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1927: High Tide of the 1920sby Gerald LeinwandISBN 156858153X (1-56858-153-X)
Hardcover, Basic Books
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Across The Wide And Lonesome Prairie: The Oregon Trail Diary Of Hattie Campbellby Kristiana GregoryISBN 1595194584 (1-59519-458-4)
Hardcover, Live Oak Media
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The Age of Reform: From Bryan to F.d.r.by Richard HofstadterISBN 1597400580 (1-59740-058-0)
Hardcover, Acls History E-Book Project
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age of Reform: From Bryan to F.d.r.'Book summary:This book is a landmark in American political thought. It examines the passion for progress and reform that colored the entire period from 1890 to 1940 -- with startling and stimulating results. it searches out the moral and emotional motives of the reformers the myths and dreams in which they believed, and the realities with which they had to compromise.
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America Discovered: A Historical Atlas of North American Explorationby Derek HayesISBN 1553650492 (1-55365-049-2)
Hardcover, Douglas & McIntyre, Limited
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The American President : The Human Drama of Our Nation's Highest Officeby Kunhardt, Philip B., Jr., Kunhardt, Philip B., III, Peter W. KunhardtISBN 157322149X (1-57322-149-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Andrew Carnegieby David NasawISBN 1594201048 (1-59420-104-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Andrew Carnegie'Book summary:Celebrated historian David Nasaw, whom "The New York Times Book Review" has called "a meticulous researcher and a cool analyst", brings new life to the story of one of America's most famous and successful businessmen and philanthropists - in what will prove to be the biography of the season. Born of modest origins in Scotland in 1835, Andrew Carnegie is best known as the founder of Carnegie Steel. His rags to riches story has never been told as dramatically and vividly as in Nasaw's new biography. Carnegie, the son of an impoverished linen weaver, moved to Pittsburgh at the age of thirteen. The embodiment of the American dream, he pulled himself up from bobbin boy in a cotton factory to become the richest man in the world. He spent the rest of his life giving away the fortune he had accumulated and crusading for international peace. For all that he accomplished and came to represent to the American public - a wildly successful businessman and capitalist, a self-educated writer, peace activist, philanthropist, man of letters, lover of culture, and unabashed enthusiast for American democracy and capitalism - Carnegie has remained, to this day, an enigma. Nasaw explains how Carnegie made his early fortune and what prompted him to give it all away, how he was drawn into the campaign first against American involvement in the Spanish-American War and then for international peace, and how he used his friendships with presidents and prime ministers to try to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. With a trove of new material - unpublished chapters of Carnegie's Autobiography; personal letters between Carnegie and his future wife, Louise, and other family members; his prenuptial agreement; diaries of family and close friends; his applications for citizenship; his extensive correspondence with Henry Clay Frick; and, dozens of private letters to and from presidents Grant, Cleveland, McKinley, Roosevelt, and British prime ministers Gladstone and Balfour, as well as friends Herbert Spencer, Matthew Arnold, and Mark Twain - Nasaw brilliantly plumbs the core of this fascinating and complex man, deftly placing his life in cultural and political context as only a master storyteller can. [via]
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The Autobiography and Other Writingsby Benjamin FranklinISBN 0027887901 (0-02-788790-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster Merchandise &
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklinby Benjamin FranklinISBN 0020029101 (0-02-002910-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin'Book summary:This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. [via]
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Benjamin Franklin:a Biography in His Own Words: A Biography in His Own Wordsby Benjamin Franklin, Thomas J. FlemingISBN 0060112867 (0-06-011286-7)
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Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern Warby Mark BowdenISBN 0140288503 (0-14-028850-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War'Book summary:The acclaimed New York Times bestseller Black Hawk Down is "a shocking account of modern warfare . . . gripping and horrifying" (San Francisco Chronicle)
Destined to become a classic of war reporting, Black Hawk Down is Mark Bowden's brilliant account of the longest sustained firefight involving American troops since the Vietnam War. On October 3rd, 1993, about a hundred elite U.S. soldiers were dropped by helicopter into the teeming market in the heart of Mogadishu, Somalia. Their mission was to abduct two top lieutenants of a Somali warlord and return to base. It was supposed to take an hour. Instead they found themselves pinned down through a long and terrible night fighting against thousands of heavily armed Somalis. The following morning, eighteen Americans were dead and more than seventy had been badly injured.
Drawing on interviews from both sides, army records, audiotapes, and videos (some of the material is still classified), Bowden's minute-by-minute narrative is one of the most exciting accounts of modern combat ever written--a riveting story that captures the heroism, courage, and brutality of battle.
