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The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America (Pivotal Moments in American History)

By: Calloway, Colin G.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: September 2007

Seller ID: 467112

ISBN: 0195331273

Binding: Trade Paperback

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In this superb volume in Oxford's acclaimed Pivotal Moments series, Colin Calloway reveals how the Treaty of Paris of 1763 had a profound effect on American history, setting in motion a cascade of unexpected consequences, as Indians and Europeans, settlers and frontiersmen, all struggled to adapt to new boundaries, new alignments, and new relationships.

Britain now possessed a vast American empire stretching from Canada to the Florida Keys, yet the crushing costs of maintaining it would push its colonies toward rebellion. White settlers, free to pour into the West, clashed as never before ...
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Bienville's Dilemma: A Historical Geography of New Orleans

By: Campanella, Richard

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Seller ID: 380045

ISBN: 1887366857

Binding: Trade Paperback

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All New Orleans' glories, tragedies, contributions, and complexities can be traced back to the geographical dilemma Bienville confronted in 1718 when selecting the primary location of New Orleans. "Bienville's Dilemma" presents sixty-eight articles on the historical geography of New Orleans, covering the formation and foundation of the city, its urbanization and population, its "humanization" into a place of distinction, the manipulation of its environment, its devastation by Hurricane Katrina, and its ongoing recovery.
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The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America (Politics and Society in Modern America)

By: Canaday, Margot

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Publisher: Princeton University Press: July 2011

Seller ID: 485093

ISBN: 0691149933

Binding: Trade Paperback

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The Straight State is the most expansive study of the federal regulation of homosexuality yet written. Unearthing startling new evidence from the National Archives, Margot Canaday shows how the state systematically came to penalize homosexuality, giving rise to a regime of second-class citizenship that sexual minorities still live under today.

Canaday looks at three key arenas of government control--immigration, the military, and welfare--and demonstrates how federal enforcement of sexual norms emerged with the rise of the modern bureaucratic state. She begins at the turn ...
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President Reagan: The Role Of A Lifetime

By: Cannon, Lou

Price: $6.50

Publisher: PublicAffairs: April 2000

Seller ID: 453357

ISBN: 1891620916

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Hailed by the New Yorker as "a superlative study of a president and his presidency," Lou Cannon's President Reagan remains the definitive account of our most significant presidency in the last fifty years. Ronald Wilson Reagan, the first actor to be elected president, turned in the performance of a lifetime. But that performance concealed the complexities of the man, baffling most who came in contact with him. Who was the man behind the makeup? Only Lou Cannon, who covered Reagan through his political career, can tell us. The keenest Reagan-watcher of them all, he has been the only auth...
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Close to Shore: A True Story of Terror in An Age of Innocence

By: Capuzzo, Michael

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Broadway: May 2001

Seller ID: 68609

ISBN: 0767904133

Binding: Hardcover

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Combining rich historical detail and a harrowing, pulse-pounding narrative, Close to Shore brilliantly re-creates the summer of 1916, when a rogue Great White shark attacked swimmers along the New Jersey shore, triggering mass hysteria and launching the most extensive shark hunt in history.
During the summer before the United States entered World War I, when ocean swimming was just becoming popular and luxurious Jersey Shore resorts were thriving as a chic playland for an opulent yet still innocent era's new leisure class, Americans were abruptly introduced to the terror of sharks. In July...
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Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916

By: Capuzzo, Michael

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Broadway Books: May 2002

Seller ID: 143860

ISBN: 0767904141

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Combining rich historical detail and a harrowing, pulse-pounding narrative, Close to Shore brilliantly re-creates the summer of 1916, when a rogue Great White shark attacked swimmers along the New Jersey shore, triggering mass hysteria and launching the most extensive shark hunt in history.

In July 1916 a lone Great White left its usual deep-ocean habitat and headed in the direction of the New Jersey shoreline. There, near the towns of Beach Haven and Spring Lake--and, incredibly, a farming community eleven miles inland--the most ferocious and unpredictable of predato...
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Andrew Carnegie

By: Carnegie/Nasaw, David

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Seller ID: 446754

ISBN: 1594201048

Binding: Hardcover

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Celebrated historian David Nasaw brings new life to the story of one of America's most famous and successful businessmen and philanthropists.
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Carnegie, Andrew

By: Carnegie/Nasaw, David

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Seller ID: 297009

ISBN: 0143112449

Binding: Trade Paperback

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The definitive account of the life of Andrew Carnegie

Celebrated historian David Nasaw, whom The New York Times Book Review has called "a meticulous researcher and a cool analyst," brings new life to the story of one of America's most famous and successful businessmen and philanthropists--in what will prove to be the biography of the season.

Born of modest origins in Scotland in 1835, Andrew Carnegie is best known as the founder of Carnegie Steel. His rags to riches story has never been told as dramatically and vividly as in Nasaw's new biography. Carnegie, the son of...
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Carnegie, Andrew

By: Carnegie/Nasaw, David

Price: $8.00

Seller ID: 477616

ISBN: 0143112449

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The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 1)

By: Caro, Robert A.

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Publisher: Vintage: February 1990

Seller ID: 452977

ISBN: 0679729453

Binding: Trade Paperback

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The Years of Lyndon Johnson is the political biography of our time. No president--no era of American politics--has been so intensively and sharply examined at a time when so many prime witnesses to hitherto untold or misinterpreted facets of a life, a career, and a period of history could still be persuaded to speak.

