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About Faceby David H. Hackworth, Julie ShermanISBN 0671526928 (0-671-52692-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'About Face'Book summary:From Library Journal: Authentic combat leaders--the real warriors--are apt to be professional misfits, especially off the battlefield. In this book America's most decorated living soldier tells his life story in formidable detail with outstanding battlefield realism. Colonel Hackworth left the Army and went into exile over the conduct of the Vietnam War. Like all good autobiographies, his often tells more than he intended. This is as earnest and self-revealing as Anthony B. Herbert's Herbert: The Making of a Soldier (LJ 9/1/82), but less laconic. A rousing good book which will be useful to military professionals as well. Military Book Club main selection. - Raymond L. Puffer, U.S. Air Force History Prog., Los Angeles Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. [via]
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About Face/the Odyssey of an American Warriorby David H. Hackworth, Julie ShermanISBN 0671695347 (0-671-69534-7)
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Abraham Lincoln and the Road to Emancipation, 1861-1865by William K. KlingamanISBN 0670867543 (0-670-86754-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Acheson: The Secretary of State Who Created the American Worldby James ChaceISBN 0674000811 (0-674-00081-1)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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All Too Human: The Love Story of Jack and Jackie Kennedyby Edward KleinISBN 0671501917 (0-671-50191-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All Too Human : The Love Story of Jack and Jackie Kennedy'Book summary:Edward Klein shows that, despite their glamorous public lives, the Kennedys were as human as the rest of us. Through details on the couple's most intimate moments, including Jackie's defloration in a Paris elevator, and her amusing, albeit catty, disposition (kept under wraps because of her political standing), the ivory tower of their existence seems less out of reach. With chapter titles such as "Indiscreet," "Love Lies Bleeding," and "Pleasure First" the book reads a bit like a romance novel, but with a biting touch of reality. [via]
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America's Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassisby Sarah BradfordISBN 0670891916 (0-670-89191-6)
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American Coloniesby Eric Foner, Alan TaylorISBN 0670872822 (0-670-87282-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Colonies'Book summary:In American Colonies award-winning historian Alan Taylor challenges the traditional Anglocentric focus of colonial history by exploring the multitude of cultural influences out of which "America" ultimately emerged. From the Siberian migrations across the Bering Strait fifteen thousand years ago and the European expeditions of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries through the nineteenth-century exploration and occupation of the Hawaiian Islands, Taylor traces the complex ecological, ethnic, and economic history and colonization of the New World from coast to coast, from the Canadian north to the Pacific rim.
Examining the repeatedly overlooked influence of the continent's natives upon the colonists and the resulting mutual dependence of the two, Taylor presents a unique and revelatory view of colonial North America. European colonists, African slaves, and native peoples met one another and interacted at a pace and intensity unparalleled in global history. The effects of this staggering confluence of cultural, ecological, military, diplomatic, and economic interests are still being felt in America today. This fascinating and involving history of the origins of the United States will provoke and appeal to all readers of American history.
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The American Heritage New History of the Civil Warby Bruce Catton, James M. McPhersonISBN 0670868043 (0-670-86804-3)
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American History in American Thought:Christopher Columbus to Henry Adams: Christopher Columbus to Henry Adamsby Bert James LoewenbergISBN 067120856X (0-671-20856-X)
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An American Life: The Autobiographyby Ronald Reagan, Julie RubensteinISBN 0671746685 (0-671-74668-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An American Life: The Autobiography'Book summary:Ronald Reagans autobiography is a work of major historical importance. Here, in his own words, is the story of his lifepublic and privatetold in a book both frank and compellingly readable.
Few presidents have accomplished more, or been so effective in changing the direction of government in ways that are both fundamental and lasting, than Ronald Reagan. Certainly no president has more dramatically raised the American spirit, or done so much to restore national strength and self-confidence.
Here, then, is a truly American success storya great and inspiring one. From modest beginnings as the son of a shoe salesman in Tampico, Illinois, Ronald Reagan achieved first a distinguished career in Hollywood and then, as governor of California and as president of the most powerful nation in the world, a career of public service unique in our history.
Ronald Reagans account of that rise is told here with all the uncompromising candor, modesty, and wit that made him perhaps the most able communicator ever to occupy the White House, and also with the sense of drama of a gifted natural storyteller.