"Black Hawk Down ranks among the best books ever written about infantry combat. . . . A descendent of books like The Killer Angels and We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young."-- Bob Shacochis, The New York Observer
"If Black Hawk Down were fiction we'd rank it up there with the best war novels: The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer, or The Things They Carried, by Tim O'Brien."-- Tom Walker, The Denver Post
"Stands in a league with Shelby Foote's stirring Civil War Diary, Shiloh."-- Jim Haner, The Baltimore Sun
"One of the most gripping and authoritative accounts of combat ever written."-- Kirk Spitzer, USA Today
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Bound for Canaan: The Epic Story of the Underground Railroad, Americas's First Civil Rights Movementby Fergus BordewichISBN 0060524316 (0-06-052431-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Bound For Canaan: The Underground Railroad And The War For The Soul Of Americaby Fergus M. BordewichISBN 0060524308 (0-06-052430-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bound For Canaan: The Underground Railroad And The War For The Soul Of America'Book summary:An important book of epic scope on America's first racially integrated, religiously inspired movement for change
The civil war brought to a climax the country's bitter division. But the beginnings of slavery's denouement can be traced to a courageous band of ordinary Americans, black and white, slave and free, who joined forces to create what would come to be known as the Underground Railroad, a movement that occupies as romantic a place in the nation's imagination as the Lewis and Clark expedition. The true story of the Underground Railroad is much more morally complex and politically divisive than even the myths suggest. Against a backdrop of the country's westward expansion arose a fierce clash of values that was nothing less than a war for the country's soul. Not since the American Revolution had the country engaged in an act of such vast and profound civil disobedience that not only challenged prevailing mores but also subverted federal law.
Bound for Canaan tells the stories of men and women like David Ruggles, who invented the black underground in New York City; bold Quakers like Isaac Hopper and Levi Coffin, who risked their lives to build the Underground Railroad; and the inimitable Harriet Tubman. Interweaving thrilling personal stories with the politics of slavery and abolition, Bound for Canaan shows how the Underground Railroad gave birth to this country's first racially integrated, religiously inspired movement for social change.
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Cold Mountainby Charles FrazierISBN 157490101X (1-57490-101-X)
Hardcover, Thomas t Beeler
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cold Mountain'Book summary:The hero of Charles Frazier's beautifully written and deeply-imagined first novel is Inman, a disillusioned Confederate soldier who has failed to die as expected after being seriously wounded in battle during the last days of the Civil War. Rather than waiting to be redeployed to the front, the soul-sick Inman deserts, and embarks on a dangerous and lonely odyssey through the devastated South, heading home to North Carolina, and seeking only to be reunited with his beloved, Ada, who has herself been struggling to maintain the family farm she inherited. Cold Mountain is an unforgettable addition to the literature of one of the most important and transformational periods in American history. [via]
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Colossus: The Price of America's Empireby Niall FergusonISBN 1594200130 (1-59420-013-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Colossus: The Price of America's Empire'Book summary:"The United States today is an empirebut a peculiar kind of empire," writes Niall Ferguson. Despite overwhelming military, economic, and cultural dominance, America has had a difficult time imposing its will on other nations, mostly because the country is uncomfortable with imperialism and thus unable to use this power most effectively and decisively. The origin of this attitude and its persistence is a principal theme of this thought-provoking book, including how domestic politics affects foreign policy, whether it is politicians worried about the next election or citizens who "like Social Security more than national security." Ferguson, a British historian, has no objection to an American empire, as long as it is a liberal one actively underwriting the free exchange of goods, labor, and capital. Further, he writes that "empire is more necessary in the twenty-first century than ever before" as a means to "contain epidemics, depose tyrants, end local wars and eradicate terrorist organizations." The sooner America embraces this role and acts on it confidently, the better. Ferguson contrasts this persistent anti-imperialistic urge with the attitude held by the British Empire and suggests that America has much to learn from that model if it is to achieve its stated foreign policy objectives of spreading social freedom, democracy, development, and the free market to the world. He suggests that the U.S. must be willing to send money, civilians, and troops for a sustained period of time to troubled spots if there is to be real changeas in Japan and Germany after World War II--an idea that many American citizens and leaders now find repulsive. Rather than devoting limited resources and striving to get complex jobs done in a rush, Americans must be willing to integrate themselves into a foreign culture until a full Americanization has occurred, he writes. Overall, a trenchant examination of a uniquely American dilemma and its implications for the rest of the world. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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Coming Furyby E. B. Long, Bruce CattonISBN 1842122924 (1-84212-292-4)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Coming of Age: The Story of Our Century by Those Who'Ve Lived Itby Studs TerkelISBN 1565842847 (1-56584-284-7)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Coming of Age: Growing Up in the Twentieth Centuryby Studs TerkelISBN 1595581723 (1-59558-172-3)
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Common Sense: Library Editionby Thomas Paine, Edward LarkinISBN 1551115719 (1-55111-571-9)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Common Sense: Library Edition'Book summary:"These are the times that try men's souls," begins Thomas Paine's first Crisis paper, the impassioned pamphlet that helped ignite the American Revolution. Published in Philadelphia in January of 1776, Common Sense sold 150,000 copies almost immediately. A powerful piece of propaganda, it attacked the idea of a hereditary monarchy, dismissed the chance for reconciliation with England, and outlined the economic benefits of independence while espousing equality of rights among citizens. Paine fanned a flame that was already burning, but many historians argue that his work unified dissenting voices and persuaded patriots that the American Revolution was not only necessary, but an epochal step in world history. [via]
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Common Sense: Addressed to the Inhabitants of Americaby Thomas PaineISBN 1596051434 (1-59605-143-4)
Softcover, Cosimo Inc
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The Complete Book of United States HistoryISBN 1561896799 (1-56189-679-9)
Softcover, School Specialty Pub
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De LA Democratie En Ameriqueby Alexis De TocquevilleISBN 2070323544 (2-07-032354-4)
Softcover, Schoenhofs Foreign Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'De LA Democratie En Amerique'Book summary:Théoricien du libéralisme, Tocqueville montre dans De la démocratie en Amérique comment la démocratie s'est accompagnée des progrès de l'individualisme. Cependant, les droits individuels une fois proclamés et reconnus, ce goût pour la liberté s'est corrompu en passion pour l'égalité, favorisant la diffusion d'un esprit majoritaire et conformiste.
