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 One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear WarBest Price: $16.80 I thought the book was exstremly well written.I was particularly interested because my husband... |  Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War IIBest Price: $17.89 Several weeks ago, I listened as Douglas A. Blackmon spoke in an interview on Bill Moyer's... |  The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed AmericaBest Price: $4.50 This book really takes you back to a time when a group of true visionaries change the world. It... |  The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired AmericaBest Price: $14.86 If I were rating Bobby, there aren't enough stars in the heavens to measure how I feel about... |  Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of AmericaBest Price: $19.90 Perlstein is a scion of the 60s. Through reading a lot of newspapers and mining a lot of... |
 Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great DepressionBest Price: $6.79 I grew up on an Iowa farm in the early 60s so I could relate to some of the items this author... |  The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust BowlBest Price: $5.97 Really enjoyed this book on the history fo the Dust Bowl. I've always herd about it but didn't... |  The Age of American UnreasonBest Price: $15.47 As others, I picked up this book with great anticipation, hoping to find an objective text on... | The Age of American Unreason Best Price: $15.47 As others, I picked up this book with great anticipation, hoping to find an objective text on... |  The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest JourneyBest Price: $8.43 This is a magnificently written book about a true American hero. This is not a book about a... |
 The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest HourBest Price: $15.97 Reading this book is an emotional and stirring event on many different levels. It offers one of... |  No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War IIBest Price: $4.95 I know another five star rating. But She deserves it. Doris Kearns Goodwin's best book. I... |  JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It MattersBest Price: $19.78 How `bout this scenario ... The good `ol Texas Oil Boys (increasingly invested in defense... |  Who Killed the Constitution?: The Fate of American Liberty from World War I to George W. BushBest Price: $12.97 The Constitution certainly has been ignored by our elected officials. It can't be denied that... |  Hardball : How Politics Is Played Told By One Who Knows The GameBest Price: $6.97 I have really enjoyed this book. If one has an interest in politics, this book explains how the... |
 Soldiers of Reason: The RAND Corporation and the Rise of the American EmpireBest Price: $16.20 A frustrating book. RAND clearly deserves a history and a cold war post mortem but this book... |  Boom!: Voices of the Sixties Personal Reflections on the '60s and TodayBest Price: $7.00 Boom! Voices of the Sixties by Tom Brokaw is a rather difficult work for me to assess as I have... |  Bowling Alone : The Collapse and Revival of American CommunityBest Price: $5.99 I admit I didn't finish the book. I was bored by much of it and read parts here and there. But... |  Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in HistoryBest Price: $4.49 I really enjoyed the suspensefully written, detailed narrative of the event itself, but what... |  The Age of Reagan: A History, 1974-2008Best Price: $14.98 I am a fan of Sean Wilentz. I especially found his magisterial "The Rise of American... |
 All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East TerrorBest Price: $8.30 This is a good history book everyone needs to read. Especially anyone running for political office. |  I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to be Destroyed by Me: Emblems from the Pentagon's Black WorldBest Price: $14.37 This is a nicely bound book with a patch embedded into the front cover. On the inside, it's... |  I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years AwayBest Price: $3.46 Mr. Bryson's half-hearted curmudgeonly approach to life makes for another enjoyable read by this... |  The Greatest GenerationBest Price: $6.95 The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw is what I would call a "pop" book. It's written... |  Franklin and Lucy: President Roosevelt, Mrs. Rutherfurd, and the Other Remarkable Women in His LifeBest Price: $15.76 I was pleasantly surprised with this book. Persico presents lush biographical details about one... |
 Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of FlimflamBest Price: $15.33 I picked up this book after reading its 5 star review in an Audio magazine. Every page makes... |  Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines (New Society Publishers)Best Price: $14.49 I got a lot from this book. Its entertaining and well written, but also presents a refreshing... |  The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial SocietiesBest Price: $10.13 I like Mr. Heinberg's book very much. His knowledge of the oil business and the energy world is... |  Four Days in November: The Assassination of President John F. KennedyBest Price: $6.99 Given that this book is essentially covered by the reviews of its primary source... |  Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty IndustryBest Price: $7.98 This book was great! It was very interesting. I couldn't put it down. It gives you a great... |
 Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall StreetBest Price: $4.99 This book is a concise look at the evolution of formal investment theory, with continual... |  Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of OilBest Price: $11.75 This is an incredibly disturbing book, but does dovetail with issues that disturbed me before I... |  Seabiscuit: An American LegendBest Price: $0.01 I can't recall the number of non-fiction books that I've read. Little matter, this is the most... |  The Right StuffBest Price: $8.76 The Right Stuff is essential reading for any student of post-war western popular history... |  On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American FamilyBest Price: $8.98 I enjoyed this book very much. Amazing to read about one man's dreams and hard work from 4... |
 Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom RidersBest Price: $25.72 This is a unique piece of literature that gives you a sense of pride for those unsung heroes of... |  Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore RooseveltBest Price: $16.69 One of McCullough's early books, 'Mornings on Horseback' may surprise readers more accustomed to... |  The War: An Intimate History, 1941-1945Best Price: $11.95 Well written and illustrated with photos. Easy to find events. Comprehensive for this period. ... |  On the Laps of Gods: The Red Summer of 1919 and the Struggle for Justice That Remade a NationBest Price: $15.41 This book is heartrending but also uplifting. It brings into focus a national hero, Scipio... |  White House Ghosts: Presidents and Their SpeechwritersBest Price: $16.45 Schlesinger reviews each of the Presidential speech writers, from FDR through W. I found the... |
 Little Britches: Father and I Were RanchersBest Price: $8.74 Oh I am speechless. This is a book full of grace, character, This is the writers real life... |  Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's EnemiesBest Price: $12.50 I was stunned by this book, and outraged by many many lies that have become the accepted... |  War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated SoldierBest Price: $4.95 I found that Butler's sentiment in this book is not exactly "anti-war" in the sense... |  Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New HollywoodBest Price: $16.44 I generally don't care for large tomes that hope to explain Hollywood's workings to the general... |  Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. KennedyBest Price: $17.99 Does Mass Equal Conclusive Fact? Former federal prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi seems to think so.... |
 Ever Wonder Why? And Other Controversial EssaysBest Price: $8.99 A very entertaining look at our modern culture. Each essay challenges us to think about issues... |  Diplomacy (A Touchstone Book)Best Price: $10.92 A magnum opus - one among many - of Henry Kissinger. A long book, like the length of his... |  The Great Crash 1929Best Price: $5.49 Galbraith does an excellent job in demonstrating how the private sector commercial bankers'... |  America: The Last Best Hope (Volume II): From a World at War to the Triumph of FreedomBest Price: $11.99 Bennett continues to translate the complications associated with the development of our country... |  Personal HistoryBest Price: $1.35 Absolutely perfect biography. Graham's book is frank in ways few would care to be. Her... |
 The Teapot Dome Scandal: How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the CountryBest Price: $13.65 Like many new books I've read lately, I found many of the "connections" established... |  When We Get to Surf City: A Journey Through America in Pursuit of Rock and Roll, Friendship, and DreamsBest Price: $8.97 Greene's newest is fun if you are from that era of music. I wish it had more about the... |  Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent FaithBest Price: $6.44 This book really left me marveling at the situation Mormons find themselves in - there is so... |  America, 1908: The Dawn of Flight, the Race to the Pole, the Invention of the Model T and the Making of a Modern NationBest Price: $5.75 This is a book about, surprise, some notable events of 1908, though really it demonstrates some... |  All the President's MenBest Price: $4.01 Woodward and Bernstein detective work did an amazing job of unraveling Nixon's foolish ways. ... |
 Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (Oxford History of the United States)Best Price: $11.50 I read "Freedom from Fear" to get some idea of what my parents went through and what... | ||||
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