He tells us, with warmth and pride, of his early years and of the elements that made him, in later life, a leader of such stubborn integrity, courage, and clear-minded optimism. Reading the account of this childhood, we understand how his parents, struggling to make ends meet despite family problems and the rigors of the Depression, shaped his belief in the virtues of American lifethe need to help others, the desire to get ahead and to get things done, the deep trust in the basic goodness, values, and sense of justice of the American peoplevirtues that few presidents have expressed more eloquently than Ronald Reagan.
With absolute authority and a keen eye for the details and the anecdotes that humanize history, Ronald Reagan takes the reader behind the scenes of his extraordinary career, from his first political experiences as president of the Screen Actors Guild (including his first meeting with a beautiful young actress who was later to become Nancy Reagan) to such high points of his presidency as the November 1985 Geneva meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev, during which Reagan invited the Soviet leader outside for a breath of fresh air and then took him off for a walk and a man-to-man chat, without aides, that set the course for arms reduction and charted the end of the Cold War.
Here he reveals what went on behind his decision to enter politics and run for the governorship of California, the speech nominating Barry Goldwater that first made Reagan a national political figure, his race for the presidency, his relations with the members of his own cabinet, and his frustrations with Congress.
He gives us the details of the great themes and dramatic crises of his eight years in office, from Lebanon to Grenada, from the struggle to achieve arms control to tax reform, from Iran-Contra to the visits abroad that did so much to reestablish the United States in the eyes of the world as a friendly and peaceful power. His narrative is full of insights, from the unseen dangers of Gorbachevs first visit to the United States to Reagans own personal correspondence with major foreign leaders, as well as his innermost feelings about life in the White House, the assassination attempt, his familyand the enduring love between himself and Mrs. Reagan.
An American Life is a warm, richly detailed, and deeply human book, a brilliant self-portrait, a significant work of history. [via]
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The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877by John A. GarratyISBN 0673991970 (0-673-99197-0)
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The American People: Creating a Nation and a Society To 1877by Gary B. Nash, Allen F. Davis, John R. Howe, Julie Roy Jeffrey, Peter Frederick, Alan M. WinklerISBN 0673985768 (0-673-98576-8)
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The American Religion: The Emergence of the Post-Christian Nationby Harold BloomISBN 0671867377 (0-671-86737-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The American Religion : The Emergence of the Post-Christian Nation'Book summary:The best-selling author of the controversial The Book of J presents some eye-opening ideas about the state of Christianity in the United States. 50,000 first printing. National ad/promo. BOMC & QPB Alt. [via]
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Andrew Jackson & His Indian Warsby Robert V. ReminiISBN 0670910252 (0-670-91025-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Andrew Jackson & His Indian Wars'Book summary:Like many of his Scots-Irish contemporaries on the western frontier of the early United States, Andrew Jackson grew up despising and fearing his Indian neighbors. He proved to be a formidable enemy, campaigning against the Cherokee, Creeks, Chickasaws, and other peoples, some of them former allies against England in the Revolution and the War of 1812. In doing so, he established precedents that his compatriots would follow for the rest of the 19th century.
Robert Remini, the National Book Award-winning biographer of Jackson, here turns his attention to Jackson's relations with the Indian nations of the American South. Those relations, he writes, were tempered by the racism of the day, but, as both general and president, Jackson was also unusual in enforcing rights guaranteed to those nations by treaty, even in instances when he disagreed with the terms. Despite his sense of justice, Jackson kept to his conviction that "Indians had to be shunted to one side or removed to make the land safe for white people to cultivate and settle," and during his tenure as president he pursued a policy of forced removal through which the Indian nations were relocated to the so-called Indian territories west of the Mississippi River, which in turn would be overrun only a few years later.