En effet, à force de réclamer les mêmes droits pour tous, les individus se contentent de revendiquer une égalisation de leur condition sociale et de leur mode de vie. Or, la majorité ne se reconnaissant que dans ce qui lui ressemble, l'obsession égalitariste finit par nuire à la créativité, toute volonté de différenciation étant par avance condamnée ; elle finit aussi par menacer les institutions politiques elles-mêmes. Uniquement soucieux de défendre leurs acquis sociaux et matériels, les individus se désintéressent de la chose publique et se replient sur leur vie privée, au profit d'une administration toute puissante dont la douce tyrannie menace à terme leurs libertés.
Cette analyse de la pensée unique et du conformisme démocratique fait de Tocqueville un auteur résolument moderne, dont l'oeuvre a eu une influence considérable et mérite plus que jamais qu'on la découvre. --Paul Klein [via]
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Don't Know Much about American Historyby Kenneth C. Davis, Matt FaulknerISBN 0064408361 (0-06-440836-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoplesby Tim FlanneryISBN 1876485728 (1-876485-72-8)
Hardcover, Text Pub
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Eyes of the Nation: A Visual History of the United Statesby Alan Brinkley, Vincent VirgaISBN 1593730357 (1-59373-035-7)
Softcover, Bunker Hill Pub Inc
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Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nationby Cokie RobertsISBN 006009026X (0-06-009026-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation'Book summary:Cokie Roberts's number one New York Times bestseller, We Are Our Mothers' Daughters, examined the nature of women's roles throughout history and led USA Today to praise her as a "custodian of time-honored values." Her second bestseller, From This Day Forward, written with her husband, Steve Roberts, described American marriages throughout history, including the romance of John and Abigail Adams. Now Roberts returns with Founding Mothers, an intimate and illuminating look at the fervently patriotic and passionate women whose tireless pursuits on behalf of their families -- and their country -- proved just as crucial to the forging of a new nation as the rebellion that established it.
While much has been written about the men who signed the Declaration of Independence, battled the British, and framed the Constitution, the wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters they left behind have been little noticed by history. Roberts brings us the women who fought the Revolution as valiantly as the men, often defending their very doorsteps. While the men went off to war or to Congress, the women managed their businesses, raised their children, provided them with political advice, and made it possible for the men to do what they did. The behind-the-scenes influence of these women -- and their sometimes very public activities -- was intelligent and pervasive.
Drawing upon personal correspondence, private journals, and even favored recipes, Roberts reveals the often surprising stories of these fascinating women, bringing to life the everyday trials and extraordinary triumphs of individuals like Abigail Adams, Mercy Otis Warren, Deborah Read Franklin, Eliza Pinckney, Catherine Littlefield Green, Esther DeBerdt Reed, and Martha Washington -- proving that without our exemplary women, the new country might never have survived.
