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The Greatest Gambling Story Ever Told is an inspiring personal narrative about a filly who broke through the male-dominated world of horseracing and inspir...

The basis for the hit TV series Gangland Undercover! The gripping account from an ex-con who went undercover to help the ATF infiltrate three of America's ...

In an age fraught with terrorism, United States Secret Service canine teams risk their lives to safeguard the president, vice president, their families, vi...

Leadership: The Ultimate Guide Few Americans have observed the ups and downs of presidential leadership more closely over the past thirty years — from Nix...

The Woman At The Center Of The Bush Administration's Cia Leak Scandal Breaks Her Silence As She Describes Her Role As An Undercover Cia Operative, Her Train...

With nearly 1,500 Broadway performances, six Tony Awards, more than three million albums sold, and five Academy Awards, The Sound of Music, based on the li...

Chronicles the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the Wright brothers, sharing insights into the disadvantages that challenged their lives and their mech...

memory Is As Central To Modern Politics As Politics Is Central To Modern Memory. We Are So Accustomed To Living In A Forest Of Monuments, To Having The Pas...

The opening chapter introduces the book's approach as well as the institutional development of the presidency and its organizational structure. Chapters 2 t...

The Account Of An Unprecedented Feat Of Engineering, Vision, And Courage. It Is The Story Of The Men Who Built The Transcontinental Railroad-the Investors W...

Provides Instructions For Thirteen Projects With Accompanying Essays Detailing Life On The Farm, Including Spinning And Dying Wool, Sheep Sheering, And Knit...

“This lively, provocative study challenges the widely held belief that the Japanese did not intend to invade the Hawaiian Islands.” ―Choice“A disqui...

This book blends international relations and gender history to provide a new understanding of the Spanish-American and Philippine-American wars. Kristin L. ...

A dramatic retelling of our nation's past by today's preeminent multiculturalism scholar, Ronald Takaki, this book examines America's history in "a differen...

"In this collection of seventeen essays, leading scholars address the question of what kind and what degree of change accompanied the political events known...

This clearly written and engrossing book presents a global narrative of the origins of the modern world from 1400 to the present. Unlike most studies, which...

The Russo-japanese War And The Peace Conference That Followed It At Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Marked A Turning Point In The History Of Both Participants An...

In A Decade Of Constant Crises, Perhaps The Most Formidable Challenge That Americans Faced In The 1970s Was The Energy Shortage. An Era Of Inexpensive And S...

Repeatedly In The Twentieth Century, The United States Has Been Involved In Confrontations With Other Countries, Each With The Potential For Widespread Inte...

The anti-Vietnam War movement marked the first time in American history that record numbers marched and protested to an antiwar tune-on college campuses, i...

No single event since World War II has marked this country’s foreign policy and national image as deeply as did the war in Vietnam. Vietnam and America is...

During World War II, 110,000 citizens and resident aliens of Japanese ancestry were banished from their homes and confined behind barbed wire for two and a ...

This lucid, hard-hitting book explores a central paradox of the Japanese economy: the relegation of women to low-paying, dead-end jobs in a workforce that d...

Drawing on his diplomatic experience and expertise, George F. Kennan offers an informed, plain-spoken appraisal of United States foreign policy. His evalua...

Battle Of Gettysburg Maps -- Union Brigades -- Corps (reynolds, Doubleday, Newton) -- 1st Division (wadsworth) -- 1st Brigade (meredith) -- 2nd Brigade (cut...

Draws On Recently Declassified Documents To Chronicle One Of The Most Disastrous Presidencies In U.s. History, Presenting A Portrait Of A Brilliant Man Over...

Two Noted Professors Offer Easily Remembered Rules For Using History Effectively In Day-to-day Management Of Governmental And Corporate Affairs To Avoid Cos...

It Has Been Fifty Years Since Japan Admitted Defeat And Accepted The Terms Of The Potsdam Declaration Following World War Ii. At The Time, Japan Was In Sham...

A contributing source for the Warner Bros.’ film Richard Jewell starring Sam Rockwell, Kathy Bates, Jon Hamm, Olivia Wilde and Paul Walter Hauser! "Metic...

The Famous Mather Byles, the Noted Boston Tory Preacher, Poet, and WitCategories: History United StatesGeneral

The Highly Anticipated Memoir From Hip-hop Icon Ross Chronicles His Coming Of Age Amid Miami's Crack Epidemic, His Star-studded Controversies, And His Unsto...

Neil White, a journalist and magazine publisher, wanted the best for those he loved nice cars, beautiful homes, luxurious clothes. He loaned money to fami...

Americans Are Living Through A Social Crisis. Populist Firebrands -- On Left And Right Alike -- Propose To Address The Crisis Through Acts Of Tearing Down. ...

**Shortlisted for the 2021 Stephan Russo Goddard Riverside Book Prize for Social Justice** This definitive account of the battle for reproductive freedom i...

Douglas Little exposes the persistence of "orientalist" stereotypes in American popular culture and examines United States policy toward the Middle East fro...

Over recent decades, John W. Dower, one of America’s preeminent historians, has addressed the roots and consequences of war from multiple perspectives. I...

this Book Has Been Long Needed: A Concise, Complete And Dispassionate Survey Of The Vietnam War.... Best Of All, The No-nonsense Approach Answers Question...

Explore the unprecedented nature of modern Total War as First World War outlines the origins, experiences, and legacies of World War I throughout and beyond...

In 1947 Douglas Kinnard sent out an extensive questionnaire to the 173 Army generals who had managed the war in Vietnam. A surprising sixty-seven percent of...

The "Calico Boys" of the 6th Wisconsin Volunteers went to Gettysburg in 1863 and fought in the epic battle of the Civil War. In the very opening of the infa...

Explores The Lives Of The Presidents And The Evolution Of The Presidency. The Candidate: Heroic Posture: George Washington (1789-1797) America's First Hero ...

Book by Norton, Oliver WillcoxCategories: History United States19th Century

Book by Martin, David G.Categories: History United States19th Century

Respected for its coverage of foreign policy and domestic politics, Present Tense also provides a thorough examination of social and cultural history. Thi...

In Third Wave Capitalism, John Ehrenreich Documents The Emergence Of A New Stage In The History Of American Capitalism. Just As The Industrial Capitalism Of...

Alan Dawley. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [359]-386) And Index.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Politics & GovernmentPolitical Scie...

In This Book Niall Ferguson Argues That The British Empire Should Be Regarded Not Merely As Vanished Victoriana But As The Very Cradle Of Modernity. Nearly ...

Deliverance From A Debate -- Why We Went It -- Why We Stayed In -- Why We Withdrew -- Whose Immorality? Norman Podhoretz. Includes Bibliographical Reference...