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Abraham Lincoln: The Man Behind the Mythsby Stephen B. OatesISBN 0060924721 (0-06-092472-1)
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Alaska: Saga of a Bold Landby Walter R. BornemanISBN 0060503076 (0-06-050307-6)
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Alexander Hamilton: A Lifeby Willard Sterne RandallISBN 0060954663 (0-06-095466-3)
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America's Women: Four Hundred Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroinesby Gail CollinsISBN 0060959819 (0-06-095981-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'America's Women: Four Hundred Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines'Book summary:Well researched and well written, America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines is a powerful and important book. Starting with Pocahontas and Eleanor Dare (the first female colonist), this lively and fascinating history records the changes in American women's lives and the transformations in American society from the 1580s through the 2000s.
A history of the oft-marginalized sex must often draw from diaries and journals, which were disproportionally written by whites; as a result, African-American and Native American women are not as well represented as white in the earlier chapters of America's Women. However, Gail Collins writes about women of many races and ethnicities, and in fact provides more information about Native Americans, African-Americans, and Chinese, Jewish, and Italian immigrants than some general U.S. history books. She writes about rich and poor, young and old, urban and rural, slave and slave-owner, athlete and aviatrix, president's wife and presidential candidate--and, of course, men and women. And some of these women--from the justly famous, like Clara Barton and Harriet Tubman, to the undeservedly obscure, like Elizabeth Eckford and Senator Margaret Chase Smith--will not only make any woman proud to be a woman, they will make any American proud to be American.
An editor at the New York Times, Gail Collins has also written Scorpion Tongues: Gossip, Celebrity, and American Politics and, with Dan Collins, The Millennium Book. --Cynthia Ward [via]
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American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the Puritansby Eve LaplanteISBN 0060750561 (0-06-075056-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the Puritans'Book summary:Anne Hutchinson, a forty-six- year-old midwife who was pregnant with her sixteenth child, stood before forty male judges of the Massachusetts General Court, charged with heresy and sedition. In a time when women could not vote, hold public office, or teach outside the home, the charismatic Hutchinson wielded remarkable political power. Her unconventional ideas had attracted a following of prominent citizens eager for social reform. Hutchinson defended herself brilliantly, but the judges, faced with a perceived threat to public order, banished her for behaving in a manner "not comely for her] sex." Until now, Hutchinson has been a polarizing figure in American history and letters, attracting either disdain or exaltation. Nathaniel Hawthorne, who was haunted by the "sainted" Hutchinson, used her as a model for Hester Prynne in "The Scarlet Letter." Much of the praise for her, however, is muted by a wish to domesticate the heroine: the bronze statue of Hutchinson at the Massachusetts State House depicts a prayerful mother -- eyes raised to heaven, a child at her side -- rather than a woman of power standing alone before humanity and God. Her detractors, starting with her neighbor John Winthrop, first governor of Massachusetts, referred to her as "the instrument of Satan," the new Eve, the "disturber of Israel," a witch, "more bold than a man," and Jezebel -- the ancient Israeli queen who, on account of her tremendous political power, was "the most evil woman" in the Bible. Written by one of Hutchinson's direct descendants, "American Jezebel" brings both balance and perspective to Hutchinson's story. It captures this American heroine's life in all its complexity, presenting hernot as a religious fanatic, a cardboard feminist, or a raging crank -- as some have portrayed her -- but as a flesh-and-blood wife, mother, theologian, and political leader. Opening in a colonial courtroom, "American Jezebel" moves back in time to Hutchinson's childhood in Elizabethan England, exploring intimate details of her marriage and family life. The book narrates her dramatic expulsion from Massachusetts, after which her judges, still threatened by her challenges, promptly built Harvard College to enforce religious and social orthodoxies -- making her midwife to the nation's first college. In exile, she settled Rhode Island (which later merged with Roger Williams's Providence Plantation), becoming the only woman ever to co-found an American colony. The seeds of the American struggle for women's and human rights can be found in the story of this one woman's courageous life. "American Jezebel" illuminates the origins of our modern concepts of religious freedom, equal rights, and free speech, and showcases an extraordinary woman whose achievements are astonishing by the standards of any era. [via]
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The American Nation: A History of the United Statesby John GarratyISBN 0060422777 (0-06-042277-7)
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Andrew Jacksonby Robert Vincent ReminiISBN 0060801328 (0-06-080132-8)
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Autobiography of Mark Twainby Charles NeiderISBN 0060920254 (0-06-092025-4)
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[Read by Michael Anthony]
Mark Twain's daughter, Susy, wrote: ''Papa . . . doesn't like to go to church at all, why I never understood, until just now, he told us the other day that he couldn't bear to hear any one talk but himself, but that he could listen to himself talk for hours without getting tired, of course he said this in joke, but I've no dought [sic] it was founded on truth.'' -- from the book.