Social history at its best, Founding Mothers unveils the drive, determination, creative insight, and passion of the other patriots, the women who raised our nation. Roberts proves beyond a doubt that like every generation of American women that has followed, the founding mothers used the unique gifts of their gender -- courage, pluck, sadness, joy, energy, grace, sensitivity, and humor -- to do what women do best, put one foot in front of the other in remarkable circumstances and carry on.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940by William E. LeuchtenburgISBN 0061330256 (0-06-133025-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940'Book summary:When the stability of American life was threatened by the Great Depression, the decisive and visionary policy contained in FDR's New Deal offered America a way forward. In this groundbreaking work, William E. Leuchtenburg traces the evolution of what was both the most controversial and effective socioeconomic initiative ever undertaken in the United Statesand explains how the social fabric of American life was forever altered. It offers illuminating lessons on the challenges of economic transformationfor our time and for all time.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion Of Freedomby Conrad BlackISBN 1586482823 (1-58648-282-3)
Softcover, Public Affairs
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion Of Freedom'Book summary:Franklin Delano Roosevelt stands astride American history like a colossus, having pulled the nation out of the Great Depression and led it to victory in the Second World War. Elected to four terms as president, he transformed an inward-looking country into the greatest superpower the world had ever known. Only Abraham Lincoln did more to save America from destruction. But FDR is such a large figure that historians tend to take him as part of the landscape, focusing on smaller aspects of his achievements or carping about where he ought to have done things differently. Few have tried to assess the totality of FDR's life and career.[via]
Conrad Black rises to the challenge. In this magisterial biography, Black makes the case that FDR was the most important person of the twentieth century, transforming his nation and the world through his unparalleled skill as a domestic politician, war leader, strategist, and global visionary--all of which he accomplished despite a physical infirmity that could easily have ended his public life at age thirty-nine. Black also takes on the great critics of FDR, especially those who accuse him of betraying the West at Yalta. Black opens a new chapter in our understanding of this great man, whose example is even more inspiring as a new generation embarks on its own rendezvous with destiny.More editions of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion Of Freedom:
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George Washington: A Lifeby Willard RandallISBN 1578661528 (1-57866-152-8)
Hardcover, Galahad Books
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Ghost Wars : The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001by Steve CollISBN 1594200076 (1-59420-007-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ghost Wars : The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001'Book summary:Steve Coll's Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 offers revealing details of the CIA's involvement in the evolution of the Taliban and Al Qaeda in the years before the September 11 attacks. From the beginning, Coll shows how the CIA's on-again, off-again engagement with Afghanistan after the end of the Soviet war left officials at Langley with inadequate resources and intelligence to appreciate the emerging power of the Taliban. He also demonstrates how Afghanistan became a deadly playing field for international politics where Soviet, Pakistani, and U.S. agents armed and trained a succession of warring factions. At the same time, the book, though opinionated, is not solely a critique of the agency. Coll balances accounts of CIA failures with the success stories, like the capture of Mir Amal Kasi. Coll, managing editor for the Washington Post, covered Afghanistan from 1989 to 1992. He demonstrates unprecedented access to records of White House meetings and to formerly classified material, and his command of Saudi, Pakistani, and Afghani politics is impressive. He also provides a seeming insider's perspective on personalities like George Tenet, William Casey, and anti-terrorism czar, Richard Clarke ("who seemed to wield enormous power precisely because hardly anyone knew who he was or what exactly he did for a living"). Coll manages to weave his research into a narrative that sometimes has the feel of a Tom Clancy novel yet never crosses into excess. While comprehensive, Coll's book may be hard going for those looking for a direct account of the events leading to the 9-11 attacks. The CIA's 1998 engagement with bin Laden as a target for capture begins a full two-thirds of the way into Ghost Wars, only after a lengthy march through developments during the Carter, Reagan, and early Clinton Presidencies. But this is not a critique of Coll's efforts; just a warning that some stamina is required to keep up. Ghost Wars is a complex study of intelligence operations and an invaluable resource for those seeking a nuanced understanding of how a small band of extremists rose to inflict incalculable damage on American soil. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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The Good War: An Oral History of World War IIby Studs TerkelISBN 1565843436 (1-56584-343-6)
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The Growth of America 1878-1928by Clarence B. Carson, Beth A. HoffmanISBN 1931789126 (1-931789-12-6)
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Hamilton's Blessing: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Our National Debtby John Steele GordonISBN 0140270159 (0-14-027015-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Hard Timesby Studs TerkelISBN 1565846567 (1-56584-656-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hard Times'Book summary:First published in 1970, this classic of oral history features the voices of men and women who lived through the Great Depression of the 1930s. It includes accounts by congressmen C. Wright Patman and Hamilton Fish, as well as failed presidential candidate Alf M. Landon, who recalls what it was like to be governor of Kansas in 1933:
Men with tears in their eyes begged for an appointment that would help save their homes and farms. I couldn't see them all in my office. But I never let one of them leave without my coming out and shakin' hands with 'em. I listened to all their stories, each one of 'em. But it was obvious I couldn't take care of all their terrible needs.
The book includes also the perspectives of ordinary men and women, such as Jim Sheridan, who took part in the 1932 march by World War I veterans to petition for their benefits in Washington, D.C., where they were repelled by army troops led by General Douglas MacArthur. Or Edward Santander, who was a child then: "My first memories come about '31. It was simply a gut issue then: eating or not eating, living or not living." Studs Terkel makes history come alive, drawing out experiences and emotions from his interviewees to the degree few have ever been able to match. [via]More editions of Hard Times:
Hunting Mister Heartbreak: A Discovery of Americaby Jonathan RabanISBN 1560542241 (1-56054-224-1)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girlby Harriet JacobsISBN 1421926016 (1-4219-2601-6)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl'Book summary:[via]Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Harriet Jacobs, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:In what has become a landmark of American history and literature, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl recounts the incredible but true story of Harriet Jacobs, born a slave in North Carolina in 1813. Her tale gains its importance from her descriptions, in great and painful detail, of the sexual exploitation that daily haunted her lifeand the life of every other black female slave.
