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 The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American IdealsBest Price: $14.99 This book should be required reading for all who are interested in the workings of government,... |  Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War IIBest Price: $16.75 This is a painful but necessary read. It puts meat on the skeletal knowledge we have of the Jim... |  A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.)Best Price: $10.74 This is a book that everyone should read & should be a requirement in all schools. |  One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear WarBest Price: $14.00 As a Cuban exile I was training for a job in Key West when the October Missile Crisis exploded.... |  How the States Got Their ShapesBest Price: $13.43 This book describes more boundary quirks than you have probably ever noticed. If nothing else,... |
 Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary GenerationBest Price: $7.99 Even though I'd seen and heard multiple items about the founding generation, I was pleasantly... |  Fast Food NationBest Price: $7.85 You might think you know what this guy has to say, but rest assured that this book as full of... |  The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired AmericaBest Price: $13.90 If I were rating Bobby, there aren't enough stars in the heavens to measure how I feel about... |  1776Best Price: $8.00 Nothing much to say except that when I picked up, I could not put it down. Read it entirely in a... |  Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our NationBest Price: $13.45 Naturally, these seeds of women's liberation were, in fact, the passionate, intelligent,... |
 You're Stepping on My Cloak and Dagger (Bluejacket Books)Best Price: $12.21 I have to admit that it has been some time since I read this book, but it's hysterical. I can... |  Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of AmericaBest Price: $19.65 The book gives a detailed and insightful history of US politics 1955-1975, roughly the "Era... |  A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New WorldBest Price: $12.94 For those who loved Confederates In The Attic, Tony Horwitz once again travels back into time,... |  The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust BowlBest Price: $6.05 My ex-girlfriend's dad recommended this book to me. He grew up in north-central Kansas during... |  Torture Team: Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American ValuesBest Price: $15.59 In Torture Team, Philippe Sands, professor at University College London and a respected... |
 What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 (Oxford History of the United States)Best Price: $20.35 This is a book every American lover of history should read and own. The detail of research is... |  The Leaders We Deserved (and a Few We Didn't): Rethinking the Presidential Rating GameBest Price: $18.64 This is an interesting book for those of us who enjoy the parlor game of rating presidents. But... |  Final Salute: A Story of Unfinished LivesBest Price: $15.02 I don't care who you are. Don't care if you support the war, or you don't. Don't care if you... |  The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest JourneyBest Price: $8.43 I first bought this for my brother in law, and he couldn't stop raving about it. I had planned... |  The Age of American UnreasonBest Price: $14.50 Her introduction and chapter one simultaneously attempt to tie her book to historian Richard... |
 One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular NationBest Price: $15.10 This is an interesting book by Will that covers everything from baseball to politics to race... |  Names on the Land: A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States (New York Review Books Classics)Best Price: $12.41 Wallace Stegner was not only a great writer ("Angle of Repose") and teacher (Stanford... |  1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the RenaissanceBest Price: $14.49 In his book "1434: The Year a Magnificent chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the... |  The Dirty Dozen: How Twelve Supreme Court Cases Radically Expanded Government and Eroded FreedomBest Price: $15.49 This book is a good complement to Randy Barnett's _Restoring the Lost Constitution_. _The Dirty... |  Touching History: The Untold Story of the Drama That Unfolded in the Skies Over America on 9/11Best Price: $16.11 This book was awesome. I couldn't put it down. We should never forget what happened on 9/11/01. |
 JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It MattersBest Price: $19.78 James Douglass presents a strong case that John Kennedy was assassinated by a CIA-controlled... |  The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest HourBest Price: $15.38 Reading this book is an emotional and stirring event on many different levels. It offers one of... |  Band of Brothers : E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's NestBest Price: $5.99 This book defines what it means to be an American Soldier. It's a story of victory, defeat,... |  Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and WarBest Price: $5.45 Excellent and informative. This book is a must for history buffs and teachers. Mayflower busts... |  Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in HistoryBest Price: $5.99 I first read The Devil in the White City so decided to try Isaac's Storm. While The Devil in... |
 Undaunted Courage : Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American WestBest Price: $2.99 Read this as a first edition hardback---my Amazon reviewing is a little behind, to say the... |  Don't Know Much About History: Everything You Need to Know About American History but Never Learned (Don't Know Much About...)Best Price: $8.00 In terms of objectivity, this book has little to offer. Bias in the modern sections is easily... |  John AdamsBest Price: $7.00 I have been fascinated by John Adams ever since I first saw the movie "1776". Granted,... |  Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped AmericaBest Price: $8.44 This book was a revelation to me. It explained so much about my Southern heritage and made me... |  Who Killed the Constitution?: The Fate of American Liberty from World War I to George W. BushBest Price: $15.44 Messers Woods and Gutzman wrote a provocative book that should be read by Americans who actually... |
 American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the RepublicBest Price: $13.81 Admittedly, there's not much new here, but this concise, well written, thought provoking book... |  The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American PowerBest Price: $15.93 Well this is a true horror story. One that may well be true and one that we may not be able to... |  America's Hidden History: Untold Tales of the First Pilgrims, Fighting Women, and Forgotten Founders Who Shaped a NationBest Price: $13.89 If you're into history, this book will open your eyes to what the time was like during early... |  This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil WarBest Price: $14.75 This is a monumentally important work which will explain Americans' attitude towards our war... |  Rediscovering God in America: Reflections on the Role of Faith in Our Nation's HistoryBest Price: $3.44 Great book!!! It backs up what I already know, that this country was founded by men who were... |
 The Intellectual Devotional: American History: Revive Your Mind, Complete Your Education, and Converse Confidently about Our Nation's PastBest Price: $11.94 This is the most sloppily edited book I've ever read. Did it even have a proofreader? Page after... |  American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas JeffersonBest Price: $6.55 Absolute claptrap from a morally bankrupt excuse of a human being who cannot find his niche in... |  Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford History of the United States)Best Price: $11.00 Yes, this is an excellent political history. But it is marred by political correctness. The... |  The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin's RussiaBest Price: $18.35 I found this a captivating story. Told with a dark humor, it tells a story most Americans are... |  Boom!: Voices of the Sixties Personal Reflections on the '60s and TodayBest Price: $6.99 Boom! Voices of the Sixties by Tom Brokaw is a rather difficult work for me to assess as I have... |
 1776: The Illustrated EditionBest Price: $27.00 1776 is the best book I have ever read, period. And it is non-fiction. I could not put it down. |  Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer (P.S.)Best Price: $7.88 This book really is as good as it says it is. This book really provides an in depth overview of... |  The Slaves' War: The Civil War in the Words of Former SlavesBest Price: $14.95 I had just finished reading Complicity (The North's involvment in the slave trade) when this... |  The American Pageant: A History of the Republic, 12th EditionBest Price: $52.45 I teach AP and Dual Credit classes and inherited this book when I joined the district. I... |  The Conscience of a LiberalBest Price: $11.98 I pretty much read only non-fiction, which is usually very informative but highly depressing.... |
 Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil WarBest Price: $5.99 Anyone interested in the civil war and the south will truely love this book. It is a unique look... |  The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign PolicyBest Price: $14.60 I was intrigued by this book after hearing the authors in an interview on the BBC World Service... | |||
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