Here is one of the great autobiographies of the English language: exuberant, wonderfully contemporary in spirit, written by a man twice as large as life, who -- he said so himself -- had no trouble remembering everything that had ever happened to him, and a lot of things besides.
Nothing ever happened to Mark Twain in a small way. His adventures were invariably fraught with drama. Success and failure for him were equally spectacular. And so he roared down the years, feuding with publishers, being a sucker for inventors, always learning wisdom at the point of ruin and always relishing the absurd spectacle of humankind, whom he regarded with a blend of vitriol and affection. [via]More editions of Autobiography of Mark Twain:
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The Autobiography of Mark Twainby Mark Twain, Charles NeiderISBN 0060955422 (0-06-095542-2)
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--From the Introduction by Charles NeiderMark Twain was a figure larger than fife: massive in talent, eruptive in temperament, unpredictable in his actions. He crafted stories of heroism, adventure, tragedy, and comedy that reflected the changing America of the time, and he tells his own story--which includes sixteen pages of photos--with the same flair he brought to his fiction. Writing this autobiography on his deathbed, Twain vowed to he "free and frank and unembarrassed" in the recounting of his life and his experiences.
Twain was more than a match for the expanding America of riverboats, gold rushes, and the vast westward movement, which provided the material for his novels and which served to inspire this beloved and uniquely American autobiography.
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Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of Rjr Nabiscoby John Helyar, Bryan BurroughISBN 0060536357 (0-06-053635-7)
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The Big Change: America Transforms Itself 1900-1950by F. AllenISBN 0060913231 (0-06-091323-1)
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The Birth of America: From Before Columbus to the Revolutionby William R. PolkISBN 0060750936 (0-06-075093-6)
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The Birth of the Modern World Society, 1815-1830by Paul JohnsonISBN 0060922826 (0-06-092282-6)
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Black Maestro : The Epic Life of an American Legendby Joe DrapeISBN 0060537299 (0-06-053729-9)
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Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionageby Christopher Drew, Sherry Sontag, Annette Lawrence DrewISBN 006097771X (0-06-097771-X)
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"Most of the stories in Blind Man's Bluff have never been told publicly," they write, "and none have ever been told in this level of detail." Among their revelations is the most complete accounting to date of the 1968 disappearance of the U.S.S. Scorpion; the story of how the Navy located a live hydrogen bomb lost by the Air Force; and a plot by the CIA and Howard Hughes to steal a Soviet sub. The most interesting chapter reveals how an American sub secretly tapped Soviet communications cables beneath the waves. Blind Man's Bluff is a compelling book about the courage, ingenuity, and patriotism of America's underwater spies. --John J. Miller [via]
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Chain Of Command: The Road From 9/11 To ABU Ghraibby Seymour M. HershISBN 0060955376 (0-06-095537-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chain Of Command: The Road From 9/11 To ABU Ghraib'Book summary:Seymour Hersh has been a legendary investigative reporter since 1969 when he broke the My Lai story in Vietnam. His considerable skill and well-placed sources inside the government, intelligence community, military, and the diplomatic corps have allowed him access to a wide range of information unavailable to most reporters. Chain of Command is packed with specific details and thoughtful analysis of events since the attacks of September 11, 2001, including intelligence failures prior to 9/11; postwar planning regarding Afghanistan and Iraq; the corruption of the Saudi family; Pakistan's nuclear program, which spread nuclear technology via the black market (and admitted as such); influence peddling at the highest levels; and the torture scandal at Abu Ghraib prison, among other topics. The book collects and elaborates on stories Hersh wrote for The New Yorker, and includes an introduction by the magazine's editor, David Remnick, on Hersh's background and his sources.