As a child, Harriet Jacobs remained blissfully unaware that she was a slave until the deaths of both her mother and a benevolent mistress exposed her to a sexually predatory master, Dr. Flint. Determined to escape, she spends seven years hidden away in a garret in her grandmothers house, three feet high at its tallest point, with almost no air or light, and with only glimpses of her children to sustain her courage. In the face of seemingly insurmountable odds, she finally wins her battle for freedom by escaping to the North in 1842.
A powerful, unflinching portrayal of the brutality of slave life, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl stands alongside Frederick Douglasss classic autobiographies as one of the most significant slave narratives ever written.Farah Jasmine Griffin is Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African American Studies at Columbia University in New York City.
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Isolationism in America 1935-1941by Manfred JonasISBN 1879176017 (1-879176-01-7)
Softcover, Imprint Pubns
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Jeb Stuart : The Last Cavalierby Burke DavisISBN 1580800750 (1-58080-075-0)
Softcover, Burford Books
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Jefferson's Great Gamble: The Remarkable Story of Jefferson, Napoleon and the Men Behind the Louisiana Purchaseby Charles CeramiISBN 1570719454 (1-57071-945-4)
Hardcover, Sourcebooks Inc
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John Steinbeckby John SteinbeckISBN 1883011159 (1-883011-15-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'John Steinbeck'Book summary:This second volume in the authoritative edition of John Steinbeck (with "Novels and Stories, 1932-1937") features the Pulitzer-Prize winning masterpiece "The Grapes of Wrath" in a newly corrected text based on the author's manuscript, typescript, and galleys. "The Harvest Gypsies is Steinbeck's investigative report on migrant farm workers which laid the groundwork for the novel. "The Long Valley" displays his brilliance with short stories, including such classics as "The Chrysanthemums," "Flight," and "The Red Pony." "The Log from the Sea of Cortez," about a marine biological expedition, combines science, philosophy, and adventure. [via]
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Kennedyby Theodore SorensenISBN 1568520352 (1-56852-035-2)
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Kids Learn America!by Patricia Gordon, Reed C. Snow, Loretta Trezzo BrarenISBN 1885593317 (1-885593-31-7)
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Legends, Lies and Cherished Myths of American Historyby Richard ShenkmanISBN 0060972610 (0-06-097261-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Legends, Lies and Cherished Myths of American History'Book summary:The truth and nothing but the truthRichard Shenkman sheds light on America's most believed legends.
The story of Columbus discovering the world was round was invented by Washington Irving.
The pilgrims never lived in log cabins.
In Concord, Massachusetts, a third of all babies born in the twenty years before the Revolution were conceived out of wedlock.
Washington may have never told a lie, but he loved to drink and dance, and he fell in love with his best friend's wife.
Independence wasn't declared on July 4th.
There's no evidence that anyone died in a frontier shootout at high noon.
After World War II, the U.S. government concluded that Japan would have surrendered within months, even if we had not bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrongby James W. LoewenISBN 1565843444 (1-56584-344-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong'Book summary:Little seems to delight historian James W. Loewen, author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, more than picking apart the cherished myths of American history. Few Americans study history after high school--instead, Loewen writes, they turn to novels and Oliver Stone movies to learn about the past. And they turn to the landscape, to roadside historical markers, guidebooks, museums, and tours of battlefields, childhood homes, and massacre sites. If you were to trust those sources, Loewen suggests, you would learn, erroneously, that the first airplane flight took place not at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, but at Pittsburg, Texas. "It must be true--an impressive-looking Texas state historical marker says so!" Loewen chortles.
In these entertaining pages, Loewen takes a region-by-region tour of the United States, pointing out historical oddments as he travels. For example, a massacre of white pioneers by Indians commemorated in Almo, Idaho, never took place, Loewen continues; neither did many other such events. Indeed, he insists, "throughout the entire West between 1842 and 1859, of more than 400,000 pioneers crossing the plains, fewer than 400, or less than .1 percent, were killed by American Indians." And if you were to visit Helen Keller's Georgia birthplace, over which a Confederate flag flies, you would get the impression that Keller had been an unreconstructed daughter of the Old South, whereas she was in fact an early supporter of the NAACP. And so on.
After finishing Loewen's alternately angry and bemused exposé, readers will likely never trust a roadside historical marker or tour guide again--which may prompt them to turn to history books to check things out for themselves. As well they should. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Life on the Mississippiby Mark TwainISBN 1582182647 (1-58218-264-7)
Hardcover, Digital Scanning Inc
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Lincolnby Gore VidalISBN 1568496265 (1-56849-626-5)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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En una manana del frio invierno de 1861, Abraham Lincoln, presidente electo de unos Estados Unidos al borde de la desintegracion, baja del tren en Washington flanqueado por dos policias vestidos de civil y oculto el mismo bajo un disfraz, pues los rumores acerca de un complot para asesinarle no hacen mas que crecer. En los cuatro anos siguientes el hombre que ha prometido unir a una nacion dividida por la cuestion de la esclavitud sera victima de varios atentados contra su vida. Y mientras el general Lee lucha a las puertas de la capital, Lincoln vive aislado en la Casa Blanca, presidiendo un gobierno dividido, y tratado incluso por los correligionarios republicanos con desprecio.
