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The Savage Wars Of Peace: Small Wars And The Rise Of American Power

By: Boot, Max

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Basic Books: May 2003

Seller ID: 459413

ISBN: 046500721X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

America's "small wars," "imperial wars," or, as the Pentagon now terms them, "low-intensity conflicts," have played an essential but little-appreciated role in its growth as a world power. Beginning with Jefferson's expedition against the Barbary Pirates, Max Boot tells the exciting stories of our sometimes minor but often bloody landings in Samoa, the Philippines, China, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Mexico, Russia, and elsewhere. Along the way he sketches colorful portraits of little-known military heroes such as Stephen Decatur, "Fighting Fred" Funston, and Smedley Butler. From ...
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Fortune's Fool: The Life of John Wilkes Booth

By: Booth, John Wilkes/Aldor

Price: $6.50

Seller ID: 380124

ISBN: 0195054121

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

With a single shot from a pistol small enough to conceal in his hand, John Wilkes Booth catapulted into history on the night of April 14, 1865. The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln stunned a nation that was just emerging from the chaos and calamity of the Civil War, and the president's untimely death altered the trajectory of postwar history. But to those who knew Booth, the event was even more shocking--for no one could have imagined that this fantastically gifted actor and well-liked man could commit such an atrocity.

In Fortune's Fool, Terry Alford provides the first ...
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The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government

By: Bordewich, Fergus M.

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: February 2016

Seller ID: 452040

ISBN: 1451691939

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The little known story of perhaps the most productive Congress in US history, the First Federal Congress of 1789-1791.

The First Congress was the most important in US history, says prizewinning author and historian Fergus Bordewich, because it established how our government would actually function. Had it failed--as many at the time feared it would--it's possible that the United States as we know it would not exist today.

The Constitution was a broad set of principles. It was left to the members of the First Congress and President George Washington to create the machinery that would ma...
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Saving Justice: Watergate, the Saturday Night Massacre, and Other Adventures of a Solicitor General

By: Bork, Roberth H.

Price: $6.50

Seller ID: 397402

ISBN: 1594036810

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In June 1973, Judge Robert Bork was plucked from a quiet life of academia at Yale University and planted in the tumultuous soil of constitutional crisis by a Nixon administration barreling toward collapse. From the ousting of Vice President Spiro Agnew to the discharge of the Watergate special prosecutor, an event known as the Saturday Night Massacre, Saving Justice offers a firsthand, insider account of the whirlwind of events that engulfed the administration during the last half of 1973 and the first few months of 1974. This important volume provides a revelatory look into the inner w...
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Iron Horses: America's Race to Bring the Railroads West

By: Borneman, Walter R.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Back Bay Books: November 2014

Seller ID: 417224

ISBN: 0316371777

Binding: Trade Paperback

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A vivid account of the origins of the transcontinental railroad -- available for the first time in trade paperback -- by the author of the bestselling "The Admirals" "Borneman is masterly at writing seamless narrative." -- Douglas Brinkley, author of "The Wilderness Warrior"
After the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in 1869, the rest of the United States was up for grabs, and the race was on. The prize: a better, shorter, less snowy route through the American Southwest, linking Los Angeles to Chicago. In IRON HORSES, Borneman recounts the rivalries, contested routes, poli...
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1812: The War That Forged a Nation (P.S.)

By: Borneman, Walter R.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Harper Perennial: October 2005

Seller ID: 447955

ISBN: 0060531134

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Although frequently overlooked between the American Revolution and the Civil War, the War of 1812 tested a rising generation of American leaders; unified the United States with a renewed sense of national purpose; and set the stage for westward expansion from Mackinac Island to the Gulf of Mexico. USS Constitution, "Old Ironsides," proved the mettle of the fledgling American navy; Oliver Hazard Perry hoisted a flag boasting, "Don't Give Up the Ship"; and Andrew Jackson's ragged force stood behind it's cotton bales at New Orleans and bested the pride of British regulars. Here are the stories...
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American Spring: Lexington, Concord, and the Road to Revolution

By: Borneman, Walter R.