Part of Hersh's skill lies in uncovering official reports that have been buried because government or military leaders find them too revealing or embarrassing. Chain of Command is filled with such stories, particularly regarding the manner in which sensitive intelligence was gathered and disseminated within the Bush administration. Hersh details how serious decisions were made in secret by a small handful of people, often based on selective information. Part of the problem was, and remains, a lack of human intelligence in critical parts of the Middle East, but it also has much to do with the considerable infighting within the administration by those trying to make intelligence fit preconceived conclusions. A prime example of this is the story about the files that surfaced allegedly detailing how Iraq had purchased uranium from Niger in order to build nuclear weapons. Though the files were soon proven to be forgeries, the Bush administration still used them as evidence against Saddam Hussein and therefore part of the reason for invading Iraq. In these pages, Hersh offers readers a clearer understanding of what has happened since September 11, and what we might expect in the future. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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A Crack In The Edge Of The World: America And The Great California Earthquake Of 1906by Simon WinchesterISBN 0060572000 (0-06-057200-0)
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Though the epicenter of this marvelously constructed book is San Francisco, Winchester covers much more than just the disaster. He discusses how this particular quake led to greater scientific study of quakes in an attempt to understand the movements of the earth. Trained at Oxford University as a geologist, Winchester is well qualified to discuss the subject, and he clearly explains plate tectonics theory (first introduced in 1968) and the creation of the San Andreas Fault, along with the geologic exploration of the American West in the late 19th century and the evolution of technology used to measure and predict earthquakes. He also covers the social and political shifts caused by the disaster, such as the way that Pentecostalists viewed the quake as "a message of divine approval" and used it to recruit new members into the church, and the rise in the local Chinese population. With many records destroyed in the fire, there was no way to distinguish between legal and illegal immigrants, and thus many more Chinese were granted citizenship than would have otherwise been. Filled with eyewitness accounts, vivid descriptions, crisp prose, and many delightful meanderings, A Crack in the Edge of the World is a thoroughly absorbing tale. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Krushchev, 1960-1963by Michael R. BeschlossISBN 0060981059 (0-06-098105-9)
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Different Kind of Listening: My Psychoanalysis and Its Shadowby Kim CherninISBN 0060926899 (0-06-092689-9)
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Disaster!by Dan KurzmanISBN 0061051748 (0-06-105174-8)
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The Disunited States: The Era of Civil War and Reconstructionby Thomas H. O'ConnorISBN 0060448784 (0-06-044878-4)
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Down the Great Unknown: John Wesley Powell's 1869 Journey of Discovery and Tragedy Through the Grand Canyonby Edward DolnickISBN 0060955864 (0-06-095586-4)
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An Easy Burden: Civil Rights Movement and the Transformation of America, Theby Andrew YoungISBN 0060928905 (0-06-092890-5)
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Edward M. Kennedy: A Biographyby Adam ClymerISBN 0060957875 (0-06-095787-5)
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An Empire Of Wealth: The Epic History Of American Economic Powerby John Steele GordonISBN 0060505125 (0-06-050512-5)
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Enemy Womenby Paulette JilesISBN 0060938099 (0-06-093809-9)
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Escape on the Pearlby Mary Kay RicksISBN 0060786590 (0-06-078659-0)
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Face of North America the Natural History of a Conby Peter FarbISBN 0060707461 (0-06-070746-1)
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Mealby Eric SchlosserISBN 0060838582 (0-06-083858-2)
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For the President's Eyes Only: Secret Intelligence and the American Presidency from Washington to Bushby Christopher AndrewISBN 0060921781 (0-06-092178-1)
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Freedom Just Around The Corner: A New American History, 1585-1828by Walter A. McDougallISBN 0060957557 (0-06-095755-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Freedom Just Around The Corner: A New American History, 1585-1828'Book summary:A powerful reinterpretation of the founding of America by a Pulitzer Prizewinning historian.
The creation of the United States of America is the central event of the past four hundred years," states Walter McDougall in his preface to Freedom Just Around the Corner. With this statement begins McDougall's most ambitious, original, and uncompromising of histories. McDougall marshals the latest scholarship and writes in a style redolent with passion, pathos, and humour in pursuit of truths often obscured in books burdened with political slants.