Though critical of Jackson's policies and actions, Remini suggests that removal saved many of the eastern Indian nations from almost certain annihilation. That view, while capably argued, is controversial, and some scholars of American Indian history are sure to take issue with it. Still, this is a valuable addition to the historical literature, one of interest to general readers as well as Remini's fellow historians. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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The Arrogance of Power: The Secret World of Richard Nixonby Anthony Summers, Robbyn SwanISBN 0670871516 (0-670-87151-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Arrogance of Power: The Secret World of Richard Nixon'Book summary:Anthony Summers is the past master of scandal, the man who brought you Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe and that unforgettable (alleged) eyewitness account of J. Edgar Hoover in a flouncy black dress. Greater experts than I must rule on Summers's exhaustively researched portrait of Richard Nixon, The Arrogance of Power, but it sure is one racy read. Summers depicts a Nixon stoned out of his mind on Seconal, single-malt Scotch, Dilantin, speed, and clinical paranoia, pummeling his wife, Pat (who was rumored to have once been rescued by the Secret Service from drunkenly drowning in a bathtub). Summers's Nixon apparently took Mickey Cohen Mob money to fund his anti-Semitic, salacious smear campaign against Helen Gahagan Douglas to get his Senate start; framed Alger Hiss with a fake typewriter; traded gold for POWs with Vietcong; and issued orders to bomb Damascus and Jordan and nuke Vietnam and Korea (orders that were ignored until Nixon sobered up in the morning). His favorite limo was the SS100X that JFK died in. Nixon's shrink reportedly also treated Rita Hayworth, spoke like Dr. Strangelove, and used "Pavlovian technique" to "brainwash Nixon into becoming a better person." No luck.
Summers's Nixon favored the Greek generals who tortured pro-democracy types, and took a bribe from Göring's pal Nicolae Malaxa, who, thanks to Nixon, traded his Romanian mansion (in which thousands of Jews were tortured and killed) for a posh Manhattan apartment. Summers's most fascinating stuff concerns the Howard Hughes/Castro/Watergate connection. Did Nixon order CIA/Mafia plots to kill Castro? Did Robert Maheu (said to have inspired Mission: Impossible) arrange "sex services" and "assassination planning" for the CIA, and spy on Jean Peters and Ava Gardner for Howard Hughes? Did Hughes give big money to Nixon under the guise of saving the fast-food "Nixonburger" franchise of Richard's brother Donald Nixon (whom Richard had the FBI spy on)? Did the Castro plot get JFK killed, as Haldeman suspected? Was the Watergate break-in (one of perhaps 100 Nixon break-ins) intended to seize information about Nixon's Hughes loans and Castro plots?
Summers tries to assess his massive data while he's presenting it, and he doesn't credit every wild tale equally. Still, without him, I would never have heard about Castro's alleged ex-girlfriend, "the Mata Hari of the Caribbean," hired by future Watergate burglars to re-seduce Castro and slip two poison pills in his coffee. But she hid the pills in her cold-cream jar, and when she took them out in their Havana Hilton bathroom, they'd melted. Besides, her close encounter with the leader left her "torn by feelings of love." The Arrogance of Power won't give you this feeling. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Ageby Daniel T. RodgersISBN 0674002016 (0-674-00201-6)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age'Book summary:The title Atlantic Crossings refers to the cross-pollination of social thinking between the United States and Europe (primarily Britain) in the first half of the 20th century. Princeton history professor Daniel T. Rodgers's extensive narrative shows that while many Americans saw themselves as essentially isolationist, many ideas that influenced their daily lives, such as city planning and concepts of social security, were not homegrown. A network of government planners, academics, and concerned citizens communicated back and forth across the Atlantic; their correspondence was marked by controversy, and an aversion to "non-American" ideas persists in American social planning to this day (Rodgers notes the scuffles over health care reform in the early 1990s as one example). Rodgers has assembled a prodigious mountain of facts, and he's written a credible and comprehensive account of how people on both sides of the Atlantic contributed in sometimes surprising ways to the social reforms we consider utterly American. --Robert McNamara [via]
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The Battle of New Orleans : Andrew Jackson and America's First Military Victoryby Robert V. ReminiISBN 0670885517 (0-670-88551-7)
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The Bay of Pigs: The Untold Storyby Peter WydenISBN 0671254138 (0-671-25413-8)
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Before the Wind: The Memoir of an American Sea Captain, 1808-1833by Susan Fels, Charles TyngISBN 0670886327 (0-670-88632-7)
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Behind Japanese Lines: An American Guerilla in the Philippinesby Bernard Norling, Ray C. HuntISBN 0671649604 (0-671-64960-4)
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Blind Ambitionby John Wesley DeanISBN 0671812483 (0-671-81248-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blind Ambition'Book summary:This New York Times bestseller is an insider's account of the fall of Richard Nixon and has remained an indispensable source into Nixon's presidency. BLIND AMBITION is an autobiographical account of a young lawyer who accelerated to the top of the Federal power structure to become Counsel to the President at thirty years of age, only to discover that when reaching the top he had touched the bottom. Most striking in this chronicle is its honesty. Dean spares no one, including himself. But, as TIME magazine noted, "Dean survived, despite the opposition of powerful foes...because he had no false story to protect and he had an amazing ability to recall the truth."
