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 Andrew Johnson: The American Presidents Series: The 17th President, 1865-1869Best Price: $19.77 Andrew Johnson never expected to be president. But just six weeks after becoming Abraham... |  Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman: Portrait of an American HeroBest Price: $7.50 This book was exceptionlly well researched. The author did a good job of separating fact from... |  Nellie Taft: The Unconventional First Lady of the Ragtime EraBest Price: $4.79 Carl Anthony has given us another excellent and well-researched book; this one on the life of... |  Robert E. Lee (Penguin Lives)Best Price: $4.85 Obviously, to get a REALLY good idea of who someone was, one must read more than one biography,... |  Bemelmans: The Life and Art of Madeline's CreatorBest Price: $23.49 It's our great fortune that two books are published during the same month celebrating two of the... |
 The Last of the Fathers: James Madison & The Republican LegacyBest Price: $19.99 Professor McCoy has here taken vol. IX of James Madison's writings (the Hunt edition) and simply... |  The Last SchoonermanBest Price: $16.18 Finally, a book about sailing schooners, their captains, crews and adventures that is not... |  Benjamin Franklin and the Politics of Improvement (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-C)Best Price: $24.17 This fascinating book explores Benjamin Franklin?s social and political thought. Although... |  The Irish General: Thomas Francis MeagherBest Price: $21.33 It seems every time you turn around someone's writing a biography of another Confederate general... |  Mary's World : Love, War, and Family Ties in Nineteenth-century CharlestonBest Price: $15.99 Mary's World helped me to understand life in the Antebellum South and the culture that thrived... |
 Jackson Pollock: An American SagaBest Price: $24.00 This book was riveting and insightful on many levels. Life in America, the art scene in NYC,... |  Mrs. Robert E. Lee: The Lady of ArlingtonBest Price: $4.75 This book gives the reader a valuable insight into the life of Mary Lee and her family as well... |  William Randolph Hearst: The Later Years, 1911-1951Best Price: $1.23 He was bigger than life and one innovative person ...maybe the first gorilla marketer whether... |  From Love Field: Our Final Hours with President John F. KennedyBest Price: $1.99 I find this book wonderfully written by Mrs Connolly and a never before seen insight into what... |  Bonnie and Clyde: A Twenty-First-Century UpdateBest Price: $20.14 I was a bit disappointed in this book, I have to admit. I was hoping to learn more about Bonnie... |
 Booknotes Life Stories: Notable Biographers on the People Who Shaped AmericaBest Price: $8.99 I am one of those who loves Booknotes and Book-TV and feels a real loss when my schedule keeps... |  Let Every Nation Know With Audio CDBest Price: $6.45 The combination of audio CD and written commentary make this a `must have' for the serious... |  Loaded: A Misadventure on the Marijuana TrailBest Price: $7.52 I couldn't stop reading once I started. I am glad to see folks writing about our generation... |  Kit Carson and the IndiansBest Price: $12.69 This is an excellent book and is highly recommended for anyone wanting to learn about Kit... |  Andrew Jackson Higgins and the Boats That Won World War IIBest Price: $15.61 This book tells one of the most under publisized and under appreciated stories of WWII, and... |
 Edgar Allan Poe: His Life and LegacyBest Price: $13.69 This book was purchased because my 13-year old chose it for a book report. She learned about... |  The Tale of the Devil: The Biography of Devil Anse HatfieldBest Price: $21.62 A collaborative effort of Coleman C. Hatfield and Robert Y. Spence, The Tale of The Devil... |  The First TimeBest Price: $65.00 This woman is one of the most amazing performers I have ever seen. I grew up with the Sonny... |  King of Hearts: The True Story of the Maverick Who Pioneered Open Heart SurgeryBest Price: $75.88 I am a patient that has had heart problems for awhile now. I just had surgery in 2006, so... |  The Wild Man from Sugar Creek: The Political Career of Eugene TalmadgeBest Price: $20.95 A sweeping, incisive, colorful view of the life and times of the man in red galluses, Eugene... |
 Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold WarBest Price: $18.95 A very solid and balanced recounting of the career in power of one of the most important... |  The Underworld Sewer: A Prostitute Reflects on Life in the Trade, 1871-1909Best Price: $13.01 I bet this would've been a very informative book, but I couldn't get over the set up of it.... |  Confessions of a Depression MuralistBest Price: $30.88 If you have any interest in Depression-era art, this is a must read. Frank Long's writing style... |  American Scoundrel: The Life of the Notorious Civil War General Dan SicklesBest Price: $1.75 Thomas Keneally's Dan Sickles is a notoriously slippery character but after reading this work... |  Young J. Edgar: Hoover, the Red Scare, and the Assault on Civil LibertiesBest Price: $1.19 I knew the content would be interesting and was pleasantly surprised to see the well crafted... |
 The Real Billy the Kid: With New Light on the Lincoln County War (Recovering the Us Hispanic Literary Heritage)Best Price: $7.49 The Real Billy the Kid, by Miguel Antonio Otero There have been over 800 literary and... |  Aaron Copland: THE LIFE AND WORK OF AN UNCOMMON MAN (Music in American Life)Best Price: $19.77 The book "Aaron Copeland: The Life and work of an Uncommon Man" is the story of a... |  Lincoln: A BiographyBest Price: $12.84 This superb collection of over 900 photos gives us a moving picture-biography of America's 16th... |  Robert E. Lee: Icon for a NationBest Price: $4.74 A decent short bio of General Lee, though I fear the author focuses so much on revealing his... |  Buffalo Bill's Wild West: An American LegendBest Price: $11.95 I will leave this earth still in possession of this book. Simply the best HIGH QUALITY book on... |
 Margaret Wise Brown: Awakened by the MoonBest Price: $6.77 This is a wonderful book. Everyone knows The Runaway Bunny and Goodnight Moon, but who knew... |  Black Gun, Silver Star: The Life and Legend of Frontier Marshal Bass Reeves (Race and Ethnicity in the American West)Best Price: $11.95 A reviewer, curator of AfroAmericanHeritage.com, 03/13/2007 Highly recommended! Brief though... |  George Kennan: A Study of CharacterBest Price: $10.20 This remarkable book is both an act of filial piety and a reference point for future historians:... |  The Roosevelt Presence: The Life and Legacy of FDRBest Price: $11.95 In The Roosevelt Presence, Maney does his best to justify and explain away issues relative to... |  Mrs. Ike: Portrait of a Marriage (Capital Classics)Best Price: $8.90 I never knew much about Mamie Eisenhower other then she was a first lady until I read this... |
 George Washington: A Life (Galahad Edition)Best Price: $11.95 Everyone in business can take lessons from politics. This is where great leaders are made. The... |  Nathan Hale: The Life and Death of America's First SpyBest Price: $20.80 M.William Phelps book on Nathan Hale begins "slowly" and leaves one with that "I... |  Nixon Volume IBest Price: $13.92 This book is my favorite one on Nixon. Ambrose did a great job on explaining Nixon's early years... |  Images of Greatness: An Intimate Look at the Presidency of Ronald ReaganBest Price: $3.98 America has been saddened by the loss of Ronald Reagan, one of its greatest presidents, who... |  Charles Goodnight: Father of the Texas Panhandle (Oklahoma Western Biographies)Best Price: $21.56 Hagan provided a vision into the personal and professional life of the man responsible for... |
 Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope FranklinBest Price: $7.01 This document is the picture America needs to read. It shows that although with a black... |  Civil Warrior: Memoirs of a Civil Rights AttorneyBest Price: $2.35 Saperstein says lawyers work hard. I just finished this book and I am exhausted! It is amazing,... |  Kate: The Journal of a Confederate NurseBest Price: $12.50 I heard about Kate Cumming at a Celtic festival in Virginia where Irish singer and songwriter... |  The Memoirs of Lt. Henry Timberlake: The Story of a Soldier, Adventurer, and Emissary to the Cherokees, 1756-1765Best Price: $12.84 I was amazed at the life of Mr. Timblake. If you wished to get insight into the Pre Revolution... |  Leap of Faith: An Astronaut's Journey Into the UnknownBest Price: $23.52 When I was about twelve, I went through a space phase. I begged my mom to take me to the... |
 The Deadly Sins Of Aristotle OnassisBest Price: $17.99 I enjoyed the book because It contained several pages about two of my cousins, and because it... | ||||
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