Category: American History [P]

In just 1,337 words, the Declaration of Independence altered the course of history. Written in 1776, it is the most profound document in the history of government since the Magna Carta, signed nearly 800 years ago in 1215. Yet despite its paramount importance, the Declaration, curiously, is rarely read from start to finish--much less understood.

Troubled by the fact that so few Americans actually know what it says, Danielle Allen, a political philosopher renowned for her work on justice and citizenship, set out to explore the arguments of the Declaration, reading it with both adult night st...
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Promise: President Obama, Year One

By: Alter, Jonathan

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Jan-14

Seller ID: 436023

ISBN: 1439101205

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Barack Obama's inauguration as president on January 20, 2009, inspired the world. But the great promise of "Change We Can Believe In" was immediately tested by the threat of another Great Depression, a worsening war in Afghanistan, and an entrenched and deeply partisan system of business as usual in Washington. Despite all the coverage, the backstory of Obama's historic first year in office has until now remained a mystery.

In The Promise: President Obama, Year One, Jonathan Alter, one of the country's most respected journalists and historians, uses his unique access to the White Ho...
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The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression

By: Amity Shlaes

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Harper Perennial: May-08

Seller ID: 79793

ISBN: 60936428

Binding: Trade Paperback

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The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression

By: Amity Shlaes

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Harper Perennial: May-08

Seller ID: 416355

ISBN: 60936428

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The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression

By: Amity Shlaes

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Harper Perennial: May-08

Seller ID: 419749

ISBN: 60936428

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Great Society: A New History

By: Amity Shlaes

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Harper: Nov-19

Seller ID: 437136

ISBN: 61706426

Binding: Hardcover

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King of Oil

By: Ammann, Daniel

Price: $6.00

Seller ID: 394620

ISBN: 031265068X

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Billionaire oil trader Marc Rich for the first time talks at length about his private life (including his expensive divorce from wife Denise); his invention of the spot oil market, which made his fortune and changed the world economy; his lucrative and unpublicized dealings with Ayatollah Khomeini's Iran, Fidel Castro's Cuba, war-ravaged Angola, and apartheid South Africa; his quiet cooperation with the Israeli and U.S. governments (even after he was indicted for tax fraud by Rudy Guiliani) and near-comical attempts by U.S. officials to kidnap him illegally.

This sure-to-make-headline...
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Five Points

By: Anbinder, Tyler

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Feb-14

Seller ID: 265980

ISBN: 452283612

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History

By: Andersen, Kurt

Price: $12.50

Seller ID: 450328

ISBN: 1400067219

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "The single most important explanation, and the fullest explanation, of how Donald Trump became president of the United States . . . nothing less than the most important book that I have read this year."--Lawrence O'Donnell

How did we get here?

In this sweeping, eloquent history of America, Kurt Andersen shows that what's happening in our country today--this post-factual, "fake news" moment we're all living through--is not something new, but rather the ultimate expression of our national character. America was founded by wishful dreamers, mag...
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Movement and the Sixties

By: Anderson, Terry

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Mar-13

Seller ID: 450819

ISBN: 195104579

Binding: Trade Paperback

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The Passions of Andrew Jackson

By: Andrew Burstein

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Knopf: Feb-03

Seller ID: 348479

ISBN: 375414282

Binding: Hardcover

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An Easy Burden: The Civil Rights Movement and the Transformation of America

By: Andrew Young

Price: $6.50

Publisher: HarperCollins: Nov-96

Seller ID: 292681

ISBN: 60173629

Binding: Hardcover

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For the President's Eyes Only: Secret Intelligence and the American Presidency from Washington to Bush

By: Andrew, Christopher

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Aug-17

Seller ID: 346142

ISBN: 60170379

Binding: Hardcover

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The Fabric of America: How Our Borders and Boundaries Shaped the Country and Forged Our National Identity

By: Andro Linklater

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Walker Books: Jun-07

Seller ID: 401876

ISBN: 802715338

Binding: Hardcover

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The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

By: Annette Gordon-Reed

Price: $20.00

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: Sep-08

Seller ID: 432871

ISBN: 393064778

Binding: Hardcover

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'Most Blessed of the Patriarchs': Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination

By: Annette Gordon-Reed,Peter S. Onuf

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Liveright: Apr-17

Seller ID: 456702

ISBN: 1631492519

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Hailed by critics and embraced by readers, "Most Blessed of the Patriarchs" is one of the richest and most insightful accounts of Thomas Jefferson in a generation. Following her Pulitzer Prize-winning The Hemingses of Monticello, Annette Gordon-Reed has teamed with Peter S. Onuf to present a provocative and absorbing character study, "a fresh and layered analysis" (New York Times Book Review) that reveals our third president as "a dynamic, complex and oftentimes contradictory human being" (Chicago Tribune). Gordon-Reed and Onuf fundamentally challenge muc...
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Category: American History [P]