With an insightful approach to the nearly 250 years spanning America's beginnings, McDougall offers his readers an understanding of the uniqueness of the "American character" and how this character has shaped the wide ranging course of historical events. McDougall explains that Americans have always been in a unique position of enjoying "more opportunity to pursue their ambitionsèan any other people in history." Throughout Freedom Just Around the Corner the character of the American people shines, a character built out of a freedom to indulge in the whole panoply of human behaviour. The genius behind the success of the United States is founded on the complex, irrepressible American spirit.
A grand narrative rich with new details and insights about colonial and early national history, Freedom Just Around the Corner is the first instalment of a trilogy that will eventually bring the story of America up to the present day, a story epic, bemusing, and brooding.
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George Washington's War: The Saga of the American Revolutionby Robert LeckieISBN 006092215X (0-06-092215-X)
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Gettysburg: A Testing of Courageby Noah Andre TrudeauISBN 0060931868 (0-06-093186-8)
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God And Ronald Reagan: A Spiritual Lifeby Paul KengorISBN 006057142X (0-06-057142-X)
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The Great Taos Bank Robberyby Tony HillermanISBN 0061011738 (0-06-101173-8)
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The Great Taos Bank Robbery: And Other True Stories of the Southwestby Tony HillermanISBN 0060937122 (0-06-093712-2)
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Highways to Heaven: The Auto Biography of Americaby Christopher FinchISBN 0060921986 (0-06-092198-6)
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A History of the American Peopleby Paul JohnsonISBN 0060930349 (0-06-093034-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of the American People'Book summary:"The creation of the United States of America is the greatest of all human adventures," begins Paul Johnson's remarkable new American history. "No other national story holds such tremendous lessons, for the American people themselves and for the rest of mankind." Johnson's history is a reinterpretation of American history from the first settlements to the Clinton administration. It covers every aspect of U.S. history--politics; business and economics; art, literature and science; society and customs; complex traditions and religious beliefs. The story is told in terms of the men and women who shaped and led the nation and the ordinary people who collectively created its unique character. Wherever possible, letters, diaries, and recorded conversations are used to ensure a sense of actuality. "The book has new and often trenchant things to say about every aspect and period of America's past," says Johnson, "and I do not seek, as some historians do, to conceal my opinions." Johnson's history presents John Winthrop, Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson, Cotton Mather, Franklin, Tom Paine, Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Hamilton, and Madison from a fresh perspective. It emphasizes the role of religion in American history and how early America was linked to England's history and culture and includes incisive portraits of Andrew Jackson, Chief Justice Marshall, Clay, Lincoln, and Jefferson Davis. Johnson shows how Grover Cleveland and Teddy Roosevelt ushered in the age of big business and industry and how Woodrow Wilson revolutionized the government's role. He offers new views of Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover and of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal and his role as commander in chief during World War II. An examination of the unforeseen greatness of Harry Truman and reassessments of Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Reagan, and Bush follow. "Compulsively readable," said Foreign Affairs of Johnson's unique narrative skills and sharp profiles of people. [via]
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The Last Lone Inventor: Tale of Genius, Deceit, and the Birth of Televisionby Evan I. SchwartzISBN 0060935596 (0-06-093559-6)
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The Little House Collection: A Full-Color Collector's Set of the First Five Books Little House in the Big Woods, Farmer Boy, Little House on the Prairie, On the Banks of Plum Creekby Laura Ingalls WilderISBN 0060754281 (0-06-075428-1)
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The Little House Collection: Little House in the Big Woods/Little House on the Prairie/Farmer Boy/On The Banks of Plum Creek/By the Shores of Silver Lake/The Long Winter/Little Townby Laura Ingalls WilderISBN 0060529962 (0-06-052996-2)
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Little Womenby Louisa May AlcottISBN 006051180X (0-06-051180-X)
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Making History: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights 1945-1990 An Oral Historyby Eric MarcusISBN 0060922222 (0-06-092222-2)
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Morgan: American Financierby Jean StrouseISBN 0060955899 (0-06-095589-9)
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Mr. Lincoln's T-Mails: The Untold Story of How Abraham Lincoln Used the Telegraph to Win the Civil Warby Tom WheelerISBN 006112978X (0-06-112978-X)
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Nemesis: Aristotle Onassis, Jackie O, And The Love Triangle That Brought Down The Kennedysby Peter EvansISBN 0060580542 (0-06-058054-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nemesis: Aristotle Onassis, Jackie O, And The Love Triangle That Brought Down The Kennedys'Book summary:Peter Evans's biography of Aristotle Onassis, "Ari," met with great acclaim when it was published in 1986. Ari provided the world with an unprecedented glimpse of the Greek shipping magnate's orbit of dizzying wealth, twisted intrigues, and questionable mores. Not long after the book appeared, however, Onassis's daughter Christina and his longtime business partner Yannis Georgakis hinted to Evans that he had missed the "real story" -- one that proved Onassis's intrigues had deadly results. "I must begin," Georgakis said, "with the premise that, for Onassis, Bobby Kennedy was unfinished business from way back..."