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Publisher: April 2015

Seller ID: 452036

ISBN: 0316221023

Binding: Hardcover

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A vibrant new look at the American Revolution's first months, from the author of the bestseller The Admirals When we reflect on our nation's history, the American Revolution can feel almost like a foregone conclusion. In reality, the first weeks and months of 1775 were very tenuous, and a fractured and ragtag group of colonial militias had to coalesce rapidly to have even the slimmest chance of toppling the mighty British Army.
AMERICAN SPRING follows a fledgling nation from Paul Revere's little-known ride of December 1774 and the first shots fired on Lexington Green through the catastroph...
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American Spring: Lexington, Concord, and the Road to Revolution

By: Borneman, Walter R.

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Back Bay Books: April 2015

Seller ID: 458296

ISBN: 031622099X

Binding: Trade Paperback

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A new look at the American Revolution's first weeks, from the author of the bestseller The Admirals.
When we look back on our nation's history, the American Revolution can feel almost like a foregone conclusion. In reality, the first weeks of the war were much more tenuous, and a fractured and ragtag group of colonial militias had to coalesce to have even the slimmest chance of toppling the mighty British Army.
Focusing on colorful heroes John Hancock, Samuel Adams, Mercy Otis Warren, Benjamin Franklin, and Patrick Henry, plus ordinary Americans caught up in the...
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Iron Horses: America's Race to Bring the Railroads West

By: Borneman, Walter R.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Back Bay Books: November 2014

Seller ID: 466678

ISBN: 0316371777

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Your Country, My Country: A Unified History of the United States and Canada

By: Bothwell, Robert

Price: $15.00

Publisher: July 2017

Seller ID: 343958

ISBN: 0195448804

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Canada: land of hockey, terrible weather, unfailing politeness-and little else, as far as many Americans are aware. For Canadians, the United States is seen as a land of unparalleled opportunity and unparalleled failure, a country of heights and abysses. The straitlaced country in the north could hardly have much to tell about its powerhouse of a neighbor to the south, eh?

Not so, according to historian Robert Bothwell. In this witty and accessible book, Bothwell argues that the shared history of the United States and Canada reveals more about each country than most would suspect. Your...
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Rot, Riot, and Rebellion: Mr. Jefferson's Struggle to Save the University That Changed America

By: Bowman, Rex/Santos, Carlos

Price: $6.50

Publisher: July 2016

Seller ID: 319341

ISBN: 0813934702

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Thomas Jefferson had a radical dream for higher education. Designed to become the first modern public university, the University of Virginia was envisioned as a liberal campus with no religious affiliation, with elective courses and student self-government. Nearly two centuries after the university's creation, its success now seems preordained--its founder, after all, was a great American genius. Yet what many don't know is that Jefferson's university almost failed.

In Rot, Riot, and Rebellion, award-winning journalists Rex Bowman and Carlos Santos offer a dramatic re-creatio...
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Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft

By: Boyer, Paul

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Seller ID: 346524

ISBN: 0674785266

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Tormented girls writhing in agony, stern judges meting out harsh verdicts, nineteen bodies swinging on Gallows Hill.
The stark immediacy of what happened in 1692 has obscured the complex web of human passion, individual and organized, which had been growing for more than a generation before the witch trials. Salem Possessed explores the lives of the men and women who helped spin that web and who in the end found themselves entangled in it.
From rich and varied sources--many previously neglected or unknown--Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum give us a picture of the events ...
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The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War

By: Bradley, James

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company: November 2009

Seller ID: 221952

ISBN: 0316008958

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In 1905 President Teddy Roosevelt dispatched Secretary of War William Howard Taft on the largest U.S. diplomatic mission in history to Hawaii, Japan, the Philippines, China, and Korea. Roosevelt's glamorous twenty-one year old daughter Alice served as mistress of the cruise, which included senators and congressmen. On this trip, Taft concluded secret agreements in Roosevelt's name.
In 2005, a century later, James Bradley traveled in the wake of Roosevelt's mission and discovered what had transpired in Honolulu, Tokyo, Manila, Beijing and Seoul.
In 1905, Roosevelt was bully-confident an...
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Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963

