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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: The American Classic, in Words and Photographs, of Three Tenant Families in the Deep South

By: Agee, James; Evans, Walker

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Mariner Books: August 2001

Seller ID: 4421

ISBN: 0618127496

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A landmark work of American photojournalism "renowned for its fusion of social conscience and artistic radicality" (New York Times)

In the summer of 1936, James Agee and Walker Evans set out on assignment for Fortune magazine to explore the daily lives of sharecroppers in the South. Their journey would prove an extraordinary collaboration and a watershed literary event when, in 1941, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men was first published to enormous critical acclaim. This unsparing record of place, of the people who shaped the land and the rhythm of their...
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Mothers of Feminism: The Story of Quaker Women in America

By: Bacon, Margaret Hope

Price: $17.95

Publisher: Harpercollins: August 1986

Seller ID: 52981

ISBN: 0062500430

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

American Crucifixion: The Murder of Joseph Smith and the Fate of the Mormon Church

By: Beam, Alex

Price: $10.95

Publisher: PublicAffairs: April 2014

Seller ID: 56007

ISBN: 1610393139

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

On June 27, 1844, a mob stormed the jail in the dusty frontier town of Carthage, Illinois. Clamorous and angry, they were hunting down a man they saw as a grave threat to their otherwise quiet lives: the founding prophet of Mormonism, Joseph Smith. They wanted blood.

At thirty-nine years old, Smith had already lived an outsized life. In addition to starting his own religion and creating his own "Golden Bible"--the Book of Mormon--he had worked as a water-dowser and treasure hunter. He'd led his people to Ohio, then Missouri, then Illinois, where he founded a city larger than fledgling Chic...
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Old Deadwood Days

By: Bennett, Estelline

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Bison Books: March 1982

Seller ID: 43630

ISBN: 0803260652

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

For roughnecks in search of trouble, Deadwood was the place to go. An outlaw town-its very beginnings as a mining camp violated government treaties with the Sioux-Deadwood soon acquired a reputation that dime novels could hardly exaggerate. It attracted both the great and the gritty. Calamity Jane lived there, Wild Bill Hickok was shot in the back there and Buffalo Bill was an irregular visitor, not to mention Seth Bullock, Mineral Jack, Slippery Sam, Cold Deck Johnny, and Belle Haskell, the best-known madam in town. To reform the town's notorious habits, Federal Judge Granville G. Bennett mov...
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Down with the Old Canoe: A Cultural History of the Titanic Disaster

By: Biel, Steven

Price: $9.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: June 2003

Seller ID: 55698

ISBN: 0393316769

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Protestant sermons used the Titanic to condemn the budding consumer society ("We know the end of . . . the undisturbed sensualists. As they sail the sea of life we know absolutely that their ship will meet disaster."). African American toasts and working-class ballads made the ship emblematic of the foolishness of white people and the greed of the rich. A 1950s revival framed the disaster as an "older kind of disaster in which people had time to die." An ever-increasing number of Titanic buffs find heroism and order in the tale. Still in the headlines ("Titanic Baby Fou...
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Flight of the Eagle

By: Black, Conrad

Price: $16.95

Publisher: Signal: May 2014

Seller ID: 30657

ISBN: 0771013736

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Now available as a Signal paperback, a strategic history of the United States by the bestselling author of biographies of Roosevelt and Nixon.

In this magisterial new history of the United States, spanning from the New World through the outcome of the 2012 presidential election, acclaimed writer and historian Conrad Black examines the rise of the world's supreme power, its recent decline, and its ultimate strengths andfuture, and the contributions of leading figures, including Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, Abraham Lincoln, U.S...
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Flags of Our Fathers

By: Bradley, James, Powers, Ron

Price: $5.50

Publisher: Bantam: May 2006

Seller ID: 26423

ISBN: 0553589083

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In this unforgettable, #1 New York Times bestselling chronicle of perhaps the most famous moment in American military history, Bradley (Flyboys) captures the glory, the triumph, the heartbreak, and the legacy of the six men who raised the flag at Iwo Jima.
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American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900

By: Brands, H.W.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Doubleday: October 2010

Seller ID: 28598

ISBN: 0385523335

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In a grand-scale narrative history, the bestselling author of two finalists for the Pulitzer Prize now captures the decades when capitalism was at its most unbridled and a few breathtakingly wealthy businessmen utterly transformed America from an agrarian economy to a world power.
The years between the Civil War and the end of the nineteenth century saw the wholesale transformation of America from a land of small farmers and small businessmen into an industrial giant. Driven by unfathomably wealthy and powerful businessmen like J. P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller, armies ...
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Witness to America: A Documentary History of the United States from the Revolution to Today

By: Brinkley, Douglas

Price: $19.50

Publisher: Harper: August 2010

Seller ID: 8

ISBN: 0061990280

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

This collection of primary documents tells the story of the history of the United States throughout its existence, from first person perspectives of the people who lived it.
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Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy

By: Bugliosi, Vincent

Price: $24.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: May 2007

Seller ID: 55401

ISBN: 0393045250

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The brilliant prosecutor of Charles Manson and the man who forged an iron-clad case of circumstantial guilt around O. J. Simpson in his best-selling Outrage Bugliosi is perhaps the only man in America capable of writing the definitive book on the Kennedy assassination. This is an achievement that has for years seemed beyond reach. No one imagined that such a book would ever be written: a single volume that once and for all resolves, beyond any reasonable doubt, every lingering question as to what happened in Dallas and who was responsible.

