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 Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our NationBest Price: $13.00 I enjoyed Cokie Roberts' earlier book, Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation, and on... |  John AdamsBest Price: $10.68 David McCullough's book is an interest tale of John Adams' life, and I would recommend it for a... |  Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45Best Price: $16.88 This book, while lengthy, is very well written and takes the reader behind the typical military... |  The Age of American UnreasonBest Price: $14.63 Brilliant and how history repeats itself. Now democratic candidates sling mud at each other: ... |  I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to be Destroyed by Me: Emblems from the Pentagon's Black WorldBest Price: $14.22 Interesting and to my knowledge, a unique book. Three quibbles: 1). There is a printer flaw on... |
 Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and InheritanceBest Price: $16.04 Simply wonderful, honest and unpretentious The Second Declaration Every Day A Miracle Happens |  The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first CenturyBest Price: $7.88 Great as an audio book to look at events and technology that make competition global....think... |  Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of CivilizationBest Price: $17.82 Nicholson Baker's best novels remain THE MEZZANINE and ROOM TEMPERATURE, two superb gems of... |  The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed AmericaBest Price: $4.99 A fascinating journey behind the World's Columbian Exhibition in 1893. Even non-history buffs... |  What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 (Oxford History of the United States)Best Price: $19.95 I enjoyed this book immensely, reading it cover-to-cover like a novel. For those who tend to... |
 A People's History of American EmpireBest Price: $10.29 This book absolutely blew me away. I'm a big Howeard Zinn fan and remember using his book... |  The Match: The Day the Game of Golf Changed ForeverBest Price: $14.68 It is a well written book for the hard core golf enthusiast. It is probably a book that a non... |  The Zookeeper's Wife: A War StoryBest Price: $14.58 I haven't finished the book yet but it's hard to put down. sometimes it gets a bit long in... |  Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent FaithBest Price: $7.85 This story is one of the best warnings of the dangers of fanaticism I've read. Religion can be... |  Yankee Stadium: The Official RetrospectiveBest Price: $27.50 Since I have season tickets to the Stadium this year, I'm trying to learn as much about it as... |
 Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War IIBest Price: $18.48 If nothing else, Mr. Blackmon should be seriously considered for a Pulitzer Prize with his... |  Cracking the AP U.S. History Exam, 2008 Edition (College Test Prep)Best Price: $10.31 This book is great for those of us who are too busy or can't concentrate on our textbooks. This... |  Night (Oprah's Book Club)Best Price: $2.97 Regardless of how many times I return to this book, it never fails to shock and inspire. An... |  Founding Faith: Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in AmericaBest Price: $15.45 First, here's what I like about Waldman's book. I find his examination of the religious... |  April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Death and How It Changed AmericaBest Price: $12.37 Michael Eric Dyson is best-known for his words. An incredibly well-spoken man, this book... |
 A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn - the Last Great Battle of the American WestBest Price: $15.69 The highest praise I can give to James Donovan's "A Terrible Glory" is that it... |  Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham LincolnBest Price: $12.56 I enjoyed this book. Although it was not a quick read at about 750 pages, it was very... |  This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil WarBest Price: $14.69 I enjoyed this book, but found it sad.It gives a good understanding of the truama that Americans... |  Bush's Law: The Remaking of American JusticeBest Price: $15.45 This is a good solid work about law and justice in the Bush Administration. It's a story of... |  The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2008 (World Almanac and Book of Facts)Best Price: $7.95 I buy three or more every year for my husband. One for each room in which he spends any amount... |
 The 33-Year-Old Rookie: How I Finally Made it to the Big Leagues After Eleven Years in the MinorsBest Price: $15.24 The inspiring story of a thirty-three year old baseball player, who finally makes it to the ... |  The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (The Liberation Trilogy)Best Price: $17.49 This is an outstanding book about the Second World War. A fine follow on to Rick Atkinson's An... |  Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIABest Price: $16.58 It seems odd to say, but the biggest problem with this lengthy, detailed, heavily researched... |  Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our NationBest Price: $7.25 Great ability to make these stories fascinating. Much info this Revolutionary Era buff did not... |  The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust BowlBest Price: $7.90 I just finished this book and it was marvelous. It is a complete account of a time so long... |
