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Alexander Dolgun's Story: An American in the Gulagby Patrick Watson, Alexander DolgunISBN 0394494970 (0-394-49497-0)
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America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975by George HerringISBN 0394345002 (0-394-34500-2)
Softcover, Knopf
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The American Image : Photographs from the National Archives, 1860-1960by National Archives Trust Fund Board Staff, Alan TrachtenbergISBN 0394738152 (0-394-73815-2)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The American Image: Photographs from the National Archives, 1860-1960by United StatesISBN 0394507983 (0-394-50798-3)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books
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American Languageby H. L. MenckenISBN 0394400755 (0-394-40075-5)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The American Language: An Inquiry into the Development of English in the United Statesby H. L. MenckenISBN 0394733150 (0-394-73315-0)
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Angela Davis: An Autobiographyby Angela Yvonne DavisISBN 0394489780 (0-394-48978-0)
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Ascent to Civilization: Archaeology of Early Manby John GowlettISBN 0394722663 (0-394-72266-3)
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Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slaveryby Leon F. LitwackISBN 0394743989 (0-394-74398-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Based on hitherto unexamined sources: interviews with ex-slaves, diaries and accounts by former slaveholders, this "rich and admirably written book" (Eugene Genovese, The New York Times Book Review) aims to show how, during the Civil War and after Emancipation, blacks and whites interacted in ways that dramatized not only their mutual dependency, but the ambiguities and tensions that had always been latent in "the peculiar institution."
Contents
1. "The Faithful Slave"
2. Black Liberators
3. Kingdom Comin'
4. Slaves No More
5. How Free is Free?
6. The Feel of Freedom: Moving About
7. Back to Work: The Old Compulsions
8. Back to Work: The New Dependency
9. The Gospel and the Primer
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Behind the Mask: On Sexual Demons, Sacred Mothers, Transvestites, Gangsters, Drifters and Other Japanese Cultural Heroesby Ian BurumaISBN 0394537750 (0-394-53775-0)
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The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925by Herbert G. GutmanISBN 0394724518 (0-394-72451-8)
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Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925by Herbert George GutmanISBN 0394471164 (0-394-47116-4)
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Blood Meridian, Or, the Evening Redness in the Westby Cormac McCarthyISBN 0394400275 (0-394-40027-5)
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The Book of Kellsby Peter BrownISBN 0394739604 (0-394-73960-4)
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Breaking with Moscowby Arkady N. ShevchenkoISBN 0394520556 (0-394-52055-6)
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The Cathedral Buildersby Jean GimpelISBN 039452893X (0-394-52893-X)
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The Chartists: Popular Politics in Industrial Revolutionby Dorothy ThompsonISBN 0394724747 (0-394-72474-7)
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China:the Revolution Continued: The Revolution Continuedby Jan Myrdal, Gun KessleISBN 0394419278 (0-394-41927-8)
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Comanchesby T. R. FehrenbachISBN 0394488563 (0-394-48856-3)
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Decent Interval: An Insider's Account of Saigon's Indecent Endby Frank SneppISBN 0394407431 (0-394-40743-1)
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Decent Interval: An Insider's Account of Saigon's Indecent End Told by the Cia's Chief Strategy Analyst in Vietnamby Frank SneppISBN 039472691X (0-394-72691-X)
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The Dragons of Edenby Carl SaganISBN 0394410459 (0-394-41045-9)
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"A history of the human brain from the big bang, fifteen billion years ago, to the day before yesterday...It's a delight."
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Einstein for Beginnersby Joseph SchwartzISBN 0394738012 (0-394-73801-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Eisenhower at War, 1943-1945by Dwight D. EisenhowerISBN 0394412370 (0-394-41237-0)
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Empireby Gore Vidal, Edgar BoxISBN 0394561236 (0-394-56123-6)
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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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The End of Reform : New Deal Liberalism in Recession and Warby Alan BrinkleyISBN 0394535731 (0-394-53573-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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When Franklin D. Roosevelt and his Democratic party won a landslide victory in the 1936 elections, the way seemed open for the New Deal to complete the restructuring of American government it had begun in 1933. But, as Alan Brinkley makes clear, no sooner were the votes counted than the New Deal began to encounter a series of crippling political and economic problems that stalled its agenda and forced an agonizing reappraisal of the liberal ideas that had shaped it -- a reappraisal still in progress when the United States entered World War II.
The wartime experience helped complete the transformation of New Deal liberalism. It muted Washington's hostility to the corporate world and diminished liberal faith in the capacity of government to reform capitalism. But it also helped legitimize Keynesian fiscal policies, reinforce commitments to social welfare, and create broad support for "full employment" as the centerpiece of postwar liberal hopes. By the end of the war, New Deal liberalism had transformed itself and assumed its modem form -- a form that is faring much less well today than almost anyone would have imagined a generation ago.
