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 Ridgway: A Biography of One of America's Greatest GeneralsBest Price: $16.29 General Matthew Ridgway is widely regarded as one of the most important military figures in... |  The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop (2nd Edition)Best Price: $4.50 This brief and dense history of John Winthrop's Boston is a must-read for folks interested in... |  Abraham Lincoln: A BiographyBest Price: $14.83 Long considered a classic, Benjamin P. Thomas's Abraham Lincoln: A Biography takes an incisive... |  Lighting the Way: Nine Women Who Changed Modern AmericaBest Price: $2.97 This detailed book provides little-known insight on nine women very important to the advancement... |  George Mason, Forgotten FounderBest Price: $17.88 I felt this was a good book about a secondary figure in the revolutionary period. Mason was... |
 Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Signet Classics)Best Price: $2.34 Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: This book is diffficult to read because of the horrible... |  Daniel Webster: The Man and His TimeBest Price: $29.99 Unlike Remini's three volume biography of Andrew Jackson this work shows a real person not a god... |  Citizen McCainBest Price: $4.88 I read a lot of books on political figures, this one included. And, while a long time GOP... |  John F. Kennedy: A BiographyBest Price: $5.79 My fascination with John F Kennedy comes from when I first saw him riding down Lehigh Avenue in... |  Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckly: The Remarkable Story of the Friendship Between a First Lady and a Former SlaveBest Price: $8.43 Excellent historical review. Now have a much better understanding of Mary Todd Lincoln's... |
 John Brown (Modern Library Classics)Best Price: $8.01 If you want to learn about John Brown's life and thought, and about the context and impact of... |  Brokenburn: The Journal of Kate Stone, 1861-1868 (Library of Southern Civilization)Best Price: $12.50 Like Mary Boykin Chesnut, Kate Stone wrote her diary during the Civil War. They were both... |  Write It When I'm Gone: Remarkable Off-the-Record Conversations with Gerald R. FordBest Price: $7.47 The New York Times bestseller-and the candid voice of an American president In 1974, ... |  The Case of Abraham Lincoln: A Story of Adultery, Murder, and the Making of a Great PresidentBest Price: $15.91 While the title is a bit deceptive (the legal case doesn't figure as much as it would suggest),... |  LBJ: Architect of American AmbitionBest Price: $4.84 Many,many, many layers. Author Woods sets out to create the ultimate LBJ biography, and partly... |
 Lincoln Through the Lens: How Photography Revealed and Shaped an Extraordinary LifeBest Price: $11.85 He was born in the backwoods of Kentucky in a humble log cabin, but Abraham Lincoln was savvy... |  Everything Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Book: A portrait of an American icon (Everything Series)Best Price: $8.70 I am a huge Jackie-O. fan! I met her as a child, and she was utterly gracious,and charming, in... |  Liberty of Conscience: Roger Williams in AmericaBest Price: $11.09 This beautifully written book brings to light, in an understated but poetic way, the genius and... |  A Year in the South: 1865: The True Story of Four Ordinary People Who Lived Through the Most Tumultuous Twelve Months in American HistoryBest Price: $7.94 Stephen Ash does an outstanding job of telling the story of four people living during The Civil... |  Stories in His Own Hand: The Everyday Wisdom of Ronald ReaganBest Price: $2.00 This is a companion book to Reagan, In His Own Hand: The Writings of Ronald Reagan that Reveal... |
 W. E. B. Du Bois, 1919-1963: The Fight for Equality and the American CenturyBest Price: $1.70 I just finished rereading DL Lewis's first DuBois biography, and am thinking about purchasing... |  Jefferson Davis, AmericanBest Price: $11.81 Like many of the reviewers, I think this is very good. I came to this biography because I... |  Rutherford B. HayesBest Price: $8.99 President Rutherford (called "Rud" by friends) is best known, probably, for being a... |  Memoir of a Revolutionary Soldier: The Narrative of Joseph Plumb Martin (Dover Value Editions)Best Price: $2.55 Every American should read this book! This is the only account of the Revolutionary War told... |  The Insanity File: The Case of Mary Todd LincolnBest Price: $12.45 This book always makes me feel sad because I dislike thinking of Mary Todd Lincoln as insane. I... |