Gore Vidal nos muestra a Lincoln a traves de los ojos de sus amigos, sus enemigos, sus futuros asesinos, y el resultado es un retrato que es a la vez intimo y monumental, una novela que se ha convertido en todo un simbolo de los valores mas arraigados de la democracia y en un clasico de la novela historica moderna.
El inicio de 2009 se abre con la toma de posesion de Obama y con los actos de conmemoracion del bicentenario de Lincoln, el artifice de las enmiendas de la Constitucion que conllevaron la abolicion de la esclavitud. Una lectura muy indicada para el momento en que vivimos. [via]
Manhuntby James L. SwansonISBN 0060518502 (0-06-051850-2)
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Manhunt: The Twelve-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killerby James L. SwansonISBN 0060518499 (0-06-051849-9)
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Manhunt: The Twelve-Day Chase to Catch Lincoln's Killby James L. SwansonISBN 0060853476 (0-06-085347-6)
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The Mississippi Pilotby Mark TwainISBN 3829050372 (3-8290-5037-2)
Hardcover, Konemann
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Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century Americaby Lillian FadermanISBN 0140171223 (0-14-017122-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America'Book summary:Lillian Faderman tells the compelling story of lesbian life in the 20th century, from the early 1900s to today's diverse lifestyles. Using journals, unpublished manuscripts, songs, news accounts, novels, medical literature, and numerous interviews, she relates an often surprising narrative of lesbian life.[via]"A key work...the point of reference from which all subsequent studies of 20th-century lesbian life in the United States will begin."San Francisco Examiner.
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Partnerships for Profit : Structuring and Managing Strategic Alliancesby Jordan D. LewisISBN 0029190509 (0-02-919050-9)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Penguin History of the United States of Americaby Hugh BroganISBN 014025255X (0-14-025255-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Penguin History of the United States of America'Book summary:Hugh Brogan's The Penguin History of the USA has established itself as the definitive and most readable work available on America. It brilliantly captures the dynamic events and personalities that shaped the nation's triumphant progress to global superpower: in Brogan's words, "for good and evil, a power and civilization that surpasses . . . all empires of the past." In this new edition, Brogan makes numerous revisions to earlier chapters, taking into account the most up-to-date research into American history.[via]More editions of The Penguin History of the United States of America:
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A People's History of the American Revolution: How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independenceby Ray RaphaelISBN 1565846532 (1-56584-653-2)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A People's History of the American Revolution: How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence'Book summary:Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States turned history on its head for an entire generation of readers, telling the nation's story through the eyes of ordinary peoplethe slaves, workers, immigrants, women, and Native Americans who made history but who are typically left out of the historical record. In the two decades since its first publication, A People's History of the United States has been a revelation to thousands of Americans (it has sold over a half-million copies in the US alone), for whom Zinn's bottom-up approach afforded new and critical vantage points on the American past. Now, under the direction of Howard Zinn, The New Press introduces a groundbreaking new series of original people's histories. Examining major events and eras in US as well as world history with the same critical lens that Zinn used for the whole of American history, The New Press People's Histories reinterpret the past for a new generation of readers.
The first book in the series, Ray Raphael's A People's History of the American Revolution: How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence, is a provocative retelling of America's founding moment. As Zinn writes, "I can't think of a better way to launch the People's History series than with Ray Raphael's book on the American Revolution. He's done a superb job of research in both secondary and primary material. The book is rich with wonderful quotations from first-hand sources. His point of view, his narrative, perfectly match the intent of a 'people's history.' "
The first major effort to tell the history of the American Revolution from the often overlooked standpoints of its everyday participants, A People's History of the American Revolution is a highly accessible narrative of the wartime experience that brings in the stories of previously marginalized voices: the common people, slave and free, who made up the majority in eighteenth-century America. This first volume in The New Press People's History Series skillfully weaves diaries, personal letters, and other long-overlooked primary source material into the historical narrative. The result is a remarkable first-person perspective on the events leading up to and during the war. With a simple shift of the focus of history's lensaway from Revolutionary leaders such as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and on to the slaves they owned, the Indians they displaced, and the men and boys who did the fightingRaphael brings us a true people's history of the Revolutionary experience. [via]