The End of Reform is a study of ideas and of the people who shaped them: Franklin Roosevelt, Henry Wallace, Harold Ickes, Henry Morgenthau, Jesse Jones, Tommy Corcoran, Leon Henderson, Marriner Eccles, Thurman Arnold, Alvin Hansen. It chronicles a critical moment in the history of modem American politics, and it speculates that the New Deal's retreat from issues of wealth, class, and economic power has contributed to present-day liberalism's travails. [via]More editions of The End of Reform : New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War:
Engels, Manchester, and the Working Classby Steven MarcusISBN 0394714067 (0-394-71406-7)
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Facing Mount Kenyaby J. KenyattaISBN 0394702107 (0-394-70210-7)
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The Fall of Public Manby Richard SennettISBN 0394724208 (0-394-72420-8)
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The Fateful Alliance: France, Russia, and the Coming of the First World Warby George F. KennanISBN 0394722310 (0-394-72231-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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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)
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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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Flashman's Ladyby George MacDonald FraserISBN 0394501357 (0-394-50135-7)
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The Frenchby Theodore ZeldinISBN 0394724216 (0-394-72421-6)
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Funeral Gamesby Mary RenaultISBN 0394520688 (0-394-52068-8)
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Future Shockby Alvin TofflerISBN 0394425863 (0-394-42586-3)
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The Gallic War, and Other Writingsby C. Julius CaesarISBN 0394602951 (0-394-60295-1)
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Great Issues in American History,1765-1865.by Richard HofstadterISBN 0394705416 (0-394-70541-6)
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Hirohito: Behind the Mythby Edward BehrISBN 0394580729 (0-394-58072-9)
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History of the Jews in Americaby Howard Morley SacharISBN 0394573536 (0-394-57353-6)
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Ideology and Popular Protestby George F. E. Rud±EISBN 0394739663 (0-394-73966-3)
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In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippinesby Stanley KarnowISBN 0394549759 (0-394-54975-9)
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The Inner Sea: The Mediterranean and Its Peopleby Robert FoxISBN 0394574524 (0-394-57452-4)
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Intrepid's Last Caseby William StevensonISBN 0394534301 (0-394-53430-1)
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Killing Mister Watsonby Peter MatthiessenISBN 0394554000 (0-394-55400-0)
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Make No Law : The Sullivan Case and the First Amendmentby Anthony LewisISBN 039458774X (0-394-58774-X)
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The Middle Passage: Impressions of Five Societies--British, French, and Dutch--In the West Indies and South Americaby Vidiadhas Surajprasad NaipaulISBN 0394746740 (0-394-74674-0)
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Murmurs of Earthby Carl SaganISBN 0394410475 (0-394-41047-5)
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Not by Fact Alone: Essays on the Writing and Reading of Historyby John CliveISBN 0394489535 (0-394-48953-5)
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Of a Fire on the Moonby Norman MailerISBN 0394620194 (0-394-62019-4)
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Our Nig, Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-Story White House, North, Showing That Slavery's Shadows Fall Even Thereby Harriet E. WilsonISBN 0394532104 (0-394-53210-4)
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Our Nig; Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Blackby Henry Louis Gates, H. E. WilsonISBN 0394715586 (0-394-71558-6)
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Out in the Noonday Sun: Edwardians in the Tropicsby Valerie PakenhamISBN 0394522567 (0-394-52256-7)
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Peasants, Rebels and Outcasts : The Underside of Modern Japanby Mikiso HaneISBN 0394710401 (0-394-71040-1)
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Piers Plowmanby William Langland, Margaret Anne WilliamsISBN 0394462599 (0-394-46259-9)
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Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Failby Frances Fox PivenISBN 0394726979 (0-394-72697-9)
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-- The mobilization of the unemployed during the Great Depression that gave rise to the Workers' Alliance of America
-- The industrial strikes that resulted in the formation of the CIO
-- The Southern Civil Rights Movement
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Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Failby Richard A. Cloward, Frances Fox PivenISBN 0394488407 (0-394-48840-7)
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Power and Civilityby Norbert Elias, Edmund JephcottISBN 0394711343 (0-394-71134-3)
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Power and Civility: The Civilizing Processby Norbert Elias, Edmund JephcottISBN 0394527690 (0-394-52769-0)
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The Praise Singerby Mary RenaultISBN 0394502736 (0-394-50273-6)
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The Prophet Outcast: Trotsky, 1924-1940.by Isaac DeutscherISBN 0394707486 (0-394-70748-6)
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Rascals in Paradiseby James A. Michener, A. Grove DayISBN 0394442202 (0-394-44220-2)
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Some craved power, some craved peace, others merely surrendered to fate.
Sam Comstock -- A sailor crazed by the South Sea Islands and driven to lead the ruthless mutiny. He envisioned himself a magnificent ruler -- but his dream became a nightmare.
Will Mariner -- A golden-haired youth whose ship was captured by hostile natives. He was the sole survivor and his charm turned his captor into slaves.
Captain Bligh -- Was he the infamous captain of the Bounty, the monster legend had made him? Here is the true story of Captain Bligh.