 My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John AdamsBest Price: $19.50 My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams Well written |  The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Vintage)Best Price: $8.99 wright prepared an excellent book. it's written as engagingly as a novel, but it is choke full... |  Boom!: Voices of the Sixties Personal Reflections on the '60s and TodayBest Price: $12.98 A must read as many of us were tied down with so much happening in the late boom years. Great to... |  What Would Martin Say?Best Price: $14.28 On April 4, 1968, the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on the balcony of the... |  The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean WarBest Price: $12.75 Shows the darker side of Douglas McArthur and some of his underlings. Makes you proud of the... |
 A Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans: Pirates, Skinflints, Patriots, and Other Colorful Characters Stuck in the Footnotes of HistoryBest Price: $8.38 As the cover blurb reminds us, countless fascinating characters are relegated to the footnotes... |  The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A MemoirBest Price: $8.16 This is a very funny book and is a great view of growing up in the 50s and 60s. I loved it. |  AP United States History (REA) - The Best Test Prep for the AP Exam: 7th Edition (Test Preps)Best Price: $13.20 This helped me get a 5 on my AP test. My teacher recommended everyone to get one of these, and... |  Fast Food NationBest Price: $5.15 I've taught this book for several years, and over time have realized that the title is quite... |  Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American DreamBest Price: $7.56 Had some issues with delivery (of no fault to Amazons) which were dealt with wonderfully. |
 Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New HollywoodBest Price: $15.74 Mark Harris did an amazing amount of work to prepare for this book. He interviewed names big and... |  Dark Mission: The Secret History of NASABest Price: $14.78 This book was a lot of fun to read. It was full of ideas and statements that would be really... |  Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great DepressionBest Price: $12.82 As you might expect of a former English professor and school teacher, the book is easy to read... |  The Soprano State: New Jersey's Culture of CorruptionBest Price: $14.38 A life-long resident of New Jersey, I knew about some of the goings on regarding the corruption... |  The Panic of 1907: Lessons Learned from the Market's Perfect StormBest Price: $16.35 The authors developed a systematic way to look at business cycles or what causes a panic which... |
 Secrets of the Unified Field: The Philadelphia Experiment, The Nazi Bell, and the Discarded TheoryBest Price: $12.89 The Philedelphia Experiment is an area that is rife with disinformation and Dr. Farrell unravels... |  Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary GenerationBest Price: $5.02 Founding Brothers is an excellent history, presented in an interesting format. I gave it to our... |  The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great DepressionBest Price: $12.95 I read this book thinking it would be a story about the "Forgotten Man," or maybe the... |  The Good Rat: A True StoryBest Price: $15.32 Jimmy Breslin has created a masterpiece with his tales of Burt Kaplan and two bad cops. Breslin... |  Brave CompanionsBest Price: $8.75 With this collection of essays, most written in the 1970s and `80s (but one reaching back into... |
 The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign PolicyBest Price: $14.96 I recommend this book for anyone who wants to understand the influence of the Israel Lobby on US... |  Things We Couldn't SayBest Price: $16.32 The true story of true Christians, and Dutch patriots, Diet Eman and Hein Sietsma, and their... |  American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the RepublicBest Price: $10.00 But, the guys were bright enough to make the Constitution ambiguous enough to allow for future... |  Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of FlimflamBest Price: $15.37 "Charlatan" is a fast moving, fun read about an early 20th. century historical era of... |  9/11 Contradictions: An Open Letter to Congress and the PressBest Price: $12.90 David Ray Griffin, with his 5th book on the subject has made lying about one of the most tragic... |
 Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore RooseveltBest Price: $7.95 David McCullough's "Mornings on Horseback" is a biography of Theodore Roosevelt's... |  Benjamin Franklin: An American LifeBest Price: $8.47 When I took US History in College, the various instructors took pot shots at Benjamin Franklin,... |  Daydream Believers: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American PowerBest Price: $13.47 This book takes on an important question: What happaned to American policy after the COld War... | ||
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