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The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction

By: Amar, Professor Akhil Reed,Amar, Akhil Reed

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Yale University Press: April 2000

Seller ID: 444261

ISBN: 0300082770

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Are the deep insights of Hugo Black, William Brennan, and Felix Frankfurter that have defined our cherished Bill of Rights fatally flawed? With meticulous historical scholarship and elegant legal interpretation a leading scholar of Constitutional law boldly answers yes as he explodes conventional wisdom about the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution in this incisive new account of our most basic charter of liberty. Akhil Reed Amar brilliantly illuminates in rich detail not simply the text, structure, and history of individual clauses of the 1789 Bill, but their intended relationships ...
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Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West

By: Ambrose, Stephen

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: June 1997

Seller ID: 50093

ISBN: 0684826976

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

From the New York Times bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the definitive book on Lewis and Clark's exploration of the Louisiana Purchase, the most momentous expedition in American history and one of the great adventure stories of all time.

In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a voyage up the Missouri River to the Rockies, over the mountains, down the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean, and back. Lewis and his partner, Captain William Clark, made the first map of the trans-Mississip...
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Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West

By: Ambrose, Stephen E.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: January 1996

Seller ID: 38790

ISBN: 0684811073

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

From the bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the definitive book on Lewis and Clark's exploration of the Louisiana Purchase, the most momentous expedition in American history and one of the great adventure stories of all time.

Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863-1869

By: Ambrose, Stephen E.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: August 2000

Seller ID: 52707

ISBN: 0684846098

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In this account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision, and courage, Stephen E. Ambrose offers a historical successor to his universally acclaimed "Undaunted Courage, " which recounted the explorations of the West by Lewis and Clark.

"Nothing Like It in the World" is the story of the men who built the transcontinental railroad -- the investors who risked their businesses and money; the enlightened politicians who understood its importance; the engineers and surveyors who risked, and lost, their lives; and the Irish and Chinese immigrants, the defeated Confederate soldiers, and the ...
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Nothing Like It In the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869

By: Ambrose, Stephen E.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: November 2001

Seller ID: 52828

ISBN: 0743203178

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Nothing Like It in the World gives the account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision, and courage. It is the story of the men who built the transcontinental railroad--the investors who risked their businesses and money; the enlightened politicians who understood its importance; the engineers and surveyors who risked, and sometimes lost, their lives; and the Irish and Chinese immigrants, the defeated Confederate soldiers, and the other laborers who did the backbreaking and dangerous work on the tracks.

The U.S. government pitted two companies--the Union Pacific and the Cent...
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Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors

By: Ambrose, Stephen E.

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Anchor: May 1996

Seller ID: 76156

ISBN: 0385479662

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The full story of what led Crazy Horse and Custer to that fateful day at the Little Bighorn, from bestselling historian Stephen E. Ambrose.

On the sparkling morning of June 25, 1876, 611 U.S. Army soldiers rode toward the banks of the Little Bighorn in the Montana Territory, where 3,000 Indians stood waiting for battle. The lives of two great warriors would soon be forever linked throughout history: Crazy Horse, leader of the Oglala Sioux, and General George Armstrong Custer of the Seventh Cavalry. Both were men of aggression and supreme courage. Both had become leaders in their societies...
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Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West

By: Ambrose, Stephen E.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: January 1996

Seller ID: 417066

ISBN: 0684811073

Binding: Hardcover

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To America: Personal Reflections of an Historian

By: Ambrose, Stephen E.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: October 2003

Seller ID: 440241

ISBN: 0743252128

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Completed shortly before Ambrose's untimely death, To America is a very personal look at our nation's history through the eyes of one of the twentieth century's most influential historians.

Ambrose roams the country's history, praising the men and women who made it exceptional. He considers Jefferson and Washington, who were progressive thinkers (while living a contradiction as slaveholders), and celebrates Lincoln and Roosevelt. He recounts Andrew Jackson's stunning defeat of a superior British force in the battle of New Orleans with a ragtag army in the War of 1812. He brings to l...
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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: February 2014

Seller ID: 265980

ISBN: 0452283612

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

All but forgotten today, the Five Points neighborhood in lower Manhattan was once renowned the world over. It housed America's most impoverished immigrants-the Irish, Jews, Germans, Italians, and African-Americans. Located in today's Chinatown and Little Italy, Five Points played host to more riots, scams, prostitution, and drunkenness than any other neighborhood in America. But it was also crammed full of cheap theaters, dance halls, prizefighting venues, and political arenas that would one day dominate the national scene. From Jacob Riis to Abraham Lincoln, Davy Crockett to Charles Dickens, ...
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Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America