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The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revoltby Albert CamusISBN 0394442326 (0-394-44232-6)
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Report from a Chinese Village.by Jan MyrdalISBN 0394442679 (0-394-44267-9)
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Rockdale: The Growth Of An American Village In The Early Industrial Revolutionby Anthony F. C. WallaceISBN 0394421205 (0-394-42120-5)
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Russia under the Bolshevik Regime : Lenin and the Birth of the Totalitarian Stateby Richard PipesISBN 0394502426 (0-394-50242-6)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Savage Beauty : The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millayby Nancy MilfordISBN 039457589X (0-394-57589-X)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Savage Beauty : The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay'Book summary:Fans of Zelda, Nancy Milford's groundbreaking (and bestselling) biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald's tortured wife and muse, have been waiting impatiently since 1970 for Milford's promised follow-up about poet Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950). It's finally here, and they will not be disappointed. Milford's vivid narrative limns an electric personality with psychological acuity while capturing the freewheeling atmosphere of America in the turbulent years following World War I. After "Renascence" was published (when she was only 20) and she moved to Greenwich Village, Millay was the queen of bohemia, taking lovers with zest and voicing the reckless gaiety of a generation in her famous lyric, "My candle burns at both ends; / It will not last the night; / But, ah, my foes, and, oh, my friends-- / It gives a lovely light." With her flame-red hair, milk-white skin, and a voice that thrilled audiences (making her poetry readings a welcome source of income), Millay was the archetypal "new woman": powerful, passionate, and not to be ignored. But Milford makes it clear that her first loyalty was to her mother and sisters, and her deepest commitment to her writing. This juicy chronicle has famous names aplenty--critic Edmund Wilson and Masses editor Floyd Dell were among the men devastated by her refusal to be faithful--and lots of dissipation: Millay drank heavily and became addicted to morphine. It also takes a perceptive look at how an artist draws material from her life and at the strategies she uses to protect the wellsprings of creativity. Brief passages interspersed throughout delineating Milford's interactions with Norma Millay, the poet's younger sister and literary executor, might have been self-indulgent and self-aggrandizing; instead they offer intriguing snapshots of the complex process by which biography is made. The resulting book is a tour de force, and wildly entertaining as well. --Wendy Smith [via]
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A Short History of the United Statesby Allan Nevins, Henry Steele CommagerISBN 0394408926 (0-394-40892-6)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Six Menby Alistair CookeISBN 0394423526 (0-394-42352-6)
Hardcover, Knopf
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Slaves Without Masters; The Free Negro in the Antebellum South.by Ira BerlinISBN 039449041X (0-394-49041-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Social History of Artby Arnold HauserISBN 039470116X (0-394-70116-X)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Son of the Revolutionby Heng Liang, Judith Shapiro, Jerome A. CohenISBN 039452568X (0-394-52568-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Son of the Revolutionby Judith Shapiro, Liang Heng, Heng LiangISBN 0394722744 (0-394-72274-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Souvenirs and Prophecies: The Young Wallace Stevensby Wallace Stevens, Holly Bright StevensISBN 039448715X (0-394-48715-X)
Hardcover, Knopf
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Spaceby James A. MichenerISBN 0394505557 (0-394-50555-7)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Story of Cornby Betty FussellISBN 0394578058 (0-394-57805-8)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Technopoly : The Surrender of Culture to Technologyby Neil PostmanISBN 0394582721 (0-394-58272-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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There Is a River: The Black Struggle for Freedom in Americaby Vincent HardingISBN 0394711483 (0-394-71148-3)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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A Tinker and a Poor Man : John Bunyan and His Church, 1628-88by Christopher HillISBN 0394572424 (0-394-57242-4)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Talesby Bruno BettelheimISBN 0394497716 (0-394-49771-6)
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Utopia Unarmed : The Latin American Left and the Fall of Communismby Jorge G. CastanedaISBN 0394582594 (0-394-58259-4)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Virginia Adventure: Roanoke to James Towne An Archaeological and Historical Odysseyby Ivor Noel HumeISBN 0394564464 (0-394-56446-4)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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Walden and Other Writingsby Henry David Thoreau, Brooks Atkinson, Townsend ScudderISBN 0394604210 (0-394-60421-0)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Walt Whitman's America : A Cultural Biographyby David S. ReynoldsISBN 0394580230 (0-394-58023-0)
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Walter Lippmann and the American Centuryby Ronald SteelISBN 0394747313 (0-394-74731-3)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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What I Saw at the Revolution : A Political Life in the Reagan Eraby Peggy NoonanISBN 0394564952 (0-394-56495-2)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Whittaker Chambers: A Biographyby Sam TanenhausISBN 0394585593 (0-394-58559-3)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Who Built America: Working People and the Nation's Economy, Politics, Culture, and Societyby Bruce C. Levine, American Social History ProjectISBN 0394546636 (0-394-54663-6)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books
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Women and the American Experienceby Nancy WolochISBN 0394535154 (0-394-53515-4)
Hardcover, Knopf
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Writers on World War II: An Anthologyby Mordecai RichlerISBN 0394572580 (0-394-57258-0)
Hardcover, Daedalus Books
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