"(Dean's) lawyer warned him before he testified, 'Don't waste their time telling them what a nice guy you are.' He has apparently taken this advice to heart." (New York Times Book Review) [via]
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Blind Ambition: The White House Yearsby John DeanISBN 0671224387 (0-671-22438-7)
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The Brethren: Inside The Supreme Courtby Bob WoodwardISBN 0671241109 (0-671-24110-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Brethren: Inside The Supreme Court'Book summary:The Brethren is the first detailed behind-the-scenes account of the Supreme Court in action. Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong have pierced its secrecy to give us an unprecedented view of the Chief and Associate Justices -- maneuvering, arguing, politicking, compromising and making decisions that affect every major area of American life. [via]
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Causes of the Civil Warby Kenneth M. StamppISBN 0671751557 (0-671-75155-7)
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Crazy Horse: A Lifeby Larry McMurtryISBN 0670882348 (0-670-88234-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crazy Horse: A Life'Book summary:In writing his superb life of Crazy Horse, Larry McMurtry faced the same obstacle as every previous biographer of the Oglala Sioux icon: a notable paucity of facts. This didn't inhibit such chroniclers as Mari Sandoz or Stephen Ambrose (whose dual portrait of Crazy Horse and George Custer featured a certain amount of authorial ventriloquism). In this case, however, the shortage of documentation actually works to the reader's advantage. Unencumbered by reams of scholarly detail, McMurtry's book has the shapeliness and inevitability of a fine novella. The author may describe it as an "exercise in assumption, conjecture, and surmise"--but his phrase does scant justice to this elegant, admirably scrupulous portrait.
As McMurtry recounts, Crazy Horse was born around 1840 in what is now South Dakota. Already the arrival of white settlers--who brought with them such mixed blessings as metal tools, firearms, and smallpox--had begun to transform the culture of the Plains Indians. But soon a more ominous note crept into the relationship: "The Plains Indians were beginning to be seen as mobile impediments; what they stood in the way of was progress, a concept dear to the American politician." As whites sought to remove these impediments with increasing brutality, Crazy Horse led his people in a sporadic and ultimately doomed resistance, which peaked at the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876. Within a year the young warrior (and occasional visionary) had surrendered to the United States Army. Four months later he was dead, stabbed in a highly suspicious scuffle with white and Indian policemen, and the Sioux resistance died with its legendary leader.
McMurtry's powers of compression are formidable. In no more than a few rapid paragraphs, he gives a sense of how this "prairie Platonist" divided the world into transient things and eternal, invisible spirits. He also conveys his opinion of Caucasian double-dealing with fine, acerbic efficiency: "In August, Custer emerged and described the beauties of the Black Hills in mouthwatering terms. In another life he would have made a wonderful real-estate developer. In this case he sold one of the most beautiful pieces of real estate in the West to a broke, depressed public who couldn't wait to get into those hills and start scratching up gold." McMurtry's Crazy Horse is the leanest and least rhetorical version yet of this American tragedy--which makes it, oddly enough, among the most moving. --James Marcus [via]
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The Death of the Great Spirit: An Elegy for the American Indianby Earl ShorrisISBN 0671208705 (0-671-20870-5)
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Diplomacyby Henry KissingerISBN 0671510991 (0-671-51099-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Diplomacy'Book summary:In this brilliant, controversial, and monumental book, former Secretary-of-State Henry Kissinger explains, based on his own experience, what diplomacy is, and why, historically, Americans, from our presidents down to the man in the street, have always distrusted the whole idea. 30 photos. 6 maps. Index. [via]
Dream City : Race, Power and the Decline of Washington, D.Cby Harry Jaffe, Tom SherwoodISBN 0671768468 (0-671-76846-8)
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Eisenhower: Soldier and Presidentby Stephen AmbroseISBN 0671747584 (0-671-74758-4)
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Eleanorby Barbara CooneyISBN 0670861596 (0-670-86159-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eleanor'Book summary:Award-winning author Cooney presents a well-researched and poignant storybook biography of Eleanor Roosevelt's childhood. The wartime First Lady of the New Deal, who became one of the most beloved Americans for her empathy with the downtrodden, was famously unglamorous and plain in looks, even as a child. Her beautiful and awful mother humiliated the little girl, calling her Granny, "because she is so funny and old-fashioned looking." Orphaned at nine the girl eventually found her way to confidence, helped initially by a boarding-school headmistress. The book mentions only briefly Roosevelt's later achievements, so a parent will have to supply a little context for this tale of an ugly duckling who turns into, not a swan, but a fulfilled and happy duck. [via]