The Path to Power, Book One, reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy, and urge to power that set LBJ apart. Chronicling the startling early emergence of Johnson's political genius, it follows him from his Texas boyhood ...
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Letters of a Nation: Collection of Extraordinary American Letters

By: Carroll, Andrew

Price: $4.00

Publisher: November 2012

Seller ID: 457617

ISBN: 0767903315

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Spanning 350 years of American history and culture, a collection of more than two hundred letters, m
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Letters of a Nation: Collection of Extraordinary American Letters

By: Carroll, Andrew

Price: $5.00

Publisher: November 2012

Seller ID: 481456

ISBN: 0767903315

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Spanning 350 years of American history and culture, a collection of more than two hundred letters, m
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House of War: The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise od American Power

By: Carroll, James

Price: $7.00

Publisher: July 2012

Seller ID: 199916

ISBN: 0618872019

Binding: Trade Paperback

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From the National Book Award-winning author of An American Requiem and Constantine's Sword comes a sweeping yet intimate look at the Pentagon and its vast--often hidden--impact on America.

This landmark, myth-shattering work chronicles the most powerful institution in America, the people who created it, and the pathologies it has spawned. James Carroll proves a controversial thesis: the Pentagon has, since its founding, operated beyond the control of any force in government or society. It is the biggest, loosest cannon in American history, and no institution has chang...
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American Requiem

By: Carroll, James

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Publisher: February 2014

Seller ID: 453646

ISBN: 039577926X

Binding: Hardcover

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An American Requiem is the story of one man's coming of age. But more than that, it is a coming to terms with the conflicts that disrupted many families, inflicting personal wounds that were also social, political, and religious. Carroll grew up in a Catholic family that seemed blessed. His father had abandoned his own dream of becoming a priest to rise through the ranks of Hoover's FBI and then become one of the most powerful men in the Pentagon, the founder of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Young Jim lived the privileged life of a general's son, dating the daughter of a vice president and ...
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Turning Point: A Candidate, a State, and a Nation Come of Age

By: Carter, Jimmy

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Times Books: December 1993

Seller ID: 49085

ISBN: 0812922999

Binding: Trade Paperback

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An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood

By: Carter, Jimmy

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: January 2001

Seller ID: 59720

ISBN: 0743211936

Binding: Hardcover

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In an American story of enduring importance, Jimmy Carter re-creates his Depression-era boyhood on a Georgia farm, before the civil rights movement that changed it and the country.

In what is sure to become a classic, the bestselling author of "Living Faith" and "Sources of Strength" writes about the powerful rhythms of countryside and community in a sharecropping economy. Along the way, he offers an unforgettable portrait of his father, a brilliant farmer and strict segregationist who treated black workers with his own brand of "separate" respect and fairness, and his strong-willed and well...
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An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood

By: Carter, Jimmy

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Publisher: Simon & Schuster: October 2001

Seller ID: 91855

ISBN: 0743211995

Binding: Trade Paperback

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In An Hour Before Daylight, Jimmy Carter, bestselling author of Living Faith and Sources of Strength, recreates his Depression-era boyhood on a Georgia farm before the civil rights movement forever changed it and the country.

Carter writes about the powerful rhythms of countryside and community in a sharecropping economy, offering an unforgettable portrait of his father, a brilliant farmer and a strict segregationist who treated black workers with respect and fairness; his strong-willed and well-read mother; and the five other people who shaped his early life, three ...
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Full Life: Reflections at Ninety

By: Carter, Jimmy

Price: $8.00

Seller ID: 331004

ISBN: 1501115634

Binding: Hardcover

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"A warm and detailed memoir." --Los Angeles Times

Jimmy Carter, thirty-ninth President, Nobel Peace Prize winner, international humanitarian, fisherman, reflects on his full and happy life with pride, humor, and a few second thoughts.

At ninety, Jimmy Carter reflects on his public and private life with a frankness that is disarming. He adds detail and emotion about his youth in rural Georgia that he described in his magnificent An Hour Before Daylight. He writes about racism and the isolation of the Carters. He describes the brutality of the hazing regimen at Annap...
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Full Life: Reflections at Ninety

By: Carter, Jimmy

Price: $6.50

Seller ID: 366214

ISBN: 1501115642

Binding: Trade Paperback

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In his major New York Times bestseller, Jimmy Carter looks back from ninety years of age and "reveals private thoughts and recollections over a fascinating career as businessman, politician, evangelist, and humanitarian" (Booklist).

President Carter: The White House Years

By: Carter/Eizenstat, Stuart

Price: $10.00

Seller ID: 393295

ISBN: 1250104556

Binding: Hardcover

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The definitive history of the Carter Administration from the man who participated in its surprising number of accomplishments--drawing on his extensive and never-before-seen notes.

Stuart Eizenstat was at Jimmy Carter's side from his political rise in Georgia through four years in the White House, where he served as Chief Domestic Policy Adviser. He was directly involved in all domestic and economic decisions as well as in many foreign policy ones. Famous for the legal pads he took to every meeting, he draws on more than 5,000 pages of notes and 350 interviews of all the...
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Category: American History [P]