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First Dogs: American Presidents and T...

Roy Rowan

If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog,' Harry Truman once said.  Perhaps, that's why, for much of our Republic's history, there have been two top dogs at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue--one with two legs, one with four.  First Dog...

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Published: Jun 2009

Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of A...

Stephen W. Sears

The Civil War battle waged on September 17, 1862, at Antietam Creek, Maryland, was one of the bloodiest in the nation's history: in this single day, the war claimed nearly 23,000 casualties. In Landscape Turned Red, the renowned histo...

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Published: Jun 2003

Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Ter...

David Talbot

In a kaleidoscopic narrative, New York Times bestselling author David Talbot tells the gripping story of San Francisco in the turbulent years between 1967 and 1982—and of the extraordinary men and women who led to the city's ultimat...

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Published: Mar 2013

The Men Who United the States: Americ...

Simon Winchester

Simon Winchester, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Atlantic and The Professor and the Madman, delivers his first book about America: a fascinating popular history that illuminates the men who toiled fearlessly to dis...

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Published: Sep 2014

The Partly Cloudy Patriot

Sarah Vowell

Sarah Vowell travels through the American past and, in doing so, investigates the dusty, bumpy roads of her own life. In this insightful and funny collection of personal stories Vowell -- widely hailed for her inimitable stories on pu...

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Published: Oct 2003

Presidential Confidential: Sex, Scand...

John Boertlein

Presidential Confidential serves up the behind-the-scenes stories that the schoolbooks left out — deliciously juicy stories like secret (and sometimes sordid) affairs, dirty tricks, criminal acts, embarrassing moments, and much more...

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Published: Mar 2010

A Stillness at Appomattox: The Army o...

Bruce Catton

When first published in 1953, Bruce Catton, our foremost Civil War historian was awarded both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for excellence in nonfiction. This final volume of 'The Army of the Potomac trilogy relates t...

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Published: Aug 1990

Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassi...

Bill O'Reilly

bLOCKBUSTER BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND ANCHOR OF The O'Reilly Factor recounts one of the most dramatic stories in American history―how one gunshot changed the country forever. In the spring of 1865, the bloody saga of America's Civil W...

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Published: Aug 2016

Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohi...

Daniel Okrent

A brilliant, authoritative, and fascinating history of America's most puzzling era, the years 1920 to 1933, when the U.S. Constitution was amended to restrict one of America's favorite pastimes: drinking alcoholic beverages. From its ...

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Published: May 2011

One-Night Stands with American Histor...

Richard Shenkman

Respect yourself in the morning -- read One-Night Stands with American History! This collection of little-known facts and anecdotes is American history with the boring parts left out. Richard Shenkman and Kurt Reiger have uncovered nu...

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Published: Aug 2003

Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style...

Joshua Zeitz

Examining the lives of Lois Long, Coco Chanel, Zelda Fitzgerald, Clara Bow, and other Jazz Age luminaries, a fascinating social history traces the evolution of the new woman of the 1920s and the making of modern culture. Reprint. 15,0...

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Published: Feb 2007

The Greatest Generation

Tom Brokaw

"They came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War and went on to build modern America -- men and women whose everyday lives of duty, honor, achievement, and courage gave us the world we have today."In th...

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Published: Oct 2005

Brave Companions

David McCullough

The bestselling author of Truman and John Adams, David McCullough has written profiles of exceptional men and women past and present who have not only shaped the course of history or changed how we see the world but whose stories expr...

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Published: Jul 2005

Zeitoun

Dave Eggers

When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, Abdulrahman Zeitoun chose to stay through the storm to protect his house and contracting business. After the storm, he traveled the flooded streets in a canoe, passing on supplies and helping...

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Published: Jun 2010

Forever Free: The Story of Emancipati...

Eric Foner

Analyzes the post-Civil War era of Emancipation and Reconstruction with an emphasis on discovering the larger political and cultural meaning for contemporary America of the lives of the newly freed slaves and the rise of the Ku Klux K...