His words launched Evans into the heart of a story that tightly bound Onassis not to Jackie's first husband, but to his ambitious younger brother Bobby. A bitter rivalry emerged between Bobby and Ari long before Onassis and Jackie had even met. "Nemesis" reveals the tangled thread of events that linked two of the world's most powerful men in their intense hatred for one another and uncovers the surprising role played by the woman they both loved. Their power struggle unfolds against a heady backdrop of international intrigue: Bobby Kennedy's discovery of the Greek shipping magnate's shady dealings, which led him to bar Onassis from trade with the United States; Onassis's attempt to control much of Saudi Arabia's oil; Onassis's untimely love affair with Jackie's married sister Lee Radziwill; and his bold invitation to First Lady Jackie to join him on his yacht -- without the president. Just as the self-made Greek tycoon gloried in the chance to stir the wrath of the Kennedys, they struggled unsuccessfully to break his spell over the woman who held the key to all of theirfutures. After Jack's death, Bobby became ever closer to Camelot's holy widow, and fought to keep her from marrying his sworn rival. But Onassis rarely failed to get what he wanted, and Jackie became his wife shortly after Bobby was killed.
Through extensive interviews with the closest friends, lovers, and relatives of Onassis and the Kennedys, longtime journalist Evans has uncovered the shocking culmination of the Kennedy-Onassis-Kennedy love triangle: Aristotle Onassis was at the heart of the plot to kill Bobby Kennedy. Meticulously tracing Onassis's connections in the world of terrorism, "Nemesis" presents compelling evidence that he financed the assassination -- including a startling confession that has gone unreported for nearly three decades. Along the way, this groundbreaking work also daringly paints these international icons in all of their true colors. From Evans's deeply nuanced portraits of the charismatic Greek shipping magnate and his acquisitive iconic bride to his probing and revelatory look into the events that shaped an era, "Nemesis" is a work that will not be soon forgotten. [via]
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Never Forget: An Oral History of September 11, 2001by Mitchell Fink, Lois MathaisISBN 0060514337 (0-06-051433-7)
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On the Occasion of My Last Afternoonby Kaye GibbonsISBN 0060797142 (0-06-079714-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon'Book summary:Polly Holliday of TV's Home Improvement won a Tony nomination on Broadway playing Big Mama in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and she makes Clarice, the matriarch of Kaye Gibbons' Civil War story On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon, sound very big of voice indeed. Clarice is the slave who really runs things on Virginia's Seven Oaks plantation, no matter what her nasty, brutish owner, Samuel P. Tate, might think. Holliday has a good time voicing Tate's fulminations, too, neatly distinguishing them from the heroine-narrator Emma Tate's rather daintier dulcet tones. Not that Emma can't be wicked in her own way: she describes a snobbish socialite, "aggressively plain in the face ... who effused through the front door and into the arms of everyone simultaneously." Ms. Holliday puts as much sly violence into that "effused" as she does into Mr. Tate's rages.
Everyone who read Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain should consider reading On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon, the poetically charged fictional reminiscences of Emma Garnet Tate Lowell, circa 1842-1900. For one thing, it was Frazier's already-published friend Gibbons who, with Frazier's wife's connivance, pried Cold Mountain from his grip and got it into publishers' hands.
But beyond their Civil War setting--a first for Gibbons, who's noted for 20th-century tales--the two books share resonant Southern literary accents, characters with similarly obstinate responses to enormous grief, and a shivery sense of history's stark shadow falling across everyday events. Oprah Winfrey twice recommended Gibbons' fiction (Ellen Foster and A Virtuous Woman), and Walker Percy compared her to Faulkner. Oprah probably liked Gibbons's heroines for their plucky refusal to buckle under oppression--a trait shared by Gibbons herself, who triumphed over the manic-depressive illness that drove her mother to suicide.