There have been hundreds of ...
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The Antietam Campaign: August-September 1862: Revised and Expanded Edition (Great Campaigns)

By: Cannan, John

Price: $13.95

Publisher: Combined Books: June 1994

Seller ID: 56005

ISBN: 0938289365

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

John Cannan places the Civil War's single bloodiest day of battle in the broader context of grand strategy and command personality. Cannan's classic work has undergone extensive revision under the editorial direction of renowned Civil War historian David G. Martin to reflect new information and new interpretations of recent years.
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War Letters: Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars

By: Carroll, Andrew

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Scribner: May 2002

Seller ID: 7532

ISBN: 0743410068

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In 1998, Andrew Carroll founded the Legacy Project, with the goal of remembering Americans who have served their nation and preserving their letters for posterity. Since then, over 50,000 letters have poured in from around the country. Nearly two hundred of them comprise this amazing collection--including never-before-published letters that appear in the new afterword.

Here are letters from the Civil War, World War I, World War II, Korea, the Cold War, Vietnam, the Persian Gulf war, Somalia, and Bosnia--dramatic eyewitness accounts from the front lines, poignant expressions of love for fam...
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War Letters: Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars

By: Carroll, Andrew

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Scribner: May 2001

Seller ID: 23234

ISBN: 0743202945

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In 1998, Andrew Carroll founded the Legacy Project with the goal of remembering Americans who have served this nation and preserving their letters for posterity. Since then, more than 50,000 war letters discovered in basements, attics, scrapbooks, and old trunks have poured in from around the country. The best of these letters are assembled in this extraordinary collection, offering unprecedented insight into the Civil War, World Wars I and II, Vietnam, Korea, the Cold War, the Persian Gulf, and even the fighting in Somalia and the Balkans.

Featured here are dramatic accounts of combat writt...
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Green Zone (Imperial Life/Emerald City Movie Tie-In Edition) (Vintage)

By: Chandrasekaran, Rajiv

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Vintage: February 2010

Seller ID: 28298

ISBN: 0307477533

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The fullest, most intimate account of life in the Green Zone, the sheltered bubble where idealistic Americans planned the occupation while Iraq fell apart.
The Green Zone, Baghdad, 2003: in this walled-off compound of swimming pools and luxurious amenities, Paul Bremer and his Coalition Provisional Authority set out to fashion a new, democratic Iraq. Staffed by idealistic aides chosen primarily for their political affiliations and views on issues such as abortion, the CPA spent the crucial first year of occupation pursuing goals that had little to do with the immediate crises of a postwar ...
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American Civil War

By: Churchill, Winston S.

Price: $15.95

Publisher: Random House Value Publishing: November 1987

Seller ID: 61494

ISBN: 0517467798

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

Two Days in June: John F. Kennedy and the 48 Hours that Made History

By: Cohen, Andrew

Price: $13.95

Publisher: Signal: November 2014

Seller ID: 51558

ISBN: 0771023871

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

On two consecutive days in June 1963, in two lyrical speeches, John F. Kennedy pivots dramatically and boldly on the two greatest issues of his time: nuclear arms and civil rights. In language unheard in lily white, Cold War America, he appeals to Americans to see both the Russians and the "Negroes" as human beings. His speech on June 10 leads to the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1963; his speech on June 11 to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Based on new material -- hours of recently uncovered documentary film shot in the White House and the Justice Department, fresh interviews, and a re...
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The Burning of the White House: James and Dolley Madison and the War of 1812

By: Cook, Jane Hampton

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Regnery History: August 2016

Seller ID: 55217

ISBN: 1621574784

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

It's unimaginable today, even for a generation that saw the Twin Towers fall and the Pentagon attacked. It's unimaginable because in 1814 enemies didn't fly overhead, they marched through the streets; and for 26 hours in August, the British enemy marched through Washington, D.C. and set fire to government buildings, including the U.S. Capitol and the White House.

Relying on first-hand accounts, historian Jane Hampton Cook weaves together several different narratives to create a vivid, multidimensional account of the burning of Washington, including the escalation that led to it and the imm...
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Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists and the Ecology of New England

By: Cronon, William

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Hill and Wang: July 1983

Seller ID: 51193

ISBN: 0809001586

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize
"Changes in the Land" offers an original and persuasive interpretation of the changing circumstances in New England's plant and animal communities that occurred with the shift from Indian to European dominance. With the tools of both historian and ecologist, Cronon constructs an interdisciplinary analysis of how the land and the people influenced one another, and how that complex web of relationships shaped New England's communities.

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Tales of the Frontier: From Lewis and Clark to the Last Roundup (Bison Book)

By: Dick, Everett

Price: $9.95

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press: September 1971

Seller ID: 33147

ISBN: 0803257449

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"Anyone in search of the spirit of the Old West will find it in this book. In fact, any student in college taking a course in the history of the West or even in a general history of the United States should be required to read Dick's book; and when once the student had sniffed its atmosphere, the required would no longer be necessary."-Georgia Historical Quarterly "An entertaining and comprehensive collection. . . . The reader is sure to put Dick's book down with a fresh realization of the vigor, adventure, humor, tragedy, and endeavor that went into the development of our western country."-An...
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Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression

By: Dickstein, Morris

Price: $14.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: September 2009

Seller ID: 15089

ISBN: 0393072258

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Now, in this timely and long-awaited cultural history, Morris Dickstein, whom Norman Mailer called "one of our best and most distinguished critics of American literature," explores the anxiety and hope, the despair and surprising optimism of a traumatized nation. Dickstein's fascination springs from his own childhood, from a father who feared a pink slip every Friday and from his own love of the more exuberant side of the era: zany screwball comedies, witty musicals, and the lubricious choreography of Busby Berkeley. Whether analyzing the influence of film, design, literature, theater, o...
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Category: American