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Published: Nov 2006

1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina

Chris Rose

Dead in Attic is a collection of stories by Times-Picayune columnist Chris Rose, recounting the first harrowing year and a half of life in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Celebrated as a local treasure and heaped with national pr...

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Published: Aug 2007

Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders a...

Michael R. Beschloss

Presidential Courage is a brilliantly readable and inspiring saga about crucial times in American history when a courageous President dramatically changed our future. Like Beschloss's previous book, The Conquerors, it was a New York T...

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Published: Feb 2008

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold Hist...

Nancy Isenberg

The New York Times Besteller, with a new preface from the author"This estimable book rides into the summer doldrums like rural electrification. . . . It deals in the truths that matter."—Dwight Garner, The New York Times&q...

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Published: Apr 2017

The Lincolns in the White House: Four...

Jerrold M. Packard

Reveals how divisions within the Lincoln family during his presidency mirrored the struggles of the nation, describing First Lady Mary Lincoln's mental collapse in the wake of fierce distrust for her southern heritage, the death of el...

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Published: Dec 2006

Standing Next to History: An Agent's ...

Joseph Petro

The personal story of a U.S. Secret Service special agent documents his twenty-three-year career during which he witnessed history-making moments and served, among other duties, as a personal bodyguard and confidant to President Reaga...

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Published: Mar 2006

One Summer: America, 1927

Bill Bryson

A Chicago Tribune Noteworthy BookA GoodReads Reader's ChoiceIn One Summer Bill Bryson, one of our greatest and most beloved nonfiction writers, transports readers on a journey back to one amazing season in American life.The summer of ...

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Published: Jun 2014

The Union of Their Dreams: Power, Hop...

Miriam Pawel

The rise, fall, and legacy of the inspirational United Farm Workers movement, and the untold story of iconic community organizer Cesar Chavez. A generation of Americans came of age boycotting grapes, swept up in a movement that vanqui...

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Published: Sep 2010

Last Flag Down: The Epic Journey of t...

Ron Powers

As the Confederacy felt itself slipping beneath the Union juggernaut in late 1864, the South launched a desperate counteroffensive to shatter the U.S. economy and force a standoff. Its secret weapon? A state-of-the-art raiding ship wh...

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Published: May 2008

The Great Depression and New Deal: A ...

Eric Rauchway

The New Deal shaped our nation's politics for decades, and was seen by many as tantamount to the 'American Way' itself. Now, in this superb compact history, Eric Rauchway offers an informed account of the New Deal and the Great Depres...

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Published: Feb 2008

A Crack in the Edge of the World: Ame...

Simon Winchester

The international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western expansion. Simon Winchester has al...

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Published: Oct 2006

The Bonfire: The Siege and Burning of...

Marc Wortman

Atlanta's destruction during the Civil War is an iconic moment in American history. Award-winning journalist Marc Wortman depicts its siege and fall in The Bonfire, and reveals an Atlanta of unexpected paradoxes. The Atlanta Journal-C...

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Published: Jun 2010

House of Abraham

Stephen Berry

For all the talk of the Civil War's pitting brother against brother, no book has told fully the story of one family ravaged by that conflict. And no family better illustrates the personal toll the war took than Lincoln's own. Mary Tod...

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Published: Feb 2009

Who's Buried in Grant's Tomb?: A Tour...

C-Span

C-SPAN's unique guide to the final resting places of the nation's presidents. Some presidents have been larger than life but none of them have been larger than death. Brian Lamb has visited the gravesites of every American president,...

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Published: Feb 2010

Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marria...

Rechel Hope Cleves

Charity and Sylvia is the intimate history of two ordinary women who lived in an extraordinary same-sex marriage during the early nineteenth century. Based on diaries, letters, and poetry, among other original documents, the research ...

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Published: Oct 2016

Columbine

Dave Cullen

On April 20, 1999, two boys left an indelible stamp on the American psyche. Their goal was simple: to blow up their school, Oklahoma-City style, and to leave "a lasting impression on the world." Their bombs failed, but the e...

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Published: Mar 2010
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