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The American Idea
The American Idea
Edited by Robert Vare
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307481405
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The American Idea
The Best of the Atlantic Monthly
Edited by Robert Vare


Format: eBook, 688 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $17.95

“What is ‘the American idea’? It is the fractious, maddening approach to the conduct of human affairs that values equality despite its elusiveness, that values democracy despite its debasement, that values pluralism despite its messiness, that values the institutions of civic culture despite their flaws, and that values public life as... Read more >
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The American Idea
The American Idea
Edited by Robert Vare
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The American Idea
The Best of the Atlantic Monthly
Edited by Robert Vare


Format: Trade Paperback, 688 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2008
Price: $17.95

“What is ‘the American idea’? It is the fractious, maddening approach to the conduct of human affairs that values equality despite its elusiveness, that values democracy despite its debasement, that values pluralism despite its messiness, that values the institutions of civic culture despite their flaws, and that values public life as... Read more >
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I Wish I'd Been There
I Wish I'd Been There
Written by Byron Hollinshead
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ISBN: 9781400096541
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I Wish I'd Been There
Twenty Historians Bring to Life the Dramatic Events That Changed America
Written by Byron Hollinshead


Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2007
Price: $14.95

I Wish I’d Been There brings together twenty of our most distinguished historians’ responses to the question “What scene or incident in American history would you most liked to have witnessed—and why?” The answers illuminate crucial moments in our past and give readers a front-row seat at some of American history’s... Read more >
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I Wish I'd Been There
I Wish I'd Been There
Written by Byron Hollinshead
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307387646
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I Wish I'd Been There

Written by Byron Hollinshead


Format: eBook
On Sale: September 4, 2007
Price: $14.95

Twenty distinguished American historians vividly reimagine twenty events of great drama and significance in our country’s past.

“What is the scene or incident in American history that you would like to have witnessed—and why?” This is the thought-provoking question that editor Byron Hollinshead posed to twenty of our finest interpreters of American... Read more >
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Part of Our Time
Part of Our Time
Written by Murray Kempton, Introduction by David Remnick
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ISBN: 9781590170878
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Part of Our Time
Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties
Written by Murray Kempton
Introduction by David Remnick


Format: Trade Paperback, 360 pages
On Sale: May 31, 2004
Price: $16.95

Through brilliant portraits of real persons who created the myths and realities of the 1930s, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Murray Kempton brings that turbulent decade to life. Himself a child of the time, Kempton examines with the insight and imagination of a novelist the men and women who embraced, grappled with... Read more >
A Journey We Did Not Want to Take
A Journey We Did Not Want to Take
Written by Donald Katz, Read by Joe Morton
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
ISBN: 9780739300244
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A Journey We Did Not Want to Take

Written by Donald Katz
Read by Joe Morton


Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: May 22, 2001
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King of the Ferret Leggers
King of the Ferret Leggers
Written by Donald Katz, Read by Donald Katz and Joe Morton
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
ISBN: 9780739300343
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King of the Ferret Leggers
And Other True Stories
Written by Donald Katz
Read by Donald Katz and Joe Morton


Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: May 22, 2001
Price: $12.50

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