 Pursuit: The Chase, Capture, Persecution, and Surprising Release of Confederate President Jefferson DavisBest Price: $12.48 Another job well done Clint Johnson! As with all of your books you can tell immediately this one... |  Women at Ground Zero: Stories of Courage and CompassionBest Price: $14.95 I loved this book! It brought out stories that I never heard in all the media blitz after this... |  Lyndon B. Johnson: Portrait of a PresidentBest Price: $8.95 Given the complexity of both the man and the times he lived in I would have thought that a one... |  Jackie Robinson: A BiographyBest Price: $10.00 After reading several excellent reviews of this book, I purchased it for my nepbew's birthday. ... |  Woman of Valor: Clara Barton and the Civil WarBest Price: $7.35 Stephen Oates is an outstanding narrative historian and a first-rate biographer. In this volume,... |
 All the Strange Hours: The Excavation of a LifeBest Price: $15.26 The book & reason for this essay is his autobiography All the Strange Hours. Its subtitle... |  A Beautiful Mind : A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr.Best Price: $8.00 A well written informatiive book. Deals with the closeness of madness and genuis, not just in... |  True WestBest Price: $12.00 I didn't like TRUE WEST. But there's nothing wrong with it that could be blamed on this... |  Mary Surratt: An American TragedyBest Price: $19.79 this book did its best to introduce doubt about her involvement in the plot against lincoln, but... |  The Men of the Lewis and Clark Expedition: A Biographical Roster of the Fifty-one Members and a Composite Diary of Their Activities from All Known Sources (Lewis & Clark Expedition)Best Price: $6.95 This book is basically in two parts: the first is a listing of all 51 men associated with the L... |
 Passion and Principle: John and Jessie Fremont, the Couple Whose Power, Politics, and Love Shaped Nineteenth-Century AmericBest Price: $13.99 Denton does a great job of setting the record straight about the Fremonts. They were an amazing... |  Rebel Private: Front and Rear: Memoirs of a Confederate SoldierBest Price: $7.65 This book is a very enjoyable and powerful read. The "War of Northern Aggression" has... |  Hell to Pay: The Unfolding Story of Hillary Rodham ClintonBest Price: $1.85 "Hell to Pay" tells the story of Hillary Rodham Clinton's life, from childhood on. We... |  Lone Star Rising: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1908-1960Best Price: $14.75 For the foreseeable future, I think it's safe to say Dallek's two volumes will be the definitive... |  The Lee GirlsBest Price: $4.95 Excellant book. I borrowed it from the library a couple of years back and thought so much of it... |
 Faces of the Confederacy: An Album of Southern Soldiers and Their StoriesBest Price: $19.77 "The history of the Civil War is the stories of its soldiers," writes Ronald S.... |  The Richest Girl in the World: The Extravagant Life and Fast Times of Doris DukeThis bio does what the title says it will. It tells us about the extravagance and the fast... |  The Last of the Fathers: James Madison & The Republican LegacyBest Price: $15.91 Professor McCoy has here taken vol. IX of James Madison's writings (the Hunt edition) and simply... |  New Deal or Raw Deal?: How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged AmericaBest Price: $17.82 A sharply critical new look at Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency reveals government policies... |  William McKinley (The American Presidents)Best Price: $8.99 I have read 18 of the books in this series, and this one is by far the least satisfying. Most... |
 A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthyBest Price: $5.88 One thing needs to be cleared up right away: Joe McCarthy "never uncovered a... |  In My Blood: Six Generations of Madness and Desire in an American FamilyBest Price: $3.44 John Sedgwick is a scion of one of those old, distinguished New England families whose name... |  Duke: A Great HawaiianBest Price: $7.25 Bess Press has published the second book by Sandra Kimberley Hall about Hawaii's ambassador of... |  Through My Mother's EyesBest Price: $19.06 Jean-Marie Faggiano and her family were living in the Philippines when Pearl Harbor was attacked... |  Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and PowerBest Price: $1.84 Abraham Lincoln was born dirt poor on a farm near Hodgenville, Ky in 1809. He died with a bullet... |
 Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintences and Detractors Recall His Turbulent CareerBest Price: $6.96 Anyone who has read In Cold Blood by Truman Capote knows that it was his best writing. He... |  The Raven: A Biography of Sam HoustonBest Price: $13.99 Superb biography of the Raven. Well worth your reading time. This was an unusual man! As old... |  Herndon's Lincoln (Knox College Lincoln Studies Center)Best Price: $19.00 This is a reprint of the Lincoln biography published in the 1880s by his former law partner,... | ||
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