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Eleanor Roosevelt Vol. 2 : 1933-1938by Blanche Wiesen CookISBN 0670844985 (0-670-84498-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eleanor Roosevelt Vol. 2 : 1933-1938'Book summary:With its gripping tale of a privileged ugly duckling turned socially conscious swan with the help of strong female friends--many of whom were lesbians and one of whom was probably her lover--the first volume of Blanche Wiesen Cook's biography of Eleanor Roosevelt won awards and made headlines. That book followed its subject from her birth in 1884 through her husband Franklin's election to the presidency in 1933. Volume 2, which chronicles Roosevelt's first six years as America's most controversial first lady (Hillary Clinton doesn't even come close), maps her contributions to the New Deal, which Cook convincingly argues was primarily the fulfillment of a political agenda promoted by female reformers as early as 1912. Eleanor's turbulent relationship with journalist Lorena Hickok gets more space here than it probably deserves, and the story isn't as inherently exciting as the first volume's drama of a woman's coming of age. Nonetheless, Cook's subtle analyses of everything from Roosevelt's exceedingly complex marriage to her role as warm-up act for the New Deal's most radical programs are bracingly intelligent, her evocation of a remarkable personality rivetingly vivid. Eleanor emerges as neither the liberals' saint nor the conservatives' Satan, but an entirely human bundle of contradictions: warm-hearted, yet ice-cold when hurt; happiest in the public arena, yet needing the comfort of private relationships. --Wendy Smith [via]
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Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisisby Graham T. AllisonISBN 0673394123 (0-673-39412-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis'Book summary:Introduction to International Relations: Perspectives and Themes, 2/ Each chapter builds up an understanding of the different ways of looking at the world. From liberalism through to green politics, it examines how different perspectives have developed, who has influenced them the most and what position they represent on the key issues in global politics. The clarity of presentation allows students to rapidly develop a theoretical framework and to apply this knowledge widely as a way of understanding both more advanced theoretical texts and events in world politics. Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis, 2/e [via]
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Flights of Passageby Samuel Hynes, Paul McCarthyISBN 0671674102 (0-671-67410-2)
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General James Longstreet: The Confederacy's Most Controversial Soldier-A Biographyby Jeffry D. WertISBN 0671892878 (0-671-89287-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'General James Longstreet: The Confederacy's Most Controversial Soldier-A Biography'Book summary:This isn't the first biography to be written on Confederate General James Longstreet, but it's the best--and certainly the one that pays the most attention to Longstreet's performance as a military leader. Historian Jeffry D. Wert aims to rehabilitate Longstreet's reputation, which traditionally has suffered in comparison to those of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. Some Southern partisans have blamed Longstreet unfairly for the Confederate defeat at Gettysburg; Wert corrects the record here. He is not uncritical of Longstreet's record, but he rightly suggests that if Lee had followed Longstreet's advice, the battle's outcome might have been different.
The facts of history cannot be changed, however, and Wert musters them on these pages to advance a bold claim: "Longstreet, not Jackson, was the finest corps commander in the Army of Northern Virginia; in fact, he was arguably the best corps commander in the conflict on either side." Wert describes his subject as strategically aggressive, but tactically reserved. The bulk of the book appropriately focuses on the Civil War, but Wert also briefly delves into Longstreet's life before and after it. Most interestingly, it was framed by a friendship with Ulysses S. Grant, formed at West Point and continuing into old age. Longstreet even served in the Grant administration--an act that called into question his loyalty to the Lost Cause, and explains in part why Wert's biography is a welcome antidote to much of what has been written about this controversial figure. --John J. Miller [via]
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General's Life: An Autobiographyby Clay Blair, Bradley, Omar N. & Blair, ClayISBN 0671410245 (0-671-41024-5)
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A General's Lifeby Omar N. Bradley, Clair BlairISBN 0671410237 (0-671-41023-7)
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Governing America: An Insider's Report from the White House and the Cabinetby Joseph A. CalifanoISBN 0671254286 (0-671-25428-6)
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The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in Historyby John M. BarryISBN 0670894737 (0-670-89473-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History'Book summary:No disease the world has ever known even remotely resembles the great influenza epidemic of 1918. Presumed to have begun when sick farm animals infected soldiers in Kansas, spreading and mutating into a lethal strain as troops carried it to Europe, it exploded across the world with unequaled ferocity and speed. It killed more people in twenty weeks than AIDS has killed in twenty years; it killed more people in a year than the plagues of the Middle Ages killed in a century. Victims bled from the ears and nose, turned blue from lack of oxygen, suffered aches that felt like bones being broken, and died. In the United States, where bodies were stacked without coffins on trucks, nearly seven times as many people died of influenza as in the First World War.