By: Branch, Taylor

Price: $8.00

Publisher: November 2014

Seller ID: 71788

ISBN: 0671687425

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In volume one of his America in the King Years, Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch gives a masterly account of the American civil rights movement.
Hailed as the most masterful story ever told of the American civil rights movement, Parting the Waters is destined to endure for generations.
Moving from the fiery political baptism of Martin Luther King, Jr., to the corridors of Camelot where the Kennedy brothers weighed demands for justice against the deceptions of J. Edgar Hoover, here is a vivid tapestry of America, torn and finally transformed by a revolutionary struggle...
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Pillar of Fire : America in the King Years 1963-65

By: Branch, Taylor

Price: $7.50

Publisher: November 2013

Seller ID: 478346

ISBN: 0684848090

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Taylor Branch, the second part of his epic trilogy on the American Civil Rights Movement.
In the second volume of his three-part history, a monumental trilogy that began with Parting the Waters, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, Taylor Branch portrays the Civil Rights Movement at its zenith, recounting the climactic struggles as they commanded the national stage.
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The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin

By: Brands, H. W.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Anchor: March 2002

Seller ID: 42343

ISBN: 0385495404

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Pulitzer Prize Finalist
Benjamin Franklin, perhaps the pivotal figure in colonial and revolutionary America, comes vividly to life in this masterly biography. Wit, diplomat, scientist, philosopher, businessman, inventor, and bon vivant, Benjamin Franklin was in every respect America's first Renaissance man. From penniless runaway to highly successful printer, from ardently loyal subject of Britain to architect of an alliance with France that ensured America's independence, Franklin went from obscurity to become one of the world's most admired figures, whose circle included th...
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The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedom

By: Brands, H. W.

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Doubleday: October 2020

Seller ID: 467880

ISBN: 0385544006

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

From New York Times bestselling historian H. W. Brands, the epic struggle over slavery as
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T.R.: The Last Romantic

By: Brands, H. W.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Basic Books: November 1997

Seller ID: 173922

ISBN: 0465069584

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In his time, there was no more popular national figure than Theodore Roosevelt. It was not just the energy he brought to every political office he held or his unshakable moral convictions that made him so popular, or even his status as a bonafide war hero--the man who led the Rough Riders up San Juan Hill in Cuba during the Spanish-American war. Most important, Theodore Roosevelt was loved by the people because this scion of a privileged New York family loved America and Americans.And yet, according to Bill Brands, if we look at the private Roosevelt without blinders, we see a man whose great ...
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The General vs. the President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War

By: Brands, H. W.

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Anchor: October 2017

Seller ID: 417508

ISBN: 1101912170

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

At the height of the Korean War, President Harry S. Truman committed a gaffe that sent shock waves around the world, when he suggested that General Douglas MacArthur, the willful, fearless, and highly decorated commander of the American and U.N. forces, had his finger on the nuclear trigger. At a time when the Soviets, too, had the bomb, the specter of a catastrophic third World War lurked menacingly close on the horizon. A correction quickly followed, but the damage was done; two visions for America's path forward were clearly in opposition, and one man would have to make way.
The cont...
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The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin

By: Brands, H. W.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Anchor: March 2002

Seller ID: 450858

ISBN: 0385495404

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Pulitzer Prize Finalist
Benjamin Franklin, perhaps the pivotal figure in colonial and revolutionary America, comes vividly to life in this masterly biography. Wit, diplomat, scientist, philosopher, businessman, inventor, and bon vivant, Benjamin Franklin was in every respect America's first Renaissance man. From penniless runaway to highly successful printer, from ardently loyal subject of Britain to architect of an alliance with France that ensured America's independence, Franklin went from obscurity to become one of the world's most admired figures, whose circle included th...
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Category: American History [P]