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A People's History of the Supreme Courtby Peter H. IronsISBN 0140292012 (0-14-029201-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocideby Samantha PowerISBN 0060541644 (0-06-054164-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide'Book summary:During the three years (1993-1996) Samantha Power spent covering the grisly events in Bosnia and Srebrenica, she became increasingly frustrated with how little the United States was willing to do to counteract the genocide occurring there. After much research, she discovered a pattern: "The United States had never in its history intervened to stop genocide and had in fact rarely even made a point of condemning it as it occurred," she writes in this impressive book. Debunking the notion that U.S. leaders were unaware of the horrors as they were occurring against Armenians, Jews, Cambodians, Iraqi Kurds, Rwandan Tutsis, and Bosnians during the past century, Power discusses how much was known and when, and argues that much human suffering could have been alleviated through a greater effort by the U.S. She does not claim that the U.S. alone could have prevented such horrors, but does make a convincing case that even a modest effort would have had significant impact. Based on declassified information, private papers, and interviews with more than 300 American policymakers, Power makes it clear that a lack of political will was the most significant factor for this failure to intervene. Some courageous U.S. leaders did work to combat and call attention to ethnic cleansing as it occurred, but the vast majority of politicians and diplomats ignored the issue, as did the American public, leading Power to note that "no U.S. president has ever suffered politically for his indifference to its occurrence. It is thus no coincidence that genocide rages on." This powerful book is a call to make such indifference a thing of the past. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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Profiles in Courageby John F. Kennedy, Caroline Kennedy, Robert F. KennedyISBN 0060544392 (0-06-054439-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Profiles in Courage'Book summary:Written in 1955 by the then junior senator from the state of Massachusetts, John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage served as a clarion call to every American. The inspiring true accounts of eight unsung heroic acts by American patriots at different junctures in our nation's history, Kennedy's book became required reading, an instant classic, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Now, a half-century later, it remains a moving, powerful, and relevant testament to the indomitable national spirit and an unparalleled celebration of that most noble of human virtues.
This special "P.S." edition of Profiles in Courage commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the book's publication. Included in this new edition, along with vintage photographs and an extensive author biography, are Kennedy's correspondence about the writing project, contemporary reviews of the book, a letter from Ernest Hemingway, and two rousing speeches from recipients of the Profile in Courage Award.
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Profiles in Courageby Robert F. Kennedy, John F. KennedyISBN 0060806982 (0-06-080698-2)
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PUBLIC ENEMIES: Americas Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34by Bryan BurroughISBN 1594200211 (1-59420-021-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Skulking Way of War: Technology and Tactics Among the New England Indiansby Patrick M. MaloneISBN 1568331657 (1-56833-165-7)
Softcover, Madison Books
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Sounderby William Armstrong, James BarkleyISBN 1557360030 (1-55736-003-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sounder'Book summary:Sounder is no beauty. But as a coon dog, this loyal mongrel with his cavernous bark is unmatched. When the African American sharecropper who has raised Sounder from a pup is hauled off to jail for stealing a hog, his family must suffer their humiliation and crushing loss with no recourse. To make matters worse, in the fracas, Sounder is shot and disappears. The eventual return of a tattered and emaciated Sounder doesn't change the fact that the sharecropper's oldest son is forced to take on man's work to help support the family. His transition to adulthood is paved by the rocks and taunts hurled at him by convicts and guards as he searches for his father. But along this rough road he ultimately finds salvation as well.
William H. Armstrong's Newbery Award-winning novel quickly became a classic as a moving portrayal of resilience and hope in the face of profound human tragedy. Decades later, the bittersweet story still rings true, as strong-spirited individuals continue to battle the evil of prejudice. (Ages 9 to 12) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Striking Steel: Solidarity Rememberedby Jack MetzgarISBN 1566397391 (1-56639-739-1)
Softcover, Temple Univ Pr
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The Things They Carriedby Tim O'Brien, SparkNotes StaffISBN 1586638270 (1-58663-827-0)
Softcover, Spark Publishing Group
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Thomas Jefferson: A Lifeby Willard Sterne RandallISBN 0060976179 (0-06-097617-9)
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A Thousand Days : John F. Kennedy in the White Houseby Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr., David SobelISBN 1579124496 (1-57912-449-6)
Hardcover, Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Incorporated
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United States History: Preparing for the Advanced Placement Examinationby John J. NewmanISBN 1567656609 (1-56765-660-9)
Softcover, Amsco School Pubns Inc
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Up from Slavery: An Autobiographyby Booker T. WashingtonISBN 1846375819 (1-84637-581-9)
Softcover, Echo Library
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Voices of a People's History of the United Statesby Howard Zinn, Anthony ArnoveISBN 1583226281 (1-58322-628-1)
Softcover, Seven Stories Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Voices of a People's History of the United States'Book summary:Howard Zinn is famous primarily for A People's History of the United States, the book in which he presented alternative versions of American milestones, including Columbus's "discovery" of the New World. Voices of a People's History of the United States is the follow-up to that original landmark work, but where People's History contained Zinn's interpretations of events, Voices turns the platform over to others, in a collection of first-hand accounts, journal entries, speeches, personal letters, and published opinion pieces from the nation's history.