In his powerful new book, award-winning historian John M. Barry unfolds a tale that is magisterial in its breadth and in the depth of its research, and spellbinding as he weaves multiple narrative strands together. In this first great collision between science and epidemic disease, even as society approached collapse, a handful of heroic researchers stepped forward, risking their lives to confront this strange disease. Titans like William Welch at the newly formed Johns Hopkins Medical School and colleagues at Rockefeller University and others from around the country revolutionized American science and public health, and their work in this crisis led to crucial discoveries that we are still using and learning from today.
The Washington Posts Jonathan Yardley said Barrys last book can "change the way we think." The Great Influenza may also change the way we see the world. [via]
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The Harvard Century: The Making of a University to a Nationby Richard Norton SmithISBN 0671460358 (0-671-46035-8)
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Henry Clay and the Art of American Politicsby Clement EatonISBN 0673393356 (0-673-39335-6)
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Jefferson and the Indians: The Tragic Fate of the First Americansby Anthony F. C. WallaceISBN 0674000668 (0-674-00066-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jefferson and the Indians: The Tragic Fate of the First Americans'Book summary:Thomas Jefferson's complex attitudes about race have been dissected for nearly two centuries, but the greatest focus, for obvious reasons, has always been on Jefferson's attitudes toward blacks. In this study by historical anthropologist Anthony F.C. Wallace, the way Jefferson the scholar, plantation owner, politician, and president viewed Native Americans is examined in illuminating detail. Wallace, a professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, is sensitive to the paradoxes in Jefferson's observations of and dealings with the Indians. On the one hand, Jefferson seemed to revere native culture, devoting considerable time to studying it, to the extent of compiling extensive documentation of native languages. Yet Jefferson--the son of a land speculator, and a lawyer himself--had few compunctions about expelling native inhabitants from their lands so the United States could expand westward. Professor Wallace presents a very readable chronological narrative, and while he offers what is essentially an intellectual study of Jefferson, he dutifully notes that Jefferson's ideas were not always rarefied. The Virginia of Jefferson's day was a raucous frontier, and the third president's ideas of how to deal with the Indians were based on what he'd heard in rural taverns as well as in the halls of the American Philosophical Society. This is a fascinating, comprehensive, and lively look at how Jefferson's lifelong observations of Native Americans affected his thoughts and deeds. --Robert J. McNamara [via]
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King: A Photobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.by Charles Johnson, Bob Adelman, Robert PhelanISBN 0670892165 (0-670-89216-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King: A Photobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.'Book summary:The legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement is well documented in prose, but for sheer emotional power, nothing can compare to the pictures from this era. It's a challenge for a writer's words to match the force of Bob Adelman's photographs in this book, but novelist and essayist Charles Johnson rises to the task in his treatment of King's life and death, as well as the heroic struggle of African Americans in the United States. Johnson, the author of Middle Passage (which won the 1990 National Book Award), offers an exceptional counterpoint to the stirring images with the depth and weight of his essays and captions. "How soon we forget that King was not only a civil rights activist," Johnson writes, "but also this country's preeminent moral philosopher, a spiritual aspirant, a father and a husband, and that these diverse roles--these multiple dimensions of his too brief life--were the foundations for his singular 'dream' that inspired millions worldwide."
