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 Benjamin Franklin: An American LifeBest Price: $7.99 Initially I imagined reading this book from time to time, knowing I would "eventually"... |  Cracking the AP U.S. History Exam, 2008 Edition (College Test Prep)Best Price: $10.15 This book was awesome. I used Princeton Review to study for 2 out of my 6 AP classes. I had this... |  The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American PowerBest Price: $14.90 Mr. Sharlet deals with a good number of facts about a group which has influence in politics. ... |  Easy Company Soldier: The Legendary Battles of a Sergeant from World War II's "Band of Brothers"Best Price: $13.60 This is my favorite book from any of the recent releases by Easy Company veterans. The writing... |  His Excellency: George WashingtonBest Price: $8.00 While it's totally hip to de-mythify things our parents (silly things) thought were good,... |
 Democracy in America (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $4.56 935 page book with no index. Come on, you don't need one. You can remember that part about... |  Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War IIBest Price: $3.50 Even though most people seem to know the outcome. (I didn't) it was a great summer read. There... |  America: A Narrative History, Brief Seventh Edition (Single-Volume Edition)Best Price: $30.00 This is one of the most portable but comprehensive history textbook for US history. It is a... |  Escape from the Deep: A Legendary Submarine and Her Courageous CrewBest Price: $7.45 This is a very good book that tells a great story. It is engrossing and draws the reader in... |  World War I: The African Front: An Imperial War on the Dark ContinentBest Price: $23.10 The definitive history of World War I's forgotten front: Britain versus Germany in East Africa... |
 Washington: The Making of the American CapitalBest Price: $16.06 This is simply a superb book. Extremely well told, rich with historical texture, with detail... |  Coming of Age in MississippiBest Price: $5.21 In several books I've read regarding Southern History and slavery, this story actually surpised... |  Give Me Liberty!, Second Edition, Volume 1 (Give Me Liberty)Best Price: $42.94 Adopted at over 600 universities, colleges, and schools across the country, Eric Foner's Give... |  Rediscovering God in America: Reflections on the Role of Faith in Our Nation's HistoryBest Price: $3.42 I loved this book by Newt Gingrich. He is so well informed and wonderfully conservative. I read... |  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... |
 American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas JeffersonBest Price: $6.50 Absolute claptrap from a morally bankrupt excuse of a human being who cannot find his niche in... |  Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom, Updated EditionBest Price: $10.64 If you work with students from dominated cultures, this is a must read. Delpit examines the... |  The Electric Kool-Aid Acid TestBest Price: $10.88 Tom Wolfe takes us through part of the acid-movement of the 60's with Ken Kesey (author of... |  Black Like MeBest Price: $6.22 Before there was comic "Soul Man" etc., there was this 50's investigative memoir about... |  Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0Best Price: $11.49 It's a great book. I enjoyed it while learning about how the old and new VC work. Really... |
 The Conscience of a LiberalBest Price: $11.99 I pretty much read only non-fiction, which is usually very informative but highly depressing.... |  The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to FreedomBest Price: $7.10 Rawicz's trek is an amazing story, and a great read. His voice comes through so strongly, and... |  The Buffalo Creek Disaster: How the survivors of one of the worst disasters in coal-mining history brought suit against the coal company--and won (Vintage)Best Price: $6.77 Well I will concede that this staple of civil procedure classes in law school is a good read,... |  Race, Class, and Gender: An AnthologyBest Price: $62.99 I'm not a huge fan of the format. It's a compilation of a whole bunch of different articles. ... |  The Intellectual Devotional: American History: Revive Your Mind, Complete Your Education, and Converse Confidently about Our Nation's PastBest Price: $11.50 Aristotle's theory of matter and form is one of the most important and influential aspects of... |
 Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72Best Price: $6.40 I have read a number of Hunter Thompson's books. Some were very good and some were just too... |  A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide (P.S.)Best Price: $5.99 Samantha Power has produced a history of genocide through the 20th century. She presents an... |  The Lincolns: Portrait of a MarriageBest Price: $15.83 One might have thought there would be little more to say about Abraham Lincoln, certainly not... |  The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War IIBest Price: $8.00 I had known about this book for quite some time, but only got around to reading it recently. You... |  The Challenge: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Fight over Presidential PowerBest Price: $12.75 Mr. Mahler has researched a griping courtroom drama in the tradition of "A Few Good... |