By: Anderson, Virginia Dejohn

Price: $7.50

Seller ID: 404781

ISBN: 0195304462

Binding: Trade Paperback

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When we think of the key figures of early American history, we think of explorers, or pilgrims, or Native Americans--not cattle, or goats, or swine. But as Virginia DeJohn Anderson reveals in this brilliantly original account of colonists in New England and the Chesapeake region, livestock played a vitally important role in the settling of the New World.
Livestock, Anderson writes, were a central factor in the cultural clash between colonists and Indians as well as a driving force in the expansion west. By bringing livestock across the Atlantic, colonists believed that they provided the m...
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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: August 2017

Seller ID: 346142

ISBN: 0060170379

Binding: Hardcover

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Promised Land

By: Antin, Mary

Price: $5.50

Publisher: March 2013

Seller ID: 228216

ISBN: 0140189858

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Interweaving introspection with political commentaries, biography with history, The Promised Land (1912) brings to life the transformation of an East European Jewish immigrant into an American citizen. Mary Antin recounts "the process of uprooting, transportation, replanting, acclimitization, and development that took place in my own soul," and reveals the impact of a new culture and new standards of behavior on her family. A feeling of divisions--between Russia and America, Jews and Gentiles, Yiddish and English--ever-present in her narrative, is balanced by insights, amusing and serious, int...
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The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher

By: Applegate, Debby

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Image: April 2007

Seller ID: 304268

ISBN: 0385513976

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

No one predicted success for Henry Ward Beecher at his birth in 1813. The blithe, boisterous son of the last great Puritan minister, he seemed destined to be overshadowed by his brilliant siblings--especially his sister, Harriet Beecher Stowe, who penned the century's bestselling book Uncle Tom's Cabin. But when pushed into the ministry, the charismatic Beecher found international fame by shedding his father's Old Testament-style fire-and-brimstone theology and instead preaching a New Testament-based gospel of unconditional love and healing, becoming one of the founding fathers of moder...
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Benedict Arnold: Patriot and Traitor

By: Arnold, Randall, Willard Ster

Price: $6.50

Seller ID: 74421

ISBN: 1557100349

Binding: Hardcover

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Gangs of New York

By: Asbury, Herbert

Price: $6.00

Publisher: November 2015

Seller ID: 429205

ISBN: 1560252758

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Asbury presents an illumination of the gangs of old New York that ultimately gave rise to the modern
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Mrs. Astor Regrets

By: Astor/Gordon, Meryl

Price: $5.00

Publisher: November 2015

Seller ID: 109355

ISBN: 0547247982

Binding: Trade Paperback

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A riveting look behind the gates of the house of Astor as a famous family falls apart in public

The fate of Brooke Astor, the endearing philanthropist with the storied name, has generated worldwide headlines since her grandson Philip sued his father in 2006, alleging mistreatment of Brooke. And shortly after her death in 2007, Anthony Marshall, Mrs. Astor's only child, was indicted on charges of looting her estate. Rarely has there been a story with such an appealing heroine, conjuring up a world so nearly forgotten: a realm of lavish wealth and secrets of the sort that have engaged Americ...
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Peopling of British North America: An Introduction

By: Bailyn, Bernard

Price: $5.00

Publisher: August 2011

Seller ID: 151656

ISBN: 0394757793

Binding: Trade Paperback

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New England Merchants in the Seventeenth Century

By: Bailyn, Bernard

Price: $6.00

Seller ID: 373130

ISBN: 0674612809

Binding: Trade Paperback

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By the middle of the eighteenth century the merchants were dominant figures in the northern American colonies, powerful economically, politically, and socially. But in New England this preeminence had not been present in the first years of settlement; it had been achieved in the course of three generations of social development as the merchants often Puritans themselves, rose within the Bible Commonwealths to challenge the domination of the Puritan fathers.

In lively detail Mr. Bailyn here presents the struggle of the merchants to achieve full social recognition as their successes in ...
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Slaves in the Family

By: Ball, Edward

Price: $8.00

Publisher: May 2013

Seller ID: 82628

ISBN: 0374265828

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Former Village Voice columnist Edward Ball takes readers on an unprecedented journey into his family's slave-owning past, telling the story of black and white families who lived side by side for five generations--and a tale of everyday Americans confronting their vexed inheritance together. Photos.
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Category: American History [P]