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The Twentieth Century Has Been Called 'the American Century', Given Its Economic And Military Rise To Superpower Status In World War Ii, As Well As Its Seem...

Critically acclaimed author Kathryn Casey delivers a riveting account of the brutal murders of young women in the I-45/Texas Killing Fields—a chilling tr...

In This Extraordinarily Rich And Engaging Book, John Hale Has Painted, On A Grand Canvas, What He Calls An Investigative Impression Of One Of The Highest Po...

Winner of the Lincoln Prize This brilliant multiple biography is centered on Lincoln’s mastery of men and how it shaped the most significant presidency ...

“Will shape our thinking about America and the Middle East for years.”—Christopher Dickey, Newsweek The Washington Post - Robert Kagan Today, the conventio...

From Pulitzer Prize-winner David Zucchino Comes A Searing Account Of The Wilmington Riot And Coup Of 1898, An Extraordinary Event Unknown To Most AmericansC...

In the final decades of the nineteenth century, three brilliant and visionary titans of America’s Gilded Age—Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and George Westi...

This book tells a true story of intrigue, murder, forgery and eccentricity set in the steamy, surreal atmosphere of Savannah, Georgia.Categories: History Un...

A Major American Intellectual Makes The Historical Case That The Reforms Of The 1960s, Reforms Intended To Make The Nation More Just And Humane, Instead Lef...

From the author of Conclave and All the Pope’s Men comes the story of Pope John Paul II’s last days, the behind-the-scenes dynamics within the College o...

By Ronald H. Bailey And The Editors Of Time-life Books. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 171-172) And Index.Categories: HistoryMilitary

A gripping, comprehensive account of the Civil War, including eyewitness testimony, profiles of key personalities, period photographs, illustrations and art...

Experience and Education is the best concise statement on education ever published by John Dewey, the man acknowledged to be the pre-eminent educational t...

Niall Ferguson Follows The Money To Tell The Human Story Behind The Evolution Of Finance, From Its Origins In Ancient Mesopotamia To The Latest Upheavals. T...

Warning!* This book contains the following: Unsafe use of powerful firearms in combination with explosives Cultivation of illegal crops Impressionable...

The Beak of the Finch tells the story of two Princeton University scientists - evolutionary biologists - engaged in an extraordinary investigation. They ar...

Traces The Story Of Former Slaves Thornton And Lucie Blackburn, Who Launched A Daring Escape From Their Slave Masters In 1831 And Became The Subjects Of A L...

Seabiscuit Was One Of The Most Electrifying And Popular Attractions In Sports History And The Single Biggest Newsmaker In The World In 1938, Receiving More ...

He read the classics but he adored pulp science fiction. He had no academic credentials but he was a co-founder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Ae...

National Bestseller  When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for a peaceful corner of the ...

in This Brilliantly Illuminating Group Portrait Of The Men Who Came To Be Known As The Founding Fathers, The Incomparable Gordon Wood Has Written A Book T...

Discusses The Nobel Institution In Detail, Telling About The Award And Its Beginnings, What It Means To Win A Nobel Prize, The Fields In Which It Is Present...

This clear and comprehensive history of French society—from the age of the Enlightenment to the present — offers balanced coverage of major political, s...

From the #1 national bestselling author of Befriend and Betray, an intimate exposé of a criminal empire and the massacre that nearly started a global biker...

Contains 500 Photographs With Captions And Accompanying Text Covering John Kennedy's Career And Family Life. Edited By Philip B. Kunhardt, Jr. Chiefly Ill.C...

A Narrative Account Of The Relationship Between The U.s. And China From The Revolutionary War To The Present Day. Our Relationship With China Remains One Of...

Recorded by jazz legend Billie Holiday in 1939, "Strange Fruit" is considered to be the first significant song of the civil rights movement and the first ...

Jean Markale ; Translated By A. Mygind, C. Hauch, And P. Henry. Translation Of: La Femme Celte. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 287-304.Categories: Religio...

Selected Essays Previously Published In Various Periodicals And Journals.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Politics & Government Ideologies &am...

Pat Buchanan, Bestselling Author And Former Senior Adviser To President Richard Nixon In The White House, For The First Time Describes His Years Advising Th...

Hillbilly Elegy Is A Passionate And Personal Analysis Of A Culture In Crisis--that Of Poor, White Americans. The Disintegration Of This Group, A Process Tha...

One Of The Most Popular Works Of American Literature, This Charming Self-portrait Has Been Translated Into Nearly Every Language. It Covers Franklin's Life ...

The Final Days is the classic, behind-the-scenes account of Richard Nixon's dramatic last months as president. Moment by moment, Bernstein and Woodward por...

History Made Visible: A Synchronic Chart And Statistical Tables Of United States HistoryCategories: History United StatesGeneral

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • A grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed ...

From The New York Times Bestselling Author Of Fifth Avenue, Five A.m. And Fosse Comes The Revelatory Account Of The Making Of A Modern American Masterpiece....

The real story of the crash began in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesn't shine and the SEC doesn't dare, or bother, to tread: the bond and real es...

In The Tenth Book In The Multimillion-selling Killing Series, Bill O’reilly And Martin Dugard Take On Their Most Controversial Subject Yet: The Mob. Killi...

In This Brilliant Biography, Jon Meacham, The Pulitzer Prize-winning Author, Chronicles The Life Of George Herbert Walker Bush. Drawing On President Bush's ...

Tennessee Whiskey Is Devoted Entirely To The Quintessential Whiskeys Of Tennessee. There Is No Questioning That Tennessee Has A Rich Whiskey History. With A...

Edited and introduced by MSNBC's Ali Velshi, The Trump Indictments collects the complete charging documents brought by the Department of Justice and the F...

The Real Story Of John Wayne Gacy-- By The Man Who Helped Catch Him He was a model citizen. A hospital volunteer. And one of the most sadistic serial kill...

A gripping, groundbreaking biography of the combative man whose genius and force of will created modern capitalism.Founder of a dynasty, builder of the ori...

the Award-winning Pbs Series Spawned This Book, Which Is Filled With Evocative Photographs And Essays From Some Of The Nation's Leading Civil War Historian...

In 1939, fifty million Americans went to the movies every week, Louis B. Mayer was the highest-paid man in the country, and Hollywood produced 530 feature ...

The American Promise, Value Edition, has long been a favorite with students who value the text’s readability, clear chronology, and lively voices of ordi...

The first volume of Shelby Foote's tremendous narrative of the Civil War was greeted enthusiastically by critics and readers alike (see back of jacket for ...

A gripping portrait of the first president of the United States from the author of Alexander Hamilton, the New York Times bestselling biography that inspire...