T.R. By H.W. Brands

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Title	:	T.R.
Author	:	H.W. Brands
ISBN	:	0465069584
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	897

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In his time, there was no 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 Ro In his time, there was no popular national figure than Theodore Roosevelt It was not just the energy he brought to every political...

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The Children's Blizzard By David Laskin

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Title	:	The Children's Blizzard
Author	:	David Laskin
ISBN	:	0060520760
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	307

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Thousands of impoverished Northern European immigrants were promised that the prairie offered land, freedom, and hope The disastrous blizzard of 1888 revealed that their free homestead was not a paradise but a hard, unforgiving place governed by natural forces they neither understood nor controlled, and America s heartland would never be the same.This P.S edition featu Thousands of impoverished Northern European immigrants were promised that the prairie offered land, freedom, and hope The disastrous blizz...

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Dead Certainties By Simon Schama

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Title	:	Dead Certainties
Author	:	Simon Schama
ISBN	:	0679736131
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	352

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Like his The Embarrassment of Riches and the bestselling Citizens, Simon Schama s latest book is both history and literature of immense stylishness and ambition But Dead Certainties goes beyond these conventional histories to address the deeper enigmas that confront a student of the past In order to do so, Schama reconstructs and at times reinvents two ambiguo Like his The Embarrassment of Riches and the bestselling Citizens, Simon Schama s latest book is both history and literature of immense ...

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The Stamp Act Crisis By Edmund S. Morgan

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Title	:	The Stamp Act Crisis
Author	:	Edmund S. Morgan
ISBN	:	0807845132
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	342

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The Stamp Act, the first direct tax on the American colonies, provoked an immediate and violent response The Stamp Act Crisis, originally published by UNC Press in 1953, identifies the issues that caused the confrontation and explores the ways in which the conflict was a prelude to the American Revolution....

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In Search of Butch Cassidy By Larry Pointer

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Title	:	In Search of Butch Cassidy
Author	:	Larry Pointer
ISBN	:	0806121432
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	320

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Who was Butch Cassidy He was born Robert LeRoy Parker in 1866 in Utah And, as everyone knows, after years of operating with a sometime gang of outlaws known as the Wild Bunch, he and the Sundance Kid escaped to South America, only to die in a 1908 shootout with a Bolivian cavalry troop.But did he die Some say that he didn t die in Bolivia, but returned to live out a qui Who was Butch Cassidy He was born Robert LeRoy Parker in 1866 in Utah And, as everyone knows, after years of operating with a sometime ga...

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Remembering Scottsboro By James A. Miller

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Title	:	Remembering Scottsboro
Author	:	James A. Miller
ISBN	:	0691140472
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	280

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In 1931, nine black youths were charged with raping two white women in Scottsboro, Alabama Despite meager and contradictory evidence, all nine were found guilty and eight of the defendants were sentenced to death making Scottsboro one of the worst travesties of justice to take place in the post Reconstruction South Remembering Scottsboro explores how this case has emb In 1931, nine black youths were charged with raping two white women in Scottsboro, Alabama Despite meager and contradictory evide...

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Burr By Gore Vidal

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Title	:	Burr
Author	:	Gore Vidal
ISBN	:	0375708731
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	430

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Gore Vidal s Narratives of Empire series spans the history of the United States from the Revolution to the post World War II years With their broad canvas and large cast of fictional and historical characters, the novels in this series present a panorama of the American political and imperial experience as interpreted by one of its most worldly, knowing, and ironic observ Gore Vidal s Narratives of Empire series spans the history of the United States from the Revolution to the post World War II years With...

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Last Call By Daniel Okrent

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Title	:	Last Call
Author	:	Daniel Okrent
ISBN	:	0743277023
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	480

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A brilliant, authoritative, and fascinating history of America s most puzzling era, the years 1920 to 1933, when the U.S Constitution was amended to restrict one of America s favorite pastimes drinking alcoholic beverages

From its start, America has been awash in drink The sailing vessel that brought John Winthrop to the shores of the New World in 1630 carried bee

A brilliant, authoritative, and fascinating history of America s most puzzling era, the years 1920 to 1933, when th...