Our heroine, Emma, shivers under the tyranny of her plantation daddy, Mr. Tate, who slits the throat of a slave who talks back to him and just might do the same to his half-dozen children. There is no enormity of which he is incapable, this bellowing Simon Legree with an autodidact's education and a self-made man's bottomless urge to rise above his raising. He is, as he might have thunderingly put it, "a pluperfect son of Satan." Only Clarice can fight Samuel Tate to a verbal draw and prevent slave uprisings on the eve of the war. Clarice helps save Emma, as does Emma's impeccable swain Dr. Quincy Lowell, who sweeps in like a cool Boston breeze to dispel the dismal tidewater miasma.
The war, alas, brings a tsunami of blood, forcing Dr. Lowell to make Emma a de facto battlefield surgeon, an occasion he recognizes by fashioning a bit of commemorative jewelry for her from a dead man's silver filling and inscribing the date with a finger-amputation tool. One aspect of Gibbons' Frazier-esque orgy of historical research for the book is an authentic feel for the grotesqueries of the period.
One craves for Emma's hubby and daddy to swap five percent of each others' respectively perfect and perfectly awful souls--the book is not big on startling character revelations. What makes it work, despite its binary morality, is the grace and rumbling life of the narrator's language. The book, which has its sometimes anachronistically enlightened head in the New South and its feet firmly planted in the past, deserves a place next to Russell Banks' John Brown novel Cloudsplitter. At points, it reads like a smarter, nonracist Gone with the Wind, only less windy.--Tim Appelo [via]
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Only Yesterdayby Frederick L. AllenISBN 0060800046 (0-06-080004-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Only Yesterday'Book summary:Prohibition. Al Capone. The President Harding scandals. The revolution of manners and morals. Black Tuesday. These are only an inkling of the events and figures characterizing the wild, tumultuous era that was the Roaring Twenties. Originally published in 1931, Only Yesterday traces the rise if post-World War I prosperity up to the Wall Street crash of 1929 against the colorful backdrop of flappers, speakeasies, the first radio, and the scandalous rise of skirt hemlines. Hailed as an instant classic, this is Frederick Lewis Allen's vivid and definitive account of one of the twentieth century's most fascinating decades, chronicling a time of both joy and terror--when dizzying highs were quickly succeeded by heartbreaking lows. [via]
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Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920'sby Frederick Lewis AllenISBN 0060956658 (0-06-095665-8)
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Oops: 20 Life Lessons from the Fiascoes That Shaped Americaby Martin J. Smith, Patrick J. KigerISBN 0060780843 (0-06-078084-3)
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Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhullby Barbara GoldsmithISBN 0060953322 (0-06-095332-2)
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The Power of Place: How Our Surroundings Shape Our Thoughts, Emotions, and Actionsby Winifred GallagherISBN 0060976020 (0-06-097602-0)
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A Question Of Loyaltyby Douglas C. WallerISBN 0060505486 (0-06-050548-6)
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A Question of Loyalty: Gen. Billy Mitchell and the Court-Martial that Gripped the Nationby Douglas C. WallerISBN 0060505478 (0-06-050547-8)
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Redcoatby Bernard CornwellISBN 0060512776 (0-06-051277-6)
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The Religious History of Americaby Edwin S. Gaustad, Leigh Eric SchmidtISBN 0060630566 (0-06-063056-6)
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The Religious History of America: The Heart of the American Story from Colonial Times to Todayby Edwin S. Gaustad, Leigh Eric SchmidtISBN 0060630574 (0-06-063057-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Religious History of America: The Heart of the American Story from Colonial Times to Today'Book summary:In this landmark work, award-winning Princeton historian Leigh Schmidt teams up with eminent American religious history scholar Edwin Gaustad to produce a fully revised, updated, and expanded version of a modern classic. First published in 1966, The Religious History of America made the religious dimensions of our common history readily accessible to a generation of readers. This edition remains true to the literary grace of earlier editions as it expands its scope, increasing the emphasis on pluralism, religious practices, and spiritual seeking, as well as the direct connection of religion to social and political struggle. The authors have updated the structure of the text, replacing the five distinct ages of Gaustad's previous editions with a more explicit emphasis on specific historical markers, carrying the multifaceted story of religion in the United States into the twenty-first century.
