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Originally Printed In 1935, War Is A Racket Is General Smedley Butler's Frank Speech Describing His Role As A Soldier As Nothing More Than Serving As A Pupp...

Napoleon Fenced. So Did Shakespeare, Karl Marx, Grace Kelly, And President Truman, Who Would Cross Swords With Bess After School. Lincoln Was A Canny Dueler...

The thrilling adventures of traveler, rancher, and fighter Big-Foot” Wallace in a bygone era of the American frontier. Amid the embroiling conflicts of f...

The uplifting and unforgettable true story of a US Marine, the stray dog he met on an Afghan battlefield, and how they saved each other and now travel Amer...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Jon Meacham chronicles the life of Abraham Lincoln, charting how--and why--he confronted seces...

A Conclusion To The Award-winning Historian's Three-volume History Of Slavery In Western Culture Includes Coverage Of The Influential Haitian Revolution, Th...

This text illuminates the history of the American sporting experience from a variety of viewpoints. Each topic is covered by both secondary readings and a w...

This landmark work of lesbian history focuses on how certain late-nineteenth-century and twentieth-century women whose lives can be described as lesbian wer...

Zia Award for Excellence, New Mexico Press WomenFrom the 1880s to the 1950s, the Harvey Girls went west to work in Fred Harvey's restaurants along the Sant...

All but forgotten today, the Five Points neighborhood in Lower Manhattan was once renowned the world over. From Jacob Riis to Abraham Lincoln, Davy Crocket...

Hailed as the Thomas Edison and Henry Ford of Silicon Valley, Robert Noyce was a brilliant inventor, a leading entrepreneur, and a daring risk taker who pil...

An extraordinary story of American can-do, an inside look at the building of the most dangerous aircraft carrier in the world, the John F. Kennedy.Tip the E...

the Beloved Author Of refuge, Terry Tempest Williams Is One Of The Country’s Most Eloquent And Imaginative Writers. The Desert Is Her Blood. In This Poten...

Introduction -- The People Of The Canyon -- The People Of The Plateau -- The Invasion Begins -- Banishment -- Supai Charley -- In The Public Interest -- A S...

The late 1960s and early 1970s, in New York City and America at large, were years marked by political tumult, social unrest—and the best professional bas...

Eminent scholar Zbigniew Brzezinski's New York Times bestselling blueprint for American foreign policy strategy in the twenty-first centuryThe world today ...

Product Description “A compelling and important history that this nation desperately needs to hear.” -Bryan Stevenson, New York Times bestselling a...

Ilarion Merculieff weaves the remarkable strands of his life and culture into a fascinating account that begins with his traditional Unangan (Aleut) upbring...

With a New Afterword by the Author The New York Times bestseller, praised as hilariously funny . . . the only way to understand why so many Americans have...

A highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. There is no cure. In a few days...

This best-selling memoir from Richard Proenneke's journals and with firsthand knowledge of his subject and the setting, Sam Keith has women a tribute to a m...

What corporate corruption, sexual abuse by clergy, and schoolyard bullying all have in common In the on-going attempts to overcome racism and sexism in ...

Elegantly Tracing The Intellectual History Of Computer Science, Foer Puts The Dna Of The Very Idea Of Tech Under The Microscope. Google, Facebook, Apple, An...

Chronicles The History Of The Oil Industry And The Forces That Have Shaped The Modern World. Part I: The Founders -- Oil On The Brain: The Beginning -- Our ...

This area offers everything from historic sights to stunning natural scenery.Whether you want to take a ferry out to the infamous Alcatraz Island, weekend ...

in The Tradition Of Jon Krakauer’s into Thin Air and Sebastian Junger’s the Perfect Storm Comes A True Tale Of Riveting Adventure In Which Two Weekend Scub...

A Biography Of The Japanese Emperor Reveals A Powerful Man Who Successfully Cultivated An Image Of A Reluctant King While Manipulating Important Events Behi...

Oriana Fallaci faces the themes unchained by the Islamic terrorism: the contrast and, in her opinion, incompatibility between the Islamic world and the West...

An Explosive, Headline-making Portrait Of Allen Dulles, The Man Who Transformed The Cia Into The Most Powerful And Secretive Colossus In Washington, From Th...

American Independent Films Have To Many Observers Provided The Only Experimental And Distinctive Voices In Recent Us Cinema. Now An Increasingly Pervasive I...

Best-selling book WESTERN CIVILIZATION has helped over one million users learn about the present by exploring the past. Jackson Spielvogel's engaging, chron...

In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible...

Providing both a historical and contemporary perspective on presidential powers, The Powers of the Presidency guides readers through the presidency as a co...

A riveting historical narrative of the heart-stopping events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and the first work of history from mega-best...

Atlanta and Environs is, in every way, an exhaustive history of the Atlanta Area from the time of its settlement in the 1820s through the 1970s. Volumes I ...

"My beloved friends," writes Anna Briggs Bentley, "How often do I wish that you could peep in at us and hear the sound of cheerful voices issuing from our ...

Providing the inspiration and source material for the upcoming HBO series produced by Academy Award–winning director Martin Scorsese and Emmy Award–winni...

The Author Of Reclaiming The Gods And The Isle Of Avalon Now Details The Fascinating Significance Of The Design Of The U.s. Capital. Nicholas R. Mann. Inclu...

the Author Of The Audiobook Blockbuster, the Last Stand Of The Tin Can Sailors, Brings To Vivid Life An Untold Tale Of World War Ii In The Pacific. The Cr...

See the Collector's Edition of Spoken from the Heart In this brave, beautiful, and deeply personal memoir, Laura Bush, one of our most beloved and private...

two Kids With The Same Name Were Born Blocks Apart In The Same Decaying City Within A Year Of Each Other. One Grew Up To Be A Rhodes Scholar, Army Officer...

In the hinterland behind the port of Mobile lies the vast swampy convergence of the Mobile and Tensaw Rivers, a delta rich in fish, game animals, hard and...

Trevor Corson. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 283-284).Categories: Science & Math Biological Sciences ZoologyInvertebrates

THIS IS THE BOOK THATCHANGED AMERICA Beginning with the story of a simple burglary at Democratic headquarters and then continuing with headline after he...

The knockdown, drag-out, untold story of the other scandal that rocked Nixon's White House, and reset the rules for crooked presidents to come-with new repo...

Civilization in the West blends social and political history into a fascinating narrative that brings history to life.The authors tell a compelling story o...

Hailed as the most masterful story ever told of the American civil rights movement, Parting the Waters is destined to endure for generations. Moving from ...

Why did the flushing toilet take two centuries to catch on? Why did Samuel Pepys never give his mistresses an orgasm? Why did medieval people sleep sitting...