly study of the American Civil War. The qualities of clarity, absolute command of the sources, and full recognition of the drama inherent in the theme, which have distinguished the previous volumes can all be found here as well. And there is something more: a communication without sentimentality of the heartbreak of this national tragedy for the victors as well as the vanquished. ("He seemed," wrote one observer of President Lincoln, "to be in mourning for all the dead of all the endless battles.") Nevins provides the reader with an analysis of the social and economic effects of the conflict which is outstanding for wisdom and depth.Allan Nevins won the National Book Award for The Organized War to Victory: 1864-1865 and The Organized War: 1863-1864, the preceding volume in The War for the Union.All four volumes of the War for the Union are currently available from Konecky & Konecky. [via]
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The Wind Done Goneby Alice RandallISBN 0618219064 (0-618-21906-4)
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Woe to Live Onby Daniel WoodrellISBN 0671001361 (0-671-00136-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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