 The Dirty Dozen: How Twelve Supreme Court Cases Radically Expanded Government and Eroded FreedomBest Price: $15.42 This book is a good complement to Randy Barnett's _Restoring the Lost Constitution_. _The Dirty... |  The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made itBest Price: $8.83 Therefore, I'll average it out at 3. I greatly enjoyed this book up until the last two chapters.... |  Changes in the Land, Revised Edition: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New EnglandBest Price: $10.75 William Cronon's book Changes in the Land illuminates the relationship and impact the European... |  The American Promise: A History of the United States, Volume I: To 1877Best Price: $75.00 This book was required for completing my online Shaping America U.S. History to 1877 class. I... |  Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to IraqBest Price: $5.00 This is a very well written book that provides us with critically important history that all... |
 Who Killed the Constitution?: The Fate of American Liberty from World War I to George W. BushBest Price: $14.61 This book will guide you through the legal atrocities that have led us to where we are today. ... |  The Hiding PlaceBest Price: $3.30 I will not go into detail on this very public site about what this author, and her book, mean to... |  Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave, Written by Himself (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)Best Price: $8.00 In the classic slave narrative genre, Frederick Douglass' narrative of his life brings to life,... |  I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years AwayBest Price: $3.49 Mr. Bryson's half-hearted curmudgeonly approach to life makes for another enjoyable read by this... |  All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East TerrorBest Price: $8.34 This is a good history book everyone needs to read. Especially anyone running for political office. |
 Brothers In Battle, Best of FriendsBest Price: $7.40 The biography of Babe and Wild Bill fills in the picture of the heroes shown in the "Band... |  Travels with Charley in Search of America: (Centennial Edition)Best Price: $8.13 Steinbeck's Travels with Charley was his last book I believe. This is a memoir of John... |  NightBest Price: $4.95 Wow...every page is like a sock in the gut, and like many memoirs full of twisted events, I find... |  A Freewheelin' Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the SixtiesBest Price: $12.86 I read the book and found out pretty quickly that Suze appeared to be capitalizing on her... |  Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer (P.S.)Best Price: $6.45 Even though we all know the story and how it turns out, this book was hard to put down. Great read |
 Willful Blindness: Memoir of the JihadBest Price: $11.50 Mr.McCarthy skillfully shows why we had{and continue}to have the problems we do concerning our... |  The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Dover Thrift Editions)Best Price: $0.01 I have read this book myself at least twice. This book was purchased as a graduation present for... |  American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White: The Birth of the "It" Girl and the Crime of the CenturyBest Price: $14.44 As a fan of architecture, I was well aware of Stanford White (of McKim, Mead and White) before I... |  Amazing Gracie: A Dog's TaleBest Price: $6.20 This book is a really great tribute to Gracie. It also gives me tons of respect for these guys... |  The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A MemoirBest Price: $7.29 I have read several of Bryson's books, the most recent being his able essay on Shakespeare, but... |
 One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey (AnniversBest Price: $8.93 Excellent book to read. I believe everyone will enjoy this and the story of this amazing person.... |  1776: The Illustrated EditionBest Price: $19.85 1776 is the best book I have ever read, period. And it is non-fiction. I could not put it down. |  FDRBest Price: $11.69 FDR was well-written and it did not seem like a chore to plod through like a lot of other... |  Boom!: Voices of the Sixties Personal Reflections on the '60s and TodayBest Price: $7.00 The Table of Contents reads like a "Who's Who" of liberal thinking. Then again, the... |  Making Government WorkBest Price: $19.76 That's the title of the most practical "political" book you'll ever read. It is a... |
 Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised EditionBest Price: $10.11 This was an outstanding book. Filled with a lot of information I had only partially known, and... | ||||
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