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Wine and War: The French, the Nazis, and the Battle for France's Greatest Treasure Best Price: $7.75 One of the best 'war' books I have ever read, as it is not about agression, but of collaboration... | A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign Best Price: $8.87 Think that 2000 featured a strange presidential election? Then, you might be interested in this... | The Journals of Lewis and Clark (Lewis & Clark Expedition) Best Price: $2.32 I am not an accomplished reader so it has to really hold my attention to finish a book. This... | Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers Best Price: $7.48 This is a good book for any holocaust deniers to read. He is one of the only actual witnesses... | Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache Best Price: $13.83 There is nothing I can say that would do any justice as to how great this book is. It was... |
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The Historical Atlas of New York City: A Visual Celebration of 400 Years of New York City's History Best Price: $13.41 The Historical Atlas of New York City solved a huge problem for me. I'm writing a novel set... | The Good Pirates of the Forgotten Bayous: Fighting to Save a Way of Life in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina Best Price: $11.45 Although I knew Ken Wells was a great writer after thoroughly enjoying his novels, this book was... | Torture Team: Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values Best Price: $13.47 In November 2001, al-Qahtani Mohammed was captured in Afghanistan and sent to the American... | The Color of Water Best Price: $6.14 This is a remarkably unsentimental portrayal of a black man's white, Jewish mother who finds a... | All the President's Men Best Price: $3.95 Woodward and Bernstein detective work did an amazing job of unraveling Nixon's foolish ways. ... |
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: The American Classic, in Words and Photographs, of Three Tenant Families in the Deep South Best Price: $10.14 James Agee's painstaking and honest masterpiece is an exercise in empathy. It is a beautiful,... | Foxfire 3 (Foxfire) Best Price: $7.95 Foxfire books make you see how easy life is in the 21st century and how tough it was in days... | The Soprano State: New Jersey's Culture of Corruption Best Price: $14.44 Excellent book. Well written. Should be read by all New Jersey
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The 33-Year-Old Rookie: How I Finally Made it to the Big Leagues After Eleven Years in the Minors Best Price: $14.07 I bought this for my husband for father's day. He's a huge Phillies fan, but he's said that... | US Patrol Torpedo Boats: World War II (New Vanguard) Best Price: $10.67 Thanks in part to the real-image of Jack Kennedy on PT-109 and part to the TV-image of Quinton... | The Great Influenza: The story of the deadliest pandemic in history Best Price: $6.74 Once upon a time I read The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story, a book about emergent viruses... | Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck's the Grapes of Wrath Best Price: $12.85 Obscene in the Extreme was a natural for me. Steinbeck is my very favorite writer. I remember... | Urban's Way: Urban Meyer, the Florida Gators, and His Plan to Win Best Price: $12.47 Got my husband this book as a gift for his birthday. It arrived right on time. He read the... |
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Imperial Japanese Navy Battleships 1941-45 (New Vanguard) Best Price: $10.71 Although the story of the Japanese super-battleship Yamato has attracted some attention over the... | The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America Best Price: $7.50 John Demos is a pioneer among a newer school of social historians of the American past, focusing... | America: A Narrative History, Brief Seventh Edition (Single-Volume Edition) Best Price: $37.94 This is one of the most portable but comprehensive history textbook for US history. It is a... | The Challenge: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Fight over Presidential Power Best Price: $11.64 Here is an astonishing story in which two unlikely and oddly paired attorneys (read heroes) take... | The Lincolns: Portrait of a Marriage Best Price: $17.18 The "portrait" of this famous couple's relationship is not an accurate portrayal,... |
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The Classic Slave Narratives (Signet Classics) Best Price: $3.57 A friend had given me a copy of "The Bondwoman's Narrative" (great read) written by a... | America In Space: NASA's First Fifty Years (Nasa) Best Price: $20.00 When I ordered this book, I had no idea quite how large it is, you need a serious coffee table... | God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World Best Price: $15.55 "Change" is why Great Britain and now the United States became the dominant economic,... | Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling Best Price: $11.10 I'm active in the LDS Church, and could see how this book might cause some people some concern,... | The Faithful Departed: The Collapse of Boston's Catholic Culture Best Price: $15.04 The book was well written and the author's arguments were well developed. However, the editing... |
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America: A Narrative History, Seventh Edition, Volume 2 Best Price: $33.50 Book is good got to use it for 3 papers, then was pulled from class. Thats a long story. | Crazy Good: The True Story of Dan Patch, the Most Famous Horse in America Best Price: $10.23 Excellent book on an important part of Americana. His legend should never be forgotten. A true... | Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires Best Price: $10.59 I've read about half the book and I enjoy it very much. It's the best book I've read on this... | Where We Stand: Class Matters Best Price: $14.65 How to sum up bell hooks in under 5 words: not a good writer. She constantly writes that class... | Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West Best Price: $3.98 There's already been much ink shed reviewing this seminal work by Dee Brown on the... |
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The Thirteen American Arguments: Enduring Debates That Define and Inspire Our Country Best Price: $14.08 I heard Howard Fineman on the radio discussing this book one day and scribbled the book title... | Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon (Crown Journeys) Best Price: $8.99 If you like Chuck Palahniuk and have been to Portland, you will love this book. | The Conquest of New Spain (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $8.53 I purchased this book intending to get an unbiased view of the Spanish exploration of the New... | The Sovereignty and Goodness of God: with Related Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture) Best Price: $10.95 Great book, got it just in time for my american heritage class. Will recommend to all my friends. | The Fifties Best Price: $7.49 Doesn't Fawcett Columbine employ copy-editors? This is one manuscript that needed a good... |
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Secrets of the Unified Field: The Philadelphia Experiment, The Nazi Bell, and the Discarded Theory Best Price: $11.79 The author begins an evaluation of Einstein's Unified Field Theory with an eye to how even an... | Cavalryman of the Lost Cause: A Biography of J. E. B. Stuart Best Price: $16.00 Cavalryman of the Lost Cause is the first major biography in decades of the famous Confederate... | What's So Great about America Best Price: $8.46 Very interesting to get another person's point of view; especially someone who is very... | Are We Rome?: The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America Best Price: $6.16 I have never bought the argument that the United States' eventual decline is an historical... | Case Study Houses: 1945-1966: The California Impetus (Taschen Basic Architecture) Best Price: $7.50 I think this book is an incredible value. Wonderfully satisfying photos for the price. The... |
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Plan of Attack Best Price: $3.50 We returned this book because you sent it to us minus the first twenty or so pages. We did not... | Willful Blindness: Memoir of the Jihad Best Price: $8.00 It's great that America is to blame for everything but if you look at the ideology of Al Qaeda... | World War II Street-Fighting Tactics (Elite) Best Price: $11.26 In a continuation of the tactics mini-series, this new book describes and analyzes the physical... | American Nightfighter Aces of World War 2 (Aircraft of the Aces) Best Price: $14.55 The Americans lagged behind their European contemporaries in military aviation in the late... | Cowboy Ethics Best Price: $16.21 Very accurate in terms of the "cowboy" expectations of society. Truth, honesty,... |
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My Bloody Life: The Making of a Latin King (Illinois) Best Price: $10.13 I found this book to be interesting. It was sad to see how this man never received love as a... | Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission Best Price: $2.95 This book brings an important period during WWII to life with stories that paint the horror that... | The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 (Oxford History of the United States) Best Price: $10.50 This is a good, well written history of the War of Independence primarily from the American... | Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood Best Price: $15.94 Despite a title too long for any marquee, "Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the... | The Wealth of Nations: Books 1-3 (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $8.33 The first three "books" (the term for "chapters" in Smith's age) of the... |