Adelman intimately captures King's background, from his comfortable middle-class upbringing in Atlanta to the dashing figure he cuts with his wife, Coretta, to his steady ascendance as a forceful preacher thrust into prominence during the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955-56. We cringe at the sight of King being photographed as a criminal and at the horrific treatment many blacks endured by racist Southern police. The triumph of King's "I Have a Dream" speech, which he gave at the 1963 March on Washington, is beautifully detailed, along with his acceptance of the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize. We also see a weary King, weighed down by assassination attempts, harassment, inner-city riots, and the Vietnam War. Toward the end, King displays an eerie sense of calm in the photos taken just days before his death--particularly in an April 3 photo taken at the Mason Hall in Memphis the night before his murder, where he declared that he'd "been to the mountaintop." King's legacy is lovingly chronicled in this impressive book. --Eugene Holley Jr. [via]
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Ladies and Not So Gentle Women : Elisabeth Marbury, Anne Morgan, Elsie de Wolfe, Anne Vanderbilt and Their Timesby Alfred A. LewisISBN 0670858102 (0-670-85810-2)
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Liberty! : The American Revolutionby Thomas J. FlemingISBN 0670870218 (0-670-87021-8)
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Lincoln at Gettysburgby Garry WillsISBN 0671769561 (0-671-76956-1)
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Lincoln at Gettysburg : The Words That Remade Americaby Garry WillsISBN 0671867423 (0-671-86742-3)
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Little Womenby Louisa May Alcott, James PrunierISBN 0670877069 (0-670-87706-9)
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Little Womenby Janet Allison Brown, Dinah DryhurstISBN 0670899127 (0-670-89912-7)
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Little Womenby Laurie Lawlor, Louisa May AlcottISBN 0671519026 (0-671-51902-6)
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The Longest Dayby Cornelius RyanISBN 0671890913 (0-671-89091-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Longest Day'Book summary:A true classic of World War II history, The Longest Day tells the story of the massive Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944. Journalist Cornelius Ryan began working on the book in the mid-1950s, while the memories of the D-day participants were still fresh, and he spent three years interviewing D-day survivors in the United States and Europe. When his book was first published in 1959, it was tremendously successful, establishing many of the legends of D-day that endure in the public's mind. Ryan was enormously skillful at weaving small personal stories into the overall narrative, and he would later use the same technique to depict the airborne invasion of Holland in A Bridge Too Far. Not only is The Longest Day a pleasure to read, but subsequent historians, dutifully noting its accuracy, have relied heavily on Ryan's research for their own accounts. In short, the book is a "must read" for anyone interested in the D-day invasion. --Robert McNamara [via]
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The Making of the Atomic Bombby Richard RhodesISBN 0671657194 (0-671-65719-4)
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Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIAby Thomas PowersISBN 0671477129 (0-671-47712-9)
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The Many Lives of Benjamin Franklinby AlikiISBN 0671661191 (0-671-66119-1)
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Marching Home : The War and Back with the Men of One American Townby Kevin CoyneISBN 0670871508 (0-670-87150-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Marching Home : The War and Back with the Men of One American Town'Book summary:They left Freehold, New Jersey, for service in World War II as six young men-to the army, the navy, and the air corps, to the Pacific, and to Europe-and they returned home alive. But on their return, they faced a new mission as America took a new shape and their community faced new pressures-farms and factories thriving, then fading; creeping suburbs and withering Main Streets; civil rights struggles and race riots.
Offering a gripping look at life in wartime, Marching Home follows each of six men overseas into battles where the enemy was clear and then back home where the lines of combat were more uncertain: the black soldier who endured the segregated army only to face race riots back home and the sailor who watched a kamikaze hurtle toward his ship and then tried to keep peace at home as a police officer.