Extensively illustrated, and with a new emphasis on African-American and Native American religious life, Eastern religions, and the recent boom in spirituality, this new edition of The Religious History of America is the master telling of the heart and soul of the American story.
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The Reshaping of Everyday Life 1790-1840by Jack LarkinISBN 0060916060 (0-06-091606-0)
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The Revolutionary Age of Andrew Jacksonby Robert Vincent ReminiISBN 0060912901 (0-06-091290-1)
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Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolutionby Simon SchamaISBN 0060539178 (0-06-053917-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rough Crossings: The British, The Slaves and the American Revolution'Book summary:Rough Crossings is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence. With gripping, powerfully vivid story-telling, Simon Schama follows the escaped blacks into the fires of the war, and into freezing, inhospitable Nova Scotia where many who had served the Crown were betrayed in their promises to receive land at the war's end. Their fate became entwined with British abolitionists: inspirational figures such as Granville Sharp, the flute-playing father-figure of slave freedom, and John Clarkson, the 'Moses' of this great exodus, who accompanied the blacks on their final rough crossing to Africa, where they hoped that freedom would finally greet them. [via]
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Seven Who Shaped Our Destiny the Founding Fathersby R. B. MorrisISBN 0060904542 (0-06-090454-2)
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Sherman: A Soldier's Lifeby Lee B. KennettISBN 0060930748 (0-06-093074-8)
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Storming Heaven: Lsd and the American Dreamby Jay StevensISBN 006097172X (0-06-097172-X)
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The Sweet Hell Inside: The Rise of an Elite Black Family in the Segregated Southby Edward BallISBN 0060505907 (0-06-050590-7)
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Talking to the Dead: Kate and Maggie Fox and the Rise of Spiritualismby Barbara WeisbergISBN 006075060X (0-06-075060-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Talking to the Dead: Kate and Maggie Fox and the Rise of Spiritualism'Book summary:Is it really possible to talk with the dead? As much as modern America is familiar with mediums--think bestselling authors John Edwards and Sylvia Browne--this question still generates passionate opinions from believers and skeptics alike. So one can only imagine the stir that the Fox sisters created in 1848 when they claimed to hear a ghost rapping on the wall of their Hydesville, New York rental house bedroom. The sisters soon discovered that the ghost would tap answers to specific questions. Within days neighbors and travelers were showing up at the house, wanting to converse with the dead rapper. The Fox sisters--Maggie and Kate--went onto become a national phenomenon, holding séances and making their livings as celebrity mediums. They were also the leaders of a new movement called the spiritualists. New York-based filmmaker Barbara Weisberg assembled this fascinating and expertly recounted biography. Beyond trying to prove whether the Fox girls were legitimate, Weisberg wrote a study of how two young girls could shape a new spiritual movement in mid-1800s America. "The more I thought about the Fox sisters, the more it seemed to me not only that Kate and Maggie sparked a movement, but that their lives epitomized the conflicts and urges that helped fuel its blaze. The question of the other world aside, the girls' appeal surely stemmed in part from the ways they embodiedand intuitedtheir culture's anxieties and ambitions." Ironically, in not trying to prove whether these two were frauds, Weisberg has created a more satisfying human story within a rich historical context, not unlike the tactics used for the bestseller Seabiscuit. And likewise, this could and should easily translate into a dynamite major motion picture. --Gail Hudson [via]
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The Terrible Hours: The Man Behind the Greatest Submarine Rescue in Historyby Peter MaasISBN 0060932775 (0-06-093277-5)
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A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr.by Martin Luther King, James Melvin WashingtonISBN 0060646918 (0-06-064691-8)
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Thomas Jefferson: Author of Americaby Christopher HitchensISBN 0060598964 (0-06-059896-4)
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A Thread Across the Ocean: The Heroic Story of the Trans Atlantic Cableby John Steele GordonISBN 0060524464 (0-06-052446-4)
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But in 1866, the Old and New Worlds were united by the successful laying of a cable across the Atlantic. John Steele Gordon's book chronicles this extraordinary achievement -- the brainchild of American businessman Cyrus Field and one of the greatest engineering feats of the nineteenth century. An epic struggle, it required a decade of effort, numerous failed attempts, millions of dollars in capital, a near disaster at sea, the overcoming of seemingly insurmountable technological problems, and uncommon physical, financial, and intellectual courage. Bringing to life an overlooked story in the annals of technology, John Steele Gordon sheds fascinating new light on this American saga that literally changed the world.
