Emancipating Lincoln: The Proclamation in Text, Context, and Memory by Harold Holzer
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Category: American | Series: The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures
"Emancipating Lincoln" seeks a new approach to the "Emancipation Proclamation", a foundational text of American liberty that in recent years has been subject to woeful misinterpretation. These seventeen hundred words are Lincoln's most important piece of writing, responsible both for his being hailed as ...Show more
Geronimo by Robert M. Utley
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Category: American | Series: Lamar Series in Western History
Secondhand. A fast-paced biography of the most famous North American Indian of all time, with new material to reveal the man behind the legend Renowned for ferocity in battle, legendary for an uncanny ability to elude capture, feared for the violence of his vengeful raids, the Apache fighter Geronimo c ...Show more
The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace by H. W. Brands
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Category: American
From "New York Times" bestselling author H. W. Brands, a masterful biography of the Civil War general and two-term president who saved the Union twice, on the battlefield and in the White House, holding the country together at two critical turning points in our history. Ulysses Grant rose from obscurity ...Show more
America Again: Re-Becoming the Greatness We Never Weren't: Now in 3-D High-Def Depthiness! by Stephen Colbert
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Category: American
Book store nation, in the history of mankind there has never been a greater country than America." "You could say we're the #1 nation at being the best at greatness. But as perfect as America is in every single way, America is broken! And we can't exchange it because we're 236 years past the 30-day retu ...Show more
The Executioner's Song
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Category: American
Norman Mailer's Pulitzer Prize-winning and unforgettable classic about convicted killer Gary Gilmore now in a brand-new edition. Arguably the greatest book from America's most heroically ambitious writer, THE EXECUTIONER'S SONG follows the short, blighted life of Gary Gilmore who became famous after he ...Show more
Legacy of Ashes : The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner
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Category: American
All-powerful, brilliant, decisive, ruthlessly effective ...this is the image of the CIA as portrayed in countless films and novels. It is wrong. This shocking book, based on thousands of declassified documents and interviews with agents at all levels, shows the reality behind the glamorous myth: a blund ...Show more
The Untold History of The United States by Oliver Stone; Peter Kuznick
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Category: American
A companion to Oliver Stone's ten-part Showtime documentary series in the tradition of Howard Zinn's "People's History of the United States," this cutting-edge and provocative book challenges the status quo of American history. Multiple Academy Award-winner Oliver Stone (once called "Dostoevsky behind ...Show more
Master of the Senate by Caro Robert A
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Category: American
Book Three of Robert A. Caro's monumental work, " The Years of Lyndon Johnson"--the most admired and riveting political biography of our era--which began with the best-selling and prizewinning "The Path to Power and Means of Ascent." "Master of the Senate" carries Lyndon Johnson's story through one of i ...Show more
The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro
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Category: American
This is the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill Country. The Path to Power reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy, and ambition that set LBJ apart. It follows him from the Hill Country to New Deal Washington, ...Show more
The President's Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity by Michael Duffy
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Category: American
Over the years that followed and to this day-the presidents relied on, misunderstood, sabotaged, and formed alliances with one another that changed history. The world's most exclusive fraternity is a complicated place: its members are bound forever because they sat in the Oval Office and know its secret ...Show more
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 by Michael Wallace
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Category: American
To European explorers, it was Eden, a paradise of waist-high grasses, towering stands of walnut, maple, chestnut, and oak, and forests that teemed with bears, wolves, raccoons, beavers, otters, and foxes. Today, it is the site of Broadway and Wall Street, the Empire State Building and the Statue of Libe ...Show more