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Empire of Liberty By Gordon S. Wood

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Title	:	Empire of Liberty
Author	:	Gordon S. Wood
ISBN	:	0199832463
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	778

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The Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi volume history of our nation The series includes three Pulitzer Prize winners, two New York Times bestsellers, and winners of the Bancroft and Parkman Prizes Now, in the newest volume in the series, one of America s most esteemed historians, Gordon S Wood, offers a brilliant account of the early The Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi volume history of our nation The series includes three Pulitzer...

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The Name of War By Jill Lepore

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Title	:	The Name of War
Author	:	Jill Lepore
ISBN	:	0375702628
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	368

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Winner of the the 1998 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award of the Phi Beta Kappa Society King Philip s War, the excruciating racial war colonists against Indians that erupted in New England in 1675, was, in proportion to population, the bloodiest in American history Some even argued that the massacres and outrages on both sides were too horrific to deserve the name of a war It Winner of the the 1998 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award of the Phi Beta Kappa Society King Philip s War, the excruciating racial war colonists agai...

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Novus Ordo Seclorum By Forrest McDonald

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Title	:	Novus Ordo Seclorum
Author	:	Forrest McDonald
ISBN	:	0700603115
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	376

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This is the first major interpretation of the framing of the Constitution to appear in than two decades Forrest McDonald, widely considered one of the foremost historians of the Constitution and of the early national period, reconstructs the intellectual world of the Founding Fathers including their understanding of law, history political philosophy, and political ec This is the first major interpretation of the framing of the Constitution to appear in than two decades Forrest McDonald, widely considere...

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Theodore Roosevelt By Kathleen Dalton

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Title	:	Theodore Roosevelt
Author	:	Kathleen Dalton
ISBN	:	067944663X
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	708

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Biographers have often treated Theodore Roosevelt as a larger than life monument carved in stone, unchanging, far from being flesh and blood, and quite imperturbable So writes Kathleen Dalton, who gives us a fully fleshed, quite down to earth TR in this vigorous, sometimes critical biography of the 26th president.

Roosevelt carefully crafted an image of himself as a sel

Biographers have often treated Theodore Roosevelt as a larger than life monument carved in stone, unchanging, far from b...

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The Warrior and the Priest By John Milton Cooper Jr.

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Title	:	The Warrior and the Priest
Author	:	John Milton Cooper Jr.
ISBN	:	0674947517
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	480

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The colossal figures who shaped the politics of industrial America emerge in full scale in this engrossing comparative biography In both the depth and sophistication of intellect that they brought to politics and in the titanic conflict they waged with each other, Roosevelt and Wilson were, like Hamilton and Jefferson before them, the political architects for an entire ce The colossal figures who shaped the politics of industrial America emerge in full scale in this engrossing comparative biogra...

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The Johnstown Flood By David McCullough

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Title	:	The Johnstown Flood
Author	:	David McCullough
ISBN	:	0844662925
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	302

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At the end of the last century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal and steel town filled with hardworking families striving for a piece of the nation s burgeoning industrial prosperity In the mountains above Johnstown, an old earth dam had been hastily rebuilt to create a lake for an exclusive summer resort patronized by the tycoons of that same industrial prospe At the end of the last century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal and steel town filled with hardworking families s...

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Theodore Roosevelt By Kathleen Dalton

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Title	:	Theodore Roosevelt
Author	:	Kathleen Dalton
ISBN	:	0679767339
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	756

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He inherited a sense of entitlement and obligation from his family, yet eventually came to see his own class as suspect He was famously militaristic, yet brokered peace between Russia and Japan He started out an archconservative, yet came to champion progressive causes These contradictions are not evidence of vacillating weakness instead, they were the product of a r He inherited a sense of entitlement and obligation from his family, yet eventually came to see his own class as suspect He was fam...

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High Noon in Lincoln By Robert M. Utley

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Title	:	High Noon in Lincoln
Author	:	Robert M. Utley
ISBN	:	0826312012
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	279

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Here is the most detailed and most engagingly narrated history to date of the legendary two year facedown and shootout in Lincoln Until now, New Mexico s late nineteenth century Lincoln County War has served primarily as the backdrop for a succession of mythical renderings of Billy the Kid in American popular culture In research, writing, and interpretation, High Noon i Here is the most detailed and most engagingly narrated history to date of the legendary two year facedown and shootout in Lincoln Until n...

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The War Lovers By Evan Thomas

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Title	:	The War Lovers
Author	:	Evan Thomas
ISBN	:	031600409X
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	471

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