With the stories of these men, Kevin Coyne presents Freehold, with its mixture of village intimacy and city diversity, as a microcosm of the whole sweep of twentieth-century American history. It is a reminder of what America has faced and overcome and will continue to face as the nation marches forward. [via]More editions of Marching Home : The War and Back with the Men of One American Town:
The Marshall Plan: The Launching of the Pax Americanaby Charles L. MeeISBN 0671421492 (0-671-42149-2)
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Never Call Retreatby Bruce CattonISBN 0671638831 (0-671-63883-1)
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Northwest Passage: The Great Columbia Riverby William DietrichISBN 067179650X (0-671-79650-X)
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Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hooverby Anthony Summers, Julie RubensteinISBN 067188087X (0-671-88087-X)
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Patriotic Rebel:John C. Calhoun: John C. Calhounby William D. CraneISBN 0671324942 (0-671-32494-2)
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Perspectives on the American Past: 1620-1877by Michael PermanISBN 0673186164 (0-673-18616-4)
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A Pocket History of the United Statesby Allan Nevins, Henry Steele Commager, Jeffrey Brandon MorrisISBN 067163268X (0-671-63268-X)
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The Portable Abraham Lincolnby Andrew DelbancoISBN 0670840882 (0-670-84088-2)
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The Power of Place: How Our Surroundings Shape Our Thoughts, Emotions, and Actionsby Winifred GallagherISBN 067172410X (0-671-72410-X)
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The Puritan Dilemma: The Story Of John Winthropby Edmund Sears MorganISBN 067339347X (0-673-39347-X)
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In The Puritan Dilemma: John Winthrop, biographer Edmund Morgan helps us understand the motivations behind Puritan migration to America and the ideological and political difficulties they faced once they arrived. What does freedom mean? What is the proper role of the individual in society? Alongside the unfolding drama of a developing country, Morgan explores the life of John Winthrop and the core question of what level of responsibility people owe to their community and society. [via]
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RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixonby Richard M. NixonISBN 0671707418 (0-671-70741-8)
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Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Countryby William GreiderISBN 0671675567 (0-671-67556-7)
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Shadow Warrior/the CIA Hero of a Hundred Unknown Battlesby John Weisman, Felix I. RodriguezISBN 0671667211 (0-671-66721-1)
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Tempting of America: The Political Seduction of the Law.by Robert H. BorkISBN 0671730142 (0-671-73014-2)
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Terrible Swift Swordby Bruce CattonISBN 0671619330 (0-671-61933-0)
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This Hallowed Groundby Bruce CattonISBN 067163884X (0-671-63884-X)
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The Titanic Disaster Hearings: The Official Transcripts of the 1912 Senate Investigationby Tom Kuntz, United States Congress Senate Committee on Commerce, William Alden SmithISBN 0671025538 (0-671-02553-8)
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The Unfinished Presidency: Jimmy Carter's Journey Beyond the White Houseby Douglas BrinkleyISBN 067088006X (0-670-88006-X)
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Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981-1987by Bob WoodwardISBN 0671661590 (0-671-66159-0)
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A Very Thin Line: The Iran-Contra Affairsby Theodore DraperISBN 0671778145 (0-671-77814-5)
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The Warren Court and American Politicsby Lucas A. PoweISBN 0674000951 (0-674-00095-1)
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The West: An Illustrated History/06804by Henry Steele CommagerISBN 0671068040 (0-671-06804-0)
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When Character Was King : A Story of Ronald Reaganby Peggy NoonanISBN 0670882356 (0-670-88235-6)
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The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Madeby Walter Isaacson, Evan ThomasISBN 0671657127 (0-671-65712-7)
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The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made Acheson, Bohlen, Harriman, Kennan, Lovett, McCloyby Evan Thomas, Walter IssacsonISBN 0671504657 (0-671-50465-7)
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In April 1945, they converged to advise an untutored new president, Harry Truman. They were Averell Harriman, the freewheeling diplomat and Roosevelts special envoy to Churchill and Stalin; Dean Acheson, the secretary of state who was more responsible for the Truman Doctrine than Truman and for the Marshall Plan than General Marshall; George Kennan, selfcast outsider and intellectual darling of the Washington elite; Robert Lovett, assistant secretary of war, undersecretary of state, and secretary of defense throughout the formative years of the Cold War; John McCloy, one of the nations most influential private citizens; and Charles Bohlen, adroit diplomat and ambassador to the Soviet Union.
Together they formulated a doctrine of Communist containment that was to be the foundation of American policy, and years later, when much of what they stood for appeared to be sinking in the mire of Vietnam, they were summoned for their steady counsel. It was then that they were dubbed the Wise Men. Working in an atmosphere of trust that in todays Washington would seem quaint, they shaped a new world order that committed a once-reticent nation to defending freedom wherever it sought to flourish. [via]
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The Wizards of Armageddonby Fred KaplanISBN 0671424440 (0-671-42444-0)
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Woodrow Wilsonby Louis AuchinclossISBN 0670889040 (0-670-88904-0)
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Woodrow Wilson and the Politics of Moralityby John Morton BlumISBN 0673393216 (0-673-39321-6)
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