The purpose of Zinn's work, Voices included, is to engage in an act of political dissidence and activism. "What is common to all of these voices," Zinn and co-editor Anthony Arnove write in the book's introduction, "is that they have mostly been shut out of the orthodox histories, the major media, the standard textbooks, the controlled culture ... to create a passive citizenry." With Voices, Zinn and Arnove seek to address that malaise, showing that the impossible--slaves rising up against their slave masters, for example--is not only possible, but has occurred repeatedly throughout the country's history. "Whenever injustices have been remedied, wars halted, women and blacks and Native Americans given their due," they write, "it has been because 'unimportant' people spoke up, organized, protested, and brought democracy alive." The common thread throughout Voices is this mandate, and each selection is preceded by a brief introduction by the authors, written from a far-left perspective. (As an example, one section is titled "The Carter-Reagan-Bush Consensus.")
Voices often works better as a reference book than a sit-down-to-read title. Its early chapters--on Columbus, slavery, the War of Independence, and the early women's movement--tend to be more engaging than later excerpts, largely because a contrary point of view to mainstream mythology has been so rarely heard. The modern sections have a haphazard, "greatest hits of the left" feeling, as the book jumps from an Abbie Hoffman speech to the lyrics of Public Enemy's "Fight the Power." The problem may be inherent in the format of the book. Everything is treated equally, and a speech by Danny Glover is given as much weight as an excerpt from W.E.B. DuBois's The Souls of Black Folk. For context and background, it's best to stick with the original People's History, but to hear the words right from the speakers' mouths, there's no better resource than Voices. --Jennifer Buckendorff [via]
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Where Domino Fell: America and Vietnam 1945-2006by Randy Roberts, James OlsonISBN 1933385154 (1-933385-15-4)
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Where the Domino Fell: America and Vietnam 1945-1995ISBN 1881089797 (1-881089-79-7)
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Who Built America?: Working People and the Nation's Economy, Politics, Culture, and Societyby American Social History Project, Nelson Lichtenstein, Christopher Clark, Bruce C. LevineISBN 1572593032 (1-57259-303-2)
Softcover, W H Freeman & Co
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Who Built America?: Working People and the Nation's Economy, Politics, Culture, and Societyby Nancy A. Hewitt, Eric Foner, Roy Rosenzweig, Christopher Clark, Joshua BrownISBN 1572593024 (1-57259-302-4)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Who Built America?: Working People and the Nation's Economy, Politics, Culture, and Society'Book summary:Who Built America? surveys the nation's past from the perspective of working men and women. Growing out of the effort to reinterpret American history from "the bottom up, " Who Built America? not only documents the country's presidents, politics, and wars along with the life and values of the nation's elite but also focuses on the fundamental social and economic conflicts in our history, integrating the history of community, family, gender roles, race, and ethnicity. [via]
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With Malice Toward None: The Life of Abraham Lincolnby Stephen B. OatesISBN 0060924713 (0-06-092471-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The World the Sixties Made: Politics and Culture in Recent Americaby Van Gosse, Richard R. MoserISBN 1592132014 (1-59213-201-4)
Softcover, Temple Univ Pr
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The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracyby Howard ZinnISBN 1888363541 (1-888363-54-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy'Book summary:No other radical historian has reached so many hearts and minds as Howard Zinn. It is rare that a historian of the Left has managed to retain as much credibility while refusing to let his academic mantle change his beautiful writing style from being anything but direct, forthright, and accessible. Whether his subject is war, race, politics, economic justice, or history itself, each of his works serves as a reminder that to embrace one's subjectivity can mean embracing one's humanity, that heart and mind can speak with one voice. Here, in six sections, is the historian's own choice of his shorter essays on some of the most critical problems facing America throughout its history, and today. [via]
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Las Uvas De La Ira/ the Grapes of Wrathby John SteinbeckISBN 8420676357 (84-206-7635-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Las Uvas De La Ira/ the Grapes of Wrath'Book summary:[via]Las uvas de la ira es un hito en la literatura norteamericana que explora el conflicto entre ricos y pobres, analiza la reacción feroz de un hombre contra la injusticia y el estoicismo de una mujer igualmente heróica, y refleja los horrores de la Gran Depresión. Aunque sigue la migración de miles personas del Dust Bowl, Las uvas de la ira se enfoca en la historia de una familia de Oklahoma, los Joads, echados de su hogar y forzados a viajar rumbo a esa Tierra Prometida que era por ese entoncesy que de algun modo sigue siendoCalifornia. De sus desventurasen un país dividido surge un drama sobre la dignidad humana, a un tiempo trágico y majestuoso en su grandeza su valentía moral.
Publicada por primera vez en 1939, la novela reflejó su época como Uncle Tom's Cabin reflejó los años antes de la Guerra Civil norteamericana. John Steinbeck, un escritor que simpatizaba con la crítica fascista y comunista, insistió en que la versión integral del "Himno de batalla de la República" fuese impresa en la primera edición del libro, que adopta en su título unas palabras del primer verso: "Está pisoteando la vendimia donde se conservan las uvas de la ira." La crónica de Steinbeck sobre el avergonzante maltrato de las clases sociales de los años treinta es tal vez el más "americano" de todos los clásicos norteamericanos.
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