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To Kill a Mockingbirdby Harper LeeISBN 0060933275 (0-06-093327-5)
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Set in the small Southern town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Depression, To Kill a Mockingbird follows three years in the life of 8-year-old Scout Finch, her brother, Jem, and their father, Atticus--three years punctuated by the arrest and eventual trial of a young black man accused of raping a white woman. Though her story explores big themes, Harper Lee chooses to tell it through the eyes of a child. The result is a tough and tender novel of race, class, justice, and the pain of growing up.
Like the slow-moving occupants of her fictional town, Lee takes her time getting to the heart of her tale; we first meet the Finches the summer before Scout's first year at school. She, her brother, and Dill Harris, a boy who spends the summers with his aunt in Maycomb, while away the hours reenacting scenes from Dracula and plotting ways to get a peek at the town bogeyman, Boo Radley. At first the circumstances surrounding the alleged rape of Mayella Ewell, the daughter of a drunk and violent white farmer, barely penetrate the children's consciousness. Then Atticus is called on to defend the accused, Tom Robinson, and soon Scout and Jem find themselves caught up in events beyond their understanding. During the trial, the town exhibits its ugly side, but Lee offers plenty of counterbalance as well--in the struggle of an elderly woman to overcome her morphine habit before she dies; in the heroism of Atticus Finch, standing up for what he knows is right; and finally in Scout's hard-won understanding that most people are essentially kind "when you really see them." By turns funny, wise, and heartbreaking, To Kill a Mockingbird is one classic that continues to speak to new generations, and deserves to be reread often. --Alix Wilber [via]
The Twentieth Century: A People's Historyby Howard ZinnISBN 0060530340 (0-06-053034-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Twentieth Century: A People's History'Book summary:Consistently lauded for its lively, readable prose, A People's History of the United States turns traditional textbook history on its head, as Howard Zinn infuses the often-submerged voices of blacks, women, American Indians, war resisters, and poor laborers of all nationalities into the narrative. The Twentieth Century uses the relevant chapters of that book as a starting point, expanding upon the story to provide a rich portrait of the United States from the jingoistic rise of Theodore Roosevelt to the Clinton presidency. If your last experience of American history was brought to you by junior-high-school textbooks--or even if you're a specialist--get ready for the other side of stories you may not even have heard. With its vivid descriptions of rarely noted events, The Twentieth Century is required reading for anyone who wants to take a fresh look at America's legacy as a world power. [via]
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Uncle Tom's Cabinby Harriet Beecher StoweISBN 0060806184 (0-06-080618-4)
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Under Fire: An American Storyby Oliver L. NorthISBN 0061090565 (0-06-109056-5)
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The Vietnam Wars, 1945-1990by Marilyn B. YoungISBN 0060921072 (0-06-092107-2)
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We Were Soldiers Once...and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnamby Harold G. Moore, Joseph L. GallowayISBN 0060506989 (0-06-050698-9)
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We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young.In November 1965, some 450 men of the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, under the command of Lt. Col. Hal Moore, were dropped by helicopter into a small clearing in the Ia Drang Valley. They were immediately surrounded by 2,000 North Vietnamese soldiers. Three days later, only two and a half miles away, a sister battalion was chopped to pieces. Together, these actions at the landing zones X-Ray and Albany constituted one of the most savage and significant battles of the Vietnam War.
How these men persevered--sacrificed themselves for their comrades and never gave up--makes a vivid portrait of war at its most inspiring and devastating. General Moore and Joseph Galloway, the only journalist on the ground throughout the fighting, have interviewed hundreds of men who fought there, including the North Vietnamese commanders. This devastating account rises above the specific ordeal it chronicles to present a picture of men facing the ultimate challenge, dealing with it in ways they would have found unimaginable only a few hours earlier. It reveals to us, as rarely before, man's most heroic and horrendous endeavor.
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