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

By: Anderson, Kurt

Price: $7.50

Seller ID: 474855

ISBN: 0812978900

Binding: Trade Paperback

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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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Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding... Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis

By: Anderson, Sam

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Seller ID: 484894

ISBN: 0804137331

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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR,
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Movement and the Sixties

By: Anderson, Terry

Price: $5.00

Publisher: March 2013

Seller ID: 450819

ISBN: 0195104579

Binding: Trade Paperback

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It began in 1960 with the Greensboro sit-ins. By 1973, when a few Native Americans rebelled at Wounded Knee and the U.S. Army came home from Vietnam, it was over. In between came Freedom Rides, Port Huron, the Mississippi Summer, Berkeley, Selma, Vietnam, the Summer of Love, Black Power, the Chicago Convention, hippies, Brown Power, and Women's Liberation--The Movement--in an era that became known as The Sixties. Why did millions of Americans become activists; why did they take to the streets?
These are questions Terry Anderson explores in The Movement and The Sixties, a searching...
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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

Condition: Used - Good

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Promised Land

By: Antin, Mary

Price: $5.50

Publisher: March 2013

Seller ID: 228216

ISBN: 0140189858

Binding: Trade Paperback

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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

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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

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Asbury presents an illumination of the gangs of old New York that ultimately gave rise to the modern
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Gangs of New York

By: Asbury, Herbert

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Publisher: November 2015

Seller ID: 445381

ISBN: 1560252758

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Asbury presents an illumination of the gangs of old New York that ultimately gave rise to the modern
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Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld

By: Asbury, Herbert

Price: $6.00

Publisher: April 2014

Seller ID: 429204

ISBN: 1560254084

Binding: Trade Paperback

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The history of the Barbary Coast properly begins with the gold rush to California in 1849. If the precious yellow metal hadn't been discovered ... the development of San Francisco's underworld in all likelihood would have been indistinguishable from that of any other large American city. Instead, owing almost entirely to the influx of gold-seekers and the horde of gamblers, thieves, harlots, politicians, and other felonious parasites who battened upon them, there arose a unique criminal district that for almost seventy years was the scene of more viciousness and depravity, but which at the sam...
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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

Condition: Used - Good

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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Under a Wild Sky: John James Audubon and the Making of the Birds of America

By: Audubon /Souder, William

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Milkweed Editions: July 2014

Seller ID: 467017

ISBN: 1571313559

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

John James Audubon is renowned for his masterpiece of natural history and art, The Birds of America, the first nearly comprehensive survey of the continent's birdlife. And yet few people understand, and many assume incorrectly, what sort of man he was. How did the illegitimate son of a French sea captain living in Haiti, who lied both about his parentage and his training, rise to become one of the greatest natural historians ever and the greatest name in ornithology? In Under a Wild Sky this Pulitzer Prize finalist, William Souder reveals that Audubon did not only compose ...
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The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World

By: Baime, A. J.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Mariner Books: October 2018

Seller ID: 456654

ISBN: 1328505685

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

" A] well-judged and hugely readable book . . . few are as entertaining."--Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times

"A. J. Baime is a master. His reporting and storytelling are woven to hypnotic effect. This is history and humanity in lush, vivid color."--Doug Stanton, author of The Odyssey of Echo Company

Heroes are often defined as ordinary characters who get pushed into extraordinary circumstances, and through courage and a dash of luck, cement their place in history. Chosen as FDR's fourth-term vice president for his well-praised work ethic, good judgment, and...
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Slaves in the Family

By: Ball, Edward

Price: $8.00

Publisher: May 2013

Seller ID: 82628

ISBN: 0374265828

Binding: Hardcover

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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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Slaves in the Family

By: Ball, Edward

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Publisher: Ballantine Books: December 1998

Seller ID: 94943

ISBN: 0345431057

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Explores the slave-holding dynasty of Elias Ball, a South Carolina plantation owner, the history of slave uprisings, and the memories of the descendants of those slaves.
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Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty

By: Barry, John M.

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: December 2012

Seller ID: 466433

ISBN: 0143122886

Binding: Trade Paperback

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A revelatory look at the separation of church and state in America--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Great Influenza
For four hundred years, Americans have fought over the proper relationships between church and state and between a free individual and the state. This is the story of the first battle in that war of ideas, a battle that led to the writing of the First Amendment and that continues to define the issue of the separation of church and state today. It began with religious persecution and ended in revolution, and along the way it defined ...
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Long Shadow of Little Rock

By: Bates, Daisy

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Seller ID: 394621

ISBN: 1557288631

Binding: Trade Paperback

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At an event honoring Daisy Bates as 1990 s Distinguished Citizen then-governor Bill Clinton called her "the most distinguished Arkansas citizen of all time." Her classic account of the 1957 Little Rock School Crisis, The Long Shadow of Little Rock, couldn't be found on most bookstore shelves in 1962 and was banned throughout the South. In 1988, after the University of Arkansas Press reprinted it, it won an American Book Award. On September 3, 1957, Gov. Orval Faubus called out the National Guard to surround all-white Central High School and prevent the entry of nine black students, challenging...
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America the Last Best Hope Volume 1: From the Age of Discovery To a World at War

By: Bennett, William

Price: $6.50

Publisher: October 2010

Seller ID: 458286

ISBN: 1595550550

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

To resce the future, we must remember our past.
With command and wit, William J. Bennett reacquaints Americans with their heritage in an engaging narrative that cuts through the cobwebs of time, memory, and prevailing cynicism. Washington, Franklin, Lincoln, Roosevelt, and others reemerge not as marble icons or dust-dry names in a textbook, but as full-blooded, heroic pioneers whose far-reaching vision forged a nation that attracted―that still attracts―millions yearning to breathe free. In this, the first volume of a "reasoned, balanced presentation of the American story," ...
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The Accusation: Blood Libel in an American Town

By: Berenson, Edward

Price: $8.50

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: September 2019

Seller ID: 485529

ISBN: 0393249425

Binding: Hardcover

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On Saturday, September 22, 1928, Barbara Griffith, age 4, strayed into the woods surrounding the upstate village of Massena, New York. Hundreds of people looked everywhere for the child but could not find her; several hours into the search, someone suggested that Barbara had been kidnapped and killed by Jews. The mayor and local police believed the rumor, and suddenly the allegation of ritual murder, known to Jews as "blood libel," took hold. Rational people in government and Jewish leaders had to intervene to restore calm once Barbara was found safe and sound.
That so many embraced t...
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Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden--from 9/11 to Abbottabad

By: Bergen, Peter L.

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Crown: May 2012

Seller ID: 309813

ISBN: 0307955575

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The gripping account of the decade-long hunt for the world's most wanted man.
It was only a week before 9/11 that Peter Bergen turned in the manuscript of "Holy War, Inc.", the story of Osama bin Laden--whom Bergen had once interviewed in a mud hut in Afghanistan--and his declaration of war on America. The book became a "New York Times "bestseller and the essential portrait of the most formidable terrorist enterprise of our time. Now, in "Manhunt, " Bergen picks up the thread with this taut yet panoramic account of the pursuit and killing of bin Laden.
Here are riveting new details of ...
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