The National Parks
America's Best Idea
Written by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $50.00
The companion volume to the twelve-hour PBS series from the acclaimed filmmaker behind The Civil War, Baseball, and The War
America’s national parks spring from an idea as radical as the Declaration of Independence: that the nation’s most magnificent and sacred places should be preserved, not for royalty or the rich, but...
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American Lion
Andrew Jackson in the White House
Written by Jon Meacham
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: April 30, 2009
Price: $18.00
Andrew Jackson, his intimate circle of friends, and his tumultuous times are at the heart of this remarkable book about the man who rose from nothing to create the modern presidency. Beloved and hated, venerated and reviled, Andrew Jackson was an orphan who fought his way to the pinnacle of power...
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The American Civil War
A Military History
Written by John Keegan
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $35.00
For the past half century, John Keegan, the greatest military historian of our time, has been returning to the scenes of America’s most bloody and wrenching war to ponder its lingering conundrums: the continuation of fighting for four years between such vastly mismatched sides; the dogged persistence of ill-trained, ill-equipped, and...
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Defend the Realm
The Authorized History of MI5
Written by Christopher Andrew
Format: Hardcover, 1056 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $40.00
An unprecedented publishing event: to mark the centenary of its foundation, the British Security Service, MI5, has for the first time opened its archives to an independent historian. The book reveals the precise role of the Security Service in twentieth-century British history, from its foundation by Captain Kell of the British...
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The Diary of a Young Girl
Written by Anne Frank
Translated by B.M. Mooyaart
Introduction by Eleanor Roosevelt
Format: Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: June 1, 1993
Price: $5.99
Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank's remarkable diary has since become a world classic—a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit. In 1942, with Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her...
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American Lightning
Terror, Mystery, and the Birth of Hollywood
Written by Howard Blum
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $15.00
In this masterpiece of narrative history, acclaimed author Howard Blum evokes the original "crime of the century" and an aftermath even more dramatic than the crime itself–a seminal episode in America’s history that would spark national debate and draw into its orbit master sleuth William J. Burns, crusading lawyer Clarence Darrow...
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The Forever War
Written by Dexter Filkins
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Price: $15.00
National BestsellerWinner of the National Book Critics Circle AwardA New York Times Book Review Best Book of the YearOne of the Best Books of the Year: New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Boston Globe, and TimeAn instant classic of war reporting,
The Forever War is the definitive...
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